> Dr Earle and his search for serenity in Asia.
> Dr Earle's efforts at meditation practices.
> http://silkworth. net/aabiography/ earlem.html
> Dr. Earle M., San Francisco Bay Area, CA.
> (p. 393 in 2nd edition, p. 345 in 3rd
> edition, p. 301 in the 4th edition.)
> "During his first year in A.A. he went to New
> in person. He frequently visited Bill at his
> home, Stepping Stones. He called Bill one
> topic they did not discuss in detail. He took
> a Fifth Step with Bill. And Bill often talked
From: Shakey1aa@aol.com . . . . . . . . . . . . 3/9/2009 6:34:00 PM
Houston: Page 80 AACOA (the dynamite man).
1961. The gentleman I purchased it from told
me he got it in Houston.
is displayed.
Thank You,
From: priscilla_semmens . . . . . . . . . . . . 3/9/2009 10:37:00 PM
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The first prison AA Group, we are told, was
formed at San Quentin.
it formed? etc.
From: bob gordon . . . . . . . . . . . . 3/10/2009 3:40:00 AM
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Here's the relevant part of Fosdick's review:
The core of their whole procedure is religious.
than himself. Let it be said at once that there
religious experience. Agnostics and atheists,
Greater Than Themselves. "WHO ARE YOU TO SAY
his condition. Nowhere is the tolerance and
depended.
found by their participants. By religion they
have been a strident and harrowing tale.
wrote:
> Thank you for this, it has long been my
> belief that Bill W's spirituality is best
> defined as New Age Spirituality, rather than
> fundamentalist Christian spirituality.
>
> This information helps to confirm my
> suspicions that Bill was actually very
> eclectic in his approach to spirituality
> and might even been seen as a heretic by
> more traditional religious sects and
> denominations.
>
> Sincerely, Jim F.
>
> - - - -
>
> From the moderator: and along this same
> line, one of the first prominent Protestant
> theologians to give approval to the new
> A.A. movement was HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK,
> the author of the famous anti-fundamentalist
> sermon "SHALL THE FUNDAMENTALISTS WIN?"
>
> Pass It On page 201: "Dr. Harry Emerson
> Fosdick, the highly respected minister of
> the Riverside Church, warmly approved an
> advance copy [of the Big Book] and promised
> to review the book when it was published."
>
> Harry Emerson Fosdick from Wikipedia:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Emerson_Fosdick
>
> Fosdick was the most prominent liberal ...
> minister of the early 20th Century ....
> Fosdick became a central figure in the
> conflict between fundamentalist and liberal
> forces within American Protestantism in the
> 1920s and 1930s. While at First Presbyterian
> Church, on May 21, 1922, he delivered his
> famous sermon “Shall the Fundamentalists Win?”
> in which he defended the modernist position.
> In that sermon, he presented the Bible as a
> record of the unfolding of God’s will, not as
> the literal Word of God. He saw the history
> of Christianity as one of development,
> progress, and gradual change. To the
> fundamentalists, this was rank apostasy,
> and the battle lines were drawn.
>
> The General Assembly of the Presbyterian
> Church, U.S.A. (Northern) in 1923 charged his
> local presbytery to conduct an investigation
> of his views .... Fosdick escaped probable
> censure at a formal trial by the 1924 General
> Assembly by resigning from the pulpit in 1924.
> He was immediately hired as pastor of a Baptist
> church whose most famous member was John D.
> Rockefeller, Jr., who then funded the Riverside
> Church in Manhattan's Morningside Heights area
> overlooking the Hudson River, where Fosdick
> became pastor as soon as the doors opened in
> October 1930.
>
> Rockefeller had funded the nation-wide
> distribution of "Shall the Fundamentalists Win?"
> although with a more cautious title, "The New
> Knowledge and the Christian Faith."
>
> [Fosdick] is also the author of the hymn,
> "God of Grace and God of Glory."
>
> Fosdick's book A Guide to Understanding the
> Bible traces the beliefs of the people who
> wrote the Bible, from the ancient beliefs of
> the Hebrews, which he regarded as practically
> pagan, to the faith and hopes of the New
> Testament writers.
>
> His brother, Raymond Fosdick, was essentially
> in charge of philanthropy for John D. Rockefeller,
> Jr.
>
> Fosdick reviewed the first edition of
> Alcoholics Anonymous in 1939, giving it
> his approval.
>
> - - - -
>
> Harry Emerson Fosdick’s famous
> anti-fundamentalist sermon (1922):
>
> "SHALL THE FUNDAMENTALISTS WIN?"
>
> Full text of the sermon given at
> http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5070/
>
> - - - -
>
>
> --- On Thu, 3/5/09, mdingle76
>
> wrote:
>
> From: mdingle76 >
> Subject: [AAHistoryLovers] Re: Bill Wilson's meditation practices and
> guided meditation
> To: AAHistoryLovers@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Thursday, March 5, 2009, 3:59 PM
>
>
> One man who influenced Bill Wilson greatly was
> Gerald Heard. Gerald was the man who introduced
> Bill to Aldous Huxley. I suspect that Gene
> Exman (the religious editor over at Harper
> that Bill visited with the first 2 chapters
> of the Big Book)introduced Bill to Gerald.
>
> Anyway, Bill (and Lois) first visited Heard on
> a trip to California in 1941. Heard had been
> practicing yoga and earnestly studying the
> Scriptures of many of the world's great
> religions. Heard wrote many books on the
> subject of God, religion and also UFO's (a
> subject that Bill was very interested in and
> would talk to Heard about at lengths). One of
> Heard's books even made it into Dr. Bob's
> library — "A Preface to Prayer."
>
> Tom Powers often said that Heard was one of
> Bill's sponsors. Heard was particularly
> influenced by Sri Ramakrishna and Heard
> donated his Monastery, Trabucco Canyon, to
> the Vedanta Society of Southern California,
> to be run by Swami Prabhavananda.
>
> You can also read Gerald Heard's article in the
> AA Grapevine called "The Search for Ecstasy."
> He also wrote articles about AA published in
> sources outside the Grapevine.
>
> Gerald (and Dr. Cohen) oversaw the LSD
> sessions that both Tom and Bill experienced.
> (It was Tom and Bill who were sent to
> California on AA Headquarters business to
> get AA out on the big screen — a story for
> a different day.)
>
> Matt D.
>
> ____________ _________ _________
>
> FROM THE MODERATOR: WIKIPEDIA SAYS
>
> http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Gerald_Heard
>
> "Henry Fitzgerald Heard commonly called Gerald
> Heard (October 6, 1889 - August 14, 1971) was
> a historian, science writer, educator, and
> philosopher. He wrote many articles and over
> 35 books. Heard was a guide and mentor to
> numerous well-known Americans, including
> Clare Boothe Luce and Bill Wilson, co-founder
> of Alcoholics Anonymous, in the 1950s and
> 1960s."
>
> - - - -
>
> Message 5228 from ArtSheehan@msn. com
> (ArtSheehan at msn.com)
>
> British radio commentator Gerald Heard
> introduced Bill W to Aldous Huxley and
> British psychiatrists Humphrey Osmond and
> Abram Hoffer.
>
> Bill joined with Heard and Huxley and first
> took LSD in California on August 29, 1956.
>
> Among those invited to experiment with LSD
> (and who accepted) were Nell Wing, Father
> Ed Dowling, Sam Shoemaker and Lois Wilson.
> Marty M and other AA members participated in
> New York (under medical supervision by a
> psychiatrist from Roosevelt Hospital).
>
> - - - -
>
> Message 4806 from jlobdell54@hotmail. com
> (jlobdell54 at hotmail.com)
>
> I have recently seen on a couple of AA-related
> history sites a statement that H. F. Heard was
> a pen-name for Aldous Huxley.
>
> In fact H. F. Heard was Henry FitzGerald Heard
> (1889-1971) who also wrote as Gerald Heard.
>
> He was a friend of Aldous Huxley (and of Bill
> Wilson) but he certainly was not Aldous
> Huxley.
> ____________ _________ _________
>
> MATT D. IS RESPONDING TO MESSAGE 5559 from
> (Baileygc23 at aol.com)
>
> > Bill W and his long time problems with
> > depression and other things brings to mind his
> > interactions with Dr Earle and Dr Earle's
> > comments on their relationship, plus
> > Dr Earle and his search for serenity in Asia.
> >
> > Since Dr Earle's attempt to find solace in
> > Eastern ideas had Bill W's interest, it could
> > add another aspect to Bill W as well as
> > Dr Earle's efforts at meditation practices.
> >
> > George
> >
> > - - - -
> >
> > From the moderator, for more about
> > Dr. Earle M., whom George refers to, see:
> >
> > http://silkworth. net/aabiography/ earlem.html
> >
> > Biography: "Physician Heal Thyself!"
> > Dr. Earle M., San Francisco Bay Area, CA.
> > (p. 393 in 2nd edition, p. 345 in 3rd
> > edition, p. 301 in the 4th edition.)
> >
> > "During his first year in A.A. he went to New
> > York and met Bill W. They became very close
> > and talked frequently both on the phone and
> > in person. He frequently visited Bill at his
> > home, Stepping Stones. He called Bill one
> > of his sponsors, and said there was hardly a
> > topic they did not discuss in detail. He took
> > a Fifth Step with Bill. And Bill often talked
> > over his depressions with Earle."
> >
> > "In a search for serenity Earle studied and
> > practiced many forms of religion: Hinduism,
> > Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, and ancestor
> > worship."
> >
> > GFC
> >
>
>
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++++Message 5574. . . . . . . . . . . . RE: Icky the Dynamite man
From: Arthur S . . . . . . . . . . . . 3/10/2009 11:26:00 AM
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Hey Mike
E. D. "Icky" Sheridan was the Panel 1 Delegate
from the Houston, Texas Area in 1951 (he
resided at 5020 Griggs Rd) and served on the
Conference Agenda Committee.
Icky later moved to Dallas, Texas (he resided
at 4569 Lorraine Ave) and became the first
Class B Trustee from Texas serving from 1955
to 1959. He replaced Earl Treat and was
designated as "Second V.P." Records from GSO
report him as passing away on 9/23/1963. I
can't pin down the date/year when he moved
from Houston to Dallas.
The 1957 final Conference report noted that:
"Delegates from Oregon, Northern Minnesota,
Quebec (Canada), Northeast Texas and South
Florida participated in a provocative panel
session on Clubhouses under the chairmanship
of Icky S, a member of the Board of Trustees.
Emphasizing the importance of separating the
functions of clubs and groups, Icky summed up
the general feeling of the participants by
declaring that, in AA, when you put your heart
rather than your brains into a project, "You
can go a long, long, way."
In 1958 Icky was elected as Vice Chairman of
the General Service Board. The 1958 final
Conference report contained a "GSO Policy
Committee" report written by Icky who also
served then as chairman of the committee.
Icky is discussed by Bill W on page 80 in
AA Comes of Age:
"When I think of explosions I always think of
my friend Icky. Down in Houston, Texas, they
call him the "Dynamite Man." Icky is an expert
on explosives, on demolition. He was in the
rear of the Russian retreat blowing up bridges
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