"RECOVERY TABLE" Spiritual Awakening, Alcoholism and Addiction Recovery

This blog is a forum for discussion about recovery from alcoholism and other addictions, based on the 12-STEPS of Alcoholics Anonymous and the FOUR ABSOLUTES - Honesty, Purity, Unselfishness and Love.

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Why Meditation? Isn't Prayer Enough?

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". . sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God . . ." In discussion groups, I hear much a...
Thursday, March 10, 2011

Addiction and Aversion - The Root Causes of the Ego's Suffering

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"We are not allied with any sect . . ." We are so fortunate that Bill, Dr. Bob and the collective consciousness of A.A. as a wh...
Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Continuing to Take Inventory: An Evening Contemplation

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We are told quite clearly that "we are never cured" of an alcoholic addiction; and, that what we really have in recovery is "...
Sunday, March 6, 2011

Bill's Reflections on A.A. . . . Its History, Message and Solution

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"Three Talks" Pamphlet Of all the pamphlets published by Alcoholics Anonymous, perhaps the most helpful - at least for beginnin...
Friday, March 4, 2011

"Where" I Found the God of My Own Understanding

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"Lack of power," we read in the We Agnostics chapter of the Big Book, "is our dilemna." To explain exactly "where...
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Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Why Must We Write Down, and Face Down, Our Fears?

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"Anger," according to one proverb, "is a corrosive poison that eats away at the vessel that holds it from the inside out....
Tuesday, March 1, 2011

The Hole In the Doughnut . . . Or, Becoming Whole

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Bill Wilson was a very good writer with a gift for to-the-point wording and suggestive imagery. The "juggernaut of self-will" (at ...
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Sunday, February 27, 2011

A "Self-Imposed Crisis" Part 2: Overcoming Self

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In a previous post , we have set out just exactly what the "self" or "ego" is. When we come to realize that the "...
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