Gail Grynbaum, Ph.D.: “The 1961 Bill Wilson-Carl Jung Letters”

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  • Опубликовано: 1 янв 2025

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  • @sum2automation
    @sum2automation 7 лет назад +14

    Thanks for the historical context, It's truly been a life of miracles for me in the fellowship of AA and I'm forever grateful. The understanding of the Big Book and Bill W. growing up requirements in treating his own depression has touched me deeply.
    If your drinking yourself to death and want to stop. Please make the phone call for help, good sponsorship maybe hard to find at times, but don't Give Up. Your miracle maybe happening today.
    God bless the AA fellowship and them drunks that show us the way.

  • @garyfridland3140
    @garyfridland3140 Год назад +1

    This video is incredible!! Thank you for providing it, it's extremely inspiring.😊

  • @krisscanlon4051
    @krisscanlon4051 5 лет назад +6

    I love when my higher power steers me! I still get goose bumps when I think of Wilson Carl Jung Roland h and E Thatcher. Spiritually I'm trying to make the connection between all of this recovery work and my budding interest in Buddhism philosophy. I am new to the speaker but as always I will research her obsessively!

    • @peter-cj5fo
      @peter-cj5fo 3 месяца назад

      Jung and Wilson were tripping balls

  • @thirtythreeflavors
    @thirtythreeflavors 2 года назад +6

    Carl Jung and Bill W are like the spiritual yin and yang of each other. One analytical and one very much a more freethinker and it would be difficult to say which one was which. What a compliment they were to each other. Thank goodness for them!

    • @harydogers8929
      @harydogers8929 Год назад

      They have both worked together pretty well for me the past 27 years!

  • @uknowdisman
    @uknowdisman 2 года назад +3

    So thankful for meetings

  • @debg70525
    @debg70525 Год назад +1

    ❤ Ty...Dr. Gail ...Just found u on u tube!

  • @nancyparr759
    @nancyparr759 5 лет назад +3

    Wonderful presentation 🙏

  • @denniscannon769
    @denniscannon769 2 года назад +2

    Very well done- relevant, informative, soulful, and even witty as an unexpected bonus!

  • @loutcb
    @loutcb 7 лет назад +4

    AWESOME!!!!

  • @Holly-days
    @Holly-days 2 года назад +4

    I believe the Description for this YT video mischaracterizes Bill W’s “leaving” AA…. It is not at all evident that Bill W “left” AA. On the contrary, he turned over the reins of it to the fellowship which is where and how it has since thrived and grown worldwide to the benefit of so many more suffering human beings. This was no doubt Bill Wilson’s intent and dream. In my own view this was the natural and most responsible thing to do by a person who helped found this marvel-producing fellowship as he was then entering the final chapters of his own life. Bill W, along with his cofounder and early subjects as well as Jung, is owed an immeasurable debt of gratitude.

    • @grantlawrence611
      @grantlawrence611 11 месяцев назад +1

      I dont think she said Bill W left AA but that he allowed for his service in AA to be not as a leader or a type of poster child for AA. Instead, through the 12 traditions, he let the AA groups decide for them the best way to grow in sobriety along certain principles. Then Bill W could take a step back from being a Leader to a servant in AA.

  • @bobbycecere1037
    @bobbycecere1037 3 года назад +5

    I'm Researching the Oxford group & the foundations of Alcoholics Anonymous.
    It's fascinating stuff!
    I knew they relied heavily on Christian scripture but didn't know the group had it's own specific process which was later folded into what we call the twelve steps.....!
    Adding Carl Jung to the mix takes this up a notch🤯

    • @bobbycecere1037
      @bobbycecere1037 2 года назад

      @sparksofpassion
      If AA is a cult, a voluntary organization where anyone stop going anytime - where there's zero consequences for doing so, then everything's a cult.

    • @peter-cj5fo
      @peter-cj5fo 3 месяца назад

      Frank Buchman was a really mental fascist. Sorry interesting character

  • @extra2ab
    @extra2ab 3 года назад +1

    Thanks for this 🙏🙏🙏

  • @billylewis1086
    @billylewis1086 2 года назад

    Thank you. I've always loved these letters. Another thing I thought was interesting was the connection of Jung and Emanuel Swedenborg's writtings, Lois and Emanuel Swedenborg's writings, and William James's connection to Emanuel Swedenborg's writings.

  • @juliewillis9539
    @juliewillis9539 9 месяцев назад +2

    Hi. Im not a fan of A
    A But ive done my own research. The one thing i wanted to enlighten u on, is Bill Wilson took many psychodelic drugs during the writing of the Big Bok. Im so grateful we have real therapists who can help with real depressive disorders.

    • @words4dyslexicon
      @words4dyslexicon 7 месяцев назад

      & lets not forget that Wilson also helped that guy who crashed on a deserted island & finally made it back to civilization, think they made a movie about that..

  • @remurraymd
    @remurraymd 3 года назад +3

    Actually William James "Varieties of Religious Experience" pre-dated Jung and was the Big Book for the AAs that wrote the Big Book. Published in 1902. James educated Jung and Freud on functional psychology and the spiritual solution at the Clark Conference in 1909 though Jung certainly expanded the importance of the spiritual solution and was much more receptive than Freud leading to their subsequent schism in psychoanalysis..

    • @shipaskof8371
      @shipaskof8371 2 года назад

      Not quite correct. The Good Book as Snyder called it , ie Bible, was where, Wilson Dr Bob, Clarence Snyder, Bobs sponsee went for guidance and the Oxford Group who were promoting certain christian principle n beliefs. William James was also very influential

    • @remurraymd
      @remurraymd 2 года назад

      @@shipaskof8371 No listen
      to #JiimBurwell talk who was there. #1 reference book was the James Book who predated Jung. James book is cited
      in the Big Book (Spirituality) not Jung.

    • @obliooberon3679
      @obliooberon3679 10 месяцев назад

      Jung writes in his letters he spent two nights with James...James did not educate Jung ,sharing his ideas ,Jung found them interesting.

    • @obliooberon3679
      @obliooberon3679 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@shipaskof8371 before Clarence Schneider there is no valid citations only rationalizations that there were such thing as sponsor ever . Closest to sponsor was that someone had to voucher for admissions with sister agnasia . Before Schneider there is no mention of sponsor ,since then, sponsorship has been rationalizations and institutionalized narratives. AKA not true . Rationalized dogma became the institutionalized narratives !

    • @peter-cj5fo
      @peter-cj5fo 3 месяца назад

      Freud was a straight coke man. About as Spiritual as any mad bastard coming out a cubicle with white nostrils in a night club..... Jung was an LSD red vino man.. Mad as a hatter but more interesting to listen to than someone on cocaine. Bill W used LSD often between mid 50's and 60's.... But abstinence is the only way in Aa 😂😂

  • @seanp.5420
    @seanp.5420 3 года назад +2

    We learn from the ELDERS 🙏

  • @gabrielcastro2936
    @gabrielcastro2936 6 лет назад +1

    Colud I have video sound, please.

  • @Createanextraordinarylife
    @Createanextraordinarylife 2 года назад +2

    who's making the background noice banging dishes

  • @brendafraserGalaforce
    @brendafraserGalaforce 3 месяца назад

    I think Father Ed Dowling helped Bill Wilson a lot with his spiritual path - more than anyone else in my opinion- their friendship dates back to 1940

  • @brendafraserGalaforce
    @brendafraserGalaforce 3 месяца назад

    Read the new biography called Father Ed by Dawn Goldstein

  • @harydogers8929
    @harydogers8929 Год назад +1

    Is it really that difficult to admit that there's something in the universe bigger than you?

  • @Todd-kt9ff
    @Todd-kt9ff Год назад

    See, all you gotta do is become a brain surgeon, then climb mount Everest naked and you're all set 👍🙄

  • @albarosolis5969
    @albarosolis5969 2 года назад +5

    Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior is the truth and he will set you free

  • @peter-cj5fo
    @peter-cj5fo 3 месяца назад

    LSD ...... ❤

  • @michaelserrano4412
    @michaelserrano4412 Год назад

    Realm of hungry ghosts

    • @obliooberon3679
      @obliooberon3679 10 месяцев назад

      "warped lives of innocent children " big book aa

    • @BradleyBuiltWoodcraft
      @BradleyBuiltWoodcraft 6 месяцев назад

      That concept from Hinduism sounds scarier than any Christian hell could ever be

  • @Createanextraordinarylife
    @Createanextraordinarylife 2 года назад +1

    amazing his depression stopped when he handed ove AA need sit with that

    • @tim6385
      @tim6385 Год назад +1

      Finally someone who actually got that point. Until he gave it back to the members, he was so consumed it likely led and fueled his depression. What a fascinating concept. To me it sounds like AA got so out of hand in it's own growth that even Bill W. couldn't keep up with it. Personally, I had to give it up also as I have reason to believe it was doing the same to me. I felt a relief from it all which is ironic when considering the program was designed to help people, not necessarily trap them. Bill released himself from the bondage of AA early on. Maybe more should take a step back and look at that. And as you stated, let that sit for a while. Let THAT sink in. 😊

  • @dwilliams42170
    @dwilliams42170 Год назад

    AA. Ugh.

  • @keithj6251
    @keithj6251 Год назад +2

    AA is BS