..Apart from those other, overtly religious twelve steps.
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1. Give up the idea that you must take responsibility for your own actions.
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2. Make your sanity dependent on a notion that the imaginary is more important than the verifiable.
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3. Make a decision to turn your will and your life over to an illogical mythical construct, no matter what the consequences.
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4. Allow enigmatic and reason-blearing paradoxes to grow like weeds in your mind, and base life-altering decisions upon them.
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5. Demand that others respect your right to live in a make-believe world, no matter how ridiculous and counterproductive it may be to society as a whole.
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6. Have a gushy sook to your fanciful imaginings about exactly how worthless you are by your very nature. Then parlay the resulting low self esteem into a persecution complex that you can use as a shield against criticism.
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7. Insist that only elements within your pretend construct can define it, equate it with the real world, call it special revelation, then claim parity for that circular view alongside empirically and independently confirmed knowledge.
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8. Put a pretty name, such as "faith" on gullibility and claim it to be a virtue, while at the same time denigrating healthy critical thinking with the monikers of "closed mindedness" and "cynicism."
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9. Because delusion, as well as misery, loves company, demand that others share your fantasy, and begin to live their lives based on it, despite the lack of any evidence for it whatsoever. Then, when they challenge the notion, condemn them with your words, while denying that you are making any judgment of them, hiding behind the notion that the delusion itself is just speaking through you.
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10. Demand of those persons who are unconvinced by your desperately unpersuasive and inaccurate descriptions of reality that they must prove a negative regarding your illogical position. But don't then apply that same standard to anything else in your life.
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11. Claim direct and real communication between yourself and the imagined personages of your delusions, even though no discernible product of such communication can be demonstrated.
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12. Seek, through that attempted communication with the imaginary, and morbid introspection, to completely destabilize your conscious contact with reality, by opting for that fantasy as a solution to real world problems, over actual, proven, hands-on solutions.
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12b. End up doing real harm in the world as a result.
