A Dozen Steps

A New Dose Of Gratitude

by Mark on August 18th, 2006

I had the thought during another one of “those” gratitude meetings, that I was grateful that God had blessed Bill W. with the opportunity to found AA at a time when it could be passed on to me during my lifetime rather than before it or after it.

I’ve seen this twice today, once at Barefoot’s web site and now, through prairiegirl66, then Jackanape, at the Time 100.

Did you know?

What the “State-Of-The-Art” alcoholism treatment was in 1933?

Purge and Puke!

Yep! Purge and Puke!

“Inspired by a friend who had stopped drinking (Ebby), Wilson went to meetings of the Oxford Group, an evangelical society founded in Britain by Pennsylvania Frank Buchman. And as Wilson underwent a barbiturate-and-belladonna cure called “purge and puke,” which was state-of-the-art alcoholism treatment at the time, his brain spun with phrases from Oxford Group meetings, Carl Jung and William James’ “Varieties of Religious Experience,” which he read in the hospital.”

I think my brain would have been doing some spinning also… not to mention… naaah, phew!

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