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"Everything that occurs in the course of N.A. service must be motivated by the desire to more successfully carry the
message of recovery to the addict who still suffers."
Sure.
II
SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE
The terms “spiritual experience” and “spiritual awakening”
are used many times in this book which, upon careful
reading, shows that the personality change sufficient to
bring about recovery from alcoholism has manifested itself
among us in many different forms.
Yet it is true that our first printing gave many readers the
impression that these personality changes, or religious
experiences, must be in the nature of sudden and
spectacular upheavals. Happily for everyone, this
conclusion is erroneous.
In the first few chapters a number of sudden revolutionary
changes are described. Though it was not our intention to
create such an impression, many alcoholics have
nevertheless concluded that in order to recover they must
acquire an immediate and overwhelming “God-
consciousness” followed at once by a vast change in feeling
and outlook.
Among our rapidly growing membership of thousands of
alcoholics such transformations, though frequent, are by no
means the rule. Most of our experiences are what the
psychologist William James calls the “educational variety”
because they develop slowly over a period of time. Quite
often friends of the newcomer are aware of the difference
long before he is himself. He finally realizes that he has
undergone a profound alteration in his reaction to life; that
such a change could hardly have been brought about by
himself alone. What often takes place in a few months
could seldom have been accomplished by years of self-
discipline. With few exceptions our members find that they
have tapped an unsuspected inner resource which they
presently identify with their own conception of a Power
greater than themselves.
Most of us think this awareness of a Power greater than
ourselves is the essence of spiritual experience. Our more
religious members call it “God-consciousness.”
Most emphatically we wish to say that any alcoholic capable
of honestly facing his problems in the light of our
experience can recover, provided he does not close his
mind to all spiritual concepts. He can only be defeated by
an attitude of intolerance or belligerent denial.
We find that no one need have difficulty with the
spirituality of the program. Willingness, honesty and open
mindedness are the essentials of recovery. But these are
indispensable.
“There is a principle which is a bar against all information,
which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail
to keep a man in everlasting ignorance—that principle is
contempt prior to investigation.”
—Herbert Spencer
These are where we get the steps and the traditions from.
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These are worth reading through and learning.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Group
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/........History_of_Alcoh
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The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James.
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You can download the zip file of all the MP3's. There is also the book in assorted formats - just look for them.
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https://archive.org/details/re........ligious_experien
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholics_Anonymous
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This is essential reading by the people who wrote the Steps and the Traditions and their reasons for doing so.
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https://portlandeyeopener.com/........AA-12-Steps-12-T
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And get a good dictionary.
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https://global.oup.com/academi........c/product/oxford
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcotics_Anonymous
that whore is still on drugs, she has the jitters...
"Everything that occurs in the course of N.A. service must be motivated by the desire to more successfully carry the
message of recovery to the addict who still suffers."
Sure.