... No. But I've noticed the same thing. Another mystical movement that formed around the same time is called Kabbalah. It is Jewish mysticism. If you follow...
John and Ernie, Contact Bart Ehrmann at UNC or Elaine Pagels at Princeton. They may very well have some sources or guides to the downdrift of gnostic...
Lee asked Where and when did the "Chip Club" start? Chips, Medallions and Birthdays The traditions of chips, medallions and birthdays vary in different parts...
Lee asked When did we start using the Lord's Prayer? Where did it start? What about the ritual of holding hands while this is being recited? The following is...
Dear Lee and Group, The "Lord's Prayer" carried over from the Oxford Group and was used at the first AA meeting that Clarence Snyder started at Abby Golrick's...
From - http://www.barefootsworld.net/aabwlordprayer.html A Letter From Bill W. Regarding The Lord's Prayer In A.A. From the A.A. Archives in New York ... April...
I first remember the holding of hands from the early to mid 70's in Ct. ... From: "Lee Nickerson" <snowlily@...> To: <AAHistoryLovers@yahoogroups.com> ...
The practice of saying the " LORDS PRAYER " at the end of the meetings & holding hands came from the meetings that were held first, at the home of T. Henry &...
Ken WENTZ
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Mar 3, 2005 7:11 pm
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Hi Lee I found the information below on the Lord’s Prayer and its place in AA. Cheers Arthur A Letter From Bill Wilson About The Use Of The Lord’s Prayer...
Hi Folks, My recent question re AA membership prompted me to wonder what the rates of AA membership was in various countries around the world. I was able to...
Hopefully that message header won't get this thrown into the spam file. The third part of the 4th Step Inventory is about our sex conduct. It is about our...
Dear Lester and Group, One misprint can be found on page 234 where the second and third lines from the bottom are repeated, e.g.: ". . . . last evening after...
Thanks Jim, Ten years later I was living in Southern California (1975) and the custom of holding hands was then prevalent at most groups. However, in 1978, I...
Lester wrote Can anyone help me in finding out the errors in the 1st ed 1st printing Big Book. Or any other traits that authenticate this book. Here are the...
I can find many references to Aldous Huxley's claim that AA was the greatest social movement of the 20th century, but not the original source. Where and when...
It must have been either late 1972 or in the beginning of 1973 when someone first reached out in an attempt to hold my hand at the end of the the A.A. meeting...
Sorry, I hit the wrong button, sent the beginning of my draft on Pat C. (Lone Endeavor Story). Here is what i wanter to say. Pat C. Read the manuscript and...
We held hands in our meetings in Tulsa, Oklahoma when I came into the program May 4,1965. I don't know when it had become a ritual. There were four groups in...
The lone Endevor was the Pat Cooper story, Pat was in Calf. and some how got a copy of the upcoming first edition( possibley a manuscript) ... From: Jim Blair...
I believe that this comment is untrue. In Judaism, one is supposed to make amends to those we have hurt after a month of reflection as to our character defects...
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An exchange of letters with a man in California became "Lone Endeavor" as the last story of the first printing of the first edition of the Big Book of...
First Edition Big Book - First Printing On April 4, 1939, 4,730 copies of the first edition of the book “Alcoholics Anonymous” were published at $3.50 a...
Can anyone tell me the history of the development of AA, chronologically? I am trying to locate a list of the dates, locations and founding of AA, in places...
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