- •[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
Chapter Fifteen
JODY R. - CHANGES
Note: this long article was written some time ago by an eyewitness. We will never have an alternative viewpoint on some of events and people as good as this one. While the trail may be cold on many of the issues portrayed, it is a real ‘heads up’ article and too good to leave out. This was all written in the early 1990’s, long before many of the changes that came in the late 1990’s. - Bo S.
Here is a reprint of Jody R's article about what's happening within our World Service Organization. It's divided into five sections for readability. Click on the underlined topics at the top of this page to access the sections. What you read here may shock you. Remember to stay close to your home group and to your sponsor. NA is a grassroots organization. There is no higher authority than GROUP CONSCIENCE!
– Introduction from the URL from which the article was taken. - Ed
Our NA Fellowship
By Jody R.
* Table of Contents * Beginnings
Our Traditions And The World Organization
Inside The wso
Service Structure Overview
Too Tired To Fight Beginnings
(Why I'm Writing This)
If you saw your best friend's lover actually in the act of cheating on them, would you feel you had to tell them? Maybe you'd say "it's none of my business", but what if you lived in the same house and they announced they were going to marry this cheater? What if out of hundreds of friends who didn't know about the affair, only a handful also knew, but none of them were speaking up for a variety of reasons. Maybe they liked the other partner, maybe they didn't want to "get involved", maybe they just didn't want to be accused of "breaking up the relationship" or maybe they just didn't care. Some even had the nerve of saying they weren't going to tell your best friend because "it's best left up to God to decide these things." But you know the truth, and the wedding day is approaching. You know if you're ever going to look your friend in the eye again you'd better speak up _ even if it means them becoming angry and saying "they never want to speak to you again", especially since all their other friends who didn't see the affair jump in with "oh, they'd never do that" once you told.
After doing a "searching and fearless moral inventory", you discover that you feel God's will can only be discovered after all the truth is laid out on the table. After all, aren't we all taught that "we're as sick as our secrets"? Even in the criminal law system, if I see a murder and don't report it, I can be charged as an accessory, so even in the law's eyes "knowing but not telling" isn't right. I feel I need to tell what I saw, even if it costs me the friendship of many people that I love (we must all risk losing prestige at some point in order to maintain principle) So here goes . . . please forgive the history lesson _ I just want to make sure we're all on the same page.