Recovery is Relative to the Individual
By Zarina Macha Alcoholics Anonymous is one of the most incredible things I’ve done. It has given me much joy, love, peace, clarity and goodness and I am in great awe to the original...
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The Growth Rate of Secular AA
By Joe C. Originally posted on the FaceBook Page, The Secular AA Coffeeshop Secular AA seems to follow the same growth rate as AA as a whole. We are growing as AA did in...
“Spiritual, Not Religious” – The Hollow Claim of Alcoholics Anonymous
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” – Aldous Huxley By Paul W. Introduction As an organization, Alcoholics Anonymous has long claimed to be, “spiritual, not religious.” Admittedly, this is the intent...
Higher Powers
By life-j Let me start by saying that the only higher powers I believe in are judges and cops. They’re tangible. And further, let me add that anyone who wants to believe in a...
Secular Ontario AA Roundup
SOAAR 2019 WIDENING THE GATEWAY By Murray J. What is SOAAR 2019 you might ask? And what is “Widening The Gateway?” They are the Secular Ontario AA Roundup and the theme for the event....
Critique of Chapter 10 – To Employers
Rigorous commonsense is by no means obvious to much of the world. Indeed, commonsense sometimes requires ceaseless vigilance in its defense. Richard Dawkins By Paul W. The prior critiques by Clara M., life-j, and...
Buddhist Precept: Intoxicants Cloud the Mind
One Buddhist’s take on the precepts and recovery By Arthur S I’d like to first clarify that I’m no authority on Buddhism, Recovery or AA. I’m going to try my best not to preach...
Unintended Consequences
By bob k Earlier this month, AA Agnostica published its 500th article, and one HELL of a lot of people read it. The content of the essays posted here, over the years, has been...
You Will Burn in Hell
by Archer Voxx For the purpose of this article, let’s use a metaphor for our thinking process. The metaphor is that our brain is like a computer’s CPU and that it has an operating...
We Are Diversity
Being a part of the LGBTQ+ family, we face many unique and distinct challenges. Our rates of drug addiction are estimated to be somewhere in the neighbourhood of 20-30%, versus 5-10% for the general...
The Opposite of Addiction – Connection
By Steve K. I’ve often heard it said in AA meetings that “the opposite of addiction is connection.” Thinking about my own experience of addiction I wholeheartedly agree. I felt very disconnected and unloved...
My Recovery in Traditional AA
By John B In the first week of August, 1984, at the age of forty-eight, I crawled back into AA. My first exposure to twelve step recovery had occurred in a fifteen day treatment program...
What is AA?
By Roger C. Let’s go simple with the answer to this question. Fellowship We can start with the first sentence of the AA Preamble published in 1947 in the Grapevine magazine: Alcoholics Anonymous is...
Freaken Big Book Fundamentalists Hate Freaken Everything!
By Bobby Freaken Beach Big Book fundamentalists are the elite members of Alcoholics Anonymous. At least, that’s what they tell us. That being the case, it would not be unreasonable to expect that these...
