Join Joe McDonald as he reads from the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, diving into the essence of selflessness and the importance of embracing a state of being absent of self in Steps 5, 6, and 7 AA. Joe highlights the central challenge of the human condition—our inability to think our way into a state of being, emphasizing that true beingness comes from recognizing our part in a greater whole.

“Main problem centers in the mind, right? And so one of the things that you cannot do as a human but we still desperately want to believe we can is we can’t think our way into a state of being. Beingness is absent self. My being knows I’m part of a greater whole. That’s why when you experience the power, I can tell you I felt it too. But I can’t do that when I’m aware of me; I can only do that when I’m aware of him. So the fact is I can’t do ...