June 15, 2024
Dear Bill,
I hope you are well. I am also well.
I believe that the entire existence, including the physical world and other interconnected worlds, is maintained by three interacting components: light, sound, and sensation.
In fact, light commands in existence, and without light, life as we know it would not be possible. We see through light and hear through sound, and sensation is the parameter that allows us to perceive the created world.
Therefore, any image belongs to the category of light, just as books and all writings belong to this category, and music belongs to the category of sound. Sensation is the first force that activates the faculty of reason, which is related to knowledge, wisdom, and experience.
This is why I included music in the educational programs of Congress 60 from the very beginning. Of course, various songs have also been composed by my son Amin, who has the necessary knowledge of music, including the Congress 60 anthem.
This anthem is sung once a week by all members in the educational workshops for travelers and companions in all Congress 60 groups. Of course, when singing the Congress 60 anthem, everyone stands up and sings it collectively with respect.
I will send you a video of one of the sessions, and I will ask Ehsan to translate the poem.
Similarly, songs have been composed for other parts of Congress 60, as well as poems related to that topic. Since the music group is under Amin's supervision, currently more than 200 members of Congress 60, including travelers and companions, are being trained. I have asked the best music teachers outside of Congress 60 to teach the members of Congress 60 for a fee.
On weekends, I go to the farm and spend most of my time pruning trees. Last year, we planted over 500 grapevines, and this year, we are busy pruning them and other trees. Of course, we have also converted the trees' irrigation to drip irrigation. I hope to send you pictures of the harvest.
As for the collaboration on our article, fortunately, we have all the details broken down by age, gender, marital status, place of residence, city name, employment status, education, age of first use, years of substance abuse, arrests, etc. We also have other information that exists both in the travelers' and companions’ sections.
We also have information about one year after treatment and follow-ups, urine tests for 14 days, 6 months, and one year after treatment. Every year all statistics and figures are published separately and we are currently developing a computer system called the Portal program in Congress 60 in which all the people's information is recorded and can be made available to specialists. It is difficult for me to explain this in detail. Starting today, I will ask the relevant departments to translate the new entrant questionnaire form for travelers and companions, which is filled out upon entering Congress 60, into English. We will also translate the Persian questionnaires into English and make them available to you. We will also translate the statistical tables and diagrams for at least the last 5 years.
In any case, I think that in the first step, we should translate the forms and questionnaires of new entrants, treatment follow-ups, and statistics and figures and provide them to you so that you can plan after seeing them and inform me of any shortcomings in each section so that I can collect the information.
Fortunately, from the very first day of Congress 60, I have been documenting all the information in writing, with dates and descriptions of all the details. As you may remember, in NA group meetings, there is a secretary who is fixed for a while and a leader who changes each meeting.
In Congress 60, I have named the secretary "guardian" and the leader "master" and I have added another person to manage the meeting, whom I have named "secretary".
The secretary's job is to write a detailed report of the meeting. The secretary is also responsible for transcribing all reports into a special notebook and, after completing his or her 14-week term, handing over the report book to the branch border guard.
At the beginning of each meeting, the secretary should read a summary of the previous meeting's report in 5 minutes.
All the secretaries' notebooks for the past 25 years or so from all the meetings in the different branches are preserved and kept, which is actually the history of Congress 60, for future generations to use for research.
In addition, we have a watchman in Congress 60 who is the inspector of statistics and figures and is responsible for collecting and maintaining the statistics of the entire Congress 60.
You may be interested to know that in my weekly speech, I asked all members of Congress 60 to equip their mobile phones with artificial intelligence and that everyone should learn how to work with artificial intelligence so that we do not have problems in the future.
I have always enjoyed working with you and learned a lot, and I am confident that by providing you with information, statistics, and figures, we can publish important and practical articles. I always agree with your thoughts and suggestions.
In addition, work on animal models and other research is progressing rapidly.
I send my warmest greetings to your family, especially Mrs. Rita.
Always be steadfast like the mountains.
Friends and brothers on heaven and earth forever
Hossein