Steps 10 and 12 – Part 5 – Mark – 2001
About This Speaker Tape
A gritty, theatrical deep-dive into the 'Theater of the Lie,' where the speaker uses live demonstrations to strip away the ego's masks. Through a series of role-plays involving a woman grieving her mother and a man facing a divorce, the speaker exposes the 'stage characters'—the Victim, the Judge, the Executioner, and the Traitor—that run the show behind the scenes. The narrative moves from the wreckage of broken relationships and the 'emotional banker' collecting interest on old IOUs to the concrete necessity of a fear inventory.
The speaker argues that unless these insane belief systems are dismantled, the alcoholic remains a 'walking dead man,' vulnerable to the siren call of King A.. The session concludes with a hard look at self-reliance versus Higher Power reliance, framing fear as the corroding thread that keeps a person trapped in the past or future, away from the only place where recovery happens: the now.
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