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Letters and Links: Carl Jung to Bill W. and Alcoholics Anonymous [Bonus 8]

Letters and Links: Carl Jung to Bill W. and Alcoholics Anonymous [Bonus 8]

BonusReleased Tuesday, 4th August 2020
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Letters and Links: Carl Jung to Bill W. and Alcoholics Anonymous [Bonus 8]

Letters and Links: Carl Jung to Bill W. and Alcoholics Anonymous [Bonus 8]

Letters and Links: Carl Jung to Bill W. and Alcoholics Anonymous [Bonus 8]

Letters and Links: Carl Jung to Bill W. and Alcoholics Anonymous [Bonus 8]

BonusTuesday, 4th August 2020
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The Links in the Chain that led to A.A. - From one conversation in Zurich, between Carl Jung and his 'hopeless' patient... through the Oxford Group and on... to a trip to Vermont in 1935... then Ebby's line: 'I don't need a drink; I got religion"... to Bill Wilson and next, in Akron, came Dr. Bob Smith... and the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.)... and then, on to every other 12-Step program there is, including those for "General Neurotics", like me. Carl Jung and Bill Wilson admired, and were inspired by, one another; their correspondence (dated Jan. 1961 - March 1961) prove this to be a fact. But, the letters between these epic pen-pals also illuminate a series of serendipitous links in an almost contagious chain that gives one pause.

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