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Right off we would have to give up this Higher Power or modify our view in a direction that
requires more supernaturalism than the basic notion of Pantheism requires (some might say it
requires none). Step Two requires that we accept a power that could restore us to sanity. This is
clearly interference in the world. Step Three might be a little tricky as only asks us to make a
decision to turn our will and our lives over to our Higher Power. But why would we do that if we
didnt believe that it would enter into this controlling relationship with us? Step four has us
admitting things to our Higher Power, that requires a personal relationship. Step Six is a bit like
three in that only asks us to be ready to have our Higher Power remove our Defects of
Character. Step Seven asked him to remove these shortcomings is a personal relationship
and interference. Step Eleven Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious
contact with God, as we understood Him... I think you get the point.
Finally well consider using the Group as a Higher Power Admittedly with some extreme
mental gymnastics, you might adapt the steps to this Higher Power without the supernatural, but
it would require or result in madness. Abdicating your will and your life to anyone let alone a
group of anonymous addicts is not a healthy thing to do. And are we really supposed to expect
them to restore us to sanity or remove our defects of character? Help us, or show us how to
do these things maybe, but then we would be restoring and removing not the Higher Power.
Would we be expecting prayer and meditation to be improving our social skills to aid in the
interaction with the Group? No, in practice those using the Group are just attributing to it the
superpowers commonly attributed to God.