The History Detectives episode described is on at 9 p.m. Monday night in Tampa also, repeating on Aug 1 and 3, so the 9 p.m. time on Monday may be fairly...
John: A sort of mystery hangs over the word meditation and there must be 10,000 definitions floating around. About all I have learned in my 40- odd years in...
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Aug 1, 2006 3:56 pm
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Hi John and John - this is a very long reply to both your messages To John L My personal indoctrination and introduction to the term "cross-talk" (in both...
Perhaps our early timers did not think of "cross talk" as it is sometimes practiced these days. Here are three variations: 1) Angry (cross) talk. This is a...
Glenn, Please post the following response and attachment (from WAIA Archives)to clear up an inaccuracy. t/y shakey mike _________________________ Sally M. is...
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Aug 1, 2006 5:06 pm
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James Houck got sober the day after Bill W. on 12/11/34 - so that makes 71.5 years. He was NOT an AA member tho....
Google comes up with 69 million plus references to meditation. But why look in the crystal ball when you can read the book? Bill W. elaborates on Step Eleven...
Cindy, don't believe everything you read...Jim said that he was sober and leading the meeting at Calvary mission the day Bill walked in to his first mgt. ...
... From: They Lost Nearly All The Career Officer -- Sackville, Dublin, Ireland. (p. 523 in 2nd, p. 517 in 3rd editions.) Heading: "A British officer, this...
DIGEST OF PROCEEDINGS AT DINNER GIVEN BY MR. JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER JR., IN THE INTEREST OF ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, AT UNION CLUB, NEW YORK CITY, FEBRUARY 8, 1940. ...
When did Bill Wilson decide there was a need for archiving AA material and history? Surely it was before Nell Wing started GSO Archives in 1975! Thanks! Bob...
Hello All, Found this at http://www.a-1associates.com/aa/Authors.htm#Sylvia%20Kauffmann When she wrote this update in 1969, Sylvia had been living in Sarasota,...
Does anyone know how the three-column inventory in Big Book Step 4 came about? I'm more specifically interested in how the connection was made between the...
Subject: Natural instincts/character defects in 4th step Does anyone know how the three-column inventory in Big Book Step 4 came about? Parlor game from the...
Messages from Arthur Sheehan, Kilroy, Barefoot Bill Lash, and Joe (Pittsburgh). Message from: "ArtSheehan" <ArtSheehan@...> (ArtSheehan at msn.com) Date:...
In one sense, the "AA Archives" began in the late 1920s and early 1930s, while Bill was still drinking, when Lois Wilson, convinced that Bill was or somehow...
Bill W also addresses the matter of instincts exceeding their proper function in the 12&12. In the Step 4 essay in the 12&12: "Nearly every serious emotional...
Who was this 'promoter member' who sent the Rule #62 story, or was this an example of poetic license? Archie _____________________________ 1940 Early, the...
Hi Archie I would love to find out both who the "super promoter" member was as well as the group. I don't get a sense that Bill W was exercising poetic...
Glenn F. Chesnut, "Changed by Grace: V. C. Kitchen, the Oxford Group, and A.A." (in press, to appear in October, 2006), page 162, note 94. A. J. RUSSELL AND...
I just got off the phone (12 August 06) with Sylvia's son Phillip. He told me that she was very active in AA until her death on Oct 31st 1974. Sylvia had been...
A transcript of the recent newspaper article about Rowland Hazard's Pottery Business in La Luz, New Mexico, from the local newspaper there. Sent in by Ted...
The statement "Thirty meetings in thirty days" was all-the-go in the Los Angeles area where I sobered up in the mid-1970s. So that version of the slogan goes...
Hi everybody In another cyberforum came up a discussion about this AA motto or saying. Something like "Take what you want and leave the rest." It is widely...
in the Big Book there are two letters written by Dr. Silkworth. What is the time frame between the two letters, and why were there two eventually written? ...
From: "Jon Markle" <serenitylodge@...> (serenitylodge at bellsouth.net) "Take what you need and leave the rest" is a "saying" that is heard often at...
Good morning all! The first letter in "The Doctor's Opinion" was written by Dr. Silkworth on 7/27/38 as a referral letter for AA. The second "statement" is...
Hi Paul There is an old saying that "imitation is the highest form of flattery." Such seems to be the case for the common expressions and catchphrases in AA...
Hello Folks, I have been so Busy I simply for got the beginging of this month this Month. Significant August dates in AA history Aug 1934 - Rowland H and Cebra...
... A photo of first Silkworth letter is dated July 27, 1938, and included in Dale Mitchel's 2002 biog of Doctor Silkworth,The Little Doctor Who Loved Drunks...