In the literature of self-help, recovery and various strains of New Age spirituality, the word ‘God’ has increasingly been replaced with a less creed-driven alternative: the higher power. This phrase entered the popular vocabulary in the 1930s, due mostly to the influence of Alcoholics Anonymous. The term only appears three times in the Big Book that co…
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