The Twelve Step proposition assumes a distinctly opposing perspective. It suggests that if you are in pain, if you are stuck and can’t seem to change –the only solution is to stop trying.

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Many materials falling under the heading of spirituality are actually foils - diversions - eventually resulting in an introduction to a pantheistic, polytheist religions. Seekers often do not realize they are being pulled away from the base spiritual principles that saved them until life falls apart and it is too late. They slide down the unhappy slope of mental and physical dysfunction holding on to their yoga mats for dear life, smiling all the way. Its sneaky. Its intentional. People fall for it all the time.

The Twelve Step proposition assumes a distinctly opposing perspective. It suggests that if you are in pain, if you are stuck and can’t seem to change –the only solution is to stop trying. There is something in all of us (ego) that thinks it has the power to change and install our own happiness. Only by separating from that willful self can there ever be any true change. 

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