Reply #4: Do you think it possible that the renewed sense of joy/peace/contentment you

[Joe Chi Minh]

gained from returning to AA meetings, might be because it confirms or reinforces a real, if implicit, spiritual worldview, which speaks to our nature as human beings at a very profound level.

I know the founder tried not to push formal religion or much religion at all beyond reference to a Higher Power, but I'm always struck by the profundity of the wisdom of the organisation's teachings, which seems to echo some of the most insightful teachings of spiritual writers of the Christian church, seeking to develop their own interior life - yet with the addition of many personal insights of an immediately practical nature (sometimes referred to be posters) beyond the theoretical; kind of micromanagement.