What is Reddit's opinion of Writing the Big Book: The Creation of A.A.?

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> Bill W. tripped on Belladonna and had a white light experience while at Townes under the care of Dr. Silkworth.

You might want to do a bit of research on the effects of belladonna and how it as used for detoxing from alcohol at the time. They are nothing like what he experienced. Strangely, no one else taking the treatment reported the type of experience he had nor did he experience it the first three times he went through the treatment.

> There was no equivalent to the steps at this time.

You're wrong there, also. The Oxford Group advocated practices that were similar to AA's 12 steps and from which they derived. A good source to learn exactly how the steps were hammered out can be found in William Schaberg's <em>Writing the Big Book</em> (2019). It's a long read, but worth it IMO.

> This nonsense that the founders were some kind of recovery ninjas who worked the steps in a few days is ridiculous.

Agree. It took years for them to figure out exactly what worked and what didn't, but the basic principle--one alcoholic helping another--was there from the beginning and has endured.