In looking into A.A. and reading their Big Book, I’m put off by the idea that substances are this external power which requires another external power (God as we understand him) to overcome. I’m told there are thousands of agnostics & atheists in A.A. and I’ve thought long and hard about what mental gymnastics, what “patch” on the 12 Steps would I need to apply to feel comfortable with the first three steps.
Is it possible to leverage one’s “future self” as the “power greater than ourselves”? Something like Tony was to Danny Torrance?
Or could it be a metaself which hypothetically is able to connect to some deeper or broader existence than my current self is able to perceive?