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... Alcoholics Anonymous - Back To The Forties Class #2 Steps 2, 3, 4 and 5. In class two we discuss steps 2 though 5. Finding a higher power, turning our will over to that power, discovering our shortcomings and beginning to get rid of them. Welcome to Back To the 40's - How Alcoholics Anonymous worked in the 1940's. During the first decade after the publication of the Big Book... The recovery rate from alcoholism within the fellowship of AA was 75%. AA's program, as practiced then, was quite different from the program that is practiced today. To produce such an astounding recovery rate, what was done in the early days of AA? These five classes will provide an in depth look how this was done. Discover this in depth look at: Taking the 12 steps right out of the the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous! "To show other alcoholics precisely how we have recovered in the main purpose of this book." (Alcoholics Anonymous, pg xiii) That's how it was done back in the early days and it worked. "Here are the steps we took, which are suggested as a program of recovery." (Alcoholics Anonymous, pg 59) http://www.spiritualsteps.com/pdf_2012 4th step inventory worksheet available for download here http://www.spiritualsteps.com/pdf_2012/Back_To_The_Forties_Step4Sheet.pdf http://www.spiritualsteps.com/pdf_2012/Back_to_the_1940s_Leader_Script.pdf +++ "Alcoholics Anonymous: An interpretation of our Twelve Steps" http://www.spiritualsteps.com/pdf_2012/Alcoholics_Anonymous_An_interpretation... http://www.eskimo.com/~burked/history/tablemat.html http://www.hindsfoot.org/detr0.html ... So what happened? In the 1950's , with the publishing of the 12x12, groups started to change from "here are the steps we took" to here are the steps we'll just study. There was no such thing as "step Study" prior to 1952. A carefull reading of the Big Book shows a certain timeline for working the steps, its in the stories, Bill worked the steps with Ebby in Towns, 9 days sober. Dr Bob met Bill several times over a course of a few weeks, got drunk in Atlanta, and then did his amends in one day. Ernie T ( I think on page 291) describes going through the steps with Dr Bob in an afternoon. Clarence Snyder (home brewmeister) often said "give me a willing drunk on Friday and I'll show you a recovered alcoholic on Monday" None of which agrees with what I hear in the rooms today. 1940's style meetings in Cleveland, saw newcomers being taken through the steps in seminar fashion , in groups of 20-30 drunks all working the steps, recovery rates were twice as good as in NY. They actually worked the steps in the meeting, inventory was written between meetings and step 5 was done with a sponsor after a meeting, sponsors barely had 1 month experience th ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlQ6AGssZHI

. Listen to Bill W - AA co-founder recite the last paragraph of "A VISION FOR YOU" Stepping Stones Foundation - The Historic Home of Bill and Lois Wilson https://www.steppingstones.org These pages are neither endorsed nor approved by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. https://www.aa.org/ * Alcoholics Anonymous, “Big Book” pdf https://www.aa.org/the-big-book * Alcoholics Anonymous, “Big Book” audio https://www.aa.org/resources/media?terms=big+book&format=audio&items_per_page=24&sort_bef_combine=title_ASC STEP 1 We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable. STEP 2 Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity STEP 3 Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. STEP 4 Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. STEP 5 Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. STEP 6 Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. STEP 7 Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. STEP 8 Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. STEP 9 Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. STEP 10 Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. STEP 11 Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out. STEP 12 Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs. SURRENDER SHARING AMENDS GUIDANCE HONESTY PURITY UNSELFISHNESS LOVE TRUST GOD CLEAN HOUSE HELP OTHERS Alcoholics Anonymous, Chapter 5, How it works, AA, Dr Bob, Bill W, Big Book, 12 Steps, RECOVERED, Powerless, 1st Step Experience, Craving, Desire, Real Alcoholic, Easy Does It, 4 Absolutes, Honesty, Purity, Unselfishness, Love, Keep Coming Back, Clarence Snyder, AA Cleveland, Akron Ohio, Founders', Serenity, Amazing Grace, The Doctor's Opinion, Dr Silkworth, drunk, sober, How it works, Big Book, 12 Steps, 1st Step Experience, Alcoholic, Easy Does it, Absolutes, aa meetings, sobriety, aa speaker, oxford group, miracle, peace, serenity, fellowship, . ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt6ZIhF_Xto