I just got back from one of the best 12-Step conference events ever. It was the South Maryland Round-up, in Solomons Island, MD.  What was so good about it?  It was the people who showed up. A sold-out event, 600 seats filled by drunks of the AA, 12-Step persuasion, along with some of the best…

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The culmination of a spiritual awakening establishes a living, perpetual link to the Kingdom within through conscious awareness. Once we’re living in that connected realm, the famous 4th dimension of existence becomes our reality. We change. We no longer engage grudges, fears, and strings of selfish relationships or harms unto others. We may not be yet be…

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If you know anyone, or are yourself involved in one of those 12-Step recovery fellowships that specialize in helping people lose their fascination with substances like drugs and alcohol, then you might also know that these organizations are not support groups. They are spiritual societies. Those folks went so far as to say that, “When…

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I know. It’s a cult. It’s a religion. The members are losers—sober, but still selfish, self-centered and judgmental to the hilt. Just a bunch of phony, hypnotized zombies, obsessed with Big Books, pre-occupied with their past and as addicted to meetings and each other as they ever were to booze. But wait! That’s not true.…

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