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NA History Part3 (The First Documented Meeting and Purpose)
We also know on August 31 there’s an entry in the minutes that our purpose was taken from the Key. Now what they meant by that was this newsletter and this is a Xerox of a copy of this Lexington newsletter and there’s not many that you’ll ever see anymore. This copy came from t...
Posted on: 9/8/2008 12:00:00 AM by jwpuente
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NA History Part 2 (12 Steps and 12 Traditions Creation)
So from 1950 to 1953, we know that there was various things popping up in different parts of the country. In New York and Chicago, the Salvation Army. In Virginia; Lexington, Kentucky; Texas; and California these individual groups named Addicts Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, N...
Posted on: 9/6/2008 8:59:00 AM by jwpuente
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NA History and its Birth (Part 1)
NA history goes back to 1947, a fellow (named Houston), who recovered in another well-known Fellowship, believed that their 12-Steps could work for addicts. He had talked to a person who had just been out of that Public Health Service Hospital and he thought he saw a way tha...
Posted on: 9/5/2008 5:34:00 AM by jwpuente
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Behind the 12 Steps (Sermon on the Mount)
Emmet Fox (1886-1951) One of the most influential New Thought authors of the 20th Century Emmet Fox and Alcoholics Anonymous By Igor S., Hartford, Conn. February 1996 AA G***vine One of the very early recovering alcoholics who worked with co-founder Bill W. was a man named ...
Posted on: 9/4/2008 12:00:00 AM by jwpuente
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First Radio Broadcast About AA -1939
WE THE PEOPLE The Gabriel Heatter broadcast of April 25, 1939 Gabriel Heatter, the nationally recognized radio broadcaster, provided the forum for the the first national exposure received by Alcoholics Anonymous, April 25, 1939. Heatter's nightly "We The People" radio broadcast...
Posted on: 9/3/2008 12:00:00 AM by jwpuente
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The Origin of Serenity Prayer
The Origin of our Serenity Prayer As published in August/September 1992 BOX-459 For many years, long after the Serenity Prayer became attached to the very fabric of the Fellowship's life and thought, its exact origin, its actual author, have played a tantalizing game of hide an...
Posted on: 9/2/2008 12:00:00 AM by jwpuente
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AA History Timeline from 1877 until 2000
Timelines of Historic AA Events 1877 (July) – William D. Silkworth M.D. is born in Brooklyn NY
1879 (August) – Dr. Bob, AA’s co-founder, was born in St. Johnsbury VT 1881 (March 21) – Anne R., Dr. Bob’s wife, is born 1890 (August) – E.M. Jellinek, Ph.D., author of “The Disease ...
Posted on: 9/1/2008 12:00:00 AM by jwpuente
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Bulgaria, The Scorpions and the wind of change
I was once married to a beautiful woman from Bulgaria, and she and I spent our honeymoon on Bulgaria's Black Sea and in Sofia, and after being introduced and getting to know her wonderful family and falling in love with the country, I was introduced to the real story o...
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Jimmy K Founder of NA
James Patrick Kinnon (5 April 1911 - 9 July 1985, commonly known as Jimmy Kinnon or "Jimmy K.") was the founder of Narcotics Anonymous (NA), an international association of recovering drug addicts. During his lifetime, he was usually referred to as "Jimmy K." due to NA's princi...
Posted on: 8/27/2008 12:00:00 AM by jwpuente
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Reverend Samuel Shoemaker (Founder of the 12 Step Principles)
Bill Wilson often said: Reverend Samuel Shoemaker was a wellspring of the principles and attitudes that came to full flower in A.A.’s Twelve Steps for Recovery; that Sam’s early teachings did much to inspire him and Dr. Bob; and, that from Shoemaker, he and Dr. Bob in the begin...
Posted on: 8/26/2008 12:00:00 AM by jwpuente
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EBBY T. The Man Who Carried The Message To Bill WBy Walter L..
Ebby was born on April 29, 1896, into a prominent and well-to-do family in Albany, New York, with roots going back before the American Revolution. His grandfather started a railroad wheel manufacturing business in 1852 and became the main supplier of wheels for the New York Cen...
Posted on: 8/25/2008 12:00:00 AM by jwpuente
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Bill Wilson's Eulogy for Ebby Thatcher (His first Sponsor)
Ebby Thatcher's Eulogy By Bill W. In his seventieth year, and on the twenty-first of March, my friend and sponsor "Ebby" passed beyond our sight and hearing. On a chill November afternoon in 1934 it was Ebby who had brought me the message that saved my life. Still more importan...
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Bill Wilson's Experiment with LSD and Niacin (Search for Spirituality)
Alternative cures and spiritualism In the 1950s Wilson experimented with LSD in medically supervised experiments with Betty Eisner, Gerald Heard , and Aldous Huxley. With Wilson's invitation his wife Lois, Father Dowling, and Nell Wing also participated in experimentation of th...
Posted on: 8/23/2008 12:00:00 AM by jwpuente
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Bill and Lois Wilson's Landmark Home and Video
Alcoholics Anonymous Founder’s House Is a Self-Help Landmark James Estrin/The New York Times The house of Bill Wilson and his wife, Lois, in Bedford Hills. By LISA W. FODERARO Published: July 6, 2007 BEDFORD HILLS, N.Y., July 3 — The house tour was nearing an end in this We...
Posted on: 8/22/2008 12:00:00 AM by jwpuente
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Forgiveness Prayer
Forgive
Thank You, God, for Your loving, forgiving spirit within all.
Dear God, I turn to Your gentle presence today in a spirit of forgiveness. I invite You to guide and inspire me as I release any past hurts or perceived slights initiated by others or by myself.
I forgive an...
Posted on: 8/19/2008 7:23:00 AM by ashleyleo17
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