Topic: The Purpose of Meditation is to Improve Our Conscious Contact

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🗓️ 16 June 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Bernadette P is from New Jersey and she is sharing at the Fellowship of the Spirit on Step 11, specifically on the topic - The purpose of meditation is to improve our conscious contact with Gods grace and wisdom. Recorded in May 2022. Zoom Email: sobercast@gmail.com 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 1900+ 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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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to SilverCast where we provide AA speak meetings and workshops in podcast
0:11.8	format.
0:12.8	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.
0:27.5	My name is Bernadette and I am an alcoholic and an addict.
0:32.4	I have a couple of different things wrong with me but ultimately I'm an alcoholic and
0:39.0	because I'm an alcoholic I'm not afraid so much of what's out there.
0:45.1	I'm not afraid of the gutter or the street or the difficulty of where we wind up with
0:54.0	our addiction especially if we get kind of a low bottom.
0:57.9	I'm not afraid of that.
0:59.9	What I was always afraid of growing up I grew up in a house with many of us, there were
1:03.7	six of us sisters and one brother and my mom and we worked and I'm not going to give
1:10.2	a whole history of that because I am so happy that we are on step 11.
1:15.5	By this time we have already put down the drink, we have already you know we've worked
1:20.6	already up until 10 now we're looking at 11 and I love this when I saw the little picture
1:28.5	I went to keep looking at my phone of tonight's meeting and the quote and the page and the
1:35.9	big book and I said oh how interesting this is very curious.
1:41.2	I didn't know this was in the big book so I went to the big book page 87 and I'm reading
1:46.3	the whole page 87 and I'm like what's wrong with me and it's actually from the 12 and 12
1:53.3	on page 101 and I love this because when they're it because the spiritual life is not an
2:03.6	intellectual exercise.
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