Extracts
from our forum: http://forums.delphiforums.com/aacultwatch
under thread: “advice
on how to report a cult meeting
”
“Hi
….....
Thanks
for voicing your concern. I admire you for doing it, well done. I
hope you carry on. I have been doing it since 2009. I think more
people are beginning to do it a bit more now, but I think it will
still take some time to swing things around so that vulnerable
newcomers are protected from these BBS (Big Book Study or if you prefer Big Bullsh-t Study) controllers. It’s
a pity there aren’t more in AA like you; especially among the ape
guru oldtimers (Three wise monkeys
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_wise_monkeys).
According to this Wikipedia article, a fourth ape guru oldtimer is
sometimes depicted folding his arms. They'll throw a few bananas as
soon as there’s action requiring a bit of responsibility while
chanting the AA slogan “Live and Let Live!” When they’ve got no
bananas, they’ll scramble to hide behind the yellow card:
“Who
you See Here,
What
You Here Hear,
When
You Leave Here,
Let
it Stay Here”
– Nothing
to do with me, or him, or her, so why don’t you stop interrupting
our chimp’s tea party, pop a plum in your mouth, smile serenely and
keep it shut like us? This attitude cannot be found in the Steps,
Traditions or Concepts, which all call for social responsibility.
I
can only suggest you email aacultwatch and ask them to flag the group
as a cult group. If you have any questions or want any info please
feel free to ask, I’ll do what I can to find any info you may want.
I think you'll find a fair bit on this forum and the aacultwatch
blog. The long and the short of it, I think, is that AA history and
sponsorship has been perverted by outside publications by a variety
of individuals who have combined their recovery with their ambitions
for power and money. This has created a cultish “Tough Love”
controlling type of sponsorship, originating mainly from USA
treatment centre programmes derived from the Synanon
cult and the Little Rock Group. These have also been combined with teachings of a
dictator who has been elevated to the status of the “prophet”
Clarence S. and self- appointed fundamentalist Christian historians [viz
Dick B]
who have distorted AA history to make it look like the pioneering
days with the Oxford Group were successful, when they weren’t. Hence the USA bible
study cult phenomena has also become a Big Book Study cult phenomena.
I think it is a dangerous cult which has damaged AA public relations
and has perhaps turned away several hundred thousand newcomers who
have walked into this abusive sponsorship style which has been
increasingly pervading AA since the 1970’s. It is unfortunate that
AA history has been so cleverly twisted by cult literature that its
proponents believe that the AA program has now been watered down,
when in fact Big Book Study and Big Book Sponsorship is itself an
outside AA published watered down program with a treatment centre
program called ‘Recovery Dynamics’ authored by an alcoholic
called Joe McQ.
Incidentally,
I noticed a version of the yellow card pictured on the Wikipedia
“Three Wise Monkeys” article, a WWII poster directed at
participants in the Manhattan Project; the Manhattan Project created the first Atomic Bombs:
What
You See Here.
What
You Do Here
What You Hear Here
When You Leave Here
Let It Stay Here
Perhaps that’s where
the original idea for the yellow card and big book study came from,
the brain of a mad alcoholic nuclear physicist. One never knows.”
(our edits)
Cheerio
The
Fellas (Friends of Alcoholics Anonymous)
