Starting Point

The exact nature of the problem.They say we are to "Carry This Message," but so many people I encounter have no idea of what their message is. For me it has come down to a single statement. "This works. Nothing else in my life ever did." When I encounter someone with clarity on their message - in an essay, in an article, in a recording of a talk or with a workshop - I want their message spread.

Something New

Are You a Recovery Geek?

Do you actaully enjoy all the details of the web? Something new for you try is the Geek Disk Downloads. These are full ISO images of data CDs with documents and MP3s. A simple click will download the full image - usually about 650 Megs. You can then mount the disk and either listen to the MP3s through your computer, transfer them to a free MP3 program (like iTunes) or MP3 player (like iPod), or burn them as audio CDs to hand out to friends and sponsees.
Bo to the GEEK PAGE and see what you think of the sample disk of speakers posted.

About the Anonymous Review Project

ANONYMOUS REVIEW was an exercise. It began with the first podcast (still available). It was an attempt to share the original message from the first generation of Recoveree. "In their own words, in their own voices" was the catch line. 27 podcasts featuring Bill Wilson, Dr. Bob Smith, Henrietta Seiberling, Jimmy Burwell, Ebby Thatcher, Clarence Snyder, Rev. Sam Shoemaker, Sister Ignatia and more - all thelling the story from their unique, personal viewpoints. All of these podcasts are available for free download through arcive.org. (See the podcast page for web addresses.)

THE VIRUAL SPEAKER MEETING, volume two of the podcast, was 50 indidivdual speakers drawn from thousands of recorded talks on the web and intended for people who could not mak eit out ot a meeting.

SIMPLE DIRECTIONS was the first print project, using instruction from a recorded series of talks by one man with a very simple system that follows the Big Book example of an inventory with a simple notebook format. 

A RECOVERY READER is an anthology of writings from 1944 to the present by approximately 30 authors which is intended as a resource for a sponsor or any serious student of 12-Step Recovery. It includes the material previously published in SIMPLE DIRECTIONs, with addiitonal materials from the Big Book Bunch, sober.org, Barefoot Bob's World (barefootsworld.net), Sponsor Magzine, Anonymous Review, the One Way Group, Primary Purpose Group and transcriptions of various speakers from 60 years of AA recordings.