"In a 1961 letter to Swiss-German psychoanalyst
Dr. Carl Jung, Bill expresses his gratitude for Jung's long-ago message
to Rowland G., who was treated by Jung and who would later lead friend
Ebby T. to the Oxford Group. Bill wrote, "You frankly told [Rowland] of
the hopelessness of further medical or psychiatric treatment," [and also
of the possibility of] "a spiritual awakening or religious experience -
in short, a genuine conversion."
Bill described these statements as "beyond doubt the first foundation
stone upon which [A.A.] has been built." Jung responds with a gracious
letter confirming that the most appropriate antidote to
alcoholism is spirituality, which is emphasized in the Twelve Steps."
(AAWS Inc)
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