8. Joe and Charlie Big Book Workshop Bill W Story Pt
J & C Bill was surprised to find out that Dr. Bob was already in the Oxford Groups. He knew more about the solution, the spiritual experience and the program of action, than Bill knew, but he had never been able to apply it to the depth necessary to recover, because he didn’t know what was wrong with him. You see, he thought it was willpower. He thought it was moral character. He thought it was sin. Why would he not, that’s what everybody had told him up until that time? And what really interested him was the message that Bill had to carry regarding the problem, not the solution, not the program of action, but what alcoholism really consists of. Big Book, p. xvi, par. 3 “But when the broker gave him Dr. Silkworth’s description of alcoholism and it's hopelessness, the physician began to pursue the spiritual remedy for his malady with a willingness he had never before been able to muster. He sobered, never to drink again up until the to the moment of his death in 1950.” J & C Bill went in there this time, for the first time he began to talk to Dr. Bob about the allergy of alcoholism. He told him that every time that he would go down by the bar and had every intention to have a drink or two, he would drink more than he intended to, he’d drink more that night or the next day and he’d be off and running again. And he said this Dr. Silkworth had told him that that was a physical allergy that caused him to want to crave more drinks after he took a drink and Dr. Bob said well yes I drink just like that, you really know what your talking about, that’s the way I drink too. I would want to have one or two drinks, the next thing I know is I’d drink three, four, five, ten, or fifteen or twenty and didn’t know how I got started. He said, you call that a physical allergy that? He said that’s right. And he said, another thing he said, when I’m not drinking when I’m sober, I have these thoughts that I want to drink all the time, it's always on my mind, and Dr. Silkworth said, that’s the obsession of the mind that would obsess for the idea to drink. And Dr. Bob said, well I have those same kinds of thoughts; you really know what you’re talking about. So they reached a rapport through the illness of alcoholism. And he explained it at great detail, and Dr. Bob said that’s me, that’s just the way I drank. You really know what you’re talking about. So they had some identification going. Now this is the first time that Bill had tried this. Everybody back in New York City, he’d always talked to them about the solution: the great spiritual experience, the big white flash he’d had in the Towns Hospital. When he sat down with Dr. Bob, he didn’t talk to Dr. Bob at all about Dr. Bob’s drinking either. I’m sure that’s what Dr. Bob expected to hear. Everybody else had talked to him about his drinking, but Bill said, let me tell you about my drinking. And through the sharing of his story, talking about his o
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