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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 "

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