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	<blockquote class="definition">'''[https://amzn.to/2XKQNP5 The Big Book]'''<ref>Alcoholics Anonymous. ‘PASS IT ON’ The Story of Bill Wilson and How the A.A. Message Reached the World. Kindle. New York: AA World Services, 1984. https://amzn.to/2XKQNP5</ref> is the [[Alcoholics Anonymous]] bible. It is a set of instructions, personal stories and anecdotes, and heartfelt advice to help alcoholics have authentic and powerful spiritual experiences (what on the [[LP]] we call [[Connection Experiences]]) capable of healing ~~the~~ trauma, filling unmet needs, and curing them of intractable alcohol addiction. In [[LP]] terms, the Big Book is a [[Healing Manual\|healing]] and [[Connection Manual\|connection manual]].		<blockquote class="definition">'''[https://amzn.to/2XKQNP5 The Big Book]'''<ref>Alcoholics Anonymous. ‘PASS IT ON’ The Story of Bill Wilson and How the A.A. Message Reached the World. Kindle. New York: AA World Services, 1984. https://amzn.to/2XKQNP5</ref> is the [[Alcoholics Anonymous]] bible. It is a set of instructions, personal stories and anecdotes, and heartfelt advice designed to help alcoholics have authentic and powerful spiritual experiences (what on the [[LP]] we call [[Connection Experiences]]) capable of healing trauma caused by [[Toxic Socialization]], filling unmet needs, and curing them of intractable alcohol addiction. In [[LP]] terms, the Big Book is a [[Healing Manual\|healing]] and [[Connection Manual\|connection manual]].
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	==Notes==		==Notes==

			AA was co-founded by [[Bill Wilson]] who himself had a powerful mystical experience that instantly cured him of a dire alcohol addiction.

			In the early years, when AA was most open and focussed on facilitating spiritual experience, they are said to have had a 75% cure rate.<ref>Dick, B. The Oxford Group and Alcoholics Anonymous. Kindle Edition. Kihei, Maui: Paradise Research Publications, 2011. https://amzn.to/2VPeVP3.</ref>

			The Big Book has a decidedly Western/Christian flavour, but note that [[Connection Manuals]] and [[Healing Manuals]] come in many flavours.

	Students of the LP will note many significant parallels between the advice provided in the Big Book on honesty (i.e. not [[Lying]]), acknowledging misalignment and disjuncture, making amends (i.e. [[Atonement]], being an active change agent ([[Activation]])), and guidance provided in LP Book One, which discusses the LP [[HEALING Framework]], and LP Workbook Two, which discusses the LP [[Connection Framework]].		Students of the LP will note many significant parallels between the advice provided in the Big Book on honesty (i.e. not [[Lying]]), acknowledging misalignment and disjuncture, making amends (i.e. [[Atonement]], being an active change agent ([[Activation]])), and guidance provided in LP Book One, which discusses the LP [[HEALING Framework]], and LP Workbook Two, which discusses the LP [[Connection Framework]].

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<blockquote class="definition">'''[https://amzn.to/2XKQNP5 The Big Book]'''<ref>Alcoholics Anonymous. ‘PASS IT ON’ The Story of Bill Wilson and How the A.A. Message Reached the World. Kindle. New York: AA World Services, 1984. https://amzn.to/2XKQNP5</ref> is the [[Alcoholics Anonymous]] bible. It is a set of instructions, personal stories and anecdotes, and heartfelt advice to help alcoholics have authentic and powerful spiritual experiences (what on the [[LP]] we call [[Connection Experiences]]) capable of healing the trauma, filling unmet needs, and curing them of intractable alcohol addiction. In [[LP]] terms, the Big Book is a [[Healing Manual|healing]] and [[Connection Manual|connection manual]].
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==Notes==

Students of the LP will note many significant parallels between the advice provided in the Big Book on honesty (i.e. not [[Lying]]), acknowledging misalignment and disjuncture, making amends (i.e. [[Atonement]], being an active change agent ([[Activation]])), and guidance provided in LP Book One, which discusses the LP [[HEALING Framework]], and LP Workbook Two, which discusses the LP [[Connection Framework]].

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