The Foundational Solution

The Heart Political Party

The foundational problem is the Money System. It causes severe damage to human beings. This damage ultimately results in premature death on both a personal and global basis. Thus the foundational solution is to repair from damage and prevent subsequent damage on a personal basis and to replace the Money System with a different socioeconomic-geopolitical system on a national basis. Both of these tasks are incorporated in one solution – the personal recovery process. The personal recovery process is the foundational solution.

The nature of the damage.

The damage done to us is on a personal basis. The instruments of the damage are both other damaged people and the Money System itself. Our parents primarily, and also our teachers, leaders, other authority figures, siblings, friends, acquaintances and strangers abuse us when we are children. They abuse us because they are damaged by both other damaged people and the Money System itself. The abuse can be intentional, unintentional, obvious, subtle, mild, extreme, sexual, non-sexual, etc. The abuse can range from neglect to a "thoughtless" word to criticism to violence. The abuse can involve abandonment, enmeshment or both. Our encounters with the Money System continue the damage via the evil Money System’s damaging aspects (scarcity, excessive fear, excessive shame, neurotic competition, seductive lies, evil intent to destroy us). Our bosses, co-workers, religious leaders, peers, government officials, etc. (who are damaged and pawns of the Money System) also participate in the damage when we are adults. No one escapes this damage; only the substance and intensity of the damage varies from person to person. Such damage has been inflicted for many, many generations, since the beginning of the Money System, and is truly a continuing, environmentally engendered malady.

The attack of the damage is experienced as spiritual in nature with a physical consequence. The damage occurs because our psyche correctly determines that the abuse is, to some degree, a threat on our life. Our psyche reacts to the damage in the way that it was designed to react – it sets up a defensive blockade at the point of attack which is the mind defending against the abuse coming from the world. Our heart is walled off by our mind at a very early age as a protection against damage. Our sense of self is disrupted and reduced to a mostly mental experience. The pain of the damage localizes in our soul and remains without abatement. This condition has an adverse effect on our body’s health and our behavior in the world.

This response to frequent damage is a natural response in a developing child. Were the damage to be a one time or very infrequent occurrence, the mind would relax after a short time following the damage, return control to the immature, developing heart, and the child would continue to mature in a heart-centered condition. When the child becomes an adult, he/she would permanently retain heart-centered existence for the remainder of his/her life. This is God’s plan for us.

However, because the damage is a continuous onslaught, the mind never relinquishes control to the heart. The mind remains in control and grows stronger than the heart. The heart remains in "prison", relatively distant from both the mind and the soul, where it is protected from damage. As a result, the heart is prevented from maturing.

The location of damage.

The damage directly affects the entire set of our nerve cells. A nerve cell is called a neuron. All of the more than 20 billion neurons in our brain and throughout our body, along with the 1.4+ quadrillion connections between neurons, are the foundational victims of the damage caused by the Money System.

The references to heart, mind and soul are ancient yet accurate metaphors for collections of nerve cells in our brain. Each of these entities contains many neuron clusters with neuron connections extending out to their boundaries. The heart is located at the center of our brain. It includes the thalamus and hypothalamus and their base as they sit on the brainstem and extend out toward the two cerebral-limbic systems. The heart is the single densest community of neurons, the largest neurocluster, with connections leading everywhere. It is neuron activity in density and within the heart’s complete neuron system that gives us the awesome experience of being singular and alive in the here and now. The mind is located in one cerebral-limbic hemisphere of the brain. The soul is located in the other cerebral-limbic hemisphere. Although the mind and soul contain some dense collections of neurons, neither contains any neuroclusters the size of the one that is the heart.

Scientists say that there is lateral symmetry to the brain. This means that each side of the brain looks like the other side, and that one side can "back-up" the other side, to a degree, in a supportive roll. This is true at a surface level. Scientists are aware that, to a greater degree, there is lateral asymmetry to the brain, meaning that the nerve clusters and functions performed by each side of the brain are very different once you scratch the surface. They admit that one side is more involved with relating to activity in the world, whereas the other side is more involved with the body and conducting movement of the body through the world. However, the limitation of science itself prevents scientists from speaking the truth about these two sides. This truth is that the side relating to activity in the world is the metaphoric mind and the side relating to the body is the metaphoric soul.

Money System oriented damage causes the mind to polarize into two parts: the ego (that which thinks about and gives weight to what it thinks is me and is within me) and the superego (that which thinks about and gives weight to what it thinks is in my world). The superego focuses on parents, siblings, authority figures, friends, associates, jobs, things, systems, etc. The superego is sometimes erroneously called the "good heart" (especially in religious circles when seen as behaving in a moral manner), making it a "mistaken heart". The ego is often erroneously referred to as "I", making it the "mistaken I", and the ego is also often erroneously referred to as the "evil heart" (again in religious circles when seen as behaving so-called "selfishly") qualifying it also as a "mistaken heart". The superego and the ego form a nexus, which is the center of the mind. This nexus is the false heart, and is the seat of control in a damaged person.

The corpus callosum is a more recent development in our brain. This structure allows the two hemispheres to communicate directly, bypassing the center of the brain -- the heart -- for many activities, some of which are more appropriately handled this way in a healthy person, and some of which would be performed by or through the heart in a non-damaged person. It is through this structure that the mind and soul can communicate directly. When damage causes the mind to take control, it exercises this control by "coercing" the soul to go along with this "takeover". Both drastically reduce communication directly with the heart, and instead greatly utilize the corpus callosum for inter-hemispheric communication. The false heart then grabs control of the corpus callosum and dominates the soul. So thorough is the mind’s dominance, that it created a word for the mind’s activity -- "mental" --, but created no equivocal and common word for the activity of either the heart or the soul.

The spirituality of the brain and the spiritual experience in the damaged brain.

Spirits are dense, active collections or clusters of neurons. They exist throughout our brain. The metaphors of heart, mind and soul are experienced via activity of spirits within the center, left side and right side of our brain corresponding to the metaphors. Spirituality is the experience of these spirits as separate entities and in combination with other spirits. Essentially, therefore, the heart, mind and soul are "great spirits" as they are separate and distinct entities that contain collections of spirits, the heart being the greatest spirit of all. It is this localized spiritual activity which gave us our awareness of heart, mind and soul long before humanity was aware of their neuron origins.

The damage caused by the Money System is spiritual in nature. This is because the damage disrupts the natural function of our brain and its spirits. Spirits, whose natural functions are designed for a healthy heart-centered person, find themselves overtaxed or underutilized and for different purposes to boot in a damaged person, purposes which are contrary to God’s design of the human brain. Our experience of being incomplete and ill at ease is a spiritual experience of the damage. Since the damage to our brain involves the spirituality of all three entities (heart, mind and soul), the solution to the damage must also be holistic and spiritual in nature.

The personal recovery process.

Repairing damage caused by the Money System involves a personal healing process. A damage prevention process is also required to ward off the devastating effects of future damage. A collective reconstruction process is also required to facilitate the creation of a socioeconomic-geopolitical system to replace the Money System, thereby creating Heaven on Earth to support and facilitate healthy, heart-centered living. All three of these sub-processes are incorporated in the personal recovery process.

The personal recovery process consists of a series of 21 steps. These steps are the experiences that occur during recovery from the spiritual damage caused by the Money System. They occur slowly and usually sequentially during initial recovery. Subsequently they repeat (although more swiftly) and can also occur randomly under circumstances. Focusing on these steps helps to bring about an experience of them. These personal recovery steps can work much like the steps in a ubiquitous 12-step recovery program.

The personal recovery process brings about repair and healing in a spiritual manner. Throughout human history, the personal recovery process has been documented, both within and without religious circles. Although the personal recovery process is not a tool of, by and for religion, and indeed was created apart from religion, the following concepts and processes, traditionally associated with social religion, are found within the personal recovery process. These damage and recovery concepts/processes are sin, conviction, sorrow, repentance, salvation, conversion, restitution and redemption. Sin is damage. Conviction is realization of damage. Sorrow is sadness and shame of what the damage has done to one. Repentance is the resolve to repair from damage. Salvation is the heart-centered, God directed process of healing and repairing from damage, which returns one’s heart to its rightful place as ruler of one’s life. Conversion is restructuring the mind to serve the heart. Salvation and conversion go hand in hand. Restitution is behaving in a naturally healthy heart-centered manner. Redemption is getting back one’s one and only God given life! Completing cycles of the personal recovery process gives one peace and new power, and brings about a thriving life of love, health, fun and fulfillment.

The personal recovery process steps are as follows:

I began to experience that something was wrong.

I stopped hiding from this experience, and relentlessly pursued it to its origin.

I came to realize that I was suffering from damage.

I became aware of how this damage had adversely affected my life.

I experienced sorrow and shame for what this damage had done to me.

I realized that this damage would kill me if I did not repair from it.

I sincerely desired to repair from this damage.

I came to believe that God and my heart could repair this damage and heal me.

I resolved to repair from damage.

I courageously spent much time alone in places where it was safe to feel. There I let go from my mind and journeyed inward to my heart where I faced the pain in my soul.

I experienced "I AM."

I began to live from my heart.

My heart began to heal my soul of its painful damage and to clear my mind of its symptomatic disorders.

I began experiencing happiness and personal growth.

I became aware of how I was damaged by others.

I came to realize the Money System was the root cause of the damage done to me.

Whenever possible I avoided both extensive encounters with the Money System and personal relationships with people and things I believed would cause me damage.

I actively sought the company of others who also experienced this process, sharing the healthy expression of my recovery and cooperating in mutual support.

I began actively participating in the political process of creating heaven here on earth.

I made this recovery process a regular part of my life, using it especially whenever I experienced re-damage, and my love, health, fun and fulfillment continued to increase.

I rejoiced in my recovery, sharing this process with anyone who suffered from damage and was interested.

The personal recovery process is based on the truth of what is happening to us all. It helps the person who works the steps to deal with his/her personal truths from an initial experience of general uneasiness through to the most complete recovery he/she can obtain (which is often repairing well over 90 percent of the damage).

The personal recovery process does not stimulate guilt to provoke a change in behavior. Instead, this process focuses on repair and healing, with behavioral change a subsequent byproduct of true recovery.

The personal recovery process is okay with anger. It is okay that we experience anger when we realize we were and are damaged, and it is okay that we take action to strike back against the thing that has damaged us. However, we never strike back against a person before, during or after our recovery. Although we may be angry with people for being the Money System’s weapons, and it is necessary to healing to emote, speak of and even tell them about our pain inflicted at their hands (if it is safe to do so), it is wrong to deliberately damage another for revenge. We soon realize that people who hurt us were themselves victims of damage caused by the Money System. We then focus our revenge, retribution, counterattack, etc. at the true evil – the Money System -- by both repairing our own damage and working democratically to replace the Money System with a heart-centered system, and we do no evil to those people who harmed us. Anger is often our defense against the pain experienced and expressed in underlying feelings. It is necessary to experience and express the anger in order to get to those underlying feelings. There is a problem with lingering in anger too long, however, in that lingering anger tends to mask other feelings (such as fear, hurt, sadness and shame), and can impede recovery if not expressed to release. Thus one should not use anger to fuel activism against the Money System as a diversion from personal healing. Action against the Money System must occur in conjunction with personal healing in accordance with this recovery process to facilitate the best possible recovery. Nevertheless, each person’s recovery is unique because each person and each person’s damage is unique, and each person’s recovery will go the way that it does.

A competent mental health practitioner, although not required for one to work the recovery process, may nevertheless be valuable -- often even urgently necessary -- to aid one in recovery. A competent mental health practitioner is someone who supports this recovery process, possesses a relevant educational degree from an accredited institution, is licensed to practice psychology or is an intern under the direct charge of someone who is licensed to practice psychology, charges a reasonable/affordable fee for services, and will work one-on-one with the client in therapy, focusing on the individuality of the client’s experiences and the origin of the client’s damage and pain, thereby to recover the client's experience of her/his emotional truth, and thus achieve recovery. Later, when of value to the client, the competent mental health practitioner may refer the client to a gathering of people who are working this recovery process (although the client has probably already discovered such a gathering on his/her own by then). Even though there are many good preexisting support groups that will benefit one in recovery, it is important that the competent mental health practitioner support and affirm this recovery process and support group for his/her client in addition to other support groups he/she may also recommend.

Each step in the personal recovery process brings with it a higher degree of awareness. The following is an expansion of the recovery experience at each step.

I began to experience that something was wrong.

The first step occurs quickly. The cumulative effect of damage does not deter this experience. However, the mind’s effort to hide this experience from us draws our attention away from the damage. Yet, we retain a nagging sense of uneasiness and incompleteness that continues to grow as time passes.

Whenever we’re alone in our room or under the stars or anywhere we might find to be a peaceful sanctuary, we often can’t help but experience that something is wrong, despite our attempts at peace. In time, no matter where we are, we may find a general discomfort gnawing at us.

Eventually we begin to experience that this uneasiness and incompleteness is wrong. We also begin to realize that the stress we experience is wrong, and that some physical maladies we suffer are wrong, and that things at our work are wrong and that our relationships are wrong, and that our financial experiences are wrong, etc. "Wrong" is the operative word. Our state of existence is not right. It could be right, and it should be right, but it isn’t.

But the mind is strong. For most people, they simply endure their miseries. Their mind falsely convinces them that their miseries are just a "normal" part of being "human", or that their miseries aren’t really that bad. Their mind convinces them not to dwell on and "wallow" in the experience, or it buries them in an addiction. Sadly, the vast majority of people die prematurely, never having made it out of this step. They never know what it’s like to be heart-centered and fully alive.

But now there is hope for everyone.

I stopped hiding from this experience, and relentlessly pursued it to its origin.

This is where we say we’ve had enough and we’re going to get to the bottom of whatever is causing us to be miserable.

At this point, we don’t yet know what is causing us to be miserable. At first, people make some progress in this step. They then discover and focus on a thing or person, such as alcohol, work, an abusive parent, etc. which has been an instrument of damage to them. They spend some time here, and then they must move on to greater root causes if they are to make it to the next step. This step requires effort. "Soul searching" is required. Sometimes we have to deal with our own behavior if we have been instruments of damage to others, but we cannot let the associated guilt arrest our own recovery. We also don’t want to see ourselves like those who damaged us and simply forgive them and ourselves and move on. This is simply guilt motivated, and guilt is one of the major roadblocks to complete recovery. We must continue past this. The continuing roadblock also at this step is the mind’s lie that our problems are simply rooted in what it calls "human nature". There is nothing natural about our human miseries caused by damage, and we must ignore the mind’s attempt to retain power with this seductive suggestion, and continue our recovery.

Historically, only a relative handful of people have completed step two. Most people who attempt to find the origin of what’s wrong in their life make some progress, and are then distracted from reaching the origin. They are left arrested in time, in a partial state of damage awareness. Sometimes they fall victim to cults, company workaholism and other rigidly structured organizations or disciplines. Most of these people didn’t know where they were headed. They began to experience a lack of love and sought out a group that issued false promises of love, and their recovery slowed or stopped and they became hooked. Hopefully, this documented process will serve as a guide of pitfalls to avoid for those experiencing the recovery process both present and future.

I came to realize I was suffering from damage.

We then reach a point where we begin to realize that our miseries are indeed not natural. We realize that something has been done to us to cause us to suffer. We realize that it is not natural to suffer even slightly as we do.

We realize that we have been damaged.

This step begins in the latter parts of the previous step. Indeed, many of these steps overlap in this manner.

We don’t yet really know what the exact origin of our damage is, or where we were damaged and how. We can identify people and things that hurt us. But we are usually not yet cognizant of why the things which hurt us exist as they do and what makes them damaging, and we don’t yet fully realize why people, especially people who were supposed to love us, cause us damage.

Although the experience of realizing we have been damaged may be a new experience, such damage has been lightly documented to a degree in historical religious texts, where it is referred to as sin.

The importance of this step is implied in the roadblocks mentioned in the previous steps: we have overcome the externally defined roadblocks. From here on in, our recovery is most dependent on what’s inside us. It’s now up to us.

As we become more aware of the complete list of damaging acts against us throughout our life, the experience of being damaged grows stronger.

I became aware of how this damage had adversely affected my life.

Next comes a focus on what the damage did to us.

We begin to sense that the damage was done to our neurosystem: our brain, and our body’s entire nerve cell structure.

We realize how our damaged brains made bad decisions for our own well being. We recall how we were influenced and enmeshed by others to live "their life" for them instead of living our own life for our self. Maybe we made bad decisions in personal love relationships. Maybe we were too afraid to take necessary risks in our endeavors. Maybe we took too many foolish risks that further damaged us. Maybe we mistook money for love. Maybe we were just a feather in the wind, flowing wherever we were blown, making virtually no decisions at all. Maybe we became too controlling and narrow minded, severely limiting our life’s healthy experiences so that we wouldn’t get hurt. Maybe we lived a combination of all of the above – from our mind.

We begin to look at our physical condition. Maybe we are overweight and come to realize how our damaged neurosystem (and body regulators) and damaged behaviors contributed to this. Maybe we are underweight and come to realize that our damaged neurosystem manifested itself in too much nervous energy which kept us from retaining weight no matter how much we ate. Maybe we begin to see that our poverty or ignorance compelled us to eat the wrong foods, foods that did harm to our bodies and exacerbated the manifestations of our damage.

We also begin to make the connection between damaged nerve cells and physical disorders. A partial list of damage oriented physical maladies includes: allergies, Alzheimer's disease, asthma, diabetes, epilepsy, high blood pressure, heart attack, Parkinson's disease, stroke, ulcer, cancer, etc. We also begin to realize our damaged-oriented psychological disorders: obsessive-compulsive, neuroses, mania, phobias, depression, anxiety, bipolar manic-depression, paranoia, schizophrenia, etc. This is no easy trick, as it is very difficult for the thing that is damaged to realize that it is damaged, how it was damaged and what the results of the damage are. This is because such damage takes away such powers of realization otherwise found in recovered and healthy neurons. Thus, such realization is a tribute to progress in recovery, as only the heart can detect our own damage.

We also begin to realize how we had coped with damage via addictions. We face our nemeses and name our coping mechanisms. A partial list includes: alcohol, computers, drugs, smoking, work, television, religion, sex, people, etc. Virtually anything which we habitually/repeatedly did to hide from the pain in our soul is an addiction (whether or not we did so to unhealthy and/or abnormal excess), and addictions block recovery.

At this point we are usually getting in touch with anger, fear and hurt that has been with us for a long time. Next we must focus on sadness and shame.

I experienced sorrow and shame for what this damage had done to me.

The mind tells us not to feel sorry for ourselves. "You Wimp!" it scolds us, in an attempt to get us back on its track and remain "functional" in the Money System. But the mind cares only about the power it is losing when it attempts to guilt us into remaining mentally centered and controlled.

But we must ignore the mind. True recovery requires experiencing consciously the sadness for what has happened to us. The conscious awareness of sorrow is the first half of the last two feelings prior to taking action to correct the problem.

We begin to imagine how our lives would have been better had we not been damaged. We realize we have lost something. We realize that something has been taken from us. This loss is heart-centered self-awareness, and love, health, fun and fulfillment. We look back in time to our teen years and our childhood and see how our damage lessened our life’s experiences or made them extreme and excessive. We see the happiness we’ve lost, and we are sad – for our self. This is normal, natural, healthy and an indispensable part of recovery.

The last half of the feeling experience in this step is shame. Shame is often the last and most difficult feeling one realizes in recovery, although, of course, there are always exceptions. Shame is the feeling that we are less than we could be. Shame is the feeling that we are in a state of wrong when we could be right. Shame is the feeling that we are not normal. Shame is the feeling that our behavior is not normal or healthy and it could be.

Shame is a normal and natural feeling. It helps us get in touch with reality. Shame is just a feeling and nothing more. It is a measure of our existence. However, the mind (especially the ego) cannot handle shame. The mind usually tries to do two things with shame. First, it tries to assign blame to our self. The superego does this. Shame coupled with self-blame creates the experience of guilt. Guilt is not a feeling; it is a complex experience. The feeling of shame is only a part of guilt. However, often the mind assigns guilt that is unjustified. Guilt interferes with recovery. False guilt blocks recovery. It is important to remember that guilt is not shame. The second thing the mind does with shame is a complete block. If the mind cannot assign guilt, then the ego blocks the feeling of shame, even to the degree of rage eruption and violence. The ego is incompatible with shame, which is why pure shame (without guilt) is usually the last feeling to be experienced during recovery, when finally the mind is beginning to relax and change as the heart grows stronger. Ignoring the mind’s attempt to block the feeling of shame takes strength and effort. But it is essential to feel shame to continue recovery.

With this step we’ve become fully aware that we’ve been damaged.

I realized that this damage would kill me if I did not repair from it.

At this step our heart has become more active and our mind has become less active. We’ve begun to experience the painful feelings in our soul as we are letting go of our addictions with the courage to feel.

Something in our heart begins to make us aware of an aspect of the damage we are experiencing. We begin to realize that this damage is potentially fatal.

Our heart tells us that the damage to our neurosystem has an adverse effect on our body. We begin to experience that past and present body disorders are the result of our damaged neurosystem, both directly via adversely altering the functions of our glands, organs, muscles, vessels, etc. and indirectly via our compromised immune system. We realize that as we get older we will get weaker. We realize that the damage and its effects are getting worse. We realize that fatal illness is the ultimate result, ending in premature death.

Our heart also tells us that the damage to our neurosystem has an adverse effect on our behavior. We begin to realize that the things that we did that were self-defeating and injurious to others were caused by our damaged neurosystem. We realize that the older we get the more difficult it is to repair and correct our unhealthy behavior (although it is never too late to get healing results!). We realize that our self-defeating behavior places us in situations likely to lead to further damage. We realize that our bad judgements are the result of this damage, that the damage will worsen if not addressed and that we are likely to continue to make bad decisions resulting in more and more self-defeating behavior. We realize that we are likely to get our self killed prematurely as a result.

This realization, that the damage is ultimately fatal, may come as a shock. Amidst all of the progress we’ve made in recovery, amidst all of the feelings we are experiencing, comes this shock. Our heart experiences this shock, and it is compelling. Although our mind can be compelled to give up and instruct us to suicide, our heart will not give up. When the heart begins to experience this shock it sits with it well, and then takes action to correct the correctable problem.

The experience that this damage will kill us, begins to kick us into taking action to stop the damage and repair from it. This is conviction.

I sincerely desired to repair from this damage.

The emphasis here is on the word sincerely. Prior to recovery we may have wished things were better or that we could improve our life or be happier, etc. However we usually left this as a wish, taking no real action to make change to repair damage.

Now that we are feeling the result of damage, now that we are realizing that it is fatal, we begin the process of repentance. This is a very important step, in that we throw off another layer of the mind’s defense. It is at this point that the mind will attempt to tell us that reparation is futile and that the only two options are to continue to decay at the hands of damage and hide in addictions, or to commit suicide. Again, it is extremely important to acknowledge that we are being told of these two limited options, that it is the mind that is telling us this and that we are to ignore the mind, no matter how loud and how strong it speaks.

Success in this step is not letting go of feelings and experiences from the previous steps of this recovery process. Continue to get deeper into these experiences as necessary to retain and increase the desire to repair from damage. This is the beginning of repentance.

I came to believe that God and my heart could repair this damage and heal me.

God is always in touch with our heart. Now that our heart is taking charge of our life again we begin to experience that there is a way out of our damage that does not require death from that damage. God assigns our heart the task of repairing our damage. Through God, our heart can heal us of this damage. We have become aware of this.

We begin to experience hope. We have somewhat overcome our mind’s attempt to stop our recovery, to the degree that we have begun to realize that indeed we can be repaired and healed from damage. We experience such divine intervention in our otherwise untimely demise as the reality of salvation. We are not dead yet, and we can indeed become fully alive again.

Facing the truth begins to bring us peace. From our hope, coupled with this realization that God and our heart can heal us, begins the restoration of our faith in life, that we can achieve health and happiness.

I resolved to repair from damage.

Resolution to repair is absolutely necessary. It is not enough to realize that God and our heart can heal us, we must actively receive that repair and healing as well. We must resolve to receive it, doing whatever it takes to activate the healing process.

This is repentance. We resolve to change the way things are about our self. We know that we can be repaired and healed. Now we are going to claim our recovery, without reservation. We are going to do whatever it takes to be "saved". The importance of this step cannot be overemphasized. If we stop here, we will not repair from damage, no matter how much we have come to realize, no matter how real our feelings have become to us. If we stop here, we, in time, will lose what we’ve recovered and learned and our feelings will once again grow quiet to us. Resolve is necessary.

Repentance, though not from a behavior standpoint, is absolutely necessary to invoke a behavior. This is the behavior of submission to the next step in the personal recovery process, a step that will bring about profound changes, a step that contains great risk, and a step that can be very, very difficult. Even though recovery is worth it, no matter what, repentance is absolutely necessary to stay the course of recovery at this point, so that salvation and conversion may begin.

I courageously spent much time alone in places where it was safe to feel. There I let go from my mind and journeyed inward to my heart where I faced the pain in my soul.

This step has been with us, to some degree, during the first nine steps. We have already begun this step.

Now we will take the process of this step up to another level. Now we are going to really let go from our mind. Our mind will leave us from time to time, completely. We will journey completely into a heart-centered existence. We will then look directly from our heart to our adjacent soul.

We will feel the pain in our soul of everything that has happened to us. We will cry. We will feel the aloneness that every singular being feels. We will experience how we were made to feel more alone than was healthy for us – the depression of abandonment. We will relive being teamed against, bullied and cast aside by powerful members of our original family and peer groups. We will feel the pain of our loneliness. We will feel the pain of the abuse we have received – the overwhelming enmeshment. We will express and release our rage! We will feel the anguish of the abuse we have inflicted. We will face these experiences. We will face these experiences as far back as we can. We will repeat this process in future cycles of this recovery process, so what we don’t get initially we can sweep up later.

But the initial experience of this step is large and powerful. We will be almost overwhelmed. This step is one’s "40 days and nights in the wilderness". This is where we journey inward to our own hell. This is where we experience the painful fires of our personal torment at the hands of damage. This is also where, by facing these fires and bringing our heart back in touch with our soul’s experiences of these fires, that we begin to rapidly reduce the flames. We eventually reduce the fire to a warm memory. Then the memory is ours to own, and the pain of its experience is greatly, greatly, greatly reduced. The memory becomes tolerable. This step is where we retrieve the keys to our personal heaven, keys that had been locked away by the damage caused by evil. God and our heart are putting salve on our wounds -- such is the nature of "salvation". With these keys we can open any door to our soul, any neuro-pathway, to any spiritual realm within us.

We begin to reunite our complete self. Our mind’s defense structure has begun to crumble. We are repairing and healing from damage.

I experienced "I AM".

Through step 10 we experience the direct connection from our heart to our soul. We also experience the direct connection from our heart to our mind. The direct connection between the mind and the soul begins to free itself from our mind’s dominance. We have entered heart-centered experience. We are existing at the center of our being.

The first major, profound experience of being heart-centered is the "I AM" experience. We experience the singular entity that each of us is. We experience it from the heart, the only place we can experience it. Our mind cannot experience this. Our mind had previously falsified this experience through the tremendously limited "me" experience which occurs mostly in the ego, and is far from an awesome experience.

The "I AM" experience is profound. It is deep and it is spiritual. Along with this experience is the experience of being at the center of the universe, or, more accurately, we experience being the center of a dynamic universe. I exist. This is a staggering experience for the mind. But the heart loves it. The heart welcomes this experience. The "I AM" experience connects our heart to the rest of us. The "I AM" experience lets us know our heart is in charge.

So powerful is the "I AM" experience, that all other thoughts about our justification for being are shattered. We are, God created us, and that’s justification enough. Indeed, the "I AM" experience we enjoy from our heart is the same type of experience of being that can be experienced by all living things within and without us, and that is always experienced by God who is the great "I AM".

The "I AM" experience is the centerpiece of other heart-centered experiences, such as love, truth, growth, identity ("I AM"), understanding, happiness and freedom. We experience great courage. We share our life with God. We know the truth and the truth sets us free.

I began to live from my heart.

The "I AM" experience is the first indication that one is living from one’s heart.

The first experiences of living from one’s heart are very satisfying, calming, empowering. A magnificent existence has been experienced. Doors are opening up, pain is being experienced, healing is occurring. This is all so very awesome.

The heart however is being experienced at a relative immature development. It is also experiencing more (regarding the damaged soul) than a heart at this level of development is supposed to experience.

Thus retaining heart-centered experience for very long becomes difficult. The mind is not completely restructured yet. Thus our mind will retake control for awhile after the heart has been in charge for awhile. But the mind is now different. The mind is no longer as strong as it once was. Its power to control our life has diminished. Strangely, the mind may even begin to assist in the recovery. Retaining heart-centered experience may not be as difficult next time, and may last longer.

This is a normal experience of beginning to live from one’s heart. When we live from the heart, we take care of our self without needlessly harming others. If we have lived a life with much self-sacrifice then we greatly reduce such behavior. If we have lived a life with much "me, me, me" then we greatly reduce such behavior. All this occurs naturally, simply by living from the heart. We begin to attain a natural dynamic balance in our existence. Because our heart is taking care of our self, nothing else the mind ever did can supercede. Our soul is healing. Soon it will strengthen our immune system and repair what bodily damage that it can. Our mind is restructuring to utilize more of its capacity for thinking that will serve the heart instead of thinking to run our life. Everything about us is changing – for the better.

As we live from our heart, our relationships will improve. This includes personal, interpersonal, social, socioeconomic and geopolitical relationships. Slowly at first, and then more rapidly, our environment will improve, just by living from our heart.

God intended for us to live from our heart. This is our natural condition. This is truly human nature. It is while existing in this our natural condition that the beliefs stated in the belief chapter of this presentation become real. We are experiencing conversion.

My heart began to heal my soul of its painful damage and to clear my mind of its symptomatic disorders.

Again, this step too has already begun. It has shifted into high gear with step 10.

The heart, and only the heart, has the power to face all of the soul and heal it. There are three reasons for this. First, the heart is positioned next to the soul. It does not need the corpus callosum to contact the soul (as does the mind). Besides, the corpus callosum is very, very limited in its points of contact between the mind and the soul. The heart touches the entire side of the soul, with direct connections everywhere on that side. These connections can go right to the part of the soul upon which healing is being focused. Second, the heart has the power to heal the soul. This is one of the heart’s natural abilities. The mind does not have this power. Third, God, who provides divine direction with healing, can assist the heart (especially necessary for the immature heart) in this process. Only the heart can communicate with God.

As the soul heals, its own effect on the mind diminishes. As the heart gets stronger the mind no longer needs to defend it. These two occurrences "relax" the mind. The mind begins to go through a cyclical process of disintegration, differentiation, synthesis and reintegration. This basically means that the mind changes. The ego and superego begin to dissolve. The nexus between the two fluctuates and becomes unclear. Again, the heart is connected to one complete side of the mind, much like it is connected to the soul. Via this connection, the heart can directly address the mind. Powered and assisted by God, the heart restructures the mind, changing it from being an overtaxed, life-controlling entity to a smooth, efficient and powerful thinking tool to serve the heart.

We experience not only physical healing but healing from "mental" disorders as well. Obsessive compulsive disorder, nervousness and anxiety, depression, mania, paranoia schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, etc. – all begin a noticeable healing process.

We become more in touch with our base feelings and can differentiate between them (gladness, anger, fear, hurt, sadness, shame -- as opposed to our former feeling experience consisting greatly of none, numb or confused). Our feelings no longer have the unconscious controlling power over us they once had. They no longer compel us to addiction, self-destruction and abusive behavior. We are no longer incapable of experiencing our feelings as feelings. Our feelings become available to us, not only those feelings from the past, but also those in the here and now. We can now experience our new feelings as they occur, as we are more in the here and now than before healing begun.

Our heart is spending more time as the ruler of our life. Our mind and soul are changing for the better. We are becoming whole again, for the first time since we were very, very, very young. Conversion is in full swing.

I began experiencing happiness and personal growth.

A primary byproduct of this process is happiness. As our mind relaxes, as healing progresses, as heart-centered experiences become more frequent and longer lasting …we begin to notice that we are happy. We notice that we are happier than we have been in a long time. We may also notice that we are feeling healthier.

This happiness is a state of being. We may feel sad because of lost loved ones that may occur with this process. There may be other realizations of losses that occur with this process that cause us to feel sad. We may still feel angry for what has happened to us. We may feel angry because we have to go through this recovery process. We are also experiencing feelings of fear, hurt and shame. Nevertheless, our heart is at the center of our being and is becoming powerful. This creates the happiness in our state of being, which exists despite our many feelings not usually associated with happiness.

Another primary byproduct of the personal recovery process is personal growth. This means that we are becoming aware of what we might have previously referred to as the secrets of our universe. We also are becoming aware of the profound realities about our self.

We experience from our heart that we are mortal and will someday die. Our mind, however, could never completely face our mortality and would constantly run from it and hide. We now realize there is nothing we can do to escape the day of our death; we can’t hide from it in our mind or in substance addiction, hobbies, religion, workaholism, people, sex, pseudo-families, etc., etc. Our heart can face this reality. Our heart can stop us from hiding from this realization. Being conscious of our future death does not debilitate us, because our heart is in charge. Instead, we are further empowered to find a way to enjoy the one and only life on earth we will ever have. This is personal growth.

A great heart-centered awareness is occurring. We are more in touch with our complete being, which is giving us answers to previous mysteries about our self, our family of origin, the world within us and the world without us. Our heart is relating with God. This relationship brings revelations to us. We are becoming mature. Before, we may have experienced that we were old before our time yet younger than our age. Now we are beginning to come together. We are beginning to exist in the here and now. This brings with it an awakening to the truth. The heart-centered values of love, truth, growth, identity, understanding, happiness and freedom take on new meaning. Indeed, these values form a recurring cycle that describes much of the personal recovery process itself.

And through this process we are becoming -- becoming our precious self, and becoming free.

I became aware of how I was damaged by others.

Personal growth and identity lead to understanding. As our recovery continues we begin to get in contact with exactly how we were damaged and by what and by whom.

We can now recall back to our early years as adults, teens, children, young children. We can relive the events of our damage. We experience how the damage was inflicted by others. Our parents, siblings, other authority figures, friends, associates, bosses, etc. are all participants in the damage that was inflicted upon us. We were simply overpowered. Our ego had previously blocked this realization from our mind, because our ego cannot admit that we can be damaged. Our ego can’t help but deny this reality because it "thinks" we are all powerful and indestructible. But our ego, a component of our false heart, is dissolving. Our heart is becoming the rightful ruler of our life. And our heart craves the truth, and gladly accepts the truth that we were overpowered and damaged beyond our ability to prevent it!

We experience the damaging behavior of others: criticism, neglect, physical battering, sexual intrusion, smothering, controlling, enmeshment, being forced to parent our parents, abandonment, isolation, etc., etc. – all forms of abuse. We realize how this abuse damaged us. Our focus is on our self and the damage and repairing the damage. We are learning how the damage occurs and what it does to us. We experience how the damage altered for the worse our physical well being and our behavior.

Although we may have begun this process unaware that we were damaged or how we were damaged, although we may have been skeptical as to the concept of damage at the beginning, we now are very much aware of the truth of damage. We are aware that damage did happen to us. We are aware that it is indeed very real. We are aware that it was inflicted on us by others (directly or indirectly through the Money System). We are aware of its properties and repercussions. And, we are aware that we can repair from damage and heal from its effects.

Returning in memory to the past to deal with our past issues can be emotionally strenuous and even debilitating at times. Sometimes it is valuable to have a person available to talk with when we get in touch with difficult stuff. A competent mental health practitioner is ideal in this situation.

I came to realize the Money System was the root cause of the damage done to me.

As we realize that others inflicted the damage on us, we are faced with an inescapable question: why did they do so?

We had been taught that if people were close to us -- if they ever said they loved us (or should have said they loved us), if they ever expressed care for us (or should have expressed care for us) or if they indicated in some way that we were valuable to them -- why then would they ever want to harm us?

We receive an answer to this question in a somewhat spiritual manner. We simply begin to realize the truth.

We become aware that they damaged us because they themselves were damaged and this is how damaged people behave. We become aware that the damage is environmentally "inherited", in that generations damage generations. We become aware that humans were not naturally damaged. We become aware that evil is the source of damage. We become aware that the Money System is the great evil that causes damage and causes people to damage people.

Thus, we become aware of the truth: that the Money System is the root cause of the damage done to all of us.

Whenever possible I avoided both extensive encounters with the Money System and personal relationships with people and things I believed would cause me damage.

Having realized the truth – that the Money System was the root cause of the damage done to us – we also realize that we must now make some behavior changes. This is the beginning of personal restitution.

We know that we were damaged. We know that the damage was at the hands of others who were damaged puppets of the Money System or that the damage occurred directly at the hands of the Money System itself. We realize that despite the progress we have made in damage repair and healing we have not been rendered immune to further attack and damage caused by the Money System.

We are wonderful, vulnerable beings. Our external senses make us vulnerable to the world, and this is the way God made us. Through our vulnerability we employ our external senses to learn about the world outside of us (as well as, to a degree, the world within us) and explore God’s universe. God has directed us to do this. We cannot shut down our vulnerability without also shutting down our senses and further damaging our self, and we can never shut down our senses completely. Thus we realize that we can still be damaged both by contact with the Money System and by contact with others who are damaged and ruled by the Money System. This is because we must exist in the world, and that world contains the Money System and those who are enslaved to it. Although the world is good, the Money System is evil and it is everywhere. We cannot escape the Money System and its power to damage us as long as the Money System exists.

Thus, until the Money System goes away, we must adjust to its existence, and we must do so in two ways:

First, we must avoid extensive contact with the Money System.

If we have the freedom to do so, we drastically reduce our dealings with the Money System. If we have hobbies regarding money we eliminate them. If we are working extra hours voluntarily earning extra money, we find a way to do without that extra money and stop working those extra hours (unless hardship would result). We avoid talking positively about money and its system, and we leave conversations when others are talking positively about the Money System.

We budget our money and curtail our extra spending so as to become less dependent on money so as to think about money less often. If we work in the money field then we try to get employment elsewhere. If this simply isn’t practical to the degree that doing so would be an increase in stress and a financial burden, then we simply make an attitude change that we are doing what we have to do in the Money System until Heaven on Earth occurs.

We, in effect, begin to live in the Money System but not be of the Money System. We live as the resigned Winkies in The Wizard of Oz, loyal from fear to the demands of the "Wicked Witch of the West" even while we wish and hope and pray for "her" demise. We begin to separate from the Money System psychologically. This greatly aids in our recovery.

Second, we avoid frequent/extensive contact with people who have not experienced the personal recovery process and/or are still potentially damaging to us.

This is important. We may have to reduce or eliminate contact with casual contacts, coworkers, associates, companions, friends and family if they cannot respect our desire to avoid positive expression regarding encounters with the Money System or if they cannot stop abusing us with damage. This may be difficult to do, but we must do this if we are to continue our recovery and become healthy and happy as God desires us to be.

At school or work we must become detached psychologically from people who are excited about earning money or behave as Money System worshippers. At home, we must greatly reduce contact with those we love who damage us. Since much of the Money System’s damage is inflicted via other people, we must protect ourselves from further damage at the hands of damaged people, so that we can continue to progress in our recovery process.

Detachment from people while in their presence is difficult and doing so can feel unnatural and even "cruel" even though it isn’t. It will seem like we are "abandoning" them and it will play into our own legitimate abandonment that we experienced as children.

But people who are verbally or physically abusive lack the concept of personal boundaries. They may fear others but respect no one. They may be anger addicts. They may be overly competitive with a dog-eat-dog attitude. They may be self-destructive. They may be overly focused on pleasing others. They may be overly focused on sucking others dry. They may use drugs and alcohol to medicate their pain. They may be addicted to work, religion, people, sex, sports, television, computers, pseudo-families, etc. to medicate their pain with the illusions of love via the enmeshment of conditional affection they were "taught" as children, and to avoid real love and intimacy on a one-on-one basis which frightens them because they are terrified of being known for fear they will be rejected and abandoned. They may behave as if they love money. They are most likely in denial of their damaging behavior. Thus they are all dangerous. Psychological and physical close contact with these people can damage us and thwart our recovery.

If psychological detachment isn’t possible, then we must leave their presence. Interaction with these people is very often a threat on our life and on our sanity. We cannot have psychological interaction with these people and remain safe and sane. We became relatively crazy because of interaction with these kinds of people when we were children. These people were unsafe. Back then we had no choice – we were overpowered and abused. Now, we have some choice in the matter. Now it’s time to make healthy choices for our personal benefit. Making these healthy choices to avoid contact with people who damage is a sign of our recovery and that we genuinely care about our health and happiness as God desires.

We may once have been like these people who are dangerous to us. Thus we can identify with them. It will be difficult to separate from them because of this. We may be compelled to stay around them for "their" sake or to "take" (care of) them with us. But these are both unhealthy fantasies born out of our own damage and the enmeshment and abandonment we suffered as children. The best thing we can do is detach, leave and recover. It is the best thing we can do for our self for our own recovery. The message we send to dangerous people by taking care of our self is that we choose to take care of our self and heal and recover, and that our true success in doing so indicates that it can be done. It is the strongest statement we can make to those who are dangerous to us if we care about them – simply by focusing on our self, and letting them go, completely.

A complete recovery takes some time, and will take a great degree longer (if it occurs at all) if we continuously experience damage. So we must make behavioral changes – restitution -- to protect our self.

Money System worshippers will say that we are behaving like members of a cult. They will falsely accuse us of withdrawing from the world into our own little mindset. This unjustified response is to be expected, for at least two reasons:

First, people we know may be dependent on us in some way, and thus they are experiencing insecurity as our time and connection with them diminishes. They will unconsciously tap into their own childhood abandonment issues and displace the associated feelings onto us.

Second, although the personal recovery process is not a cult practice, but a genuine heart-centered healing process, others, who have not yet been inclined to begin recovery, will find their egos realistically threatened by our significant, overall improvements and our emerging heart-centered life. Despite our achievements in creating a thriving life for our self, those who are mentally centered will be angry with us, for disturbing their "peace".

Thus, the problem is not with us, but with them.

We have a God-given right not to be damaged! We have a God-given right to seek repair and healing from damage! We have a God-given right to our natural heart-centered state!

The problem is with those who, by way of their damaged state and their mentally centered existence, still think the Money System is good. To qualify as a cult something must have the substance of a cult, not just the form of a cult. A church, business, state or country has a form similar to that of a cult, yet does not (necessarily) have the substance of a cult – and neither do we. We will continue to participate and abide by the rules of the Money System as long as the Money System exists. We are not developing a mindset; we are getting rid of one. We are not looking for the illusion of love through conditional affection, we are realizing that was our past and we are putting an end to such damage. We are not hiding from anything; we are facing the truth about everything. Thus the substance of the personal recovery process in no way resembles the substance of a cult, anymore than a drug or alcohol recovery hospital resembles the substance of a cult. The personal recovery process and the Heart Political Part are simply not cults.

I actively sought the company of others who also experienced this process, sharing the healthy expression of my recovery and cooperating in mutual support.

There comes a time when we have spent sufficient time alone healing and growing that we wish the company of others who are also experiencing the personal recovery process. So now we begin to seek them out.

Our attraction to others who are recovering is natural.

We don’t want to resume previous relationships with those we believe will damage us, so we limit our time with those people from our past. We naturally desire the company of others in casual contact, socially, economically, politically, in companionship, in friendship, in love and in parenting our children. Thus seeking out those who have a similar experience and are likely to be safe from damaging us simply makes sense, and is a natural attraction. Also, people who are in recovery from Money System inflicted damage are likely to share similar interests and psychological profiles. This facilitates companionship and friendship bonding. Spending time with others who are experiencing the same recovery process we are experiencing will aid us all in succeeding in obtaining the best recovery possible. Such is the benefit of mutual healthy expression and support.

A personal recovery process support group is a good place to find others who are healing and growing. These groups will naturally emerge from the desire and drive of those who enact them into being.

I began actively participating in the political process of creating heaven here on earth.

The personal recovery process brings with it changes in behavior in a number of arenas. A major arena of behavioral change in a recovering person is the political arena.

From the beginning of the recovery process, and especially during the realization of damage, we sense the need for change. When we realize that we were damaged and that we could be damaged again, even after significant recovery, we desire to make changes in our environment to prevent further damage to our self and our defenseless children.

We also begin to realize that no matter how much we try to escape the Money System, it will only close down on us faster and tighter. Such is the evil nature of the Money System. Since we realize we can’t escape the Money System, and we realize that the Money System is evil, and we realize that God empowers us to destroy evil, then we desire to band together with others to replace the Money System with a new socioeconomic-geopolitical system. Political action is the natural recourse.

The natural process of people taking political action, after making progress and while still in recovery, to replace the Money System and thus end the damage it causes, will result, eventually, in the creation of Heaven on Earth. We don’t know what the socioeconomic-geopolitical system foundation and life upon that foundation will be like in Heaven on Earth, as such creation must occur naturally and democratically by people alive at the time, and cannot be pre-engineered. But whatever we create, it will be much, much better for all of us than what we have now, because it will be based upon the human heart and upon our beliefs and not upon money and the Money System.

Even if we have never been inclined toward political action or if we have denigrated politics and politicians or if we have tried political action and failed and became jaded, our recovery brings with it changes which motivate us to take action from our heart. The Heart Party, as a vehicle for such action, facilitates our taking action with a high degree of probable success.

Participation in the Heart Party thus becomes a strong desire for those in recovery. While still in the Money System, each person will be able to participate in the Heart Party’s creation of Heaven on Earth according to their time, money, abilities etc. However, everyone will indeed be able to participate in some very valuable way. This will give that person hope. They will experience hope in their own ability to make a positive and constructive difference. They will experience hope to someday be free from the threat of the continuous onslaught of damage caused by the Money System. They will experience hope in humanity that together we have the power to avert global catastrophes and create a world where we all can thrive.

Putting one’s faith in one’s own heart-centered self creates justified hope, and is sanctioned by God.

I made this recovery process a regular part of my life, using it especially whenever I experienced re-damage, and my love, health, fun and fulfillment continued to increase.

Once we have made progress in recovery we are not endowed with immunity against further damage. The Money System and its damaged people are always capable of hurting us significantly.

However, the good news is that the personal recovery process leaves us stronger in our ability to handle the damage and repair from it.

Thus, no matter how far along in recovery we are, no matter how far we have progressed in even our first experience in the personal recovery process, we can utilize this recovery process on a per-damage basis regarding future damage. The personal recovery process is especially quick in aiding us in future damage recovery if we have already completed the first cycle of the personal recovery process as a profound and deep experience.

Thus, making the personal recovery process a regular part of our life allows us to recover as quickly as possible, not only from future damage, but also from past damage from which we’ve not yet fully recovered. So, whenever we experience damage, we need to deal with it through the personal recovery process.

The more we work the personal recovery process the more we continue to grow. Our enlightenment increases. We continue to be amazed at how many "secrets" of life are revealed to us from within our own heart. There is so much about the universe our limited mind could never discover. With our heart in charge, the discoveries resume.

We come to realize that we are recovering and that damage healing has occurred. We are getting our life back! We are experiencing redemption.

I rejoiced in my recovery, sharing this process with anyone who suffered from damage and was interested.

The personal recovery process is like a journey through a dark and twisting tunnel occasionally littered with red fires and glimpses of light. Eventually we emerge into a new world. There we live for awhile until the next cycle of recovery when a similar journey (of lessor or greater degree) occurs.

There are people who will have successful recoveries. There are people who will have semi-successful recoveries. There are people who will not even attempt the personal recovery process and who will criticize it.

Then there are those who are interested in recovery but have not begun the process. This section is in regard to these people. As damaged people become interested in this process, they may contact someone who is more personally familiar with the personal recovery process by virtue of their own recovery process. It is important, that when asked, that we share authentically with those who are sincerely interested in the nature, difficulties and benefits of our experience with the personal recovery process. This aids the damaged person in beginning his/her own recovery and also improves the odds that he/she will be successful.

Also, should our time allow, we need to be available to support those who might need us during their recovery. This is not to say we take the place of a competent mental health practitioner or that we sacrifice our own life for others. Our support consists of listening and understanding, giving very little direction if any, and doing this support only if we have the time and desire to do so. If we think the person is in need of greater help we can recommend a competent mental health practitioner.

It is also important not to go out proselytizing people to "convert" via the personal recovery process, as this most often causes people to repel from the personal recovery process, hindering their recovery, and simply indicates we our self are not yet "out of the woods" in our own recovery. Such behavior can also cause unnecessary conflicts and damage. We need to simply go about living our own life in our own healthy way, and wait until someone who is sincerely interested in the personal recovery process for their own recovery purposes seeks us out before sharing the personal recovery process with him/her.

We are now the authority on our own life. People now come to us for direction on finding their own way out of damage. We then come to realize that we are no longer within the world of damage, living a wrecked and hopeless denial laden existence. Now we have journeyed into our own new world where there is hope for our own life of thriving in love, health, fun and fulfillment. We look back and see where we were, with bittersweet memories and relief that we are no longer there. We look forward to where we are going with hope and joy-based excitement. And we live in peace with our self, in the here and now. We have a life – our own life! With this step of redemption, the personal recovery process completes its cycle.

A changed person.

The personal recovery process cycle leaves us in a state of change.

The heart is more in charge. The soul is more open to express feelings to the heart. The mind is more subservient to the heart.

This changes our attitudes. We are more at peace with the world. We are more able to differentiate between the world and the evil Money System. We are stronger. We are more self-reliant and self-trusting. We are less concerned with the superegoistic right and wrong as we are in making our own way in the world. We have purpose. We have direction, emanating from our own heart and with God’s influence. We have hope; hope in our own abilities and in the power of us all together to change things for the better.

Recovery brings healing, which brings heart-centered existence, which brings life. We are now truly alive, alive in the way God intended for us to be.

Now, we have the ability to continue to do what we were created to do each in our own unique way – enjoy the one and only life we will ever have on this earth.

Enjoyment comes in many forms. Enjoyment from the heart is not limited to simple physical pleasures and mental stimulation as it was when our mind ruled our life. Great purposes spring forth from the heart, uniquely for each one of us. This is our own way. Most of all, we now experience the simple joy of pure being, each in our own unique way.

We nevertheless share one great purpose we enjoy in common, and that enjoyment is to fight evil as it occurs around us, and to destroy it, and thus make life better for ourselves. We now do this together, each in our own way, by continuing our recovery process and working to create Heaven on Earth, and thereby bringing to an end the existence of the evil Money System.

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