New Wine: The Spiritual Roots Of The Twelve Step Miracle by Mel B.

By Mel B.

This compelling retrospective brings jointly the cultural currents of the past due nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, vividly displaying the affects of Carl Jung, the Oxford crew, Emmet Fox, old-time and smooth faith, and extra. A revealing portrait of A.A.'s distillation of a "new wine of the spirit."

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This was, in fact, one of the subjects that had helped bring about his estrangement from Freud in 1913 following a close friendship that had begun six years earlier with Jung as Freud's devoted disciple. Jung also deplored the practice of uncovering deep emotional problems without offering the patient much more than his own bootstrap efforts in overcoming them. In a book published in 1933, Jung could have been speaking of the plight of alcoholics when he wrote: "It is well known that Freudian psychoanalysis is limited to the task of making conscious the shadow-side and the evil within us.

And if sobriety had not found its way to Bill Wilson, it's hard to see how there could have been an AA movement as we know it today. Anybody who has studied the early development of AA must acknowledge Wilson's key role as indispensable, although others certainly made important contributions. Imagining AA without Bill Wilson is like thinking of Stradivarius violins without Stradivarius. It was also fortunate that Rowland sought help directly from Carl Jung, and not one of the other great psychiatrists he might have consulted in Europe in 1931.

Wilson: Your letter has been very welcome indeed. I had no news from Rowland H. any more and often wondered what has been his fate. Our conversation which he has adequately reported to you had an aspect of which he did not know. The reason that I could not tell him everything was that those days I had to be exceedingly careful of what I said. I had found out that I was misunderstood in every possible way. Thus I was very careful when I talked to Rowland H. But what I really thought about, was the result of many experiences with men of his kind.

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