A.A. Steps for the Underprivileged Non-A.A. By Edward J. Dowling, S.J. [from The Grapevine, July 1960.]
More influential on history than the Nile or the Mississippi, is another river ? the Gulf Stream. Without it the British Isles would be as bleak as Labrador or Siberia.
AA is like a Gulf Stream in the ocean of today?s life. It is indistinguishable from its banks ? but its winds, like burnt incense, whisper hope and life to human Siberias.
?It?s like AA? has been the passport to acceptance among the dignosclerotic (hardening of the dignity) for such stigma- pilloried movements as Narcotics Anonymous, Crime Prevention, Recovery, Inc., Divorcees Anonymous, Divorcees Unanimous, WANA, Adiposics Anonymous, the Mattachine Society, Average People, Nicotinic Nobodies, Daughters of Bilitis, Gamblers Anonymous, Check Writers Anonymous, Security Cloister, Politicians Anonymous, and other self-help groups...