Workshop: Sandy B - Far Corners Spiritual Retreat - Part 1 of 7

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🗓️ 8 April 2024

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Sandy B hosted the Far Corners Retreat every year from 2007 until this last one in 2012. This was a mens retreat intended to explore growth in spirituality, humility and forgiveness. The topic for the first three parts is - Our Society. Sandy B spoke and led workshops all over the world for many years. Part 1 of 7. I just added a Womans Retreat to the event list happening late this month in Illinois, no website for this one so visit the detail link and download the flyer. Details: https://scast.us/event If you have any AA or Al-Anon event coming up let me know I am happy to help get the word out. https://scast.us/event (link fixed) Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate AA Event List: https://scast.us/event If you have an AA roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up, we would be happy to give you a shout out here on the podcast and list the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit the link above and look for "Submit Your Event" in the blue box. Sober Cast has 2500+ 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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0:22.0	We hope you enjoy the podcast.
0:23.7	Have a great day.
0:24.7	Topic is, for all three of them,
0:32.3	is our society.
0:36.5	And that's a word that Bill like to use,
0:41.2	the society of VAEA, which is probably the same as the fellowship, but I like the word of society, you know what I mean?
0:51.0	It's got a lot of class to it. And Bill liked to call AA an utter simplicity which in cases a complete mystery.
1:14.8	That's a pretty interesting sentence, isn't it?
1:16.8	Here we have our co-founder and our primary writer
1:22.0	with 25 years of sobriety reflecting on our society and coming up with an utter
1:32.3	simplicity which in cases a complete mystery.
1:37.0	And when Dr Bob said, keep it simple, he was saying a sentence that irritates every self-centered
1:47.0	alcoholic because they don't like simplicity none of us like simplicity.
1:53.0	So when we have something that's an utter simplicity,
1:57.0	we like complicated things so that we can't do them.
2:05.0	Well, I mean, it's just, you know, there are 12 parts to this thing.
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