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    • Posted on January 24, 2012 at 6:47 pm by Sparrow

    Conscious contact with a Higher Power
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    Step Eleven: Cultivating conscious contact with a Higher Power In 1938, an alcoholic stockbroker named Bill W. declared his intention to write a book about an obscure new program of recovery from alcoholism. The program, which included twelve suggested steps, was unabashedly spiritual. Bill’s goal was to present this aspect of the program in terms …∞

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    Posted on January 10, 2012 at 1:19 pm by Sparrow

    My Name Is Bill, A Co-founder of AA
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    My Name Is Bill: Bill Wilson–His Life and the Creation of Alcoholics Anonymous The 12-step format, tradition of anonymity, and democratic governance of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) are rightly credited to Bill Wilson, whom Aldous Huxley called “the greatest social architect of the twentieth century.” Bill’s life story has inspired no end of confessional autobiographies by …∞

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    Posted on October 20, 2011 at 8:07 pm by Sparrow

    Search for Serenity
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    Excerpt from the author of the "Physician, Heal Thyself!", interview with the Grapevine (GV), the journal of Alcoholics Anonymous. October 1995 edition. GV: Have you had periods in sobriety that were Emotionally difficult? Dr. Earle: Oh my, yes. So did Bill-you know that Bill W had a long depression. Let me tell you how I …∞

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    Posted on October 4, 2011 at 2:32 pm by Sparrow

    AA Original Manuscript (Copy on Sale)
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    AA Original Manuscript Shows Debate Over Religion The original manuscript of the Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) Big Book is being published for the first time, along with edits that changed its references to religion, the Washington Post reported. The first AA manual, called: “Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered …∞

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    Posted on November 21, 2010 at 2:31 am by Sparrow

    What is Alcoholics Anonymous?
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    American history includes many social movements that aimed to help people stop drinking. There was Prohibition, of course. But there was also the Anti-Saloon League, the American Temperance Society, the Washingtonian Temperance Society, the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, and more. Only one such movement survived — Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). AA not only survived, it spread …∞

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    Posted on September 27, 2010 at 2:15 am by Sparrow and modified on March 30, 2011 at 10:51 pm.

    The Spirituality of Imperfection
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    The imperfection of being human. A wonderful book for a recovering people, or for that matter, anyone else.

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    Posted on February 24, 2010 at 1:59 pm by Sparrow

    Spiritual Fundamentals
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    I had no idea what God was. “The answer I was looking for was on page 12 of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, in Ebby’s words to Bill: ’”Why don’t you choose your own conception of God?”’ “’I’ve tried everything else,’ I thought, ’and I’ve got no place else to go. I might just …∞

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    Posted on February 3, 2010 at 3:20 am by Sparrow and modified on February 3, 2010 at 3:22 am.

    First 3 Steps of AA
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    The first three steps of AA define the alcohol problem and solution In 1934, Bill W., cofounder of Alcoholics Anonymous, got a call from a former drinking buddy, Ebby T. “Rumour had it that he’d been committed for alcoholic insanity,” Bill recalled. “I wondered how he had escaped.” In reality, Ebby was two months sober. …∞

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    Posted on November 24, 2009 at 3:32 pm by Sparrow and modified on December 7, 2009 at 5:13 pm.

    A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE 12 STEPS
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    Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) started in 1935 in Akron, Ohio, USA as a result of the meeting between a New York stockbroker and an Akron surgeon who were both hopeless alcoholics. They realized that alcoholism was a disease that could be treated by a system of applying spiritual values to daily living. Both men began working …∞

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