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Complete chapter — Bill Wilson's autobiographical account
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From Alcoholics Anonymous — 1955 Second Edition by Wilson, Bill & Smith, Dr. Bob
Bill Wilson's personal account of his descent into alcoholism, his visit from his friend Ebby Thacher, his hospital spiritual experience at Towns Hospital, and the birth of the ideas that became Alcoholics Anonymous. It is the foundational personal narrative of AA.
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Bill's hopelessness and Dr. Silkworth's verdict
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Ebby Thacher visits Bill and shares his own recovery through the Oxford Group
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'Why don't you choose your own conception of God?' — the breakthrough moment
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Bill's spiritual experience at Towns Hospital — the white light experience
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Bill's vision of alcoholics helping alcoholics — a chain reaction
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'Faith without works was dead' — Bill's commitment to carry the message
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