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Title: The Spirituality of Imperfection: Storytelling and the Search for Meaning by Ernest Kurtz, Katherine Ketcham ISBN: 0-553-37132-0 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 January, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.79 (19 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An exploration of spirituality that speaks to all traditions
Comment: This book successfully relates the spirituality of Alcoholics Anonymous,
and its Twelve Step program, to the other major spiritual traditions of
the world. It is related in such a way that the non member of these programs
can appreciate the depth and importance of this movement for everyone.
Alcoholics Anonymous has been praised by Aldous Huxley, Scott Peck
and many other religious thinkers as possibly America's own contribution to
the history of western spirituality. Kurtz and Ketcham do a fine job showing the
uniqueness of AA's modern insights as well as their kinship to forms of spirituality
which pervade the wisdom of many traditions from the early Christian Desert Fathers to
the wizened Rebbes of the mystical Hassidim. The Spirituality of Imperfection tells this story with
the colorful stories and parables of these various traditions. Some of the tales are wise,
some funny and all have the quality of capturing our humaness in a form that is entertaining as well
as instructive.
These stories comprise a minor theme of our spiritual heritage, which celebrates our humaness
and limitation as a source of wisdom, rather than "totalitarian" forms of spirituality which subjugate
human experience to an obsession with abstract and antiseptic perfectionism.
Rating: 5
Summary: More than a book, this is an experience
Comment: This book is to spirituality as riding a rollercoaster is to physics. It is not a read; it is an experience. Kurtz and Ketcham have managed to tell their own story in such a way that the reader is invited to share in that experience.
Finding this spirituality of imperfection in Alcoholics Anonymous and the twelve-step program, K&K have scoured spiritual writings throughout history to find the words to describe their experience. Boldface quotes and stories color almost every page.
K&K find the essence of the spiritual in human imperfections and failure, in the inevitability of pain. Spirituality is not the evasion of consequences or errors, but rather learning how to live with them. They call trying to be perfect the most tragic human mistake. They are clear, spirituality is found in asking the right questions, not in finding the right answers.
Perhaps every reader of this book will not be able to hear it's music. Perhaps only those who have been wounded by life, need it. Perhaps only those who have drunk deeply of failure will find nourishment here. All I know is that I did, and to Kurtz and Ketcham I will always be grateful.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Broad Canvas of Humanity
Comment: Telling your story and listening to the stories of others breaks barriers. Like all good literature entering into it brings an experience which can be shared. Life which is shared is lived in double dimensions and can form community....can divide loneliness. This book contains insights into more shallow insights-- I want to say by that this book, these authors, take the "common wisdom" and bring forth extraordinary insight in my view. I bought this book and read it several years ago. I pulled it off the shelf to read once again and, once again, I am discovering new meaning at a deeper lever for me. The authors have brought to bear the wisdom of many religious traditions and those traditions which did not have a religious background but which was born of human wisdom. It's a keeper that reveals something each time I read it--I can't wait to set it down and come back to it later.
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Title: Not God: A History of Alcoholics Anonymous by Ernest Kurtz ISBN: 0894860658 Publisher: Hazelden Publishing & Educational Services Pub. Date: 01 June, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.50 |
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Title: The Glumlot Letters: A Devil's Discourse on Sobriety, Recovery and the Twelve Steps of A. A. by Stanley M., M. Stanley ISBN: 0965967239 Publisher: Capizon Publishing Pub. Date: 01 November, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Drop the Rock: Removing Character Defects by Bill Pittman, Todd Weber ISBN: 1568385048 Publisher: Hazelden Publishing & Educational Services Pub. Date: 01 January, 1993 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: My Name Is Bill: Bill Wilson--His Life and the Creation of Alcoholics Anonymous by Susan Cheever ISBN: 074320154X Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: The Steps We Took: A Teacher of the Twelve Steps Shares His Experience, Strength, and Hope With All Those Recovering from Addictions, All Who Want T by Joe McQ ISBN: 0874831512 Publisher: August House Publishers Pub. Date: 01 August, 1990 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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