Multiple Speakers: Bill W - Lois W - Ebby and Sr Ignatia - (Very Good Audio Quality)

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🗓️ 13 November 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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This recording is mostly Bill W speaking at the third annual International AA convention held in Long Beach California in 1960, along the way he introduces Lois, Ebby and Sister Ignatia. Each takes the mic for a bit at their introduction, also Bill tells a good bit of his story along with information about the creation of AA. The overall quality of this recording is excellent it cleaned up really well, there a few audio artifacts but its an easy listen. Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate AA EVENT: Spring Fling 2023: Feb. 10-12, 2023 - Location: Sacramento, CA Conference Details: https://www.sacspringfling.org/index.html If you have an AA roundup, retreat or convention coming up, we would be happy to give you a shout out and list the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit our Linktree, click "Submit An AA Event" and fill out the short form. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/sobercast Sober Cast has 2000+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome to SilverCast where we provide AA speak meetings and workshops in
0:11.3	podcast format.
0:12.3	We're an ad free podcast, and if you enjoy listening, please help us be self-supporting by visiting
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0:22.4	We hope you enjoyed the podcast, have a great day.
0:27.2	It's always a good idea to follow the customer in the country where we are.
0:39.2	This is the West Coast, and I think all AA meetings open something like this.
0:44.4	High hopes.
0:48.8	I suspect that there are some not knowing I spoke too well, who suppose that after
0:57.0	a holics anonymous, it's sort of a modern and praiseworthy fireproofing against whiskey.
1:08.2	And so praise God at edge, and we have needed that proofing.
1:14.9	But it isn't quite so simply there.
1:18.7	Under the grace of God there has been expel from us an obsession.
1:24.4	A veritable lunacy that has plagued men and women for a time out of mind in an unprecedented
1:34.5	way.
1:35.5	And we have been liberated from that, we have been free.
1:42.9	But still that is not all, you and I know that we are a people who have pursued the
1:53.8	wrong kind of liberty, have looked in the wrong direction for freedom, and now some
2:01.0	of the time at least we are looking in the right direction, toward right principle, and
2:07.6	toward him will be God's oversaw.
2:11.6	Therefore, in its most deeply meaningful sense, AA requests for freedom under God.
2:26.2	And this freedom, in its married forms, has grown among us, and I think one of the greatest
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