AA History: The Opening Meeting of the 1995 International Conference of AA

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🗓️ 14 October 2021

⏱️ 104 minutes

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This is the full opening ceremony and meeting of the 60th International AA conference held in San Diego in 1995. There was a lot of pomp and circumstance at the beginning of this recording (about 40 min worth). I think Im correct that the vast majority of you wont be interested in that. So I took the first 40 min of the event and moved it to the end of the recording so you go right into the speakers. For those of you interested in hearing the sobriety countdown the procession and entrance of all the countries in attendance keep listening after the closing prayer, its all there. There were also a number of silent moments and I removed a good amount of that as well. The full attendance of the conference was 56,000. A little footnote: I am being a little self indulgent with this one since I was at this meeting and it was truly remarkable sitting in the baseball stadium with 47,972 other AA members. Email: [email protected] Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate We have added a page of meetings that have moved online https://sobercast.com/online-meetings Sober Cast has 1600+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search.

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0:26.0	Let's open our meeting if you would please.
0:32.0	For a couple of moments of silence meditation for this still suffering alcoholic.
0:40.0	Thank you.
0:44.0	Ladies and gentlemen we have a three speaker program tonight.
0:50.0	When opening up for us our first speaker will be Mark Pee from Quebec, Canada.
0:58.0	Mark!
1:08.0	I said that on purpose. I didn't swear. I just told you that my name was Mark and I was a drunk.
1:26.0	And I would just like to reminiscate on the on the team of our convention.
1:32.0	And to tell you that the time frame is 1949 and geographically we're in the second most beautiful city in North America.
1:44.0	That is Montreal and it comes after San Diego.
1:54.0	Bell W has just been invited to talk to the Canadian Psychiatric Association and it's 1949.
2:02.0	And he is a guest of our then mayor of the city, Camille Yanghoud.
2:08.0	That's not a disease, that's his name.
2:12.0	And thereupon you see we've got no complex of inferiority in Montreal.
2:18.0	We've got a little mountain on the island and we call that a mountain.
2:22.0	So there is a restaurant up there and Lawsonville are being hosted by the city because the city thinks a lot of it as a resource for drunk.
2:32.0	And he heard for the first time the Lord's Prayer recited in French and English.
2:42.0	And in his own visionary way he realized from that point that if you read the language of the heart
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