- •[Participants draft of work in progress - not for distribution - ed]
- •Na Fellowship Work in Progress
- •Victor Hugo Sewell, Jr.
- •Na Foundation Group
- •1516 B Life Oak Drive
- •The Tradition Wars: a pathway to peace
- •Chapter One Early History of na
- •How na Service Took on Its Form
- •Chapter Three The Book
- •Wso Timeline of Important Dates and Events
- •Forward
- •Introduction
- •Money, Property and Prestige
- •Chapter Five The Growth through Our Book
- •Some thoughts on the History of the Purist Movement
- •In na by a founding member.
- •Chapter Six History Movement Starts in Alabama Madison History Conference
- •I. The inception
- •In order to share how the committee started you need to understand the why.
- •II. The Committee forms
- •III. The First Celebration Set
- •IV. Members Gather
- •V. Speaker Transcripts from the Convention
- •VI. Archive Search and Define Goals
- •VII. The Trouble Starts
- •Allentown history conference
- •Side two of tape
- •[Is there a break in the tape or transcription here? - Ed]
- •Side two of tape
- •[Side two of tape]
- •[End of Tape 4]
- •[Side two]
- •[Side two of tape]
- •[Side two of tape]
- •Baby Blue
- •Intent was to get attention on negative factions within world services by agitating
- •South Florida Blue Story
- •Bob Stone
- •Commentary on history leading up to Baby Blue Case
- •Tremendous Amount of Pain
- •Grateful Dave's Fight
- •Grateful Dave’s Home Group
- •Baby Blue Court Case
- •Part Three
- •'Baby blue'
- •Transcript of the court case - Summary Ruling by Judge Pollack
- •The History Committee Folds
- •Chapter Eleven the world service inventory
- •The superboard
- •Board Authority Motion to be inserted here - Ed
- •The internet
- •The disenfranchised
- •Chapter Fifteen
- •Inside The wso
- •(Why I'm Writing This)
- •History of Narcotics Anonymous
- •History of the Service Structure
- •Our Traditions And The World Organization
- •Inside The wso
- •Service Structure Overview
- •Too Tired To Fight
- •The real na is the caring and the sharing. All else is stage setting. Were we to grow large in worldly terms and lose our simple message of hope, we would have to make another program.
- •Central Office vs. World Wide Fellowship
- •I’m interested in the future of the future.” - Robert Doniger, 1996
- •Spiritual Unity
- •Morality
- •Traditions War Memorial
- •Lynn Watkins Eyewitness account of politics in early days of World Service Conference and the Transition from the original wso
- •Chapter Twenty Pathway to Peace
- •Appendices
- •Excerpt from Bob Stone's Book:
- •Bob Stone and the na fellowship
- •Chapter Twenty
- •I Was Stunned
- •Epilogue
- •Correctness Cults
- •If we look far enough into our past - we will see our future
- •The n.A. Tree The Service Structure of Narcotics Anonymous
- •Introduction
The History Committee Folds
Alabama/NW Florida Region Splits
Terrific confusion and divisiveness spoils the loving, creative atmosphere that had prevailed in the history movement in Alabama up to this point. Some members, began going from ASC to ASC raising questions and creating suspicions and negativity that effectively shut down the history movement in Alabama and without interest or support elsewhere, the movement went to sleep for almost a decade. But it did not die, we are a continuation of that movement in working on this book. It just takes some time and technology to collect and present the relevant material in a single form.
Chapter Eleven the world service inventory
When Judge Pollack failed to admonish Grateful Dave over the Baby Blue court case and opted instead to admonish both Dave and WSO to make concessions to one another, WSO realized their grip on the literature copyrights was not secure. It is possible that the ‘Inventory’ was designed to shut down the only service body that could give WSO serious problems if it wanted to do so. It proved to be a successful ‘non-move’ meaning it appeared benign and sincere but was actually adroit in that it achieved one goal while appearing to reach for another. The Fellowship was very clear about what it expected World Services to do and the policies and procedures for doing it. No region requested the ‘inventory’ and yet WSO controlled the instruments of communication from WSC, WSB, WSO, the NA Way Magazine and the Fellowship Reports. So?
To change the service structure, especially in regard to the Second Tradition, required pressure on the Twelve Traditions. The Twelve Concepts, while well intended, contain language that is the gravest assault on the Twelve Traditions since they were approved by AA in 1955. Along with the Steps, we were encouraged to adopt the Twelve Traditions of AA as a 12 Step fellowship. As a member of the NA World Service Conference, I was asked to do a report on the AA service structure and found the 12 Concepts of Service to AA to have real teeth and certain provisions to protect the rights of the AA Fellowship. Any serious reader should compare the two documents side-by-side. We have to do a partial comparison here to make it clear that the NA Concepts are not related beyond being numbered twelve.
Once the Concepts were in place, the Guide to Local Services could be approved. This was such a damaging and exhausting process, that it just plain wore out members to oppose it. The breach of trust was so enormous that NA members could either disbelieve what they were being told by a few members or they would have to get up in arms and challenge the whole organization of world services. Few members were willing to do this, so they took the choice of disbelieving what they were told or they ignored it. Right or wrong, we only have so much time apart from work and our families. And no one was expecting an attack from such a source, a source that was supposed to be serving. And, after all, God would not let such an awful thing happen, right?
Chapter Twelve