Recovered vs. Recovering: The 1939 Blueprint Standard

Historical Research | The 1939 Standard

In the modern world of recovery, you are told that you will be "recovering" for the rest of your life. It is a linguistic prison that suggests you are always one inch away from a drink, forever white-knuckling your way through a "softer way" that never ends. We found a different path.

The 1939 Standard: A Result, Not a Process

The original 1939 Blueprint did not offer a temporary reprieve; it offered a result. On the very first page of the original text, the pioneers stated: "We... are more than one hundred men and women who have recovered from a seemingly hopeless state of mind and body."

The Physical Allergy and the Mental Obsession

We were once "hopeless"—the type the world had given up on. We were locked in the cycle identified by Dr. Silkworth: a physical allergy that made it impossible to stop once we started, and a mental obsession that made it impossible to stay sober once we stopped.

We mastered the 1939 Course of Action not by "trying harder," but by following the clear-cut directions as they were written before the message was diluted by clinical jargon.

"The result? We recovered. The problem was removed. It didn't just 'diminish'; it ceased to exist as long as we maintained our spiritual condition."

Ceasing the Fight

Our "Hope" for the newcomer is this: You do not have to be a "perpetual patient" for the rest of your life. You can be a free man, a recovered man, launched into what the old-timers called a "fourth dimension of existence."

The Master Course: Next Steps

If you are tired of the easier, softer way and are ready for the Industrial-Strength solution, follow our walk-through of the 1939 Blueprint:

Unityforrecovery.com: Carrying the 1939 message modem to modem, person to person.

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