Spirituality is frequently enmeshed in discussions regarding addictions prevention, treatment, and recovery. Yet, there is little effort to define what is meant by "spiritual." Perhaps, this is because of the importance of spirituality in "The Big Book," Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How ...
In the book on the psychology of religion, by Setiyani [8] it is explained that the lust of anger the soul who surrenders and obeys the will lust and stake an invitation Devil, unable to fortify themselves to resist evil deeds, because in fact in soul human it has soul animality is ...
“The book is a veritable encyclopedia of the spiritual life, Yogananda is best known for His known for His “Autobiography of a Yogi,” but his Gita work is of equal stature and importance. What the autobiography achieves in the realm of human experience, “God talks with Arjuna” achieves...
in the grouping of the shrubs there is symmetry of outline. One feels that this corner is in harmony with the great whole of which it is part. Unconsciously one responds to the spell of the environment, and the "spirit of God's out-of-doors." ...
Alcoholics Anonymous, the Big Book, 4th ed.; Alcoholics Anonymous World Services: New York, NY, USA, 2001. [Google Scholar] Andó, B.; Álmos, P.Z.; Németh, V.L.; Kovács, I.; Fehér-Csókás, A.; Demeter, I.; Rózsa, S.; Urbán, R.; Kurgyis, E.; Szikszay, P.; et ...
5. Recovery Spirituality A true "Recovery Spirituality" will embrace both the quasi-religious spirituality of the "Big Book Fundamentalists" and a more secular spirituality in which atheists and agnostics who have "the only requirement for A.A. membership…a desire to stop drinking" ([9], ...
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within the pages of Alcoholics Anonymous (more generally called the "Big Book" of AA).Gregory Bateson in his essay on "The Cybernetics of'Self': A Theory of Alcoholism" identifies the first two steps of the 12 steps in AA as the first "spiritual experience" in recovery for the alcoholic...
Spirituality and religion played an important role in the experiences of recovery described by AA and South Asian participants respectively. For AA participants their experiences reflected those described in AA's Big Book although concepts such as that of a Higher Power were complex and multi layered...