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Monday, January 10, 2011

What is the Oxford Group? How the 12 Steps started


BOOKS
Soul Surgery now available in paperback! This manual on personal evangelism is the earliest Oxford Group text and offers much insight into the 12th step practice of working with others.


read it free as a download below.
http://stepstudy.org/

Oxford Group books:

Soul Surgery by Howard Walter (pdf)
This book informed the practices of the Oxford Group. A concise manual for personal evangelism.


What is the Oxford Group?, by A Layman with a Notebook (pdf)

A good introduction to the Four Absolutes, Quiet Time, and other Oxford Group practices

I Was a Pagan, by V.C. Kitchen (pdf)
Personal narrative and description of the Group by a member of the “Alcoholic Squadron”, a group of Oxford Group drunks that included Bill Wilson.

Philosophy of Courage by Philip Leon, with a foreword by Glenn F. Chesnut (pdf)
A careful, systematic explanation of the Group’s practices and beliefs by a philosopher. Includes an excellent introduction by AA Historian Glenn Chesnut. The intro alone makes a perfect introduction to the Group for alcoholics/addicts in recovery. (read
forward online)

Other material:

Unpublished NA 4th Step Guides (pdf)
Two guides to the 4th Step that were in early working manuscripts of the Basic Text and It Works. These excellent guides were sadly cut from the final drafts.

Becoming Recovered 1.0 an open source recovery text (pdf) (read an excerpt)
An “open source” recovery text. Describes a program based on the Big Book of AA, but in modern, accessible language. (read
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