Re: kudzu study

Dro, my good friend. Thanks. This forum had been a bit slow lately, you sure fixed that! Lots of activity. It took me ten minutes to read all the traffic. Good job old buddy.

The Big Book, of which I am most fond, says that we have no monopoly on recovery, and that we should strive to be helpful whenever possible. It also states that at the date of it’s writing, medical Science hadn’t discovered a cure for alcoholics of our type, but may someday. And who knows, maybe someday with the wave of a pharmaceutical or herbal hand, the dieing will pick up their beds and walk again.

A guy asked me early in my recovery what a cure to my drinking might look like. I thought about it for a minute and told him… “The kind of cure I was looking for would let me drink all I wanted, as often as I wanted, get just as drunk as I wanted to get, be just as obnoxious as I wanted to be, bust things up if I felt like it, treat people as crappy as I wanted to. Never go to jail, or get busted for a DUI, oh yea, and never get any more of those damn hangovers. And just to top off that list, have everybody still love me.

I think I am as Bill Wilson puts it “an alcoholic of our sort.” It seems that what I really needed in the way of a cure was a spiritual awakening.

Back in my LSD soaked past, I ran across these stories about an Indian mystic living in the deserts of Mexico. One of my favorite quotes from him goes something like this…

"Any path is only a path and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you. Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself, and yourself alone, one question...Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use

Don Jaun

I am glad that kudzu is working for you, but if things don’t go according to plan, become willing to change the path you walk.

On the road to the good stuff,
Richard

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