Lust to Dust

By Treat Preston

Lust to Dust: How a Lust-filled Life Can and Will Lead to Your Destruction is a book unlike any book you have ever read before. Written by one of the nation’s leading behavioral scientists, Dr. Treat Preston’s goal is to demonstrate to his readers how bondage to a lust-filled lifestyle always results in the destruction of the individual’s life. This bondage usually occurs at a young age and without correction leads to a life full of bad habits, bad choices, addiction and more. Thirty-plus years of practice qualify Dr. Preston to write this book. He takes numerous examples from his case files to make his points as well as articulate the dangers of lust in an individual’s life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dr. Leland Benton
• Release date: Jun 23, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311932303

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Introduction – To Be or Not To Be Lust-filled?

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Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.

Marquis de Sade

I am often asked, Lust is good, isn’t it?  It leads to a fun-filled life, ambition and a drive to succeed…right?  Sorry…wrong…dead wrong!  Lust only leads to the destruction of a person’s life and within the pages of this book; I am going to show you how.

This isn’t an easy book to read, after all, who wants to read about the saddening results of wrongful choices in their life as well others.  Being a behavioral scientist for as long as I have been and counseling literally thousands of patients brings me into contact with some of the most broken humanity one can imagine. And it saddens me as it does you…

This book may seem like a sad indictment of today’s society but you will not find any blame within its pages.  To a behavioral scientist, blame is a useless concept.  The goal is always to fix the problem and not the blame. 

To this end, I begin in Chapter 1 by teaching you about your mind; how the things you believe and think about actually manifests into what you are.  Chapter 1 is the most important part of this book; it not only demonstrates how you have become what you are but also shows you how to correct your problems by changing your belief systems and thoughts.  Is it really that easy?  Yes and no!  Yes, by changing your belief systems and thoughts your life will change dramatically BUT, will you do what is required?  Let’s face it; most people are in love with their lust.  Oh, they easily vocalize that they wish they were different but they really love their lust and hence, they will do nothing.

So what is up with that trait?  Let’s begin by defining addiction since lust easily becomes an addiction.  If asked, most people would say that the definition of addiction is becoming weary of suffering but this is not true.  The true and correct definition of addiction is becoming weary of PLEASURE! 

You will read in Chapter 1 that the human mind has a difficult time giving up anything sensual.  Lust is sensual so the mind fights to retain it.  To really look into this problem, behavioral science uses a modality called First Cause.  For example, when we counsel a cocaine addict, our goal is to find the First Cause that requires him/her to self-medicate themselves.  There are a good many sub-causes in between but the First Cause is the most important.

In other words, we want to go back to the very beginning to the first belief system that actually caused the problem.  Think of your belief systems being just like an onion.  My job as a behavioral scientist is to peel back each layer of the onion skin until we reach the First Cause.  It doesn’t do any good to stop and address and underlying belief system before the First Cause belief system.  If we find and remove the First Cause belief system all of the others are removed because their foundation is built on the First Cause belief system.

One of the important things I will teach you is how to protect yourselves from belief systems that can hurt you.  One of my associates wrote a book called A Woman Surrounds a Man that every woman on the planet should read.  As for that matter, every man should read it too.  It teaches you how to protect your mind.  And this is very important.  It is available on Amazon as a Kindle book and on Createspace.com as a paperback.

Beginning in Chapter 2 I will demonstrate why you do the things you do and how your mind rationalizes your behavior.  Chapter 1 teaches you that a belief system acted upon by thought results in action/behavior/conduct.  So my first goal in Chapter 2 is to teach you how to control your thoughts.  I call this Changing the Picture, and it is pretty interesting stuff.

The last thing I want to impart to my readers is to be very much aware of just how much power you give to your lust and problems.  Yes, this book, especially in Chapter 1, does give you the keys to the kingdom and what is necessary to become free of any bondage that enslaves you.  Are you the master or the slave?  We shall see…

Now let’s begin…

Chapter 1 – Laying a Proper Foundation

As stated, I want to begin this book by offering an insight into the human mind as seen by behavioral science research.  By doing this, I will lay a proper foundation to what I am about to teach.

The Mechanism of the Human Mind

Prior to the fall of man into sin as described in the Garden of Eden, man’s spirit was hooked to God’s infinite spirit.  There was no death because God’s spirit is infinite.  Man is the only animal on earth that shares the eternality nature of God.  The subject of eternal life has been a heated topic of man from the beginning of our existence. 

In Greek mythology, there’s a story about a mortal youth named Tithonus.  Aurora, the goddess of dawn, fell in love with the boy and when Zeus, the king of the gods, promised to grant Aurora any gift she chose for her lover, she asked that Tithonus might live forever.  But, in her haste she forgot to ask for eternal youth, so when Zeus granted her request, Tithonus was doomed to an eternity of perpetual aging as a grouchy old man… forever.

In the movie Highlander, Angus McLeod was born in 1518 as an immortal being.  He could not die and to me, the best part of the movie was the depiction of this immortal's agony here on earth as he watched everything he loved die forcing him to begin his life over and over again. He saw all of the ugliness, which man had caused over four centuries.  He witnessed the Spanish Inquisition, Waterloo, the atrocities of the Third Reich, and more.  He saw the slavery and bigotry of the eighteenth century, the slaughter of the Native American tribes after the Civil War.  This man's life was a living Hell! 

There is a very big difference between the ways our feeble minds picture eternal life versus God’s idea of eternal life.  Our understanding comes from Quantum Physics and is limited within the Time-Space Continuum.

Life is your spirit, but the soul of man has usurped the spirit's position and psychology is now forced to define how we live our lives based on the animating force of the soul instead of the spirit.  As I said previously, the soul has usurped the spirit’s place as our animating force.  Let's discuss this now.

Body First Person - When the body becomes our life, we live as animals.

Body-Mind In Sync - When the soul becomes our life, we live as rebels and fugitives in a life of desires, emotions, and will (consuming entities).  This is the position of mankind today!

Mind First Person - But when we come to live our life in the mind/spirit and by the spirit, though we still use our soul’s faculties just as we do our physical faculties, they are now the servants of the spirit.

If you live as a consuming entity, you will always lose.   In other words, to get, you must give - you must sacrifice!  Have you ever wondered why you have so many anxieties, phobias, worries and fears?  The reality of this world is evil.  So what is reality?  I will tell you.  This is reality:

"Life without war is impossible either in nature or in grace.  The basis of physical, mental, moral and spiritual life is antagonism.  Health is the balance between physical life and external nature, and it is maintained only by sufficient vitality on the inside against things on the outside. Everything outside my physical life is designed to put me to death.  Things, which keep me going when I am alive, disintegrate me when I am dead.  If I have enough fighting power, I produce the balance of health. 

The same is true of mental life.  If I want to maintain a vigorous mental life, I have to fight, and in that way the mental balance called thought is produced.  Morally it is the same.  Everything that does not partake of the nature of virtue is the enemy of virtue in me, and it depends on what moral caliber I have whether I overcome and produce virtue (GOOD CHARACTER). Immediately I fight, I am moral in that particular.  No man is virtuous because he cannot help it; virtue (character) is acquired.

Psychology only studies the observable aspects of the mind and discounts the unseen or intangible aspects of the human mind.

Behavioral science attempts to study the intangible aspects of the human mind…why you do the things you do and more importantly why you don’t do what you should do.

There is no such thing as commercial psychology versus personal psychology. The mind uses the same mechanism to evaluate all types of relationships.

Everything we do revolves around relationships. We relate to our environment, our friends, family, co-workers, other people