This week I’m joined by Jon Stewart, a former member of Alcoholics Anonymous and someone with a great deal of experience discussing the pros and cons of the program, how it runs and how it shares certain characteristics with destructive cults and yet…is it destructive itself? We talk about this in detail in this episode.

Jon Stewart’s blog essay “Leaving AA Staying Sober”: https://jonsleeper.wordpress.com/

Recovering From Recovery: https://www.recoveringfromrecovery.com/

AA Agnostica (Atheist AA): http://aaagnostica.org/

AA Beyond Belief (Atheist AA): http://www.aabeyondbelief.com/

Andy Thomson, “Why We Believe in God(s)”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iMmvu9eMrg&t=2s

Dan Dennett, “Can Churches Survive the New Transparency?”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=409sOZInjiw&t=16s

Robert Dudley, “The Drunken Monkey Thesis”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87FOhjLK4yc

The Sinclair Method (TSM): https://www.the-sinclair-method.com/

Claudia Christian’s TSM documentary “One Little Pill”: