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Spiritual Recovery
Adapted from the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, Spiritual Recovery`s nonsectarian program charts a road to spiritual progress. The reader who works through these steps will find freedom from the destructive power of guilt, fear , anger, want, and resentment. Living by the program`s insights, he or she will develop a more loving, knowing, relationship with God, self, and others, and will learn to make choices that arise from the heart rather than from unconscious compulsions or irrelevant dogmas.
Schnarr explains why the steps are so universally helpful, not only in providing escape from compulsive thoughts and actions, but also, more importantly, in implementing spiritual awakening and subsequent spiritual growth. It is Schnarr`s meticulous examination of the reason for the success of the Twelve Steps that sets this book apart from others on twelve-step approaches to spiritual living.
A revision of Schnarr`s 1990 Unlocking Your Spiritual Potential: A Twelve Step Approach (Abbey Press, over 10,000 sold, 0-97029-226-9), Spiritual Recovery explores, one step per chapter, the underlying philosophy of each step. Anecdotal examples help the reader see his or her own destructive emotional and behavioral patterns. Schnarr, promising that "the spiritual life is real, fulfilling, and attainable," offers exercises at the end of each chapter to ground the insights. An appendix provides procedural direction for the reader who wants to lead groups in following the steps to spiritual development. 132pp, paperback.
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