035 - AA History with Dick B.: Part 7

03/07/07 This is the last in series of interviews with AA historian Dick B. Having suffered from depression well into the fifties, Dick says that Bill Wilson began to venture into the worlds of spiritualism and psychedelic drug use including LSD. As Dick's story winds up, Doctor Bob agrees to the incorporation of the 12 Traditions into the fabric of Alcoholics Anonymous for among other reasons to assure the ongoing work of AA after Bill and Bob were gone. Dick talks more about the original tenets of the Oxford Group and the Akron group and how they have evolved though various revisions to become what AA is today and he talks about his feeling that the Biblical roots of AA have been watered down to appeal to a larger audience. DICK B. BOOKS.