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Here is your sacred origin You narcs complain the world is against you, you won't shower, cut your hair or lose the clothes. The truth is that a newly-sober alcoholic named William Griffith Wilson -- a down-on-his-luck former Wall Street hustler who put on airs of having once been a prosperous stock broker -- just sat down, in December of 1938, and wrote up twelve commandments for the new religious group that he and fellow alcoholic Doctor Robert Smith had started. Those commandments were simply a repackaged version of the practices of a cult religion that was popular at that time, something called "The Oxford Group", or "The Oxford Group Movement", and later, "Moral Re-Armament" -- a religious cult that was created by a deceitful fascist renegade Lutheran minister named Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman -- a nut-case who actually praised Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler. Bill Wilson described the writing of the Twelve Steps this way: Well, we finally got to the point where we really had to say what this book was all about and how this deal works. As I told you this had been a six-step program then. The idea came to me, well, we need a definite statement of concrete principles that these drunks can't wiggle out of. There can't be any wiggling out of this deal at all and this six-step program had two big gaps which people wiggled out of. Notice how Bill Wilson considered his fellow alcoholics to be a bunch of cheaters who will "wiggle out of this deal" if they can get away with it -- which Bill won't allow. And note how Bill Wilson made himself the leader who was entitled to dictate the concrete terms of other people's recovery programs. Also notice how Bill Wilson considered 'spiritual development' to be a business deal, with a contract that you can't wiggle out of, something like selling your soul in trade for sobriety. Nowhere in the Twelve Steps does it say that you should quit drinking, or help anyone else to quit drinking, either. Nowhere do the words "sobriety", "recovery", "abstinence", "health", "happiness", "joy", "love", or "love", appear in the Twelve Steps. The word "alcohol" was only mentioned once, where it was patched into the first step as a substitute for the word "sin" -- Bill Wilson wrote, "we are powerless over alcohol and our lives have become unmanageable", instead of the Oxford Group slogan, "we are powerless over sin and have been defeated by it". And then the phrase "especially alcoholics" was patched into the 12th step as a suggested target for further recruiting efforts: "...we tried to carry this message to others, especially alcoholics"... (But regular non-alcoholic people were still fair game for recruiting into Bill's "spiritual fellowship"...) The Twelve Steps are not a formula for curing or treating alcoholism, and they never were. The Twelve Steps are not "spiritual principles" and they never were. The Twelve Steps are cult practices that work to convert people into confirmed true believers in a proselytizing cult religion, just like Frank Buchman's so-called "spiritual principles" did. 1. The Twelve Steps do not work as a program of recovery from drug or alcohol problems. The A.A. failure rate ranges from 95% to 100%. Sometimes, the A.A. success rate is actually less than zero, which means that A.A. indoctrination is positively harmful to people, and prevents recovery. Some tests have shown that even receiving no treatment at all for alcoholism is much better than receiving A.A. treatment: One of the most enthusiastic boosters of Alcoholics Anonymous, Professor George Vaillant of Harvard University, who is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. (AAWS), showed by his own 8 years of testing of A.A. that A.A. was worse than useless -- that it didn't help the alcoholics any more than no treatment at all, and it had the highest death rate of any treatment program tested -- a death rate that Professor Vaillant himself described as "appalling". While trying to prove that A.A. treatment works, Professor Vaillant actually proved that A.A. kills. After 8 years of A.A. treatment, the score with Dr. Vaillant's first 100 alcoholic patients was: 5 sober, 29 dead, and 66 still drinking. (Nevertheless, Vaillant is still a Trustee of Alcoholics Anonymous, and he still wants to send all alcoholics to A.A. anyway, to "get an attitude change by confessing their sins to a high-status healer." That is cult religion, not a treatment program for alcoholism.) The A.A. dropout rate is terrible. Most people who come to A.A. looking for help in quitting drinking are appalled by the narrow-minded atmosphere of fundamentalist religion and faith-healing. The A.A. meeting room has a revolving door. The therapists, judges, and parole officers (many of whom are themselves hidden members of A.A. or N.A.) continually send new people to A.A., but those newcomers vote with their feet once they see what A.A. really is. Even A.A.'s own triennial surveys, conducted by the A.A. headquarters (the GSO), say that: 81% of the newcomers are gone within 30 days, 90% are gone in 3 months, and 95% are gone at the end of a year. That automatically gives A.A. a failure rate of at least 95%. But the GSO does not count all of those people who only attend a few meetings before quitting -- they don't qualify as "members". (That amounts to "cherry-picking".) If we included them, then the numbers would be much worse. First there is the propaganda technique of "everybody's doing it": "AA or a similar Twelve-Step program is an integral part of almost all successful recoveries". That is a complete falsehood. The vast majority of the successful people recover without A.A. or any "support group". It's what "everybody" is doing. Then they use the propaganda techniques of use of the passive voice and vague suggestions: "It is widely believed that not including a Twelve-Step program in a treatment plan can put a recovering addict on the road to relapse." It is widely believed by whom? And what do those unnamed people know? What are their qualifications? Are they doctors? Medical school professors? Or salesmen for a 12-Step treatment center? Why should we care what some unnamed invisible fools allegedly believe, anyway? The authors also use the propaganda technique of fear-mongering: you will be "on the road to relapse" -- you will probably die -- unless you practice Bill Wilson's Twelve Step cult religion. And then the fluff-headed Pollyanna attitude is outrageous: Just going to the wonderful A.A. meetings is supposedly all that is needed to fix some alcoholics. But since A.A. has a zero-percent success rate above and beyond the normal rate of spontaneous remission, that cannot possibly be true Narcotics Anonymous *The Basic Text* This is the best book written on addiction and recovery! The literature of Narcotics Anonymous is written by addicts, for addicts, and is very powerful. If you are an addict and have tried everything else to no avail, do yourself a BIG favor; read this book and get to an NA meeting. Sure, like others have written here, you MIGHT be able to do it alone, but why would you??? You NEVER have to be alone again. There is a better way! We could argue for YEARS about what works, what doesn't work, does an addict CHOOSE to use? or does an addict CHOOSE to be an addict?, let alone the children and family members who are hurt and bewildered; the list is endless! The sad truth is that our prisons are FILLED to capacity with addicts and there not enough treatment centers or services to serve those who are SUFFERING and DYING! Narcotics Anonymous is a program designed to help people recover from the disease of addiction. What many people do not realize is that addiction and recovery is about much more then simple drug use. Recovery is about much more then simply putting down the drugs. That is sometimes the easy part (even though at the time it may not feel like it)! Recovery in NA is about living a better way of life without the use of drugs. Recovery in NA is a continuous process of improving your life and in the process helping other addicts to recover. The book is excellent and should be read by anyone who is interested in addiction or recovery from addiction. CCK, Clean date: 6/23/88. timely response work as advisor for a group and couldnt find enough copies.Submitted the order and recieved the books in brand new condition a full day ahead of scheduled time to expect.LOVE it. They will make you get this book I want to thank everyone in the fellowship for showing me how to stay clean for more than 14 years to this date of my review. I rarely go to meetings today due a new direction in spirituality, however, the foundation of this program has been grounded in my life to have kept me clean for this long. If you are new to recovery, do what I did. Go to the meetings for the coffee. I say this cause it really doesn't matter why you go to meetings in the beginning as long as you suit up and show up. You will go for the right reasons eventually and they will make you get this book. It worked for me thus far and I hope you find recovery as I did utilizing this book and my sponsor for the answers to stay clean ONE DAY AT A TIME. God Bless! Narcotics Anonymous Recieved Wrong Book. Got (AA) Alcoholica Annonymous, not (NA)Narcotics Anonymous. Poorer condition that was stated Contacted sender 3 times with no response. Very disapointed. Purchased book elsewhere. 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