This is the second part of Session 2, July 11, 1968. McGinnis is speaking of sobriety without spirituality and the possibilities as well as consequences. Remember these are a transcript of recordings of his AA Seminars conducted in California. McGinnis was also the speaker at the first conference of psychologists learning to be alcohol recovery [...]
Continue Reading...Mr. McGinnis spoke of life sober with and without a “spiritual experience”, and that both were possible. Your comments are invited. The book can be purchased at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/The-Rest-Of-Your-Life/dp/1453631313/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1337086015&sr=8-2 Group inquiries should be directed to me at this website. The Rest Of Your Life by Allen Reid McGinnis LET’S NOW try to use a very [...]
Continue Reading...By Heidi Fogle Before I got sober at the age of 55, I was trapped by an ice storm at an abbey near Dubuque, in NE Iowa. I don’t think that’s a coincidence. There are no coincidences. I’m beginning to see that in my life, anyway, there are only events that cause me to choose. [...]
Continue Reading...“One must first learn to live with one’s self before one blames others.” Feodor Dostoyevsky Blaming another person can become a way of positioning the self as a victim. When children are young and see their parents as the entire world, they are extremely vulnerable and dependent upon their parents’ opinions. If their parent belittles [...]
Continue Reading...This book is a transcription of Seminars in 1968 by the author. It was first published in 1986 and has been re-printed for the first time in 2010. Allen Reid McGinnis’ experience, strength and hope were an inspiration to thousands of recovering alcoholics in California during the 1960′s. The book is available in its entirety [...]
Continue Reading...The Chapters will be divided into 1 0r 2 parts depending on their length. Each session was followed by a Q & A which will be included as separate posts. Please comment on the content as well as the format. Remember these workshops were conducted in 1968 and the language, like our Big Book, may [...]
Continue Reading...Excerpt From The Spirituality of Imperfection Being-at-home involves, first, coming home to ourselves-being able to accept our own imperfect humanness. This is the first and, really, the only coherent meaning of another concept: self-forgiveness. Self-forgiveness, as a spiritual act, is quite simply the opening of one’s self to “experiencing forgiveness,” which begins with allowing another [...]
Continue Reading...Once you learn to walk, crawling is out of the question.-James D. Davis Sometime in the early 1990′s I was treating a woman in an intensive outpatient chemical dependency group. Let’s call her “Grace.” Grace was a flight attendant and had been suspended from her job with a major airline due to her untreated alcoholism. [...]
Continue Reading...By Dan Griffin I remember when I was very young and my mother and I were in a car accident and she was pinned under the car and as the flames were spreading everywhere I could hear her screaming and I tried desperately to lift the car off of her…oh wait, sorry that was the [...]
Continue Reading...How to Build an Intimate Relationship with Jesus By Jack Zavada As Christians grow in spiritual maturity, we hunger for an intimate relationship with Jesus, but at the same time we feel confused over how to go about it. How do you get closer to the invisible God? How do you hold a conversation with [...]
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