The Transformation Of The Twelve Steps
I am very thankful to Dick B. who gave us a visit yesterday and commented on the Dr. Silkworth entry.
Dick mentioned an article he has written, “A New Way In.”
For those of us who might be curious about the origins of our Twelve Steps, this article is actually quite riveting as it takes us from the beginnings - “The foregoing original A.A. program in Akron had no steps—twelve, six, or otherwise”.” - through their evolution, and then to the “four pamphlets of AA of Akron” which offer us “a simplified, condensed form of the complete program.”
I enjoy how Dick ends this part of his writing (its only part I). He says;
Is It Any Wonder!
“Just look at the road traveled in A.A. between 1935 and 1955. Just look at how the early Akron A.A. precepts perished a little more along each step of the road. And then ask if it’s any wonder that today’s people don’t even know their history, and perhaps don’t even want to know it.”
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1 opinion for The Transformation Of The Twelve Steps
David
Oct 19, 2006 at 2:02 pm
In any form of association – one belongs to this group & another belongs to another group – there is solitude, isolation, where there is isolation, there must be conflict. Thought is ever in limitation & therefore isolating it. It is only when you don’t belong to anything, to any organization, to any group, that there is a possibility of discovering, through that sense of negation, a positive action that is total.
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