American River Alano - an Alcoholics Anonymous Group in Orangevale near Sacramento, California

http://www.americanriveralano.org/

Today's meeting subject was "All about the We in the Program."

Not I but US...
Group Consciousness...
It's a Group Of Drunks=G.O.D. - an acronym...
"We are all One 'neath the Infinite Sun, Forever, Forever, For EVER..."

https://aa-intergroup.org/directory_chat.php


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Great Book: "A Day at a Time" by the Group Alcoholics Anonymous...

https://www.amazon.com/Day-Time-Reflections-Recovering-People/dp/1568380364


This practical resource for behavior change and substance abuse treatment can be used for individual and group sessions, adolescents, families, and dually diagnosed clients.

These daily reflections, prayers, and tags of memory-sticking phrases are intended to offer inspiration, comfort, and, above all, hope to those recovering from alcoholism, or from other forms of chemical dependency or compulsive behavior.The book is based on the solid spiritual foundation of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), and upon the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions. It draws also upon the great body of accumulated human wisdom--from Civilization's Golden Age to our not-always-so-golden modern era from Socrates to Bill W., co-founder of AA. Here, in brief day-by-day messages are some of these available riches, the words of poets, scholars, philosophers, psychologists, which are the verbal sums of centuries of human experience. May those sums and sayings serve as guidelines--a day at a time.

Interesting Biography: Bill Wilson - Founder of Alcoholics Anonymous - Movie about his life and the 12 Step Program he and Dr Bob Smith started.

He wrote the Book "Alcoholics Anonymous" and helped millions of people stop drinking... He came up with the fundamental idea during a hospital stay when he was taking "The Cure" - a five day doctor supervised Belladonna/Henbane experience. BOTH of those drugs are known Psychedelics.

He had a "Spiritual Experience" that helped him stop drinking...

He worked as a Stockbroker during the 1920s and then Lost All his money during the 1929 Crash.

In the 1950's he was very enthusiastic about LSD as a way for people to have a "Spiritual Experience" like he did... He quit using LSD when the US Government made it illegal.

He decided that Since the 12 step program was working fine without modification since the 1930's there was no need to change it in the 1950s... "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

By the year 2000, Everything that was not Alcohol Related was an "Outside Issue"... Tradition 10.

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5846686/
Bill W.: The Creative Force Behind Alcoholics Anonymous. A PBS Documentary
Interview's, re-creations and rare archival material tell the story of Bill Wilson, who battled his way to sobriety and helped others beat their addictions through co-founding Alcoholics Anonymous. A PBS documentary.
https://www.pbs.org/show/bill-w-creative-force-behind-alcoholics-anonymous/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_W.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholics_Anonymous
Wilson admitted himself to the Charles B. Towns Hospital after drinking four beers on the way—the last alcohol he ever drank. Under the care of William Duncan Silkworth (an early benefactor of AA), Wilson's detox included the deliriant belladonna.[16] At the hospital a despairing Wilson experienced a bright flash of light, which he felt to be God revealing himself...

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/aug/23/lsd-help-alcoholics-theory
Headline: LSD could help alcoholics stop drinking, AA founder believed.
Author reveals Bill Wilson's acid theory, but his experiments upset other Alcoholics Anonymous members...

Why not try Narcotics Anonymous if you are addicted to Drugs? It worked for me.

I joined AA in the years 2000 and used that program to quit drinking alcohol. Then I used NA to quit smoking tobacco and marijuana over one year ago. I find that I still want to smoke but am able to not do it using what I learned at Meetings.

I read in the newspaper that many people are addicted to Opioids and often die from overdoses. Many people at my meetings are suffering from addiction to Doctor Prescribed Pain Pills... They seem to be doing fine... At least they are not dead...

https://www.na.org/