Ken Keyes, Jr., Handbook to Higher Consciousness, Seventh Ed., Living Love Publications, 1987

DIAGRAMS 1, 2, and 3: THE MECHANISMS OF UNHAPPINESS, HAPPINESS, AND BLISS

Now let's see what happens in which our biocomputer operates with Addictive Desire Programming. Suppose you have the programming "I desire sex." If the variable life reality offers us Condition P in which sex occurs, the effect on our consciousness is to experience a short-term pleasure. However, when we have programmed ourselves to desire sex, and life gives us condition N in which sex does not occur, we experience short-term disappointment and suffering.