One of the Keys to opening the door to 12 Step Programs.. What is a Higher Power.?

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4. I don't let people off easy when they start spouting God this and that in a meeting

and Dawg forbid they quote "the other Big Book" when I'm around. I feed it to them. Hard. With both barrels.

My first higher power was a 6 foot tall invisible white rabbit I named BOB (Big Omnipotent Being) and that HP (and meetings and fellowship and fear and a high sugar diet) kept me sober for months.

I use "The Universe" now. and it seemed once I was willing to believe, 'The Universe' (for lack of a better term) came in to support me in concrete ways. Parking spots. Overheard conversations with answers I needed at the time. A feeling of belonging to something.

While AA is definitively written as a spiritual program, it's program of action is suitable for anyone of any persuasion. That's my humble opinion and experience, YMMV