Monday, August 9, 2010

Three Delusions: Facing the Truths of Our Addiction

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There are three specific delusions set out in the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous .  Two of these delusions are set out in the first two p...
Sunday, August 8, 2010

Rumi - Spiritual Awakening in the Tavern of Life

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When I was 15, or so, years sober, and newly returned to Alcoholics Anonymous, following a 4-1/2 year dry drunk, an old-timer took me in han...
Saturday, August 7, 2010

How To Know God

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I did not pick up a 10 year medallion. At nine-and-a-half years, convinced I would not drink or drug again, I set off to cash in on a law d...
Friday, August 6, 2010

Spiritual Experience: Living the Spiritual Life

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There are two small sentences - one a proposition, the other an assertion - that, I believe, lie at the heart of the AA program.  Both are k...
Sunday, August 1, 2010

The 11th Step Prayer - Invocation, Meditation & Contemplation

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In the 11th Step prayer (or St. Francis' Prayer), set out on page 99 of The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions , we pray that God ...
Monday, July 26, 2010

The Mysterious, Depth & God - An "Unsuspected Inner Resource"

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In The World As I See It , an autobiographical collection of Albert Einstein's papers, notes and lectures etc ., the most renowned scien...
Sunday, July 25, 2010

Fear, Desire and Suffering

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Re-reading, yet again, the Seventh Step in the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions , I was struck anew by (a) how profoundly fear, desire and...
Thursday, May 27, 2010

Evolving Consciousness

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Perhaps the most frequently referenced quote from the stories section in the back of the Big Book is that dealing with 'acceptance' ...