The Wide Open Door: The Twelve Steps, Spiritual Tradition, and the New Psychology
Chapter headings: Introduction – at another turning point 1. At the crossroads – is this all there is? 2. Good news – doing it right 3. New ideas – living in a different world 4. Back to the source – the power beneath the steps 5. New maps – the wave and the ocean 6….
Still Waters: Sobriety, Atonement, and Unfolding Enlightenment
School/perspective: “deeply influenced by the old Ch’an masters of ancient China and their cranky, frumpy Taoist cohorts, such as Chuang Tzu and Lieh-Tzu…” Chapter headings: 1. Atonement 2. Life out of balance 3. Just sit there 4. In the realm of the wraiths 5. Something’s happening here 6. Shrink to fit 7. Bringing it all…
Rewind, Replay, Repeat – A Memoir of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Selected excerpts: “The utter stillness unnerves me at first. I imagine Doubt hiding at its edges, waiting to ambush me at just the right moment, as it’s done so many times before during the hush of a pitch black night or the sacred silence of prayer. For some reason though, I find myself feeling especially…
Hi, I’m Bill and I’m Old: Reinventing My Sobriety for the Long Haul
Chapter headings: Acknowledgments Preface Aging Reverie: Oblivion No Escape Two Truths The Downward Slope Old Is Good We Are Addicts The God of Time The End Naked Burial Remembering Story/Memory Interlude Memory/Story Interlude Growing Down Interlude The Mind of my Grandmother Interlude Rocking Chair Forgetting Silence Big Mind Resurrection Transfiguration Communion Reverie: The Mind of…