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AA literature/history post - a 1945 Grapevine article on Step Twelve: A.A. Oldtimers…On the Twelfth Step… A.A. Grapevine, October 1945, Vol. 2 No. 5 Editorial: On the 12th Step . . . “Having had a spiritual experience as the result of those steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.” Very few of us know the exact hour and date we had our spiritual experience, and some of us are not conscious of ever having had one at all. However, our changed personalities and perspectives are definite proof that “something” happened to us somewhere along the line as those who knew us “when” will attest. A.A.s refer to the 12th Step as “working with others,” and this means we try to help the other person work out his or her problem. From our vast fund of knowledge on the subject, gained from our own actual experiences and often under similar conditions, we are peculiarly qualified to exercise that sympathetic understanding that only an...
Parallel Passages between the Big Book and Twelve and Twelve: PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE shows that nothing will so much insure immunity from drinking as intensive work with other alcoholics. It works when other activities fail. This is our twelfth suggestion: Carry this message to other alcoholics! You can help when no one else can. You can secure their confidence when others fail. Remember they are very ill. (BB 89) Just as firmly bound by obligation are the members of Alcoholics Anonymous, who have demonstrated that they can help problem drinkers as others seldom can. The unique ability of each A.A. to identify himself with, and bring recovery to, the newcomer in no way depends upon his learning, eloquence, or on any special individual skills. The only thing that matters is that he is an alcoholic who has found a key to sobriety. (T&T 150-151 Tradition Five) Life will take on new meaning. To watch people recover, to see them help others, to watch loneliness vanish, to see...
Timelines In AA History – 1947 To 1950 Many heartfelt thanks go out to Archie M. of Tennessee, who did much research in order to compile this “Timelines in AA History” and to Arthur S., Northeast Texas Area Archives, who has built upon Archie M’s original Timeline file. 1947 -Dr. Bob’s 1st operation; Dr. Oscar Olsen friend & enthusiastic A.A. since 1947; founder Oslo Norway group from Greenwich Connecticut, found A.A. 1947; Captain Jack 1st Internationalist found A.A.; 1st A.A. meeting England; 1st group Brazil & Scotland ( A 83) ( B 349) ( E 32, 41, 47, 51) ( G 73) ( L 149) ( P 334) • early 47′ -40,000 A.A.’s, 1,250 groups ( G 9) • March 3rd -Nell Wing started work A.A. Fellowship, Alcoholic Foundation 415 Lexington Avenue across Grand Central Station, 13 employees, 2 staff members, Bill once week ( G 5, 7, 90) • March 4th -Nell Win...