Alcoholism Support Group

I have read a couple of times lately this being just one quote:
" If what we say cant be aligned with the BB than it may be true it may be useful but it is not required to recover. But if what we say does line up with the bb than if you want to recover you best do it. The long and short of it non aligned stuff is bs and usually opinion but whats in the BB is factual."

In the last 70 plus years there have been advances in psychiatry, psychology, and medical science that have and continue to prove the validity of the Big Book. Page 164 states "Our book is meant to be suggestive only. We realize we know only a little. God will constantly disclose more to you and to us.
The discovery of THIQ proves the idea of "allergy and the disease concept". I see these advances as solidifying 12 step recovery, an enhancement, if you will, of what we know as the "basic text" of Alcoholics Anonymous. We have the book Alcoholics Anonymous and we have the Fellowship Alcoholics Anonymous. They are not the same thing. The first 164 pages are the suggestions made to recovery. There are stories AFTER the first 164 that described how individuals made those steps work for them that ENHANCE what is offered. For example the story "Acceptance is the Answer" is one of the most well known and quoted "tools" used yet the first 164 don't use the word acceptance (to my knowledge) in that context at all.

Sometimes I see outright fear that by accepting the "enhancements" we would be "watering down" the 12 Steps and the message of the book.

Why should there be this fear.
Posted on 07/05/09, 03:07 pm