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AA'S GODPARENTS
Carl Jung, Emmet Fox and Jack Alexander
by Igor I. Sikorsky, Jr.
Three Early Influences on Alcoholics Anonymous and Its
Foundation.
A VERY HARD TO FIND BOOK
From the Introduction:
"At a crucial time in the development of Alcoholics Anonymous
there appeared individuals who were not alcoholics but whose
inspiration and interest in the growing fellowship infused it with
strength and a spiritual direction....A godparent is defined as
one who, while not a direct biological parent, serves to infuse
the spiritual life of the child: in this manner, Carl Jung, Emmet
Fox and Jack Alexander served as godparents of AA's foundation".
(Please see the scans for a few sample pages)
Contents include: All Men of Faith Have Courage....The Carl
Jung-Bill Wilson Connection....Emmet Fox and Alcoholics
Anonymous....The Jack Alexander Article....AA and Its Foundation:
A Spiritual Awakening. The author, Igor Sikorsky, Jr. is the son
of the famous aviation pioneer Igor Sikorsky.
CompCare Publishers, copyright 1990, 50 pages,
softcover book
page 20 in this book
"Perhaps Emmet Fox's fundamental contribution to AA was the simplicity and
power of The Sermon on the Mount as well as his other books that set
forth in very simple language the truths of the New Thought
philosophy.Sikorski especially refers to Fox's emphasis on living in the
present, similar to AA's teaching one to live a day at a time. He finds
another similarity in nonownership of property by AA and the Church of the
Healing Christ, of Fox, who used to speak in large public halls, primarily in
New York. The essential impossibility of holding a mindset inconsistent with
one's lifestyle is another parallel. Sikorski says, "Five of the original
stories in the Big Book were by early AA members deeply influenced by Emmet
Fox (p. 23)." Sikorsky also notes (p. 19) that an early recovering
alcoholic who worked with co-founder Bill Wilson was Al Steckman, whose mother
was Fox's secretary, and that as a result of this connection early AA groups
often would go to listen to Fox " |
