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Sandy B.
217 tapes
Sandy B. got sober on Pearl Harbor Day, 1964, and spent the next fifty years becoming one of the most beloved and funniest speakers in AA history. A Yale graduate and former Marine fighter pilot, Sandy had a gift for making the deepest spiritual principles land with a punchline. He didn't just talk about the program — he lived it out loud, and his humor came from a man who'd done the work and could laugh at what he found inside.
Sandy's real legacy is spiritual. He taught that the steps aren't a checklist — they're a doorway into a life most alcoholics never imagined was possible. His men's spirituality workshop, The Far Corners, drew members from across the country who came to learn what Sandy had spent decades discovering: that the spiritual life is not a theory, and that the best thing you can do for your sobriety is to study spirituality by any means available.
🧘 Sandy's Spirituality Retreat
All Tapes
- 1 A 40 Year Sponsorship and the Practical Application of the 12 Steps – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 2 A Conversation with Sandy B. on the 12 Steps, Willingness, and the Secret Weapon of Sobriety ★★★★★No ratings
- 3 A Deep Dive With Sandy B. Into the First Drink, the Disease, and the Spiritual Solution ★★★★★No ratings
- 4 A Look at Self-Will and the Ego via Step 10 with Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 5 A Spiritual Malady – Sandy B. ★★★★★5(1 vote)
- 6 Alcohol as Reverse Insurance — You Pay Today for a Guarantee That Tomorrow Will Stink – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 7 Allow Everything to Be as It Is — the Assignment Nobody Wants and Everybody Needs – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 8 Applying Principles in the Moment of Tragedy – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 9 Asking for Help as the Spiritual Action the Alcoholic Ego Cannot Tolerate – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 10 At Gulf Shores – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 11 Becoming Smaller Until Only a Higher Power Remains – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 12 Beginner’s Class 02 12 2009 – Part 1 – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 13 Big Book Chapter 6 — Into Action, Amends, and the Daily Reprieve – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 14 Big Book Study, Military Life, and the Reality of Not Drinking by Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 15 Borrowed from Religion Everything That Unites, Politely Declined Everything That Divides — the Spiritual Heist of the Century – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 16 Building a Life on the Big Book Foundation – Sandy B. ★★★★★5(1 vote)
- 17 Buses Full of Newcomers with 30 Days and Bad Information — How Treatment Centers Changed AA Forever – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 18 Comparing the Big Book to the Actual Treasure – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 19 Daily Reprieve and Spiritual Progress as Told by Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 20 Drinking’S “Side Effects” and the Solution – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 21 East Coast Alcoholics Throw Up Three Hours Earlier ★★★★★No ratings
- 22 Ego Shells and Spiritualese: Sandy B. on Old Ideas ★★★★★No ratings
- 23 Every Old Idea Is Just a Story — and You Wrote It – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 24 Every Spiritual Book He Read Was His Ego Building a Higher Wall Between Him and Higher Power – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 25 Every Step Is Just a Different Way of Letting Go – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 26 Finding and Connecting to Your Higher Power – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 27 Finding Independence Through Total Dependence ★★★★★No ratings
- 28 Finding Non-Spiritual Answers to a Spiritual Problem – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 29 Finding Small Signs of a Higher Power Early On – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 30 Forgiveness, Surrender, and Acceptance Are All the Same Thing with a Different Name – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 31 Graduating 150 Out of 152 and Feeling Good About It – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 32 Guidance and the Ego Through the Lens of Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 33 He Decided to Remain an A**hole for His Neighborhood’s Sake – Sandy B. 😂 ★★★★★No ratings
- 34 He Got a Crew Cut So Nobody Could Grab His Hair Off the Bar Stool Again – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 35 He Needed a Sponsor in Kindergarten – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 36 He Thought Sobriety Was a Three-Part Program – Sandy B. 🤣 ★★★★★3.5(2 votes)
- 37 He Told the Member He Was an Alcoholic for the Past Two Weeks – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 38 He’s Working Off a Resentment at the Room’s Expense 😂 – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 39 Higher Power – Spiritual Growth Is by Subtraction – Part 2 of 4 – 2021 – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 40 Higher Power and the Language of Energy – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 41 Higher Power’s Will for You Is to Abandon Your Will — Yeah Cool, What Exactly Does That Involve? ★★★★★No ratings
- 42 His Sponsor Said the Miracle Is Your Life Won’t Be Run by an Idiot Anymore – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 43 How To Mechanically Clear Character Defects For Spiritual Flow – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 44 Humility and the Tradition of Having No Opinion – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 45 I Don’t Remember Telling You to Think ★★★★★No ratings
- 46 I Like to Stand up Here and Take Credit for My Sobriety – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 47 Inventorying the Lies: When the Script Was Replaced by the Program – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 48 Justifiable Anger Ought to Be Left to Those Who Can Handle It 🤣 – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 49 Letting Go — the Only Action Verb in a Program of Action – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 50 Letting Go Is the Entire Action of Alcoholics Anonymous – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 51 More Spiritual Change Between Years 38 and 41 Than All the Previous Years Combined – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 52 Nobody Planned Any of This — It Might Be Called the Spiritual Heist of the Century – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 53 One Alcoholic Earns More Trust in Two Hours Than a Psychiatrist Gets in Two Years – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 54 Perpetual Quietness of Heart — Dr. Bob’s Desk Plaque on Humility – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 55 Rigorous Honesty and the Architecture of Insecurity – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 56 Sandy B. – Q&A ★★★★★No ratings
- 57 Sandy B. at the 63rd Anniversary Of The Alexandria Group – 2007 ★★★★★No ratings
- 58 Sandy B. at the Far Corners – A Spiritual Retreat – 2009 ★★★★★No ratings
- 59 Sandy B. at the Far Corners Retreat – 2008 ★★★★★No ratings
- 60 Sandy B. at the Far Corners Spiritual Retreat – 2006 ★★★★★No ratings
- 61 Sandy B. at the Far Corners Spiritual Retreat – 2011 ★★★★★No ratings
- 62 Sandy B. at the Pearl Harbor Pilot’s Meeting – 1991 ★★★★★No ratings
- 63 Sandy B. Discovered a New Way to Live After His First Spiritual Awakening ★★★★★No ratings
- 64 Sandy B. Discusses the Shift in Perception During Steps 5 Through 7 ★★★★★No ratings
- 65 Sandy B. Discussing Steps 10 and 11 and Entering the Higher Power’s Territory ★★★★★No ratings
- 66 Sandy B. Drops The Rock ★★★★★No ratings
- 67 Sandy B. Higher Power Is Everything Or He Is Nothing ★★★★★No ratings
- 68 Sandy B. How AA Started and Grew ★★★★★No ratings
- 69 Sandy B. on Alcoholism, Social Anxiety, and the Magic World ★★★★★No ratings
- 70 Sandy B. on Anxiety, the Promises of Whiskey, and Spiritual Air Pressure ★★★★★No ratings
- 71 Sandy B. on Big Book Chapter 11 and the Path to Happy Destiny ★★★★★No ratings
- 72 Sandy B. on Fear, the Marine Corps, and the Al-Anon Lady Who Stopped Him From Running ★★★★★No ratings
- 73 Sandy B. on High-Functioning Alcoholism, Gratitude, and the Big Book ★★★★★No ratings
- 74 Sandy B. on Living a Day at a Time and the Spiritual Byproduct ★★★★★No ratings
- 75 Sandy B. on Obsession, Underage Drinking, and Family Dynamics ★★★★★No ratings
- 76 Sandy B. on Political Correctness, Ebby T., and Spiritual Survival — Part 3 of 4 ★★★★★No ratings
- 77 Sandy B. on Powerlessness, Character Defects, and the Fourth Step Inventory ★★★★★No ratings
- 78 Sandy B. on Powerlessness, the Agnostic, and the Highest Pay Grade in AA ★★★★★No ratings
- 79 Sandy B. on Spirituality 102, Self-Sufficiency, and the Soul School ★★★★★No ratings
- 80 Sandy B. on Staying Sober and the Trap of Intellectual Meetings ★★★★★No ratings
- 81 Sandy B. on Step 4, the Five-Column Inventory, and Personality Change — Part 10 of 13 ★★★★★No ratings
- 82 Sandy B. on Steps 10 and 11 — The Separation Problem and the Higher Power ★★★★★No ratings
- 83 Sandy B. on the Disease Concept, Agnosticism, and the Four Zeros ★★★★★No ratings
- 84 Sandy B. on the Disease Concept, Ego, and the Danger of Self-Sufficiency ★★★★★No ratings
- 85 Sandy B. on the History of AA — Bill W., Dr. Bob, and the Oxford Group ★★★★★No ratings
- 86 Sandy B. on the Spiritual Society of AA and the Big Book Treasure Map ★★★★★No ratings
- 87 Sandy B. on We Agnostics and the Need to Change Your Mind ★★★★★No ratings
- 88 Sandy B. Shows Us How To Work The Steps ★★★★★No ratings
- 89 Sandy B. Spiritual Life Is Not A Theory ★★★★★No ratings
- 90 Sandy B. Spiritual Principles ★★★★★No ratings
- 91 Sandy B. Steps 1 2 and 3 ★★★★★No ratings
- 92 Sandy B. Steps 7 Through 12 ★★★★★No ratings
- 93 Sandy B. The Early Days of AA ★★★★★No ratings
- 94 Sandy B. Why Ego Is the Only Worry That Matters ★★★★★No ratings
- 95 Sandy B. Writing My Way Out ★★★★★No ratings
- 96 Sandy Implores: Study About Spirituality in Any Way You Wish — It’s the Absolute Best Thing You Can Do for Your Sobriety – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 97 Self-Will and the Failure of the Intellectual Plan – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 98 Smashing Old Ideas to See the Truth – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 99 Smashing the Ego Shell to Get Out of Your Own Little World – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 100 Smashing the Old Ideas – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 101 Sober for Keeps (5.5 Hours) – Part 3 of 3 – 2017 – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 102 Spiritual Awakening Isn’t Learning Anything New — Somebody Just Moved All the Scenery While You Were Sleeping – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 103 Spiritual Power of the 12 Steps – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 104 Spiritual Principles – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 105 Spirituality Retreat 2008 – Practicing “The Presence of the Now” – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 106 Step 10 – Sandy B. – Steps 10 & 11 State Line Retreat – 2006 ★★★★★No ratings
- 107 Step 10 and the Game of Who Stays Least Disturbed ★★★★★No ratings
- 108 Step 10 and the Goal of Remaining Undisturbed – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 109 Step 10 and the Spiritual Axiom of Being Disturbed – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 110 Step 11 and the Period Before You React – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 111 Step 11 and the Running Commentary of Self-Obsessed Fear – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 112 Step 12 as the Drunk Squad of the Oxford Group – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 113 Step 2 and the 50,000-Foot Fall – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 114 Step 2 and the Debate in the Agnostic’s Mind – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 115 Step 3 Removed the Management of His Life From an Idiot – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 116 Step 6 and 7 and the Contractor Who Does All the Work – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 117 Step 6 and the Dilemma of Grow or Go – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 118 Step 6 and the Perfect Help Available – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 119 Step 7 and the Horseshoe Forged in Fire ★★★★★No ratings
- 120 Step 9 and the Extravagant Promises That Only Higher Power Can Do – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 121 Steps 1 & 2 – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 122 Steps 10 and 12 – Sandy B. – Saturday Morning Live – 1994 ★★★★★No ratings
- 123 Steps 3 – 7 in Ixtapa Mexico – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 124 Steps 4 & 5 – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 125 Steps 4 and 5 – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 126 Steps 6 & 7 – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 127 Steps 8 and 9 – Sandy B. – Saturday Morning Live – 1994 ★★★★★No ratings
- 128 Substituting the Truth for Your Version of the Past – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 129 The 12 Traditions and the Joint Life Raft – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 130 The 15-Pound Telephone and the Ego – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 131 The Agnostic Chapter and the Two Crappy Choices – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 132 The Bondage of Self and the Actor Who Runs the Show – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 133 The Bondage of Self and the Illusion of Success ★★★★★No ratings
- 134 The Chapter to the Agnostic and the Three Words Change Your Mind – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 135 The Czar of South Florida AA – Sandy B. 🤣 ★★★★★No ratings
- 136 The Dependency of Living in Two Different Worlds – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 137 The Difference Between a Heavy Drinker and an Alcoholic – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 138 The Difference Between a Religion and a Spiritual Program – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 139 The Difference Between a Sudden and Educational Spiritual Awakening – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 140 The Difference Between Asking and Humbly Asking – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 141 The Difference Between Early and Advanced Sobriety – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 142 The Direct Pipeline to Being Undisturbed – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 143 The Disease of Not Being Comfortable in Your Own Skin – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 144 The Disease of Perception and the Architecture of Misery – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 145 The Ego Would Rather Be Right and Dead Than Wrong and Sober ★★★★★No ratings
- 146 The Experiment of the Four Zeros – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 147 The False Old Ideas That Block the Real You – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 148 The Famous “Drop the Rock” Talk – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 149 The Famous Drop the Rock Talk – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 150 The Fatal Illness That Became a Gift – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 151 The Higher Power Found in the Results – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 152 The Higher Power Plane and a Deep Dive into the Final Three Steps – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 153 The Illusion of the Functioning Alcoholic – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 154 The Inventory as a Save Your A*s Decision – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 155 The Inventory That Saved His A** – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 156 The Losing Plan for Living – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 157 The Misery of the Dry Drunk and Doing It Wrong – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 158 The Need for a Higher Power Over the Proof of One – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 159 The Noise of Alcoholism and the Still Small Voice – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 160 The One-Legged Spiritual Stool of Alcoholism – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 161 The Only Problem Is Conscious Separation – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 162 The Pain and Suffering That Become Your Greatest Assets ★★★★★No ratings
- 163 The Paradox of Becoming Independent by Becoming Dependent – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 164 The Paradox of Winning by Surrendering – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 165 The Personality Change Sufficient to Bring About Recovery – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 166 The Prayer of Saint Francis as a Tool for Change – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 167 The Prison of Self-Centeredness – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 168 The Problem Is a Lack of Power – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 169 The Resentment That Almost Kept Him From the Meetings – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 170 The Resentment That Outlived the Marine Corps Career – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 171 The Responsibility of Being Happy – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 172 The Resume That Stands Between You and Your Higher Power – Sandy B. 😂 ★★★★★No ratings
- 173 The Secret of Changing Your Mind – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 174 The Serenity Prayer and the Wisdom to Know the Difference – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 175 The Six Steps Bill W. Recalled from Memory – Sandy B. 😆 ★★★★★No ratings
- 176 The Snobbery Between the Alcoholics and the Real Mental Patients ★★★★★No ratings
- 177 The Solution First, Then the Problem – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 178 The Solution for All Problems Is Spiritual Growth – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 179 The Spiritual Awakening That Happens When You Stop Being Stupid – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 180 The Spiritual Cushion and the Slow Leak in the Tire – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 181 The Spiritual Mailbox and the Gift of the Real You – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 182 The Spiritual Model of the Disease – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 183 The Steps Do Not Fix Your Problems: They Remove Everything That Is Not You – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 184 The Struggle to Be Entirely Ready – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 185 The Surrender That Happens When the Ego Finally Cracks – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 186 The Tenth Step Axiom: If You’re Disturbed the Problem Is Always You – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 187 The Tradition of Having No Opinion on Outside Issues – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 188 The Traditions and the Business of Staying Sober – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 189 The Training Wheels on the AA Bike – Sandy B. 😆 ★★★★★No ratings
- 190 The Transformation from Self-Centeredness to Higher Power-Centered – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 191 The Transformation That Comes After the Ego Is Destroyed – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 192 The Twelve Steps of AA (4.5 Hrs) – Part 1 of 4 – 2017 – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 193 The Twelve Steps of AA (4.5 Hrs) – Part 2 of 4 – 2019 – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 194 The Twelve Steps of AA (4.5 Hrs) – Part 3 of 4 – 2017 – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 195 The Utter Simplicity of Letting Go – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 196 The Vital Spiritual Experience and the Mind of a Chronic Alcoholic – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 197 The World We Created and the Need to Destroy It – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 198 There Is a Solution – Part 2 – Sandy B. – 2004 ★★★★★No ratings
- 199 There Is a Solution – Part 5 – Sandy B. – 2004 ★★★★★No ratings
- 200 Trembling Hands, Grounded from Flying, and the Marine Corps Made Me an Air Traffic Controller 🤦 – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 201 Until You Have This Experience, Higher Power Is Just a Three-Letter Word That Rhymes with Odd ★★★★★No ratings
- 202 Washington Society Ghosts and the AA Traditions – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 203 We Agnostics in a Psychiatric Ward, the Keys to the Kingdom – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 204 What’s in a Spiritual Toolbox? Power Tools — They Have to Be Plugged In 😆 ★★★★★No ratings
- 205 Why Being Wrong Is the Most Freeing Thing That Can Happen – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 206 Why Old Ideas Availed Him Nothing – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 207 Why Spirituality Is the Air in the Tires – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 208 Why Step 5 Ends the Anxious Apartness – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 209 Why Steps 5 Through 7 Are Really About Smashing the Story You Made Up – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 210 Why the 12 and 12 is Better Than the Big Book – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 211 Why the Fifth Step Is the Threshold of Awakening ★★★★★No ratings
- 212 Why the Ninth Step Ends the Hatred – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 213 Why the Point of Sobriety Is to Be Undisturbed – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 214 Why the Results Beat the Theory – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 215 Why the World Looks Different When You Stop Fighting – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 216 Why Your Plan for Living Sucks – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings
- 217 Without History There’s No Hope — Knowing Where AA Came From Is the Only Way to See Where It’s Going – Sandy B. ★★★★★No ratings