Thursday, October 19, 2023

AA Convention in America





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    Born: August 8th, 1933
    Sobriety Date: February 28th, 1974
    Died: January 31st, 2009

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    Joe and Charlie Big Book study - Recorded in 1998
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    		Father Martin -'His Story'
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    ALCOHOLICS_ANONYMOUS - this is a large print of the Big Book as a pdf file. This file was created by and sent to me by Major1212major1212@pobox.com

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    		Father John Doe -speaking on sanity #1
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    A Study Guide to the AA Big Book -by Ken W.
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    Sandy B. - Saturday Morning Live
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    		Sandy B. -speaking at Maryland State Convention - 1998
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    		Sandy B. -speaking at the 28th Gopher State Roundup - May 25th - 27th 2001
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    		Sandy B. -speaking at Sunlight of the Spirit in York, PA - August 17th 2001
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    Sister Ignatia Gavin and A.A.Sister Ignatia Gavin, a tiny Irish-American nun, helped initiate medical treatment for alcoholics in Akron. It is estimated that during her career,Sister Ignatia helped over 10,000 alcoholics.
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    		Sister Ignatia -aslo know as: Angel of Alcoholics Anonymous
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    		Ann P. -Speaking in El Paso
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    		Ann P. -Speaking in Orange, CA March 1st 1998
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    "When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story"
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    Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith
    (cofounders of Alcoholics Anonymous)
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    Click here to download all in one zip file of Dr. Bob.
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    		Bill W. and Dr. Bob S. -1st International Convention, Cleveland, Ohio 1950
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    		Bill W. -speaking in Atlanta, Georgia 1951
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    		Bill W. -speaking at the 3rd General Service Convention
    59 min 44 sec
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    		Bill W. -The Spiritual Experience - It's a Matter of Grace - Recorded in 1966
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    		Bill W. -telling the history of the Big Book
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    		Bill W. -talking on the 12 Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous
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    		Bill W. -speaking on A.A.'s Three Legacies [Part 1]
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    		Bill W. -speaking on A.A.'s Three Legacies [Part 2]
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    		Bill W. -speaking at the Oklahoma State Conference in Oklahoma City, OK - May 1951
    45 min 42 sec
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    		Bill W. -2nd Talk Dallas TX 2-1951
    114 min 10 sec
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    		Bill W. -speaking at the 18th Anniversary Dinner NY 11-10-52
    43 min 23 sec
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    		Bill W. -speaking at the 20th Anniversary Dinner NY 11-9-1954
    62 min 58 sec
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    		Bill W. -1947
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    		Bill W. -Intoduction of Sam Shoemaker at St Louis MO 7-1-55
    33 min 29 sec
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    		Bill W. -speaking at the Cleveland OH 1st International 1950
    73 min 14 sec
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    		Bill W. -speaking at Will Roger Auditorium Ft Worth TX 6-13-1954
    84 min 12 sec
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    		Bill W. -Reading HOW IT WORKS
    5 min 30 sec
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    		Bill W. -speaking in Memphis, TN 9-20-1947
    117 min 32 sec
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    		Bill W. -Texas State Conference 1954 talk about the book . . .
    77 min 37 sec
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    		Bill W. -Texas State Conference Dallas TX 1951 Part 1 of 2
    56 min 28 sec
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    		Bill W. -Texas State Conference Dallas TX 1951 Part 2 of 2
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    		Sister Ignatia -speaking about Dr. Bob
    32 min 11 sec
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    		Dr. Bob -from Akron, OH, Sister Ignatia from Akron, OH and Bill W. from New York, NY - April 1947
    88 min 09 sec
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    		Dr. Bob -on the early days of Alcoholics Anonymous
    50 min 42 sec
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    		Dr. Bob -His Last Talk
    4 min 11 sec
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    Lois Wilson (Ala-non)
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    		Lois Wilson -speaking in West Virginia at the 38th SE Conference, 1982

    Clarence Snyder
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    		Clarence Snyder -from Cleveland, OH - 1966
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    		Clarence Snyder -11th Step Retreat, Camp Monroe Retreat 07/15/1975
    77 min 05 sec
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    		Clarence Snyder -Giving a history talk in 1975.
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    		Clarence Snyder -How It Works talk in 1982
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    :Passing It On Into The 21st Century
    Barefoot's Main Index of Recovery Pages
    ABC Page 60 from the Big Book of AA
    Barefoot's Recovery Site Main Index
    AA History
    Index of Little Known AA History Articles
    · Argentina www.aa.org.ar
    · Australia www.aa.org.au
    · Austria www.anonyme-alkoholiker.at
    · Belarus www.aabelerarus.org
    · Belguim www.aavlaanderen.org
    · Brazil www.alcoolicosanonimos.org.br
    · Chile www.alcoholicosanonimoschile.cl
    · China www.aa-china.org.cn
    · Colombia www.cnaa.org.co
    · Czech Republic www.sweb.cz/aacesko
    · Denmark www.anonyme-alkoholikere.dk
    · Ecuador www.aae.org.ec
    · Estonia www.aaestonia.com
    · European www.aa-europe.net
    · Finland www.aa.fi
    · France www.alcooliques-anonymes.fr
    · Germany www.anonyme-alkoholiker.de
    · Great Britain www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk
    · Guatemala www.aa.com.gt
    · Hungary www.anonimalkoholistak.hu
    · Iceland www.aa.is
    · India www.aagsoindia.org
    · Ireland www.alcoholicsanonymous.ie
    · Italy www.alcolisti-anonimi.it
    · Japan www.aajapan.org
    · Korea www.aakorea.co.kr
    · Latvia www.aa.org.lv
    · Lithuania www.anonalko.puslapiai.lt
    · Mexico www.aamexico.org.mx
    · Mongolia www.aa.org.mn
    · Netherlands www.aa-nederland.nl
    · New Zealand www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.nz
    · Nicaragua www.nicaragua.org
    · Norway www.anonymealkoholikere.no
    · Peru www.aaosg.org.pe
    · Poland www.aa.org.pl
    · Portugal www.aaportugal.org
    · Romania www.alcooliciianionimi.ro
    · Russia www.aarus.ru
    · Slovakia www.alkoholici-anonymni.sk
    · South Africa www.aanonymous.org.za
    · Spain www.alcoholicos-anonimos.org
    · Sweden www.aa.se
    · Switzerland www.aasri.org
    · Turkey www.adsizalkolikler.com
    · Ukraine www.aa.org.ua
    · United States of America www.aa.org
    · Uruguay www.chasque.net/aauy
    · Venezuela www.aanonimos.org.ve

    on Barefoot's Recovery Site
    Recovery Pages


    Barefoot's Main Index of Recovery Pages
    ABC Page 60 from the Big Book of AA
    Barefoot's Recovery Site Main Index
    AA History
    Index of Little Known AA History Articles
    on Barefoot's Recovery Site


    The Touch Of The Master's Hand
    The Touch Of The Master's Hand
    The AWAKENING
    The AWAKENING
    The PlAN
    The PLAN
    Let's Ask Bill W.
    Let's Ask Bill W.
    Answers to a lot of Questions
    Dr. Bob
    Dr. Bob's Last Message
    Barefoot's Writings
    Barefoot's Collection of Writings
    Footprints
    Footprints In The Sand
    The Prayer For Serenity
    The Prayer For Serenity
    Albrecht Dürer and The Praying Hands
    Albrecht Dürer and The Praying Hands
    Albert Einstein and Religion
    Albert Einstein and Religion
    Grandpa's Hands
    Grandpa's Hands
    Getting 'It'
    Getting "It"
    Ancient Wisdom
    Ancient Wisdom - A Starting Point
    Elimination of the Ego-Self
    The Elimination of the Ego-Self
    Sensitive Alcoholic
    A Sensitive Alcoholic
    ABCs
    Learning MY ABCs
    The Wolves Within
    The Wolves Within
    A Grandfather Teaching
    Hampshire Grenadier
    The Hampshire Grenadier
    The Sobriety Clock
    The Sobriety Clock
    Insanity of Alcoholism
    The Insanity of Alcoholism
    Spiritual
    The Search for Spiritual Truth!
    Varieties
    The Varieties of Religious Experience
    By William James
    Lord's Prayer
    The Lord's Prayer in Aramaic and English
    As Jesus Prayed
    Understanding the Aramaic Prayer
    Understanding The Aramaic Prayer To Our Father
    Interactive Lord's Prayer
    An "Interactive" Lord's Prayer
    12 Steps & Scripture
    The Twelve Steps Of Alcoholics Anonymous And Related Scripture
    (For Those Folks of a Christian Bent Who Might Be Curious to Know)
    Religion
    The Great Religions of the World

    In God We Trust
    In God We Trust
    Philosophy
    A Bit of Personal Philosophy and Other Thoughts
    Laws of Human Nature
    The Laws of Human Nature and Relationships
    Peace Pilrim
    Peace Pilgrim Steps Toward Inner Peace
    Certificate of Right to Play
    Always Remember The Motto Of The Society Of Childlike Persons
    It Is Never Too Late To Have A Happy Childhood!!
    Certificate of the Right to Play (Boy)
    Certificate of the Right to Play (Girl)
    The Rose
    A Rose For Today
    The Eight Gifts
    Eight Gifts That Don't Cost A Cent!
    An Orchid For You
    An Orchid For You
    Are You An Addicted Computerholic?
    Are You An Addicted Computerholic?
    AA Area 92



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    All mothers and most fathers have legal rights and responsibilities as a parent - known as ‘parental responsibility’.
    If you have parental responsibility, your most important roles are to:
    • provide a home for the child
    • protect and maintain the child
    You’re also responsible for:
    • disciplining the child
    • choosing and providing for the child’s education
    • agreeing to the child’s medical treatment
    • naming the child and agreeing to any change of name
    • looking after the child’s property
    Parents have to ensure that their child is supported financially, whether they have parental responsibility or not.

    Parental responsibility for separated parents

    If you have parental responsibility for a child but you don’t live with them, it doesn’t mean you have a right to spend time with your children. However, the other parent must include you when making important decisions about their lives.
    You don’t always need to get the consent of the other parent for routine decisions, even if they also have parental responsibility.
    If it’s a major decision (for example, one of you wants to move abroad with your children) both parents with responsibility must agree in writing.
    You can apply for a Specific Issue Order or Prohibited Steps Order if you can’t agree. A judge will then make a decision which is in your children’s best interests.
    You must make sure your children are financially supported, whether you have parental responsibility or not.



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    One of the disconcerting and delightful teaching of the master was: "God is closer to sinners than to saints."
    This is how he explained it: " God in heaven holds each person by a string. When you sin you cut the string. then God ties it up again, making a knot-and therby bringing you a little closer to him. Again and again your sins cut the string-and with each further knot God keeps drawing you closer and closer.
    Ernest Kurtz, The Spirituality of Imperfection: Storytelling and the Search for Meaning
    The question "Who am I?" really asks, "Where do I belong or fit?" We get the sense of that "direction" -- the sense of moving toward the place where we fit, or of shaping the place toward which we are moving so that it will fit us -- from hearing how others have handled or are attempting to handle similar (but never exactly the same) situations. We learn by listening to their stories, by hearing how they came (or failed) to belong or fit.
    Ernest Kurtz, The Spirituality of Imperfection: Storytelling and the Search for Meaning
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    Humor, humility, humanity … we cannot work on one without working on the others. We cannot have one without having the others. To attend to any one of the three begins the process of bringing us home—home to ourselves, to the mixed-up-ed-ness of our human be-ing. Home is the place where we can be ourselves and accept ourselves as both good and bad, beast and angel, saint and sinner. Home is the place where we can laugh and cry, where we can find some peace within all the chaos and confusion, where we are accepted and, indeed, cherished by others precisely because of our very mixed-upedness. Home is that place where we belong, where we fit precisely because of our very unfittingness. Humility allows us to find the fittingness in our own imperfection.
    Ernest Kurtz, The Spirituality of Imperfection: Storytelling and the Search for Meaning
    But through the centuries a recurring spiritual theme has emerged, one that is more sensitive to earthly concerns than to heavenly hopes. This spirituality—the spirituality of imperfection—is thousands of years old. And yet it is timeless, eternal, and ongoing, for it is concerned with what in the human being is irrevocable and immutable: the essential imperfection, the basic and inherent flaws of being human. Errors, of course, are part of the game. They are part of our truth as human beings. To deny our errors is to deny ourself, for to be human is to be imperfect, somehow error-prone. To be human is to ask unanswerable questions, but to persist in asking them, to be broken and ache for wholeness, to hurt and to try to find a way to healing through the hurt.
    Ernest Kurtz, The Spirituality of Imperfection: Storytelling and the Search for Meaning
    Spirituality is one of those realities that you have only so long as you seek it; as soon as you think you have it, you’ve lost it. In rediscovering this basic spiritual insight, the earliest members of Alcoholics Anonymous tapped the essence of open-endedness that characterizes a spirituality of imperfection. Spirituality is boundless, unable to be fenced in: We do not capture it; it captures us. As much as we might like to “wrap things up,” to lock spirituality in and hold it fast, it will forever escape our grasp.
    Ernest Kurtz, The Spirituality of Imperfection: Storytelling and the Search for Meaning
    The search for spirituality is, first of all, a search for reality, for honesty, for true speaking and true thinking. At least from the time of the Delphic oracle’s first admonition, Know thyself, the arch-foe of spirituality has been recognized to be “denial”—the self-deception that rejects self by attempting to repudiate the essential paradox that is our human be-ing.
    Ernest Kurtz, The Spirituality of Imperfection: Storytelling and the Search for Meaning
    The spiritual teachers universally recognized as “great” did not give commandments nor did they impose their way of life on others. They knew that when any “map” was mistaken for the territory, it became more hindrance than help. And so they invited their followers to question the handed-down maps by making available their own maps—their own stories. Rather than trying to tell their listeners’ stories, rather than imposing interpretation, the sages and saints told the kind of stories that invited identification.
    Ernest Kurtz, The Spirituality of Imperfection: Storytelling and the Search for Meaning
    Listening to stories and telling them helped our ancestors to live humanly—to be human. But somewhere along the way our ability to tell (and to listen to) stories was lost. As life speeded up, as the possibility of both communication and annihilation became ever more instantaneous, people came to have less tolerance for that which comes only over time.
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    We claim spiritual progress rather than spiritual perfection.Bill W.
    By Roger C.
    If you were a member of AA and woke up tomorrow morning inspired to write a book about the spirituality of AA and the 12 Steps you might want to call it The Spirituality of Imperfection.
    But you would be too late. Ernest Kurtz and Katherine Ketcham already wrote a book by that name in 1992.
    And it’s a truly wonderful book.
    Early on the dilemma faced by a human being is bluntly described:
    …the haunting sense of incompleteness, of being unfinished, that comes from the reality of living on this earth as part and yet also not-part of it. For to be human is to be incomplete, yet yearn for completion; it is to be uncertain, yet long for certainty; to be imperfect, yet long for perfection; to be broken yet crave wholeness.
    From my first memories, I felt broken. My solution was to self-medicate. I used alcohol and supplemented that with prescription drugs. I more or less thought it worked. I didn’t think that there were solutions other than anaesthesia.
    I personally discovered, however, that alcoholism is a progressive disease. I crashed and burned; unless I stopped I would die. As non-functional as I was at that time, I knew I had to stop.
    Enter AA.
    Or to put it more accurately, that’s when I entered the rooms of AA. And there I found fellowship, a program of recovery and stories. More about the stories later…
    The 12 Step program of recovery, when I thought about the steps and the program, meant one thing to me, and one thing only: I had to change. There was a remedy for my alcoholism and that was growth. My acceptance was all about acknowledging that and embracing the willingness to do the work. It’s like Bob Dylan put it, “he not busy being born is busy dying,” in his song, It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding).
    I needed to be reborn as a sober individual and AA understood that.
    So, you might ask, what does this have to do with The Spirituality of Imperfection?
    A few things.
    First, these are the kind of thoughts you are likely to have reading this book.
    And second, anyone who has struggled with the fourth step understands that we don’t start out perfect. And The Spirituality of Imperfection tells us another thing that we ought to know, especially if we have read the Big Book: we won’t end up perfect. As Bill put it, we “claim spiritual progress rather than spiritual perfection.” Kurtz and Ketcham describe this growth as a spiritual journey, a pilgrimage:
    The pilgrimage image suggests that the goal of this particular journey known as life is not to prove that we are perfect but to find some happiness, some joyful peace of mind in the reality of our own imperfection.
    The Spirituality of Imperfection is subtitled Storytelling and the Search for Meaning.
    When I first started going to AA meetings – I remember so well crying outside of the first meeting I ever attended – I didn’t understand why so many meetings had guest speakers that told stories which “disclosed in a general way what we used to be like, what happened, and what we are like now.”
    The telling of these stories is at the core of the standard format of AA open meetings, of course.
    And it’s the core of the AA “pilgrimage.” It’s the equivalent of a Google map from A (drunkenness) to B (a life of sobriety) by virtue of a small dose of honesty and an openness to change. As a result of these stories, the AA member is reminded again and again of the path, of the need to remap and reorient, and she or he is provided with examples of how others have managed to do exactly that.
    The book is divided into three sections. In the first part, it looks at the spirituality of imperfection as it has manifested itself in the past. As the authors note:
    A.A. taps into an ancient source of spiritual awareness, making available to modern men and women the long and rich tradition of the spirituality of imperfection.
    In the second part, how this spirituality is manifested in AA is explored.
    And finally, in the last section, key qualities of the spirituality of imperfection are explored. Some of these will not be unfamiliar to those who have spent time in the rooms of AA: gratitude, humility, tolerance and forgiveness.
    As is often said, AA is a spiritual program, not a religious one. There are no dogmas or absolutes. In AA “there are no absolutes but one: ‘I am not absolute,'” the authors write, quoting Bill W.
    Unlike religion, spirituality embraces the question and values the person who asks the question.
    And the spirituality of imperfection is not about the destination; it is about the path, the direction.
    I am reminded of a time I was talking to a Buddhist teacher and he said very enthusiastically, “Buddhism is only about pointing out the direction!” He waved and pointed, “There!” he said. “Downtown Toronto is that way!”
    Of course he was pointing in the wrong direction.
    The Spirituality of Imperfection, written by Ernie Kurtz and Katherine Ketcham is available on Amazon where it has 332 reviews! I got my copy at the Toronto Sunday Morning Men’s meeting.
    Keep coming back.






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    THOMAS MAXA on August 27, 2009 at 11:42 am

    Hi. I was very suprised to see Dick B and the Orange Papers together on your web-site. I do although think both perspectives are important. It’s just that the Orange Papers run across the grain of the rest of your web-site. Interesting.
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    Joe on September 5, 2009 at 7:17 pm

    I really appreciate combining the Orange Paper opposition to AA so it can be studied and stand (or more likely fall) on its own comments, rather than third hand from those it offends. Contempt prior to invesitgation and all that.
    Stepstudy.org is a new discovery for me and has quickly moved into my top five websites – not just recovery, but my top five websites, period.
    Keep up the good work.

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    Willie Burns on September 24, 2009 at 8:00 am

    To try to help fellow AA members, I have set up a Website containing many , AA, Al-Anon, & Spiritual Speaker talks. The downloads are all FREE.
    http://www.mediafire.com/sobrietyfirst
    Willie B

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    Steve on February 12, 2010 at 10:23 pm

    Wow! What a collection Willie. Many many thanks my friend.
    And thank you Stepstudy.org authors for a superb website.
    And thank God I don’t have to obsess over a drink today because of the 12-Step solution.

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    medguy1 on January 30, 2013 at 8:07 am

    Thank you so much for sharing. we record speaker at my home group each week and also make them available on mediafire

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    Dick B. on November 14, 2009 at 3:21 pm

    Sometimes you just have to hold your nose when you are in search of free expression of views and facts. I’d much rather see my site in company with Orange, history lovers, the Bobgans, and cult or cure than be constrained by some moderator’s view of what people in recovery ought or ought not to see or hear. Here’s for tolerance–not “moderation.”

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    miles on January 6, 2010 at 1:36 pm

    Hi, some useful information about Orange Papers and the accuracy of its ‘research’. http://www.green-papers.org/
    Enjoy the reading.

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    vic p on February 12, 2010 at 6:14 pm

    For People who want to stop drinking, by asking God for help, not picking up the first drink, and regular attendance of aa meetings, the success ratio is one hundred percent on any given day.

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    Dick B. on February 28, 2010 at 3:10 pm

    Vic, on February 12, expressed a vew which could keep all serious AAs in the tent. It could also enable those who are Christians and appreciate the Original “old school” A.A. approach to do what I have done–stick with A.A., ask God’s help, refrain from drinking, and (yes) go to thousands of meetings. Above all, in the A.A. approach, to help the still suffering newcomer who is desperately seeking a way out. Why not let it go at that? Instead of grinding away at theology, religion, Bill’s shortcomings, and apologetics. God either is, or He isn’t–as Bill put it. And today there are lots in A.A. who will argue it either way. God Bless, Dick B.

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    Dick B. on June 12, 2010 at 8:55 pm

    Soul Surgery was first published in India I believe. A copy was very expensive and hard to come by. I’d sure recommend it to anyone who wants to see the first significant Oxford Group book. It was penned by Walter, Wright, and Buchman in parts. It certainly lays out the five C’s which are the heart of the middle A.A. Steps. Good for Step Study in making it available now.

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    Linda in NH on October 6, 2010 at 9:32 am

    What a wonderful resource! I’ve been sober and straight for almost 30 years, and just started to look at what’s online instead of reading my books – probably because there is no room left in the margins for notes lol! I’m excited to see that so much has developed and is available. Thank you for your hard work and dedication.

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    Marlin on October 19, 2010 at 11:50 am

    Who wrote “Becoming Recovered” – it’s really, really well done.

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    Dick B. on December 5, 2010 at 9:59 pm

    Linda’s remarks are heartwarming. It has been my experience in the last 10 years that the action is online. Not all good. Not all easy reading. Not all accurate. But offering such a wide variety of options that one could spend the rest of his or her life learning A.A. origins, history, founding, original program, and successes by clicking on google. The deluge of phone calls and emails I receive about questions and programs and books tells me people are surfing! Big time.

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    Dick B. on March 8, 2011 at 11:54 pm

    Whenever one purports to write about the origins of A.A., it short-changes the article when so much emphasis is placed on the Oxford Group. There were in fact some sixteen influences on the A.A. program. And the discussion should start with the Bible, Quiet Time, conversion, reading of literature and devotionals, Anne Smith’s Journal, Dr. William Silkworth, Professor William James, Carl Jung, Lay therapist Richard Peabody, hospitalization, fellowship, the teachings of Rev. Samue M. Shoemaker who was called a cofounder of A.A. by Wilson, the 28 Oxford Group principles that impacted on A.A., and the all important element of witnessing–working with others–focusing on the newcomer.

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    Billy Snowden on March 11, 2011 at 4:20 pm

    Great to see ALL the info here. I agree with Dick B., The Orange Papers should be read- I don’t agree with his conclusion- but they deserve to be here as much as Dick’s Jesus talk. Balance is sobriety, sanity. I will post some history for your site on the birth, 30 years ago, of the Big Book Step Study movement within A.A. That movement began a Fellowship wide return of AA groups to meetings solely focused on Big Book Recovery by adopting and following a disciplined group conscience: Oddly just like the original first AA meeting- The Borton group- in Cleveland. In 1981 AA meetings in New England were so far to the other extreme- no mention of God anymore, no prayers after wards,no mention of the Big book, it was all, ” Just don’t drink today and go to a meeting”. Big Book Step Study AA meetings turned out to be the antidote and balance to that weak AA message and group that dominated AA at the time.
    Thanks for the website and your work.
    Billy S. member, Hyannis Men’s Big Book Step Study Group.

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    Dick B. on March 20, 2011 at 10:57 pm

    And, Billy S., whoever you are, just what is the “Jesus talk?” Stick to the facts, and people will be blessed if and when you state and report them correctly. There is enough history to go around without obviously insulting remarks.

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    Herb H on September 16, 2011 at 12:57 am

    Nothing so small that it cannot be seen nor so large that it cannot be encompassed and yet …that I can perceive, even dimly, the expanse of all “creation” it is not necessary for me to know anything more than that. That I exist somehow allows me to conceive a higher power that believes in me. God. That’s all I need to satisfy my AA program.

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    Richard G Burns on June 15, 2012 at 7:49 pm

    Stopping by for a look-see. Because I know so many of the people named in the by-lines, I drop by this site occasionally. I also post occasionally. I cannot say I agree with every direction the site takes or every comment made. But that’s true for AA itself, for alcoholics, for churches, and for politicians. However, it’s always tough when ad hominem attacks and criticisms appear. And that’s pretty rare on this site. It’s rampant on a very few others that also purvey history.
    When I see the finger pointing, I remember the two rules that are helpful.(1) Whenever one points a finger at someone else, there are three pointing back at him. (2) More directly applicable to an AA is Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount–which early AAs considered absolutely essential to their program. And, the words or gist of Matthew 7:1-5 appear with some frequency in early A.A. comments. The verses say:”Judge not, that you be not judged. For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye. Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye’; and look, a plank is in your own eye? Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.”
    For those who look at our history before they jump, just look at the Oxford Group expressions which crept into our Big Book and Steps. Mainly, look for the injunction that suggests: “What was our part.”
    Pardon those of us who look to the Scriptures, as early AAs did. But when asked about the program, Dr. Bob’s usual response was “What does it say in the Good Book?”
    God Bless, Dick B. http://www.dickb.com/goodbook.shtml.

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    david diamond on December 25, 2013 at 4:35 pm

    Such an amazing collection.
    Thanks m’man…..I hope you and the family are well. I am with my wife and kids due to the miracle of sobriety.
    Be well,
    David

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    Althea Goodrich Anonymous on December 30, 2013 at 8:34 pm

    Well, I might have liked this site until I followed the Big Book Videos link to the Plymouth House assisted videos where members who reveal their faces and first names break Tradition 11 – please review your content here and ask yourselves if the whole of AA may be being harmed by some of the content of this site.

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    Jacqueline Turner on March 13, 2014 at 7:26 pm

    I appreciate the full contents of your history. I believe it shouldn’t be judged by any one but god!!!
    Everyone has a right to there opinion imaginary or real as it my be, it is there opinion.

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    Greg Wood on April 3, 2014 at 9:18 pm

    Amazing resource. THANK YOU!

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    A careful, systematic explanation of the Group’s practices and beliefs by a philosopher. Includes an excellent introduction by AA Historian Glenn Chesnut. The intro alone makes a perfect introduction to the Group for alcoholics/addicts in recovery. (read forward online)
    Other material:

    Unpublished NA 4th Step Guides (pdf)
    Two guides to the 4th Step that were in early working manuscripts of the Basic Text and It Works. These excellent guides were sadly cut from the final drafts.
    Becoming Recovered 1.0 an open source recovery text (pdf) (read an excerpt)
    An “open source” recovery text. Describes a program based on the Big Book of AA, but in modern, accessible language. (read terms of use)




    SITE FEATURES
    Manuscript Pages
    Sample pages from the working manuscript of the Big Book of alcoholics anonymous
    Time Line of 12 Step History
    Articles describing the invention and development of the 12 Steps from the Oxford Group to the modern recovery movement. Gives historical background that supports the article “Three Views of Recovery.”




    ARTICLES
    Three Views of Recovery
    Describes three alternate, and not always complimentary, approaches to understanding the 12 Steps. You may have heard a variety of opinions in meetings about what the step are and how they work; this article should help explain these opinions. The time line above explains the historical roots of these different views.
    The Program Is a Life Jacket, by Tom Powers
    A discussion of the difference between the “fellowship” and the “program,” with a lot of other solid insight into the recovered life.

    Four Types of Moral Inventory
    Examines the Four Absolutes, Big Book resentment inventory, the 4th Step described in the 12×12, and one of Hazelden’s guides to the 4th Step. Suggests there is a difference between “Ideal” and “Introspective” inventory writing.
    God, as we understood him
    Recovery narrative by the webmaster of this site, discussing his experience with “coming to believe”.
    The Danger of a Great Experience, by Ebenezer MacMillian
    Sermon from an Oxford Group member from South Africa.
    How Bill Wilson Learned that the 12 Steps Work for Drug Addicts, Too
    Excerpts and discussion of one of Bill Wilson’s talks in which he remember Dr. Tom, an alcoholic and drug addict who brought the program to North Carolina.
    Keeping it Simple, by Tom P. Jr
    A discussion of some of the major controversies surrounding the 12 Step program and how to keep things simple.
    Gresham’s Law and Alcoholic’s Anonymous
    An excellent critique of the state of modern AA from a historical, and spiritual, perspective. A must read for folks new to the history of the 12 steps. This entry provides links to several places where the article can be read online.
    Spiritual Diagnosis, by Henry Drummond
    Article by a forerunner of the Oxford Group. In this article, which was a source of inspiration for Soul Surgery (see above), he explains his approach to personal evangelism.
    Progressive Big Book Sponsorship
    Details several interviews with Big Book sponsors and their insights into the 12 Steps.
    “You Shyster You!”: a brief biography of Jimmy K.
    Tells the story of NA founder, Jimmy K, mostly in his own words

    History of the Beginner Classes, by Wally P
    Reports on an early approach to introducing newcomers to the 12 Steps in four, short meetings.
    The Story of Bill Pickle, by Frank Buchman
    Founder of the Oxford Group tells the story of one of his formative experiences, his relationship with a bootlegger at Penn State.
    Big Book Theology: We Agnostics and William James
    Discusses the similarities between the discussion of God in the chapter “We Agnostics” and the pragmatic attitude toward religion taken by philosopher William James
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