February 1966
What Does 'Powerless' Mean?
A suggestion that we expand the idea of powerlessness over alcohol so as to attract the not-yet-ruined alcoholic
WE know that the first AAs all came within the classification of "hopeless alcoholics." Our original Big Book was, we understand, the direct expression of their personal experiences. We know also that the second, 1955, edition[1] gave a new light on alcoholism to guide others than typically "hopeless" alcoholics. Certainly, the thirteen personal stories included in this edition under the heading, They Stopped in Time, illustrate the very revealing statement on page 388: "It wasn't how far I had gone, but where I was headed."
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