Reddit mentions of Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries

Kevin Griffin - One Breath At a Time


Noah Levine - Against the Stream

These are buddhist models, but I've found both these men's takes very helpful. They have talks on each step available online. I don't think I'll every consider myself buddhist, but I find a lot of their advice helpful. They offer ways of getting around obstacles of the twelve steps for people not keen on the salvation from an external force idea.

You could try mindfulness meditation.

Kevin Griffin has a good book on integrating Buddhism and the 12 Steps called "One breath at a time": http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001RTSFIM/

Noah Levine's style might be worth checking out to see if it resonates with you: http://www.amazon.com/dp/006073664X/

I do university research on applying mindfulness to addictive behavior problems, and my team has run 1 randomized controlled trial (funded by NIH), and we're in the middle of a bigger trial right now, evaluating our Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention program. If you're in the Seattle area, send me a message and I can tell you about groups we're running that you could check out, if you're interested.

-J

Born to Run helped me fall in love with running. I had never been so deeply & passionately drawn to anything... now I'm training to run my first marathon and I'm more excited for this than for when I graduated from college.

Against the Stream was another life-changer - it helped me learn to breathe, relax, focus, and stay in the present moment.

In Chapter 20 of Bringing Home the Dharma, Jack Kornfield addresses questions of psychedelic use and Buddhist practice from the point of view of somebody who has experience with both. It's rare to get frank and interesting words on the subject.

I thought it was a good book, or Noah Levine's Against The Stream is a nice 'cover the bases' type of book aimed at people who may be coming from a more hard-edged lifestyle.

and fuck ego-death, seriously.