John Lamb Lash: The Great Recovery 5 : Self-Love is the Moral Core of the Adult Child

Thumbnail: Painting of mother gazing at child by Mary Cassatt

The Hawk written by Kriss Kristopherson, sung by Richie Havens: https://nemeta.org/course/16-planetary-tantra/

Gotta make your own rules, Child
Gotta break your own chains
The dreams that possess you
Can blossom and bless you,
Or run you insane

The moment is yours, Child
To lay on the line...

Conversion of the 12 steps of recovery:

1 We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.

Conversion: "I agree to my unique responsbility to expose and defeat the predasites who aim to render my life, and that of others, unmanageable and even unliveable."
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2 Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

3 Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

4 Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

5 Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

6 Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

7 Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

8 Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

9 Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

10 Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

11 Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.

12 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.

Musik

Another One Bites the Dust
Pomplamoose