Good luck on your journey.
What made you draw this conclusion?
I think AAs call them cookouts, not meetings.
What is WA?
i did ACA (adult children of alcoholics) for several years when i was in my 20's. You'll have rules "no crosstalk" is the biggest one, no one interupts while someone else is speaking unless the speaker is a total fucking windbag and talks for too goddamned long then someone needs to tell them to shuttup. and in my exp. the rules aren't really followed, things are supposed to not be spoken of outside the meeting, I've seen it done time and time again. You can expect the 12 steps and start working on that, i never made it through all of them, my youthful pride would not allow me to ask for forgiveness of people that had hurt me. Today thaat would be different but i gave up on all counseling and the programs. I recognize that they do a lot of good and a lot of people stop drinking with AA but ACA was a different demographic and really, there is no magic bullet for any of us, i lost faith in everything by the time i was in my early thirties and never got it back. But, again, AA has absolutely helped many of the folks in my family stop drinking, of course there will always be the contrarians who just gots to be different but those folks should be ignored.
yuup, but that's seem to be an unspoken reason that a lot of people do a lot of things, go to the gym, go to church, go to college, to meet someone. It's so common i stopped congregating when i was serious about what i was doing, in my mma school i told the owner i didn't like all the women hanging around trying to pick up guys, it was a distraction but ain't my gym.
I find it egregious considering the state that some of those girls (or boys for that matter) are in, especially when they first enter the program. Going to the gym, church, college, etc. to meet someone is just normal life shit. Going to AA/NA meeting to take advantage of vulnerable people is fucking disgusting.
I had no idea Bill W. took belladonna (I have no idea what that is). I remember that in the movie with James Woods, he "sees a light" and he quits from there, so I guess they were trying to touch on it without saying it. Psilocybin trips have been very spiritual for me, so I could see how, in the right environment, they could be a useful tool. Great advice btw.
Part of the nightshade family of plants I believe (most are funky in some way or another). Is the stuff Columbian women were using to drug foreign men and have them empty their bank accounts! Witchcraft stuff for real!
