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program works for people that do believe in God, and those who don't; it doesn't work for people who believe they are God'; this passage may be in Life With Hope, the "Big Book" of Marijuana Anonymous). I also don't think the literature supports the notion that your higher power could be another person, or a mind-altering substance. Maybe the problem is sentence in our article is making an absolute statement ("anything at all") that the literature does cannot support. I will keeping an eye out for more specific passages in the literature that could be used to rephrase this, but I would appeciate other's inputs.
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I don't have citations at the ready, but this is not quite my understanding, and I would appreciate discussion. My reading in 12-step literature is much wider that AA, and I know that at least indirectly some conference approved literature says you can't be your own higher power (paraphrasing: 'Our
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