Welcome to the Eternal Sobriety Website
Our purpose is to help individuals in recovery find true spirituality. The AA program points out the need for this truth.
Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
The point is, that we are willing to grow along spiritual lines.
Resentment is the "number one" offender. It destroys more alcoholics than anything else. From it stem all forms of spiritual disease, for we have been not only mentally and physically ill, we have been spiritually sick. When the spiritual malady is overcome, we straighten out mentally and physically.
We can laugh at those who think spirituality the way of weakness. Paradoxically, it is the way of strength.
Instead, the problem has been removed. It does not exist for us. We are neither cocky nor are we afraid. That is how we react so long as we keep in fit spiritual condition.
The spiritual life is not a theory. We have to live it.
The Dilemma
To have meaningful recovery in Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) one must gain spirituality, a subject that is often misunderstood. In AA we know that spirituality must have something to do with God, which we often confuse with religion and we are pointed to it with the 12 steps of AA.
A 12-Step program is a spiritual program where God is described in terms of a power greater than ourselves, god as we understood Him, and God. 12-Step programs are not a religion as many people believe, rather they are a spiritual discipline that results in recovery. It is not their purpose to replace religion or to suggest that anyone should not pursue their own religious activities.
In fact, in the book of Alcoholics Anonymous, the writers urge us to be quick to see where religious people are right and make use of what they offer. This is excellent advice and proves itself to us once we overcome the fear and confusion that we bring with us into the program. That confusion and fear is often based upon a misunderstanding about God that we have in our individual belief systems.
There has been an incredible amount of AA historical research that now substantially proves that the Bible played a major role in the initial workings of AA. The spiritual principles and other spiritual ideas and concepts found in AA have their roots in The Good Book. Visit the Useful Links section for sites that will support the historical perpective. Our intent here is to help bring that fact into clearer focus for you as your own experience will prove out.
On this website you will find truthful and practical answers about God. To appreciate spirituality we must gain a proper perspective of what is meant by God as we understood Him. We need to appreciate why the AA 12-Step Program works, as its not magic. Go here to read the free book.