A.A. co-founder: Okay to have A.A. group as your “higher power”

Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder Bill Wilson “felt that no one should have to believe in any particular faith or dogma; that each member was entitled to a personal interpretation of the words ‘God as we understand Him,’ including the concept of the group as a ‘Higher Power.’”

So writes Pulitzer Prize winning writer (and A.A. member) Nan Robertson, author of Getting Better:Inside Alcoholics Anonymous. (pg.124)

According to the Word of God, For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe is judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. (John 3:16-18)

Robertson further notes Bill Wilson’s “own life was filled with religious and spiritual ambiguity and consumed by the search–never again rewarded–for the exalting and transforming ecstasy he had experienced in 1934. Almost to the end, he engaged in serious experiments with spiritualism, hallucinatory drugs such as LSD, and megavitamin doses of niacin.” (pg.124) (Bold and Italics mine)

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