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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….
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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…
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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…
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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…
