For several years a few of the local AAs have been going up to the Healing Place, a local recovery program or homeless alcoholic and addicted men (and women, at a different campus).
We have used these session to give the guys an introduction to the Big Book - where it came from, why we use it and how to study (or at least one or two options on how to study).
At the suggestion of one of the former staff members, who was back as a client after a relapse, about 20 of those sessions have been recorded and I am in the process of extracting the bits that address speciic topics.
For example, one topic would be where the name "Alcoholics Anonymous" came from; another might be the history of the Oxord Groups; another section would cover the 400 multilith copies sent out in January 1939 and their impact on the edited version of the manuscript.
The History of Alcoholics Anonymous is focused to the creation of the Bick Book and the spiritual Program it explains.
The new podcast will be selected sections of different sessions, rather than making people wade through 20 hours of free form discussion.
More will be announced here as the new downloads are edited and uploaded.
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