A
tip-off to all London intergroups via the unofficial grapevine
Coming
up soon….
‘The
Messiah Complex World Tour’…
‘Undiluted’
Cult Workshop
Kingston
United Reformed Church
Richard Mayo Centre
Eden Street
Kingston Upon Thames, KT1 1HZ
Richard Mayo Centre
Eden Street
Kingston Upon Thames, KT1 1HZ
March
7- 9, 2014
Details
of the world tour: http://www.aabacktobasics.org/
And
a flyer for the Kingston event….
Yep,
Wally P’s back on stage in 2014, with his brand new “Messiah
Complex World Tour’’ coming to London in March with the
‘UNDILUTED’ show in Kingston. (Not be confused with Russell
Brand’s ‘The Messiah Complex World Tour’
at the O2 Academy,
Brixton, 9th March, 2014). Like
Wally, comedian Russell Brand is also
back on stage with his brand new show -- "Messiah Complex".
(A 'Messiah Complex' is a mental disorder where the sufferer thinks
they might be God, and we think the show’s going to be hilarious)
Now then, here’s a coincidence - Two ‘Messiah Complex’ comedy
shows coming to town in one weekend! - an act of Providence even?
For details of the Russell Brand show see below.
With
Wally P’s double act however, there’s the serious downside to any
hilarity generated. AA groups in the UK may need to brace themselves
for a fresh infiltration of hyped up cocaine addicts/ alcoholics
infected with the ‘Wally
Messiah Complex’, followed by a mass exodus of alcoholics to
Rational Recovery. Symptoms of those so afflicted may be recognised
by overt displays of “double
think,”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublethink
and
“duckspeak.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Newspeak_words
The worst infected cases may also exude a vociferous harping back to
the Oxford Group’s successful 75% failure in sobering up alcoholics
- a classic example of the contradictory terms typically ejaculated
in “duckspeak.”
Here’s a little insight
into how the double-thinking, duck-speaking, Wally cult complex works
in the USA, (an AA member’s post on our aacultwatch forum
(‘Back
to Basics Movement’ thread, 22/02/11)
“In
this USA area, about 2 1/2 years ago in 2008, a Yellow cover book -
"Back to Basics " by Wally P., began to be passed around;
soon many were buying it and some malcontented people from a few AA
groups began to gather to discuss the book. They were generally
outspoken and not recieved well by AA groups and the strong
opposition seemed to bond the malcontents to each other. They had a
fixed idea of how the 12 steps should be done, an out of balance view
of AA history and statistics. Like claiming that AA once had 75%
success rate; and futher claimed AA lost that sucess rate when AA
became organized!
The
movement has grown more active and now "seeds" meetings and
discussion rooms with individuals who push thier views. Now, there
seems to be an organized effort for 6 to 10 "Back to Basics"
people to meet before a target meeting - they split up a few small
groups - go to various tables or each Meeting Room and steer
discussions into issues which give them a format to present half
truths and thier "sprituality" claims.
Many
of us "regular" AA people are concerned. It seems to me
that your experiences are similar and may be repeated here in this
USA area. I found your "Cultwatch" site on the Bing search
engine. The information is valuable and appreciated by me and I have
passed the web address on to a DCM friend.”
(Not
anonymous) cult leader Wally Paton (pictured on left, with side kick)
in Dallas, 12/7/01.
(Photo Courtesy of Wally’s Faith With Works Publishing Company)
http://www.aabacktobasics.org/Faith%20With%20Works%20Pub%20Co/index.html
Comment:
Our usual thanks to the AA member who alerted us to this cocaine
addict’s enterprising event. Wally P’s Back to Basics, is a multi
purpose 12 Step cult - not to be confused with Alcoholics Anonymous
or Narcotics Anonymous.
Of
course, the twisting of history through an educational programme in
which certain historical facts are selectively chosen whilst others
are carefully erased, in order to present a half truth which is then
laced with a few lies, is not a new idea. It is a well known method
of millieu control http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milieu_control
used by politicians, conmen, bankers, insurance brokers, cult leaders
and totalitarian regimes, in order to control the masses. As George
Orwell once wrote,
“…And
if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed – if all
records told the same tale – then the lie passed into history and
became truth. ‘Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan,
‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’
And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been
altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to
everlasting. It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending
series of victories over your own memory. ‘Reality control’, they
called it: in Newspeak, doublethink.”
- George Orwell,
(Nineteen Eighty-Four, part I, chapter III)
Since
we’re still happily living in the uncontrolled reality of
‘oldspeak,’ our memories remind us of a number of things, too
many in fact, to put on the blog all in one go. So we’ve decided to
run a series of “Back to Basics Specials” between now and March
2014. In the mean time though, why not get back to basics and ponder
the undiluted (or should we say uncensored) ‘oldspeak’ of the AA
Co-founders in 1939 and 1940, as they appear in AA Conference
Approved literature?
“Have
definitely shaken off the shackles of the Oxford Group.”
–Dr. Bob,
2nd January 1940 (Dr. Bob and the Good Oldtimers p. 218)
“1.
The principle of aggressive evangelism so prominent as an Oxford
Group attitude had to be dropped in order to get any result with
alcoholics. Experience showed that this principle, which may have
been absolutely vital to the success of the Oxford Group, would
seldom touch neurotics of our hue.” ….
….“3. The principles of honesty, purity, unselfishness, and
love are as much a goal for A.A. members and are as much practiced by
them as by any other group of people; yet we found that when the word
‘absolute’ was put in front of these atttributes, they either
turned people away by the hundreds or gave a temporary spiritual
inflation resulting in collapse.”
“4. It was discovered that all forms of coercion,
both direct, and indirect, had to be dropped….” –Bill W., 30th
October 1940. (Extracts, Pass It On p.172)
After
you’ve had time to ponder, we also suggest taking a tip out of the
undiluted Big Book p.102
http://www.aa.org/bigbookonline/en_bigbook_chapt7.pdf
(the page we havent seen quoted by Wally) Then plan to pop along to
one of the legitimate (non cult) social events
to
be held in London on the weekend, March 7- 9, 2014. There’s lots to
choose from, but heres a few suggestions.
Russell
Brand: “The Messiah Complex World Tour”
9th
March 2014, O2 Academy Brixton
Ellie
Goulding
Mark Thomas: “100 Acts of Minor Dissent”
The
Stranglers
8th
Mar 2014, Hammersmith Apollo
http://www.londondrum.com/events/?p=23505
Verdi’s
“Rigoletto”
7th
Mar 2014, London
Coliseum
Might
see you at the O2 Academy, we’re going to have a fun weekend!
Cheerio,
The
Fellas (Friends of Alcoholics Anonymous)
P.S.
If any of these entertainments don’t grab your fancy, you could
always nip along to the “most sordid spot on earth” (Big Book p.
102) - We’ll leave that one to your imagination! Or you can see
more of Wally P. for free in AA Minority Report 2013. Click here
