Click on the Penn and Teller video while you're there.

Like the video says, it can be the "god" of your choosing; mine is Group Of Drunks - we can accomplish as a group what we cannot accomplish by ourselves (think of someone who runs out of gas half a mile from the gas station and cannot push the car there himself. Four or five guys happen along, and with their help, the motorist gets his car to the gas station). I knew a guy who used "Mother Earth" as a power greater than himself. I never asked him anything about it, but he was doing something right; he'd been clean and sober for over five years.

Many recovering alcoholics are disappointed that they didn't see "the blinding flash of light" that Bill Wilson claimed to have seen during his "spiritual awakening." This hallucination was more than likely caused by the belladonna that was included in the drug cocktail (which included henbane, zanthoxylum (which eases gastrointestinal discomfort), barbiturates, megavitamins, morphine, and some other ingredients) the doctors gave him. The realization that an alcoholic cannot drink again doesn't hit them like a wave; there is nothing dramatic or remarkable about it. In my case, one day something clicked. That's as dramatic as it got. Some alcoholics make up big, spiritual WHAM! BOOM! BAM! happenings because they want attention. They talk about how wonderful life is without alcohol. Life without alcohol isn't wonderful: gas is sky-high, jobs rarely pay you what you're worth, the opposite sex is still difficult (sometimes damn near impossible) to get along with, etc. But life without alcohol - for me, at least - is life, rather than the far-below-average existence that I had when I was drinking.

Penn and Teller are hilarious.