Saturday spiritualism sessions with A.A. co-founder Bill Wilson

In PASS IT ON, A.A.’s official biography of Bill Wilson, Lois Wilson recounts some of her husband’s experiences of 1941. Saturday was generally the scheduled day for these psychic adventures. “Bill would lie down on the couch. He would ‘get’ these things. He kept doing it every week or so. Each time, certain people would ‘come in.’ Sometimes, it would be new ones, and they’d carry on some story.”[1]

So, “every week or so,” Wilson would open himself to this entity (or entities), and “certain people would ‘come in.’” Today this is known as channeling.

For Bill Wilson, unsaved and in bondage to familiar spirits, the Bible was not understood as the holy Word of God. No doubt he considered it valuable, but he did not live by it or obey it. He didn’t know Christ as Savior. This is why he had so many adulterous affairs, even though his own wife had remained steadfast and loyal for many years. This is why he invited unclean spirits to enter into him.

Source Notes:

1. PASS IT ON, Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc., pg. 278-79
2. Susan Cheever, My Name is Bill: Bill Wilson : His Life and the Creation of Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 205
3. Ibid., p. 207