Ken B. Response to
Man Talking about Publisher of The
Language of the Heart
Aloha to you, Tom,
from Maui, Hawaii!
My dad (Dick
B.--www.DickB.com) copied me on his response to your email message in which you
stated:
"The Language of
the Heart . . . is not an AA General Service Conference-approved book . .
."
As my dad observed,
his copy of The Language of the Heart has a large
"circle-and-triangle" symbol on the Copyright page (with a copyright
date of 1988). In addition, there is a large "circle-and-triangle"
symbol on the back cover of the dust jacket of his copy. (The ISBN number of my
dad's copy is: 0-933685-16-5.)
While doing some
preliminary research on the question, I noted that The Language of the Heart is
found in the "AA Conference Approved Books" section of the Minnesota
Recovery Page Online Bookstore:
http://www.minnesotarecovery.info/books/AAConferenceApproved.htm
I also noted that The
Language of the Heart is found on the four-page document titled "This list
is Conference Approved Literature" on the Arkansas Central Office Web
site:
http://www.arkansascentraloffice.org/documents/centraloffice.pdf
In addition, I noted
that The Language of the Heart is found on the Literature page of Northern
Santa Barbara County AA Central Office Web site under the heading
"Conference Approved Literature Available through the Central
Office":
http://aa52centraloffice.org/Literature.html
I also noted that, on
a Web page on the Alcoholics Anonymous Central Coast NSW Web site which clearly
distinguishes between "Conference Approved Literature" and "Non
Conference Approved," the book The Language of the Heart is found in the
"Conference Approved Literature" category:
http://www.ccaa.org.au/literature.htm
I also see that The
Language of the Heart is listed in the "F-10 Literature Catalog -
2011-2012" currently posted on the AA.org Web site. It is found in the
"A.A. Grapevine Subscriptions, Books, Audio, Special Items, eBooks, Audio
Downloads" section on page 38:
http://www.aa.org/en_pdfs/aacatalog.pdf
And I just came across
the following article in the December 2010 issue of the MIRUS (Minneapolis
Intergroup: Recovery, Unity, Service) Web site:
"Is The
Grapevine Conference-approved?"
[http://www.aaminneapolis.org/pages/mirus/Mirus_1210.pdf]
The article (May 2007
Vol. 63 No. 12) states:
"So individual
issues of the magazine and Grapevine books are, by design, not
Conference-approved."
(Copyright May 2007
A.A. Grapevine, Inc.)
I would accept the
May 2007 article from The Grapevine as authoritative. I do find the presence of
the "circle-and-triangle" symbol on the book and its listing on
various Web sites as "Conference-approved" to be interesting.
Thank you for writing
to Dick B.
Dick B.'s son, Ken
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