Thanks ladyblue for your last post. The original post was about something more than just sobriety in and of itself. This thread has gotten away from that idea. Lots of folks who have never experienced this ‘something more’ have assumed they know what is being talked about in that original post. They don’t. They have not experienced the steps and the ability to share the result of that process (for them personally), with others in the AA community.
That will not stop many of them from having an opinion about those that have had this experience, but again, it is an opinion about something they have not experienced.
I don’t expect them to understand it and either do I expect many of them to fail to have an opinion about it.