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Ep - 4 - Agnostic reading and commentary of the 3rd and 4th editions
This episode of the AA Big Book reading cover the 3rd and 4th edition forewords with agnostic commentary from the reader Mike Z. If you have comments or questions, please leave them below or on YouTube. Sober on. Odaat.
Transcript of the Agnostic Reading of the Alcoholics Anonymous book.
Ep_4_AgnosticAA_Transcript.pdf
Hey, I'm Mike Z and it's time for another episode of Agnostic Reading of the AA Big Book. Today we're starting with the foreword to the third edition.
Forward to the third edition. By March 1976, when this edition went to the printer, the total worldwide membership of Alcoholics Anonymous was conservatively estimated at more than 1 million people, with almost 28,000 groups meeting in over 90 countries.
Surveys of groups in the United States and Canada indicate that AA is reaching out not only to more and more people, but to a wider and wider range. Women now make up more than one fourth of the membership among newer members. The proportion is nearly one third. 7% of the AA surveyed. Are less than 30 years of age. Among them many in their teens. The basic principles of the AA program, it appears, hold good for individuals with many different lifestyles. Just as the program has brought recovery to those of many different nationalities, the 12 steps that summarize the program may be called Los Doce Pasos in one country. les Douze Etapes in another I'm sure I mispronounced that, but they trace exactly the same path to recovery that was blazed by the earliest members of Alcoholics Anonymous. In spite of the great increase in the size and span of this fellowship, at its core it remains simple and personal.
Ep_4_AgnosticAA_Transcript.pdf