Eons ago our universe was created from a sudden unimaginable expansion of a single point into the vast realm of time and space we live within. All that is - has come from that one thing, and regardless of how you look at it, the universe still is that one thing. One way to visualize this is to think of a divine breath breathing the universe into being. So that everything that is, is an expression of that divine inspiration. Everywhere we look in life and in the universe we see and feel the beauty and the miraculous nature of existence. Everything that is, is an expression of that one source come to life. A human being is an expression of that one source. And every human being has the potential to bring fullness to their own expression, their own life.

Unless, something happens that prevents that. Addiction is a tragic aberration of nature, in which the body’s own system of operation and being is hijacked chemically and physiologically into a blindly obsessive mode of needing the substance in order to survive. The human instinct to survive has been turned on its head, usurped by the irrational, and deeply sourced desire to use and use again - on and on until inevitable annihilation. This is not a matter of choice, it is a matter of conditioning and illustrates the downside of the imperfect nature of being human.

Recovery is possible when a human being has restored their capacity to choose their own way and their own destiny, outside of the unconscious influence of any addictive force or process. There is a spiritual solution that enables recovery and it is through the restoration of that human capacity and potential for love that this is possible. The technology to create and sustain this spiritual solution was developed in 1935 by the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous. It is within the power of their 12 step program to create such a change within a human being, to enable them through rigorous and sustained action, to become a spiritually oriented person, and thus gain freedom from the blind obsession that is addiction.

This program is then, the 12 steps to Love.