Divine Therapy & Addiction: Centering Prayer and the Twelve Steps

by Thomas Keating

Book Overview

"All spiritual traditions have a wisdom literature. Alcoholics Anonymous is a spiritual tradition. Its influence and spread in the present century is going to depend on how well each generation of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590561155
• ISBN13: 9781590561157
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Lantern Publishing & Media
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

A.A. as a spiritual path

In the 12 and 12 Bill W. suggests that the problem is that we are trying to achieve happiness by satisfying our instincts, and then goes on with the rest of the book without really telling us what to do about it. This book gives us a solution, a prayer method that is very easy and surprizingly effective.

A wonderful guide

This is one of the best books I have ever read on the connection between a Higher Power and the Twelve Steps. Whatever your addiction, and even if life is your addiction, this is the guidebook that will never fail you!

Divine Therapy and Addiction: Centering Prayer & the 12 Steps

This particular book has been helpfully received by persons working the 12 steps who are part of an internet support group in the practice of centering prayer. I have been amazed at the reflections from center prayer practitioners who are not in 12-step programs as they relate this to their own experience of the false self system. Thanks to Tom S. who over many years worked to get this book into the public domain.

A book for everybody.... not just AA

A very enlightening book about the why's of human behaviour. It goes behind our masks to explain the reason behind many of our actions; particularly those that we regret. Should be compulsory reading for all counsellors and those in the helping professions; particulary priests and confessors; - and anyone who does not understand his/her negative behaviours. Very relevant to anyone striving to live a spiritual life but finding themselves back with their confessor on a regular basis, with the same issues and failings. This book deals with the "why" of our negative behaviours.

Important to Read!

This is the most important book written since the 12 Steps. I have been a sober member of AA for 12 years and Father Keating's interpretation provides an invaluable roadmap for the transformation from self-centeredness, which he says all of us are, to god-centeredness. There is so much in this book regarding the pain of addiction, which he says all of us are addicted, and how to move from addiction using the 12 Steps, that every time I open this book, I grow calm with the knowledge that god can direct my thinking. Having spent most of my life driven by 100 forms of fear, this book specifically discusses what it is and how to resolve it. There is so much practical information, that its probable that this book would resolve issues for anyone that picks it up.