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2001 North American Conference
Conference Presentation Materials
NDEs and the 12 Steps
presented by
Karl Williamson
Chris Carson
The 12 Steps
A number of organizations use the 12 steps, with wording slightly
changed from the original version from Alchoholics Anonymous.
Below are both the original and the version from Adult Children of
Alcoholics, which substitutes "people, places, and things" for
"alcohol" in Step 1, and removes the masculine pronoun in reference
to God.
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AA Version |
- We admitted we were powerless over people, places, and things,
that our lives had become unmanageable.
- Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could
restore us to sanity.
- Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care
of God as we understood God.
- Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of
ourselves.
- Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the
exact nature of our wrongs.
- Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of
character.
- Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings.
- Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to
make amends to them all.
- Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except
when to do so would injure them or others.
- Continued to take personal inventory and, when we were wrong,
promptly admitted it.
- Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious
contact with God, as we understood God, praying only for knowledge
of God's will for us and the power to carry it out.
- Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we
tried to carry this message to others who still suffer, and to
practise these principles in all our affairs.
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- We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had
become unmanageable.
- Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could
restore us to sanity.
- Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care
of God as we understood Him.
- Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of
ourselves.
- Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the
exact nature of our wrongs.
- Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of
character.
- Humbly asked Him to remove our short-comings.
- Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to
make amends to them all.
- Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except
when to do so would injure them or others.
- Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong
promptly admitted it.
- 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.
- 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 affair
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 20 January 2007 )
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