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May 1981

From the Ground Up

. . . change sufficient to bring about recovery from alcoholism

CHAPTER FOUR of the Big Book states that alcoholism is "an illness which only a spiritual experience will conquer." The only function of the AA program of recovery is to produce a spiritual awakening. Step Twelve sums it up: "Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps"--the result, not a result.

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