{"id":912,"date":"2023-03-06T12:31:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T12:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/store.filgolf.com\/?p=912"},"modified":"2025-08-19T08:46:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T08:46:47","slug":"serenity-prayer-wikipedia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/store.filgolf.com\/?p=912","title":{"rendered":"Serenity Prayer Wikipedia"},"content":{"rendered":"

James, who wrote “The only cure for dipsomania is religiomania” in The Varieties of Religious Experience, is cited in the “Spiritual Experience” appendix of The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous.10 Varieties of Religious Experience uses the singular term “higher power” four times, and the plural “higher powers” seven times, to refer to powers beyond the self that may provide assistance. I would never let my drinking and partying get in the way of my playing or my work with the band … But it was always kind of responsible and was always at the end of the night …<\/p>\n

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Brinkley Smithers funded Dr. E. Morton (Bunky) Jellinek’s initial 1946 study on Alcoholism. Dr. Jellinek’s study was based on a narrow, selective study of a hand-picked group of members of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) who had returned a self-reporting questionnaire. “the whole career of Father Pfau can only be understood in the light of the fact that he was a pioneer. He broke new ground. … Like any pioneer he met opposition and had to have fortitude. Like any Christian innovator he had to have deep faith. It was faith and fortitude that sustained his zeal for the salvation of the countless souls he helped.” – Fr. John C. Ford, S. J., in an Epilogue to an edition of Pfau’s autobiography, published after his death.<\/p>\n

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One of the main reasons the book was written was to provide an inexpensive way to get the AA program of recovery to suffering alcoholics. Subsequently, during a business trip to Akron, Ohio, Wilson was tempted to drink and realized he must talk to another alcoholic to stay sober. Norman Sheppard directed him to Oxford Group member Henrietta Seiberling, whose group had been trying to help a desperate alcoholic named Dr Bob Smith. While AA emphasizes personal anonymity, many notable individuals have publicly acknowledged their participation in the program for various lengths of time. AA meetings serve as a space where individuals discuss recovery from alcoholism, with flexibility in how meetings are conducted.<\/p>\n

Spirituality<\/h2>\n