Whoa... who knew AA was so, so... Colorful!

After reading this article about another article I had to read the real thing because, well, it's just too funny! Ever sense I read this article a few days ago I was really excited to blog about it. Look I'm an atheist and I've also been an addict so I found this article both interesting and kind of strange. Now my own story is purely anecdotal so I wont bother to go into why, personally, I think this is kinda crap but rather explain why I think its crap on a more intellectual level. Of course this quote is the basis for my skepticism:

"It does sound counterintuitive," Griffiths says. But, "six of the 12 AA [Alcoholics Anonymous] steps are related to a higher power and surrendering to it. Many people don't engage fully into the 12-step program because they don't have a connection to a higher power. One can't help but wonder whether an experience like this might be useful."

I'm not even going to go into why AA isn't as good as everyone thinks (maybe for another blog post) but the problem inherent to using a psychedelic is the fact that it is making you hallucinate! Now this assumes that there actually is a higher power to surrender to and that the 12 steps are in fact a useful tool. I guess my problem lies primarily with the fact that the uses they are stating are based on things that aren't science fact. Either way I'll sign up!