Step 3 Begins When You Stop Thinking and Start Doing – Ken D.
About This Speaker Tape
Brooklyn, 1940s. A kid in knickers with rubber bands cutting off the circulation to his legs, stomping to get the blood flowing. Ken D. doesn't remember much of his drinking—he was an active alcoholic who drank stuff that didn't just hit the spot, it removed it. He describes himself as "mangled," a producer of chaos who lived in a state of delusion where the hamster was dead but the wheel was still turning.
He recalls a "12-step call" that ended with him beating a man with a garbage can lid, a first spiritual experience for the recipient. For Ken, the spiritual malady is the refusal to live in the present tense. He views the alcoholic as a "hole in the doughnut," the only part that connects to the infinite. He warns against the "king" of thinking, urging newcomers to be a verb rather than a noun. By abandoning the image of who they are and trusting a Higher Power, he argues, they can finally stop fishing for minnows while standing on a whale.
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