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There is no shortage of meetings where you're expected to submit to the Christian God, where the people will be hostile to someone they find out is an atheist.

They'll still use the "your higher power can be the door knob!" bit, too.

and there’s no shortage of other meetings to go to

It’s an easy reference for a lot of people to understand what spirituality means.

Remember, many people who come to meetings can lack any formal education, be homeless, completely cut off from the internet/society etc etc etc.

If I were to start talking about chakras, spiritual energy or Soto zen, they’d think I was fucking mental!

That seems like a fairly unconvincing suggestion. I'm fairly convinced that if I was to show up at the psychologist saying that I thought a fire extinguisher was a higher power that controls the world over which I have no control they would be concerned. What would it even mean if the fire extinguisher was a higher power?