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Fellowship Literary Work in Progress

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Free Download: 
2008 Form
Review Forms Available
NEW 5.5x8.5" format at $8 + S&H
We are asking individuals to come forward and help edit new form. 
Email nawol@nawol.org if you are willing. - Love, Bo S.

Letters of support
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We have been working for almost two decades on this book. And now we have three more books to work on. It is obvious that our method is sound and includes a wide variety of NA members from all over. We know there are many members who support our work and have already been using the new material for purposes of recovery for quite a few years. There have been many emails thanking us and expressing gratitude and joy for the miracle of writing new material in the time honored NA way! 

Of course, there are still many members who have not read the book and think is it somehow out of order for addicts to combine efforts to work a collective 12th Step in this manner. Please send us letters of support by snail or email fit to be displayed on this website. Some members are just freaked out by new writing. They missed out on the 'Book Years' in NA and don't realize we have every right to write. You don't have to get permission from anyone to work your 12th Step. We want to be gentle and loving but firm in our dedication to doing our part to see that the NA message is carried and heard. 

Thanks for all your love and support for "OUR BOOK." 

-- In Loving Service, Bo S. 

Thanks to our transcribers: five in the US and two in Canada. 
Composition of book going well.

Check out new French Canadian Translations of 
Traditions War: a pathway to peace
new article comparing 3rd R and 5th

Handbook for NA Literature 2007

Our Symbol

by Greg Pierce

IS THIS AN OUTSIDE ISSUE?

Imagine sitting in a circle and having an NA meeting where the topic was discussion of written recovery material. As the material is being read, all members present have prayed to be used as instruments of a Loving God and listen to the letter and the spirit of the writing. This is a literature review meeting.

Is this outside literature if the subject matter is our written message of recovery? There is a big difference between writing recovery material in a group setting and reading outside literature. How else could our written message be created? We may not have a future is we can’t update our program with new literature. The disease of addiction never slowed down.

Reading, discussing and editing in a group setting after prayer is the basic formula for NA literature, right? Do we hire people to write for us or do we write our message down in groups of members?

THE FELLOWSHIP IN 2008 MAY NOT KNOW 
THEY HAVE A RIGHT TO WRITE - SPREAD THE WORD!

UNDERSTAND THIS : WE CAN'T DO IT FOR YOU - ONLY ADDICTS CAN WRITE NA LITERATURE IN OPEN, PARTICIPATORY CONFERENCES. WE HAVE SEEN LITERATURE WRITTEN WITHOUT FULL PROCESSING AND THE CHANGES THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN MADE BY CLEAN ADDICTS WERE LEFT UNDONE IN MATERIAL APPROVED AT THE WSC, WEAKENING OUR WRITTEN PROGRAM OF RECOVERY.  ONLY LITERATURE THAT HAS BEEN FULLY PROCESSED BY FELLOWSHIP CAN REALLY BE CALLED "NA APPROVED." - ED

To participate in this writing, print out a single chapter, read it in a setting of NA members after SP, mark comments on one copy and snail mail it to us. List first names and last initials of members work-shopping, location of workshop, and date. Will either be utilized right away or reviewed at next conference. - Ed

GIVE YOUR DREAMS A CHANCE!

The N.A. Way of Life
NEW 2008 Form

Section One: Orientation

Section Two: Issues

Section Three: Applications

Section Four: Evidence

To participate in this writing, print out a single chapter, read it in a setting of NA members after SP, mark comments on one copy and snail mail it to us. 

List first names and last initials of members workshopping, location, and date. Will either be utilized right away or reviewed at next conference. - Ed

NA Way of Life

Click here to download for free!

Now includes translation into French Canadian

Preface

Introduction

To participate in this writing, print out a single chapter, read it in a setting of NA members after SP, mark comments on one copy and snail mail it to us. List first names and last initials of members workshopping, location, and date. Will either be utilized right away or reviewed at next conference. Right now, conferences are planned in Knoxville late April, 2005 and Draper, Virginia June, 2005

APPENDICES

NEWEST VERSION 2005
310 PAGES due to better formatting

Review Copy at cost - Order Form

The Spirit of NA

New book to focus on the spirituality found in NA that has worked so tirelessly in the background from our earliest beginnings through the present. Anyone knows that loud people get attention and those members busy working their 12 Steps, living the program and honoring the 12 Traditions are not noisy.  But they are the men and women who keep NA alive and make the program worth coming back to! Trouble makers, mis-matchers, are often much more visible and vocal than those who plug in the coffee pots, lay out the literature and stay up last talking about NA with newcomers and other members. So, let's hear it for those who love us as they learn to love themselves.

In Loving Service,

Bo S. 

"Where the book came from..."

Conferences and Workshops
from 1991 to 2002
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We have sought throughout this effort to involve members from all over in the process of reading, editing and collecting new material. This section gives you a chance to see the group conscience process in action. We value this inclusive approach because we believe those who have to live the program should be the ones to authenticate written recovery material. No service board or committee can do this because that would be dictating group conscience. We believe dictating group conscience is a contradiction in terms. - Ed

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Traditions War: a pathway to peace,
The Spirit of NA 
or NA Twenty Plus
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All rights reserved. This draft may be copied by members of Narcotics Anonymous for the purpose of writing input for future drafts, enhancing the recovery of NA members and for the general welfare of the Narcotics Anonymous Fellowship as a whole. The use of an individual name is simply a registration requirement of the Library of Congress and not a departure from the spirit or letter of the Pledge, Preface or Introduction of this book. Any reproduction by individuals or organizations outside the Fellowship of Narcotics Anonymous is prohibited. Any reproduction of this document for personal or corporate monetary gain is prohibited.