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~ As Bill Sees It: Hope Born From Hopelessness ~
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P. 217

Letter to Dr. Carl Jung:

"Most conversion experiences, whatever their variety, do have a common denominator of ego collapse at depth.  The individual faces an impossible dilemma.

"In my case the dilemma had been created by my compulsive drinking, and the deep feeling of hopelessness had been vastly deepened by my doctor.  It was deepened still more by my alcoholic friend when he acquainted me with your verdict of hopelessness respecting Rowland H.

"In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics.  If each sufferer were to carry the news of the scientific hopelessness of alcoholism to each new prospect, he might be able to lay every newcomer wide open to a transforming spiritual experience.  This concept proved to be the foundation of such success as A.A. has since achieved."

GRAPEVINE, JANUARY 1963

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