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Having successfully gone through installing WebSphere and creating Base WepSphere profiles using Urbancode Deploy (UCD), the next logical step is to use the profile in some way. Here's where the Application Deployment for WebSphere plug-in comes in. There are a bunch of steps in this plug-in that help with a whole range of WebSphere tasks.
After creating generic UCD processes to first install WebSphere and then create standalone (Base) WebSphere profiles, I wanted to turn my attention to applying the second process to WebSphere ND. I'd already written about creating a clustered CLM setup using the command line in my old post Clusters of CLM applications without a GUI so this should have been pretty simple. It occurred to me that the steps in both the processes from the last two posts could actually be steps in a UCD plug-in, just like the Application Deployment for WebSphere plug-in. Of course I've never written an UCD plug-in before and my experiences with writing RTC extensions had left me with the distinct feeling that this kind of thing was not for mere mortals like me. This was the domain of gurus and gods like Ralph Schoon. However, the thought had been planted in my head and, like in Inception, I could not help but follow it through.
Following up my last post, I describe a simple sample UCD process that helps with automating the creation of Base WebSphere profiles. I hope to attack setting up WebSphere ND infrastructure at some later time. As with the previous post the intent is not to create a "perfect" process but one that gets the job done while exploring some other aspects of UCD.
I seem to gravitate to WebSphere like a moth to a flame. I just finished co-authoring a couple of CLM Deployment Wiki topics (Configuring enterprise CLM reverse proxies: WebSphere 8.5 ND Proxy & CLM deployment automation for WAS – departmental topology) both with my co-conspirator Indradri Basu. Incidentally Indradri was also my sounding board for Clusters of CLM applications without a GUI.
So I guess it was natural that while figuring out some of UCD's features, I looked at automating the WebSphere Install process.
It's an IBMIM world. Or becoming one. Resistance is futile. Urbancode Release (UCR for short) is no exception. The new release uses IBM Installation manager, which of course I know and love from doing oodles of CLM and WAS 8.x installations (not to mention a dark past with other Rational tools:-). I suppose this made me somewhat gung-ho when installing UCR on a test Windows 2008 R2 64-bit server and promptly came unstuck.
In my last post I covered using Microsoft Active Directory as an LDAP provider for Urbancode Deploy (UCD). At the end of that process the new users I had added couldn't do anything except log in. To allow those users to be productive we need to configure the teams, roles, types (if needed) and permissions. I also wrote that I had to read the Infocenter topic a few times and work through some examples to get the hang of how these concepts relate and are used.


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The Other Women
This is a faithful saying: if a man desires the position of a bishop, he desires a good work.
2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, temperate, soberminded, of good behavior, hospitable, able to teach;
3 Not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous...
8 Likewise deacons must be reverent, not double-tongued, not given much to wine, not greedy for money,
9 Holding the mystery of the faith with a pure conscience.
10 But let these also first be tested; then let them serve as deacons, being found blameless. ...
12 Let deacons be the husbands of one wife...
1 Timothy 3:1 to 3:12
Ordinarily, I could hardly care less what a man does with his women friends, or whether he has a mistress as well as a wife. There are millions of men who are cheating on their wives, and I'm not going to say a thing about them. But when a group holds a man up as an example of how to live a spiritual life, and even claims that the man is some kind of a saint and a prophet, a man who wrote divinely-inspired books while being "guided by God", but who turns out to be a hypocritical thieving lying philanderer, then I think we can safely cancel his application for sainthood. And I believe that it casts a lot of doubts on his religious teachings.
Bill Wilson cheated on his wife Lois with many different women, both before and after sobriety. He even cheated on her while she worked in Loesser's department store to support him. "I'm going to a meeting" was often a double-entendre when Bill Wilson said it. Bill actually invented the old A.A. tradition of Thirteenth Stepping the pretty women who come to A.A. meetings seeking help for alcoholism. (First you teach them the Twelve Steps, and then you take them to the bedroom and teach them the Thirteenth Step....)
Even worse, Bill Wilson's treatment of his wife Lois can only be described as "cold, cruel, vindictive, and heartless".
Tom Powers helped Bill Wilson to write Bill's second book, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions. Francis Hartigan, who was Lois Wilson's private secretary and confidant, recently wrote a biography of Bill Wilson. For it, Hartigan interviewed Tom Powers, and quoted Tom as saying that he had urged Bill to quit his smoking and womanizing:
"All the while we were working on the 'Twelve and Twelve'," Tom said, "I would argue with him, 'you're killing yourself. And think about what you're doing to Lois!'"
While other people I spoke with insisted that Lois never knew about Bill's affairs, Tom insisted that "Lois knew everything and she didn't have to guess about it, either. A lot of people tried to protect her, but there were others who would run to Stepping Stones to tell Lois all about it whenever they saw Bill with another woman.
I asked Tom how Bill reacted when Tom would insist that Bill's guilt over his infidelities was responsible for his depressions.
"I think that was the worst part of it," he said. "Bill would always agree with me. 'I know,' he'd say. 'You're right.' Then, just when I would think we were finally getting somewhere, he would say, 'But I can't give it up.'
"When I would press him as to why the hell not, he would start rationalizing. What would really kill me is when he'd say, 'Well, you know, Lois has always been more like a mother to me.' Which somehow was supposed to make it all right for him to cheat on her."
Tom himself had also been sexually compulsive even after he quit drinking, and he found it very hard to change his behavior. ...
Tom said that it took him five years after he quit drinking to change his behavior in this area, and for five years after that, he tried to get Bill to change, too. "Besides what he was doing to the women he was chasing and to Lois, his behavior was a huge source of controversy in AA," Tom said. "He could be very blatant about it, and there were times when it seemed like the reaction to a particularly flagrant episode would end up destroying everything he had worked for. But then people would scurry around and smooth things over, or cover it all up."
According to Tom, Bill's behavior caused some of his most ardent admirers to break with him. Eventually, Tom broke with Bill, too.
"I told him that I still considered him to be my sponsor, but that I didn't want to work with him anymore. I said that I hoped we could be friends, but I didn't want to have anything more to do with him publicly. I just couldn't go on feeling as though I was in any way supporting what he was doing to Lois — and to himself.
"Bill said, 'Fine. I feel the same way about you, too,' and we shook on it. As though it were some mutually agreed upon parting of the way, with fault on both sides. Which was a real switcheroo, you know. I think he knew that I saw right through it, but I guess it made him feel better not to have to take responsibility for destroying what had been a very enjoyable and productive working relationship."
Bill W., A Biography of Alcoholics Anonymous Co-Founder Bill Wilson, Francis Hartigan, 2000, pages 171-172.
Contrast Bill's little "switcheroo" stunt there with his grandiose proclamation on page 58 of the Big Book that A.A. members must "grasp and develop a manner of living which demands rigorous honesty." Apparently, Bill felt that it was just the other people who needed to be rigorously honest.
Tom Powers found Bill Wilson's behavior to be so objectionable and disgusting that he quit Alcoholics Anonymous and went off and started his own recovery program in Hankins, New York.2 Powers said, "This sex thing ran through the whole business. It wasn't just an episode."3
Bill and Lois in Paris, in 1950.
(That is the woman whom Bill ignored because she was too much "like a mother".)
Bill Wilson taught that he was "powerless" over every urge or craving he ever had, no matter whether it was a thirst for alcohol, cravings for cigarettes, greed for money, the desire for self-aggrandizement, the temptation to lie, or the urge to cheat on his wife Lois by having sex with all of the pretty young women who came to the meetings. That's an interesting excuse for cheating on your wife, one of the more novel ones, but it doesn't wash.
Notice how such an "Admission of Powerlessness" is really just a veiled excuse to continue such behavior: "I can't quit jumping on all of the pretty young women at the meetings, because I'm powerless over my sexual urges. So I guess I'm doomed; I'll just have to keep on enjoying all of the cute young babes because I don't have any control over the situation..."
Bill Wilson was habitually unfaithful to the wife who was supporting him, both before and after sobriety. Bill was such an outrageous philanderer that the other elder A.A. members had to form a "Founder's Watch Committee", whose job it was to follow Bill Wilson around, and watch him, and break up budding sexual relationships with the pretty young things before he publicly embarrassed A.A. yet again.1
The impression that he was a ladies' man seems to have come from the way he sometimes behaved at AA gatherings. When Bill wasn't accompanied by Lois (or later, Helen), he could often be observed engaged in animated conversation with an attractive young newcomer. His interest in younger women seemed to grow more intense with age. Barry Leach, who knew Bill nearly thirty years, told me that in the 1960s he and other friends of Bill's formed what they came to refer to as the "Founder's Watch" committee. People were delegated to keep track of Bill during the socializing that usually accompanies AA functions. When they observed a certain gleam in his eye, they would tactfully steer Bill off in one direction and the dewy-eyed newcomer in another.
Bill W., A Biography of Alcoholics Anonymous Co-Founder Bill Wilson, Francis Hartigan, 2000, page 192.
Susan Cheever reported the same thing in her biography of Bill Wilson, although she tried hard to downplay its importance, using standard stereotypical alcoholic Minimization and Denial to claim that it didn't matter much and wasn't any big deal:
Many people in A.A. worried that Bill Wilson's sexual behavior would be discovered and reflect badly on the movement. Whether or not they were necessary, self-appointed "Bill watchers" usually stayed close to him at meetings and conferences to prevent him from interacting with attractive newcomers in a way that might appear unseemly.
My Name Is Bill; Bill Wilson — His Life And The Creation Of Alcoholics Anonymous, Susan Cheever, page 225.
What kind of a healer or spiritual leader is that? You have to follow him around and watch him, to prevent him from sexually exploiting the newcomers?
Also notice how Susan Cheever totally ignored and avoided the important issue of the harm done to the women alcoholics who got used by Bill for his sex games and self-aggrandizement. Susan Cheever wouldn't touch that issue; she only wrote about how some silly worry-warts unnecessarily fretted over Bill's behavior, worrying that it might "reflect badly on the movement", and "might appear unseemly". Susan Cheever writes as if the women in recovery didn't matter and didn't have any feelings worth worrying about, and their recovery, their health, their lives, and their continued sobriety was of no consequence, not even worth mentioning. The women whom Bill Wilson used and exploited were treated like irrelevant objects both in Bill's sex games and in Susan Cheever's mind.
Bill Wilson just didn't want to be bothered with the hard work of resisting temptation. Like so many other phony gurus, he lived a life of hypocritical irresolute self-indulgence, preaching "spirituality", "absolute purity", "rigorous honesty", and self-sacrifice to others while indulging in all of the pleasures of the flesh himself — with the sole exception that he does appear to have finally quit drinking alcohol after it nearly killed him. (And some people dispute even that, and say that Bill never got more than a year of sobriety. Susan Cheever herself reported that Bill Wilson died screaming for whiskey.)
So just how was Bill's behavior an example of a life "lived on a spiritual basis"? Besides the fact that he hypocritically yammered the words "God" and "working selflessly" all of the time, and held séances and played with Ouija boards, just what was "spiritual" about William G. Wilson?
(HINT: "spiritual" and "superstitious" are not synonyms.)
The biographer Mathew J. Raphael added this tidbit:
Another alleged mistress has been outed by novelist Carolyn See in a memoir of her familial drinking life. It seems that Wynn C. [Corum], See's father's second wife (he was her fifth husband), had once "come within a hair-breadth of becoming the First Lady of AA." For a while during the late 1940s or early 1950s, "she and Bill had been a mighty item." A tall and buxom beauty, with pale skin, high cheekbones, red hair, and turquoise eyes, Wynn "was a knockout, and she knew it, and dressed like a chorus girl." Unfortunately, Bill was already married, but he struck "a hard but loving bargain with Wynn: "He wouldn't, couldn't marry her, but he'd put her in the Book."19 That is, he included her story, "Freedom From Bondage," in the second edition of Alcoholics Anonymous.20
19. Carolyn See, Dreaming: Hard Luck and Good Times in America (New York: Random House, 1995), p. 58. During Founder's Day, I noticed that a copy of Dreaming was in the library of the Akron A.A. archives.
20. As the last story in the second edition (1955), "Freedom From Bondage" became the matching bookend for "Bill's Story." The narrative was retained in the third edition (1976) but shifted to the penultimate position. At one point the author quips that her history of multiple marriages (she admits to four) "caused the rather cryptic comment from one of my A.A. friends ... that I had always been a cinch for the program, for I had always been intrested in mankind, but that I was just taking them one man at a time" (AA, 548-49).
Bill W. and Mr. Wilson; The Legend and Life of A.A.'s Cofounder, Mathew J. Raphael, pages 130, 195.
The "Freedom From Bondage" story is also present in the third and fourth editions of the Big Book at page 544.
Wynn Corum and Corolyn See's father, whom Wynn C. married on the rebound from Bill Wilson.
This story is bolstered by Carolyn See herself in her review of Susan Cheever's book:
Full disclosure: I grew up with a stepmom, Wynn, who had been fully prepared to marry Bill. He disengaged himself but put her "story" in the second edition of "Alcoholics Anonymous," in which the accounts of recovering alcoholics were included for the first time. She married my dad, her fifth husband, as a sort of consolation prize. Wynn was a wonderful woman, but I saw AA then from the point of view of a prissy, still-sober teenager, watching members bicker about whether taking an aspirin for a headache constituted a "slip," listening to stories of their friendships with a Personal God — "I told God to have you call me today," my stepmother would say after I moved out of the house. (And what could I possibly say? Maybe she had, and maybe He did.) But they didn't worry much about sex. ...
So I want to say for the record (and you won't find it on "Grapevine," or any other AA publication) that early AA, at least on the West Coast, was full of raucous men and women bursting with the physical energy that drying out brings. I speak now for Wynn (the Wynn I knew), who wrote "Freedom From Bondage" in the Book, and who, though she had five husbands, considered the high point of her life her amorous connection to Bill.
Wynn stood on our front steps one bright Christmas morning enthusiastically kissing a different handsome AA swain as others crowded past them, pushing inside to a party, where they would drink tomato juice and laugh like banshees, delirious with joy. They had found God (as they understood Him), and as long as they stayed away from booze and aspirin, they were okay; they were in the clear. They weren't ashamed of sex; they gloried in it.
"MY NAME IS BILL", Carolyn See, The Washington Post, February 27, 2004, page C02.
Also notice the roots of the A.A. "no medications" madness. It was going on even during the earliest days of Alcoholics Anonymous. Some of those original A.A. members were such crazy religious fanatics that they even considered taking a few aspirin to be a slip from perfect sobriety? (The parallels to faith healing and Christian Science are apparent.) They were obviously using a very different definition of the word "sobriety" than what the rest of the human race uses.
Francis Hartigan, Lois Wilson's private secretary, went on to describe how Bill Wilson used his leadership position in A.A. to get more women:
As the AA office staff expanded in the 1940s, Bill seemed to take an active part in its recruitment efforts. One longtime AA member told me that at first she didn't know why in 1946 Bill hired her and another young woman AA member. "Neither of us could type or take dictation," she told me. Then, one night soon after they were hired, Bill took both women to an AA meeting. He sat between them and, all during the meeting, he had a hand on one leg of each of the women.
There was also a young woman Bill had begun an affair with whom he subsequently hired for the AA office. She worked at the office from about 1948-1950. She seems to have been very much like Bill's mother, a strong-willed, stubborn woman who was very insistent about having her way. Because everyone knew she was Bill's mistress, she expected to get it. Apparently, she did not appreciate the extent to which AA is a democracy. Bill's recommendation might have gotten her the job, but her behavior became so disruptive that in 1950 the AA trustees told Bill that she could no longer work there.
While Bill often seemed to feel free to take advantage of whatever opportunities were available to him as AA's head man, a number of people who were close to him told me that there were times when he was painfully aware of the threat his philandering posed to everything he had worked for. Barry Leach, a longtime AA member who was a close friend of Bill's for more than twenty-five years, Jack Norris, and Nell Wing all said that Bill had let them know how badly he felt about his unfaithfulness to Lois. That he nevertheless was seemingly unable to control himself filled him with despair and self-loathing at times and left him feeling unworthy to lead AA.
Bill W., A Biography of Alcoholics Anonymous Co-Founder Bill Wilson, Francis Hartigan, pages 172-173.
Hey! That's quite some A.A. meeting — each hand fondling a woman's thigh! I love it! Where do I sign up?
(But what on earth are you supposed to do when it comes your turn to "share"?)
Notice the status game that Bill Wilson was playing. He was showing off, taking two women to an A.A. meeting and fondling them all through the meeting. He wanted to show the other guys that he was a superstud who could get all of the women he wanted.
Dr. Alexander Lowen wrote:
Narcissists are more concerned with how they appear than what they feel.
Narcissism, Denial of the True Self, Alexander Lowen, M.D., page ix.
Narcissists are neither carefree nor innocent. They have learned to play the power game, to seduce and to manipulate. They are always thinking about how people see and respond to them. Alcoholics Anonymous Comes Of Age, William G. Wilson, pages 74-75.
Somehow, Bill Wilson seems to have imagined that he could cheat on his wife and not tell her, and even write lies about it in the Big Book (page 3), and that didn't violate those Absolute Purity and Absolute Honesty standards.
While Bill may have been Absolutely Loving towards his current mistress, he sure wasn't towards his long-suffering wife Lois. All he did with her was attack her and slander her, even in print, calling her a selfish, silly, dishonest nag in the Big Book while she worked in Loesser's department store to support his lazy philandering unemployed ass.
Narcissistic vampires believe they are so special that the rules don't apply to them. They expect the red carpet to be rolled out for them wherever they go, and if it isn't, they get quite surly.
They don't wait, they don't recycle, they don't pay retail, they don't stand in line, they don't clean up after themselves, they don't let other people get in front of them in traffic, and their income taxes rival great works of fiction. Illness and even death is no excuse for other people not immediately jumping up to meet their needs. They aren't the least bit ashamed of using other people and systems for their own personal gain. They boast about how they take advantage of just about everybody.
Emotional Vampires: Dealing with People Who Drain You Dry, Albert J. Bernstein, Ph.D., pages 135-136.
Mathew J. Raphael had this to say about the above Big Book quotes:
What's truly incredible in Wilson's handling of adultery is his impersonation of a woman's point of view in the chapter that he would not permit Lois to write. "To Wives" opens with three brief paragraphs that ostensibly turn the ball over to the women, who then appear to speak in a first-person plural voice, which is really Wilson's ventriloquism. "Sometimes there were other women," he writes as if he himself were one of those loyal and courageous girls. "How heartbreaking was this discovery; how cruel to be told that they understood our men as we did not!" (AA, 106). Later, still in narrative drag, he seems to hold women accountable if their men should stray. "The first principle of success is that you should never be angry." Even if your husband becomes so unbearable that you have to leave him temporarily, you must try to "go without rancor." You should definitely not tell him what to do about his drinking; for he will dismiss you as "a nag or a killjoy" and use your interference as an excuse to drink all the more — or worse! "He will tell you he is misunderstood. This may lead to lonely evenings for you. He may seek someone else to console him — not always another man." (AA, 111). The menacing coyness of this threat is calculated to put any uppity wife in her place, which is to be seen, perhaps, but definitely not to be heard.
Bill W. and Mr. Wilson; The Legend and Life of A.A.'s Cofounder, Mathew J. Raphael, page 129.
Speaking of Minimization and Denial, Susan Cheever was pretty good at it too. In her recent biography of Bill Wilson, she tried every which way to rationalize Bill's behavior. She even implied that it was because Lois Wilson looked old:
A photograph of Bill and Lois in 1957 shows a raffish man who might be in his thirties with his long arm around a kindly looking white-haired woman with her blouse buttoned up to the chin. He was sixty-three, and she was sixty-seven. They look like mother and son.
Ah, so Lois Wilson looked like an old Hausfrau, did she? And that made it okay for Bill Wilson to take advantage of his leadership position in A.A. to seduce every pretty young thing who came to an A.A. meeting seeking help to survive alcoholism?
Twelve-Step morality is really something else.
And what about Bill's appearance? Susan Cheever was really seeing through tinted lenses, if she thought that Bill looked young and sexy — and in his thirties.
I've seen that photograph, and Bill did not look anything like 30. He looked sixty-ish, just like Lois. And that was a terrible photograph, showing Lois at her worst. Also remember that Bill Wilson was a philanderer most all of his adult life, not just in 1957. Lois didn't always look that frowsy, and Bill didn't always look very good, either. Lois stayed faithful to him even when he was just a stinking derelict drunkard.
[If we go back just seven years, to 1950, Bill and Lois looked like the photograph above. And especially look at this photograph of Bill and Lois at home at Stepping Stones, probably from before 1957.]
Here is the photograph that shows Lois Wilson with her blouse buttoned up to the chin:
Bill and Lois in garden.
Susan Cheever may have made an error in dating this picture. Francis Hartigan reports that it was labeled "To Tom P. Merry Christmas 12/1/53." (Bill W., Francis Hartigan, photo opposite page 113.)
Susan Cheever must have something wrong with her eyes. Bill looked like a gaunt burned-out chain-smoking old alcoholic in that photograph, not like a handsome raffish thirty-something movie star.
Would that, according to A.A. morality and Susan Cheever's rationalizations, make it okay for Lois to cheat on her husband and start collecting a stable of sexy handsome young studs for her amusement?)
Or, more to the point, does that mean that the official A.A. moral code allows any A.A. old-timer who has a frowzy, dumpy-looking wife to thirteenth-step several of the attractive young women who show up at A.A. meetings seeking help for a drinking problem?
And then, finally, Susan Cheever told us that Bill's sex life was really none of our business:
And in fact, Bill wasn't lying to anyone about his behavior either. Lois knew, and somehow accepted what was happening, at least enough to enable their life together to continue. The men and women who worked with him knew. As for everyone else, now that he was a private man and A.A. was administered by its own members, his private life wasn't really anyone else's business.
Ah, but when Bill Wilson used his leadership position in A.A. to sexually exploit women who came to A.A. seeking help to save their lives from alcoholism, then that most assuredly was other people's business,
starting with the women who were victimized,
and then including with all of the A.A. members whose organization was being discredited by Bill's behavior,
and then including all of the people who are wondering what might help them to overcome a drinking problem,
and then including all of the people who get pressured or coerced into Alcoholics Anonymous because it is supposed to be some kind of a helpful therapy program for alcoholism, not a meat market,
and then including all of the counselors, therapists, judges and parole officers who doing the routing, pressuring, and coercing.
and including all of the people who get told that A.A. is some kind of a good spiritual recovery organization that was founded by a wise, saintly man,
and finally including all of the women who get exploited today by A.A. old-timers who are following Bill's tradition.
Incidentally, in November of 2004, after Susan Cheever published her book My Name Is Bill, she was elected to the Board of Directors of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependency — the NCADD — the A.A. front group that was founded by "Mrs." Marty Mann to promote Alcoholics Anonymous. I wonder what new party line about 13th-Stepping the NCADD will now espouse.
Alcoholics Anonymous was supposedly a therapeutic program that in some way treated people for the so-called "disease" of alcoholism. That put Bill Wilson in the position of advertising himself as some kind of a healer. It is grossly unprofessional and highly unethical for a doctor, psychiatrist, or counselor to take advantage of his position of authority to seduce female patients. Real doctors who do that get their license to practice medicine revoked. They get kicked out of the healing profession. They even get put in prison for molesting patients.
But since Bill Wilson wasn't a real doctor or therapist, just a cult leader with a quack cure, he didn't have any license to yank. And there is no oversight board that monitors the ethics or behavior of Alcoholics Anonymous sponsors or leaders. They can do anything they wish to the newcomers. And that is one of the big problems with Alcoholics Anonymous.
And such blatant sexual exploitation continues, right now, in Washington DC, Arizona, California, Minnesota, Florida, New York, and lots more places.
Such thirteenth-stepping behavior can be very harmful to the female newcomers. Instead of getting therapy and healing, they get screwed and exploited, and leave A.A. with bitter, resentful feelings.
So, according to the standard A.A. dogma, they will invariably relapse and drink again, because they left A.A., and because they "have a resentment".
So they will die drunk because they are "powerless over alcohol".
So Bill Wilson was apparently killing sick women who came to A.A. seeking help.
Bill Wilson had to be a heartless monster to keep doing that to the young women who came to Alcoholics Anonymous seeking help for their alcoholism. When they were weak and shaky and cloudy-headed and still unsure of their sobriety, Bill Wilson was scheming to get into their pants. Bill Wilson exhibited total disregard for their welfare or their recovery. They were just so much fresh meat to him.
When it came to serious life-or-death matters of alcoholism or sobriety, Bill Wilson exhibited a total lack of compassion, morals, or ethics. He callously disregarded the health and welfare of the pretty young women newcomers, and just concerned himself with his own pleasures. Bill Wilson was a sexual predator, not a helpful therapist. That is not the behavior of a great man, or a prophet, or a spiritual man, or a religious man, or a healer. And that sure isn't "rigorous honesty" or "unselfish spirituality". And it isn't the much-ballyhooed "Four Absolutes of the Oxford Groups" — Absolute Purity, Absolute Honestly, Absolute Unselfishness, and Absolute Love — either.
A person with Narcissist Personality Disorder:
has a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements)
is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love
believes that he or she is "special"...
requires excessive admiration
has a sense of entitlement, i.e., unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations
is interpersonally exploitative, i.e., takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends
lacks empathy: is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others
often usurps special privileges and extra resources that he believes he deserves because he is so special.
DSM-IV-TR == Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision; Published by the American Psychiatric Association, Washington, DC. 2000; pages 658-661.
Also see: DSM-IV == Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition; Published by the American Psychiatric Association, Washington, DC. 1994; pages 658-661.
Also see: Internet Mental Health (http://www.mentalhealth.com/)
Helen Wynn
And then there was Helen Wynn. She was special. The other women didn't last long, but the affair with Helen lasted many years, right up to Bill's death. Bill Wilson even ended up putting her in his will, giving her ten percent of the estate that was going to his wife Lois.
Helen Wynn was a former actress and a very attractive woman. She was 22 years younger than Lois Wilson. Francis Hartigan, Lois Wilson's personal secretary, described them as:
The two women were bright and bold, attractive and accomplished, but where Lois seems always to have been self-sufficient and rock-steady, Helen could be mercurial and needy. Like Bill, she seems always to have possessed a restlessness that couldn't be more than temporarily slaked.
Bill W., A Biography of Alcoholics Anonymous Co-Founder Bill Wilson, Francis Hartigan, page 193.
Bill and Helen seem to have met at an A.A. meeting. Soon after, Bill got Helen a job at the AA Grapevine. Most everyone in the office knew that Helen was hired because she was Bill's girlfriend. But unlike most of the women whom Bill hired, Helen proved to be competent and capable, and worked her way up, over a period of years, to become the magazine's editor. Bill and Helen became frequent companions whenever he was in New York, and Helen sometimes accompanied him to A.A.-related events. Whenever Bill came to New York, he would stay overnight in a hotel, and Helen stayed with him.
After Helen left the Grapevine in 1962, Bill continued to contribute to her support. He wanted the A.A. trustees to route a portion of his royalty income directly to Helen, but the Trustees refused, and told Bill to pay his mistresses himself. Bill was furious at their effrontery.
Then Susan Cheever reports something rather odd:
Some old-timers remember that Bill had larger financial dreams for Helen. They worked together on the experiments and distribution of LSD and niacin,4 which became one of Bill's late-life enthusiasms. Some A.A. old-timers say that Lucille and David Kahn, the couple who financed much of the LSD research, were poised to give a lump sum for a research headquarters to be run by Helen. Ultimately, that didn't happen.
Then the A.A. trustees — the new truly democratic government of A.A. — refused to allow Helen the percentage of the Alcoholics Anonymous royalties that Bill had earmarked for her.
231 that didn't happen: This is part of Tom Powers's story about why he stopped working with Bill. "Helen went crooked," he said. Powers says he went to the Board and kept them from allowing Helen to get the money for an LSD research headquarters.
My Name Is Bill; Bill Wilson — His Life And The Creation Of Alcoholics Anonymous, Susan Cheever, pages 231 and 287.
"Helen went crooked"? What on earth does that mean? To toss out a generalized slur like "Helen went crooked" is just gossip-mongering. Specifically, what crimes did Helen Wynn commit that made her unfit to be the leader of the LSD research foundation? For the sake of accurate history, we should know. Unfortunately, so many of the participants have died that it is unlikely that we shall learn that. Perhaps the answer is locked in the sealed historical archives at the A.A. headquarters, but the A.A. leaders aren't about to open the archives of the secret history of Alcoholics Anonymous.
In 1968, with his emphysema growing worse, Bill and A.A. executed a new will that called for Helen to receive 10% of his book royalties, and his wife Lois the other 90%, after his death.
Nan Robertson wrote a history of Alcoholics Anonymous that just repeated the standard A.A. party line about everything. She glossed over Bill's philandering with these words:
Wilson's marriage to Lois Burnham in 1918 lasted until his death at the age of seventy-five in 1971. She believed in him fiercely and tended his flame. Yet, particularly during his sober decades in A.A. in the forties, fifties and sixties, Bill Wilson was a compulsive womanizer. His flirtations and his adulterous behavior filled him with guilt, according to old-timers close to him, but he continued to stray off the reservation. His last and most serious love affair, with a woman at A.A. headquarters in New York, began when he was in his sixties. She was important to him until the end of his life, and was remembered in a financial agreement with A.A. This affair, and experiments in spiritualism, LSD and megavitamin therapy, scandalized A.A. trustees and other veterans in the home office. Some felt Wilson was not upholding the high ideals of the organization and was muddying its singleness of purpose and peddling crackpot ideas to a membership that worshiped him. But his qualities of generosity, openness to change and humility about his own shortcomings were particularly endearing. "I never heard him bitch about anybody," said a man who joined A.A. in the 1940's and was one of its first homosexual members. "It wouldn't have mattered if I was a cannibal. He was delighted by eccentricities. His attitude was, 'Here's one of the camels that wandered into our tent! Aren't people wonderful?'"
Another said, "As a failed human I couldn't stand it if I thought Bill hadn't failed. I couldn't live up to a perfect example."
Getting Better Inside Alcoholics Anonymous, Nan Robertson, page 36.
What a white-wash. So Bill's cheating on his wife, repeatedly, constantly hurting Lois, was just a little "straying off the reservation", huh? Just like a fun-loving naughty little Indian, sneaking off of the reservation to go get some beer, right?
And Bill "never bitched about anybody"?
What about Henry Parkhurst? Bill pretty much destroyed him after Hank criticized Bill for taking all of the credit for writing the Big Book (and all of the Big Book money, too). Bill took Hank's share of the Big Book profits, and left Hank to die drunk and pennyless.
What about atheists? Ed, who was ostracized and exiled to an alcoholic death for refusing to believe in God as Bill Wilson dictated, might have been very surprised to hear that.
Also read chapter four of the Big Book, We Agnostics, to see how tolerant Bill was of people who held different religious beliefs than his own.
And Bill Wilson sure bitched about Ernie Galbraith, Doctor Bob's son-in-law and A.A. Number Four:
"I gave up on you a long time ago, you son of a bitch!"
Children Of The Healer; The Story Of Doctor Bob's Kids, Bob Smith and Sue Smith Windows, page 54.
And Bill had to be less than perfect so that other A.A. members could relate to him? Well, he had already failed in business and in life, and he was already far less than perfect — he was an alcoholic, a fraud, a failed Wall Street hustler, a quack healer, a phony holy man, a felonious embezzler, a stock swindler, a madman, an evil cult leader, and a narcissistic pathological liar — so he didn't really need to keep on cheating on his wife Lois just to make the other A.A. members feel comfortable...
Isn't that one of the lamest rationalizations you've ever heard?
Susan Cheever came up with some equally inept rationalizations of Bill Wilson's behavior:
Sexual compulsion itself is still a confusing secret in our world, even today. On the one hand, we chuckle at a sexually compulsive athlete, and even encourage the circumstances of their compulsion, but on the other hand we decry it. Our girls must be virgins, but they must also be sophisticated. Our boys must be man enough to score, but also gentleman enough to provide emotional and permanent financial support for any child they father.
In the world in which Bill Wilson matured, men were assumed to be sexually driven creatures whose bestial desires could only be tamed by the love of a gentle woman, if they were lucky enough to find that gentle woman. In the meantime, bundling boards — low walls clapped into place across the bed — and homemade chastity belts were used to keep the beast at bay. In a world without birth control, the general result was men trying to express themselves sexually and women, terrified of pregnancy, failing to respond.
What a crock of B.S. It is highly unlikely that Bill Wilson ever saw a bundling board or a chastity belt in his life. Besides, notice the propaganda trick that Susan Cheever is playing — create a diversion:
Sexual compulsion is not "a confusing secret". There is nothing confusing or secret about getting horny and wanting to grab a pretty woman.
Bill's behavior had nothing to do with the lack of birth control pills or women being afraid of sex. Bill was scoring anyway. (And more primitive, less reliable, means of birth control, like the diaphram and the sponge, did exist.)
Odd Victorian attitudes about sex, like thinking that men were sexually driven beasts, did not justify Bill's exploitative behavior either. Bill Wilson was not living in the Victorian age — he was living in the Roaring Twenties, and in the Depression Thirties, and in the Wartime Forties. Bill Wilson was what he was, regardless of what some old Victorians may have thought many years earlier. Bill Wilson controlled his own behavior and deliberately chose which attractive young A.A. woman to take advantage of next.
Bill Wilson was sexually exploiting the pretty women who came to A.A. to get help to survive alcoholism. Real healers don't screw their patients.
Also notice the attempt, in the first paragraph, to explain away Bill Wilson's predatory behavior with yet another diversion. Bill's sexual exploitation of female A.A. newcomers had nothing to do with some unnamed boys' and girls' sexual frustration during another period of history. Bill Wilson was a married man who was cheating on his wife, not a horny young athlete who was compulsively trying to get some sexual satisfaction from a reluctant girlfriend.
Then Susan Cheever salted the rest of her book with equally misleading statements like:
Marty Mann, for instance, kept her [lesbian] sexual preferences a secret for years. She called herself "Mrs. Marty Mann," although she wasn't married, in order to protect her secret.
Yet when Bill wanted to keep his sexual behavior secret, he was met with controversy.
That is simply untrue. That is the exact opposite of the truth.
The early A.A. members were worried that Bill's flagrant non-stop philandering would bring discredit and disrepute down on the fledgeling Alcoholics Anonymous organization. They wished that Bill's shameless behavior was more of a secret. They wished that Bill Wilson would quit advertizing and flaunting it and showing off. Tom Powers, the co-author of Bill's second book, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, found Bill's behavior to be so brazen and vulgar that he quit Alcoholics Anonymous in disgust because he couldn't stomach any more of Bill Wilson's misbehavior, and he didn't even want to be publicly associated with Bill Wilson any more.
Many who have an Exhibitionist DNP [Destructive Narcissistic Pattern] openly solicit admiration for their sexual prowess. They want others to admire and envy them for being sexually attractive or more successful and better at sexual games. They seek to be the fantasized lover with many conquests and a string of broken hearts. This provides them with much satisfaction and validation that they are superior, worthy, admired, and envied. These people do not know of any other way to connect to others except through sexual means.
If this description fits your partner, you may find that your partner is constantly flirting, cruising, trolling, engaging in affairs, and not exactly keeping this a secret.
Loving the Self-Absorbed: How to Create a More Satisfying Relationship with a Narcissistic Partner, Nina W. Brown, Ed.D., LPC, NCC, page 149.
Nan Robertson said of Bill Wilson:
"But his qualities of generosity, openness to change and humility about his own shortcomings were particularly endearing."
That is the charismatic charmer at work. Nan Robertson was unable to see Bill Wilson clearly. She couldn't even see that Bill was most certainly NOT open to change. He never stopped philandering, or grandstanding, or taking all of the money for himself, or demanding his own way about everything.
The Europe SOS web site had a page that described cult leaders as:
Cult leaders are often charming, charismatic figures with above-average intelligence. The "charismatic charmer" is one their personalities — a pseudo-personality.
Many cult leaders suffer from borderline, disassociate or multiple personality disorders. Members feel honored to be with, and be seen, around them. But their personality can change dramatically in a flash. Cult leaders are always very disturbed individuals. They are usually victims turned persecutor, having a history of involvement in other social, political or religious cults and/or suffering the effects of a traumatic childhood. Behind their strong and confident exterior (pseudo-personality) they need their leader position to compensate for a very fragile sense of self-worth, self-esteem and self-identity.
Nothing will stand in the way of their visions, schemes and self-glorification — not even the well-being of their partners or children. They manipulate the minds of vulnerable members, extorting money and sexual favors and/or abusing them psychologically, physically and/or sexually.
That sounds a lot like Bill Wilson:
Bill Wilson was a charismatic figure with an above-average intelligence.
He had a history of involvement with another cult, the Oxford Groups, before he started his own cult.
He was a former victim turned oppressive cult leader.
Behind his "strong and confident exterior — pseudo-personality", he was a weak, vain man who couldn't stand his wife criticizing him.
He had an extremely fragile sense of self-worth, and he plunged into a deep, crippling, years-long depressions when things didn't go his way.
And he was obsessed with self-glorification. He constantly exaggerating his accomplishments, and he fabricated tall tales where he claimed to be everything from
a successful Wall Street stock broker
to a conservative atheist who had been educated at a modern engineering school
to a brilliant mind who aced Thomas Edison's pre-employment aptitude test
to the inventor of the world's best treatment for alcoholism — a wonderful new discovery that was "probably one of the greatest medical and spiritual developments of all time"
to a holy man who walked hand-in-hand with the Spirit of the Universe on the Broad Highway in the Sky, and who talked to God and saints on a daily basis.
Bill had no reservations about taking all of the money, all of the women, and all of the credit and fame for himself, none at all, while he exhorted the other A.A. members to be anonymous and have no thoughts of the profit motive, and to "quit being so selfish".
And Bill Wilson was so charming that A.A. members actually felt honored just to be in his presence.
Everything Narcissistic vampires do is a move in the great game of self-aggrandizement, which is their main reason for living.
Emotional Vampires: Dealing with People Who Drain You Dry, Albert J. Bernstein, Ph.D., page 136.
Bill Wilson posing for a staged "man on the bed" publicity photograph, where Bill allegedly performed miraculous faith healings, making the drunks "pick up their beds and walk."
The idea that Wilson might come and go unnoticed at meetings, as merely a private A.A. citizen, was literally the stuff of Hollywood fantasy. At the end of My Name is Bill W. (1989), the powerful made-for-television movie, James Woods (playing Bill) is shown slipping anonymously into a meeting. At first Wilson is piqued to go unacknowledged as the cofounder, but he quickly suppresses his vanity; after the meeting, as just plain Bill, he lends a sympathetic ear to another suffering alcoholic. As the film fades to black, we see Bill, properly fortified with coffee, beginning what we know will be a long talk with someone who desperately needs his help. Lois, beaming with devotion, understandingly absents herself; she knows Bill must be about A.A.'s business.24
In reality, when Bill W. went to meetings, not only was he inevitably recognized, but he was also swarmed by admirers and pressed into telling them his story. Sometimes he would hold audiences for small groups of the faithful. One old-timer remembers waiting for two hours in order to spend twenty minutes with Bill W. at a Boston hotel in 1947. That day more than two hundred A.A.s were placed in groups of fifteen; each group was seated in turn in a large lounge, where Wilson held court. The experience was thrilling; the pilgrim felt as if he "had been in the presence of some spiritual force." Bill's "aura" pervaded the room; he seemed "to be unaware of the phenomenon and even of his part in it, but to me it was real yet unnatural."25
24. According to William G. Borchert, author of the screenplay, this incident is based on a true story told him by Lois Wilson, about a meeting she and Bill attended during the early 1940s in Barstow, California. Borchert moved the scene forward chronologically to 1950, in a way that makes it dramatically effective but undercuts its historical plausibility. Borchert also told me that he was aware that the scene in the Mayflower lobby (see Foreword) could not have happened the way it has been written. But the legend has become so deeply entrenched, he felt he had no choice but to follow the myth rather than the facts.
25. Freeman Carpenter (pseudonym), 60 Years an Alcoholic; 50 Years Without a Drink (Newtown, Pa.: Unique Educational Services, 1996), p. 372.
You can read the Freeman Carpenter story to which Raphael was referring here.
(Oh, and another reason Bill Wilson was not likely to go unrecognized at any meeting in some distant town is that he often telephoned ahead and arranged to have a newspaper reporter and photographer present, so that he could get his story and picture in the newspaper again.)
Given the openness of Bill's pursuits, that anyone who was a friend of Helen's and part of Bill's inner circle could not be aware of the affair seems hardly credible. However, in spite of his natural and unassuming manner, many people were unable to see Bill clearly. Even today, many AA members believe that alcoholism had them in a death grip, and they talk unself-consciously about the miracle of their recovery. During Bill's lifetime, it would seem that nearly all AA members felt this way, and a great many saw Bill Wilson as a miracle worker. For every member who criticized Bill for his depressions, there was at least one member ready to deny that Bill was ever depressed. For anyone concerned about the effect of Bill's smoking on his health, others were ready to insist that he didn't smoke that much, or if he did, it certainly wasn't bothering him.
Now, is that stuff what the Hazelden Foundation was referring to when they put this paragraph into their "autobiography" of Bill Wilson?
There will be future historical revelations about Bill's character and behavior in recovery that will be interpreted, by some, as direct attacks on the very foundation of AA.
Bill W., My First 40 Years, "William G. Wilson" (posthumously ghost-written by Hazelden staff), Hazelden, page 170.
Or is there even more stuff that they aren't telling us?
What else is hidden in those locked and sealed archives?
In her apology for Bill Wilson, Susan Cheever wrote:
Almost twenty-five years after Bill Wilson's death, years in which many parts of his work and his experience have been studied and restudied, some parts of his life, including his sex life, are still officially secret. Many people know a few facts about Bill Wilson's life. ...
... But Bill's sex life is still a secret, something A.A. members buzz about over coffee after meetings, but something which has been excised from the official literature and — for the most part — from the official A.A. archives.
Bill's sex life is officially secret? Says who? Secret from whom?
Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. isn't the U.S. Government, or the Pentagon, or the CIA, or the NSA, able to classify information at will. The A.A. headquarters and the A.A. Board of Trustees cannot just declare information "officially secret" because they find the truth to be unpleasant or embarrassing.
And notice that they are "excising" embarrassing information from the official A.A. archives. Destroying documents? Erasing history?
Whatever happened to all of that grandiose bragging about "grasping and developing a manner of living that demands rigorous honesty"?
(The Big Book, page 58.)
1) Bill W. A Biography of Alcoholics Anonymous Cofounder Bill Wilson Francis Hartigan
This biography was written by Lois Wilson's private secretary, Francis Hartigan. If anybody should be privy to the insider secrets about Bill's infidelities, it would be Francis. And he says that Bill was about as faithful as a horny alley cat, all of his life, both before and after sobriety.
See chapter 25, The Other Woman, page 192, for the Founder's Watch Committee.
Also see page 170 for the interview with Tom P..
2) Susan Cheever, My Name Is Bill; Bill Wilson — His Life And The Creation Of Alcoholics Anonymous, page 232.
4) Susan Cheever, My Name Is Bill; Bill Wilson — His Life And The Creation Of Alcoholics Anonymous, page 241:
Bill loved LSD. He urged everyone he knew to try it, including his wife Lois, his secretary Nell Wing, his friend Dr. Jack Norris, Reverend Sam Shoemaker, and Father Ed Dowling. He even thought his mother might benefit.
Also see Francis Hartigan, Bill W. A Biography of Alcoholics Anonymous Cofounder Bill Wilson, pages 176 to 179:
When Bill took LSD, use of the drug was legal. He first took it as a participant in medically supervised experiments with Gerald Heard and Aldous Huxley in California in the 1950s. Lois also participated in the first LSD experiments in California. At Bill's insistent urging, she took LSD herself but always claimed later not to have felt anything. Bill insisted that she did too feel something and that she in fact had a very pleasant time. Nell Wing, who took LSD herself during one of these sessions and was there when Lois tried it, tends to believe Lois. She explains LSD's lack of impact on Lois by noting that she took much less than the others had. Father Ed Dowling was among the people who accepted Bill's invitation to join him in these early experiments. Bill also invited Jack Norris, medical director for Eastman Kodak and long-serving nonalcoholic chair of AA's General Service Board, but Norris declined.
It is hard to appreciate today the enthusiasm with which LSD experimentation was initially greeted. Aldous Huxley wrote Father Thomas Merton that LSD might even be the SOMA he had written about in his futuristic novel, Brave New World, and that it was deserving of the most serious and thorough scientific research. Sam Shoemaker wrote to Bill about the wholehearted endorsement of LSD experimentation by an Episcopal bishop, and Wilson wrote to Carl Jung, praising the results obtained with LSD and recommending it as a validation of Jung's spiritual work. (Word was received of Jung's death, and the letter was never sent.)
Wilson is thought to have continued experimenting with LSD well into the 1960s. Lib S., a longtime AA member who lived in New York for many years, told me that she participated in LSD experiments with Bill in the late 1950s in New York. Marty Mann, Helen Wynn, and others participated in the New York experiments, which were supervised by a psychiatrist from Roosevelt Hospital. Lib S. said that the alcoholic participants in the New York researches were all sober. The purpose was to determine whether the drug might produce insights that would serve to remove psychic blocks that were preventing people from feeling more spiritually alive. Each participant had to agree to undergo extensive debriefing, and all were urged to make detailed notes about what they were experiencing.
Bill agreed with Huxley's assessment of LSD's power to open the "doors of perception." He described his first experiences of the substance's effect as being akin to what he had experienced in Towns Hospital the night his obsession with alcohol was lifted. Nell Wing told me that her own LSD experiences were something that she had always valued. Although Nell denies that Bill ever went this far, other people who knew him during this period said that his initial enthusiasm for LSD was so great that he thought it should be available to all alcoholics.
Bill W. A Biography of Alcoholics Anonymous Cofounder Bill Wilson, Francis Hartigan, pages 178 to 179.
5) "Damn Your Old Meetings!"
That is the title of chapter 8 of Lois Wilson's book, Lois Remembers. Lois' book is also pretty pathetic: it was probably ghost-written for her, somebody else putting words into her mouth, yet again, because it came out in 1979, long after Bill's death, when she was also very old and frail. The Lois Remembers book parrots much of the standard party line from the Big Book, including the "jealous of God and A.A." story:
Slowly I recognized that because I had not been able to "cure" Bill of his alcoholism, I resented the fact that someone else had done so, and I was jealous of his newfound friends...
God, through the Oxford Group, had accomplished in a twinkling what I had failed to do in seventeen years.
— Lois Remembers, page 99.
All I can say is: What pathetic, brain-damaged tripe. Any normal wife would be overjoyed to see her husband cured of a deadly disease. But not in the weird world of A.A. — not in the delusional mind of Bill Wilson. There, the wives are all jealous of God and A.A. (and not simply furious that he insists on going to A.A. meetings all of the time, and 13th-stepping the pretty women there, instead of getting a job).
6) Nan Robertson, Getting Better Inside Alcoholics Anonymous, page 43.
As usual, the Big Book.
Bill W. A Biography of Alcoholics Anonymous Cofounder Bill Wilson Francis Hartigan
Thomas Dunne Books, An imprint of St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010, 2000.
Dewey library call number B W11h 2000
This biography was written by Lois Wilson's private secretary, Francis Hartigan. See footnote above.
Bill W. Robert Thomsen
Harper & Rowe, New York, 1975.
Dewey call number 362.29 W112t
This is a good biography of William G. Wilson, even if it is very positively slanted towards Mr. Wilson, because the author knew Mr. Wilson and worked beside him for the last 12 years of Mr. Wilson's life. And rumor has it that this book was prepared from autobiographical tapes that Bill Wilson made before he died. So expect it to praise Mr. Wilson a lot. Still, this book will also tell you about some of Bill Wilson's warts, his fat ego, his publicity-hound behavior, and his years-long "dry drunks"...
Bill W. My First 40 Years 'An Autobiography By The Cofounder of Alcoholics Anonymous'
(This is Bill Wilson's alleged 'autobiography', supposedly published anonymously.)
Hazelden, Center City, Minnesota 55012-0176, 2000.
Dewey call number B W11w 2000
This book was reputedly assembled by ghost writers at Hazelden from the same set of autobiographical tapes of Bill Wilson that Robert Thomsen used for his book.
Bill W. and Mr. Wilson — The Legend and Life of A.A.'s Cofounder Matthew J. Raphael
University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, Mass., 2000.
Dewey: B W11r 2000
This book was written by another stepper — the name 'Matthew Raphael' is a pen name — and it generally praises Bill Wilson and recites the party line about most things, but it also contains a bunch of surprises, like detailing Bill's sexual infidelities, his and Bob's spook sessions — talking to the 'spirits' in séances through the use of Ouija boards, spirit rapping, clairvoyance, and channeling, LSD use, and publicity-hound megalomania.
My Name Is Bill: Bill Wilson — His Life And The Creation Of Alcoholics Anonymous Susan Cheever
Simon & Schuster, New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, 2004.
LC: HV5032.W19C44 2004
Dewey: 362.292092--dc22 or B W11c 2004
Another biography of Bill Wilson written by a stepper with a bad case of hero worship. She glosses over and rationalizes all of Bill Wilson's faults. She even implies that Bill Wilson was right when he was conducting séances — that he really was talking to the spirits of the dead.
See quotes here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
Lois Remembers: Memoirs of the Co-Founder of Al-Anon and Wife of the Co-Founder of Alcoholics Anonymous Lois Wilson
Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters, Inc. 1991.
Lois' book is pretty pathetic: it was probably ghost-written for her, somebody else putting words into her mouth, yet again, because it came out in 1979, long after Bill's death, when she was also very old and frail. The Lois Remembers book parrots much of the standard party line in the Big Book, including the ridiculous "jealous of God and A.A." story:
Alcoholics Anonymous: Cult or Cure? Charles Bufe, 1998.
See Sharp Press, PO Box 1731, Tucson AZ 85702-1731
Dewey call number 362.29286 B929a 1998
(This is the second edition; it has noticeably more information than the first edition. The first edition is: ISBN 0-9613289-3-2, printed in 1991.)
This book is now free on the Internet, at: http://www.morerevealed.com/
Alcoholics Anonymous Comes Of Age by "anonymous" (really, William G. Wilson)
Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. (AAWS), New York, 1957, 1986.
Harper, New York, 1957
LC: HV5278 .A78A4
ISBN 0-91-685602-X
This is Bill's history of Alcoholics Anonymous. It suspiciously differs from known history here and there.
'PASS IT ON'; The story of Bill Wilson and how the A.A. message reached the world by "anonymous" (really, A.A.W.S. staff)
Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. (AAWS), New York, 1984.
LCCN: 84-072766
LC: HV5032 .W19P37x 1984
Dewey: 362.29/286/O92
This is the official, council-approved version of the history of A.A.. Strangely enough, there is some very interesting stuff in here, including chapter 16, which describes Bill's spook sessions and séances, talking with the spirits of the dead, and communicating with spirits through spirit rapping and the Ouija board. See pages 275 to 285.
Dr. Bob and the Good Oldtimers Authorship credited to 'anonymous'; actually written by A.A.W.S. staff.
Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc., New York, 1980.
LCCN: 80-65962
LC: HV5278.D62 1980
Interesting, gives a lot of details of the early days in Akron. It is, of course, totally sanitized and every line has been checked to make sure that it conforms to the standard (false) party line.
Getting Better Inside Alcoholics Anonymous Nan Robertson
William Morrow and Company, Inc., New York, 1988.
LC: HV5278.R59 1988
Dewey: 362.2'9286--dc19 or 362.2928 R651g
Another very standard, sanitized, history of Alcoholics Anonymous, one that just toes the A.A. party line in all matters.
Narcissism, Denial of the True Self Alexander Lowen, M.D.
Macmillan Publishing Comany, New York, 1983, and
Collier Macmillan Publishers, London, 1983.
ISBN: 0-02-575890-X
LC: RC553.N36L38 1983
This is a great book, a real classic. Dr. Lowen advances the idea that narcissism is not falling in love with one's self, but rather with a false image of one's self. That small subtle difference actually makes a very large difference. In the original Greek mythology, Narcissus died — starved to death — because he was obsessed with his own image and stared at it endlessly. But as Narcissus approached death, his real emaciated appearance could not have been very attractive. Narcissus was seeing an illusion, not his true appearance.
Dr. Lowen advances the idea that narcissism is often caused by child abuse and prolonged humiliation and pain in childhood. The child adopts a persona where he feels no pain and is powerful and invulnerable. The child thinks, "When I grow up, I'll be so powerful and strong that no one can hurt me or humiliate me ever again." Then the child, who grows into adulthood, spends the rest of his life pursuing and defending an illusion. Narcissists are obsessed with defending and preserving their image — they can't stand it if somebody "makes them look bad" — they can't stand criticism. They deny their true feelings and put on a mask of unfeeling, because they imagine that it will keep them from being hurt again. Likewise, they completely disregard other people's feelings. They are obsessed with power and control, so that they can control the world around them and prevent anyone from humiliating them again. Narcissists are often extremely seductive and manipulative people, often charismatic charmers, and occasionally high achievers as well. They lie habitually, without giving it a second thought. They fear insanity.
In other words, Dr. Lowen was describing Bill Wilson, the abused son of an alcoholic father and a neurotic mother.
Emotional Vampires: Dealing with People Who Drain You Dry Albert J. Bernstein, Ph.D.
McGraw-Hill, New York, 2001.
ISBN: 0-07-135259-7 (hard); ISBN: 0-07-135267-9 (pbk.)
Dewey: 158.2 B531e 2001
This is a wonderful little easy-to-read book on the psychology of exploitative personalities. It's easy to identify both Frank N. D. Buchman and William G. Wilson as Narcissistic Vampires — "Legends in Their Own Minds" — who could not tolerate the least little bit of criticism, and who felt entitled to take the best of everything for themselves because they were so special, and who threw screaming temper tantrums when the commoners displeased them.
Quotes: here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here.
Loving the Self-Absorbed: How to Create a More Satisfying Relationship with a Narcissistic Partner Nina W. Brown, Ed.D., LPC, NCC
New Harbinger Publications, Inc., Oakland, CA, 2003.
Dewey: 158.2 B879L
This book tells you how to cope with being married to an obnoxious narcissist. The one thing I couldn't see was, "Why bother?" Nina Brown makes narcissists sound so bad that you really don't want to be married to one. But if you are some kind of long-suffering masochist who really wants to go through it all, read this book.
Quotes: here and here and here.
Working with the Self-Absorbed: How to Handle Narcissistic Personalities on the Job Nina W. Brown, Ed.D., LPC, NCC
Dewey: 650.13 B879w
Like the book above, except that this one deals with being trapped in work situations where a co-worker, or worse, your boss, is a destructive narcissist. Unless you are financially desperate, go find another job.
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Octave is the ninth album by The Moody Blues, released in 1978, and their first release after a substantial hiatus following the success of the best-selling Seventh Sojourn in 1972. The album proved to be the last for the group with keyboardist Mike Pinder, who left during the album's sessions and declined an offer to tour with the group. He had just started a new family in California, and found that he was not getting along with his bandmates as he previously had. Pinder would be replaced by former Yes keyboardist Patrick Moraz in time for their 1978-1979 tour, beginning a new era in the band's history. Octave would also be the final studio album from the band produced by Tony Clarke.

The album's title is a musical pun: it references both the notion of an octave; and as a word derived from the Latin octavus it refers to this being the eighth album by this line-up of the Moody Blues (following on from the previous album title Seventh Sojourn). The cover art was designed by artist John Kosh, famous for his work with The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, among others.

Octave was considered a departure from previous Moody Blues albums, mainly because of the group's use of lounge-style organs and synthesizers in place of a Mellotron or Chamberlin (Pinder's song "One Step Into the Light" references the Mellotron). Real strings were used on three songs: "Under Moonshine" and "I'm Your Man" (both written by Ray Thomas), as well as "Survival" (written by John Lodge).

Released after a considerable break, which saw The Moody Blues returning in an era of punk music and disco, Octave produced a reduced commercial outcome for the band, but reached No. 6 in the United Kingdom and went platinum in the United States, where the album reached No. 13. The album produced the hit single "Steppin' in a Slide Zone", which hit No. 39 in the US, in addition to "Driftwood".

In November 2008, the album was remastered and released on CD, with five previously unreleased, live, bonus tracks.

Original track listing

Side One
"Steppin' in a Slide Zone" (John Lodge) – 5:29 (lead singer: John Lodge)
"Under Moonshine" (Ray Thomas) – 5:00 (lead singer: Ray Thomas)
"Had to Fall in Love" (Justin Hayward) – 3:42 (lead singer: Justin Hayward)
"I'll Be Level with You" (Graeme Edge) – 3:48 (lead singers: Justin Hayward, Mike Pinder, Ray Thomas, John Lodge)
"Driftwood" (Hayward) – 5:03 (lead singer: Justin Hayward)

Side Two
"Top Rank Suite" (Hayward) – 3:42 (lead singer: Justin Hayward)
"I'm Your Man" (Thomas) – 4:21 (lead singer: Ray Thomas)
"Survival" (Lodge) – 4:09 (lead singer: John Lodge)
"One Step into the Light" (Mike Pinder) – 4:29 (lead singer: Mike Pinder)
"The Day We Meet Again" (Hayward) – 6:19 (lead singer: Justin Hayward)

The 8-track tape version of this album has the distinction of being one of the few 8-tracks that is arranged exactly like the album, with no song breaks. The original album was released on clear blue vinyl.

2008 CD Expanded Edition tracks (UK)
<LI>"Steppin' in a Slide Zone (Live in Seattle 25 May 1979)" (Lodge) - 4:57
<LI>"I'm Your Man (Live in Seattle 25 May 1979)" (Thomas) - 4:51
<LI>"Top Rank Suite (Live in Seattle 25 May 1979)" (Hayward) - 4:28
<LI>"Driftwood (Live in Seattle 25 May 1979)" (Hayward) - 5:02
<LI>"The Day We Meet Again (Live in Houston 7 December 1978)" (Hayward) - 7:16

Personnel
Justin Hayward – vocals, guitars, keyboards
John Lodge – vocals, bass, keyboards
Mike Pinder – vocals, organ, synthesizer, Mellotron, piano, electric piano, acoustic guitar
Ray Thomas – vocals, flute, harmonica, tambourine
Graeme Edge – vocals, drums, percussion
Ted Jensen – mastering

Additional personnel
R. A. Martin - horns, saxophones
Patrick Moraz - keyboards on live bonus tracks

Charts

Certifications

References

The Moody Blues albums
1978 albums
Decca Records albums
Albums produced by Tony Clarke (record producer)

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Micah Materre is an Emmy award winning journalist and anchor of the WGN Evening News at Five and Six and the WGN News at Nine and Ten. Prior to being appointed anchor of the WGN News at Nine in 2009, she was co-anchor of WGN Midday News from January, 2003 to October, 2009.
Micah joined Chicago's WGN-TV in January 1998 as a WGN Morning News co-anchor and medical reporter. Micah has anchored all of the newscasts at WGN, as well as covering entertainment news and special assignment stories, including the historic inauguration of America's first black President. In addition, Micah reports and co-produces the "Chicago's Very Own" bi-weekly segment for WGN News and she is the host of WGN's public affairs program, "People to People".
Micah is one of Chicago's very own as she was born here and grew up in the city. Micah spent eight years at WJBK-TV in Detroit where she was a main anchor and general assignment reporter. While at WJBK, Micah's work garnered numerous awards and accolades, including an Emmy and an award from the Michigan Association of Broadcasters. Prior to moving to the Motor City, Micah cut her teeth in Cedar Rapids, Iowa as a general assignment reporter and weekend anchor.
She began her career in broadcasting in 1983 at NPR affiliate, WBEZ radio in Chicago, producing and reporting for four years. In addition, she taught radio production at Columbia College. Micah has more than 30 years' experience as a journalist and broadcaster.
In 2014, Micah received a Chicago/Midwest Emmy, and was also honored as being a diversity trailblazer by Barnes and Thornburg LLP.
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Culture in France Podcast Podcast
Centenary events in Paris show great French sculptor Auguste Rodin's secret of immortality
By Rosslyn Hyams
Auguste Rodin, L'ecclésiaste (before 1899) © Musée Rodin, ph. C. Baraja
Queues to see the sensual works of sculptor Auguste Rodin at Hôtel Biron in Paris are usually long in any season. This year they are longer as the Rodin Museum is leading the events to commemorate the 100th year of the artist's death.
His creative and for the time, daring, genius brought marble, bronze and less noble materials - plaster and terra-cotta - to life in his sculptures such as the Burgers of Calais, or the hive of characters in the Gates of Hell, a tribute to the Italian writer Dante Alghieri, at the top of which sits one of Rodin's most replicated works, The Thinker.
At the Musée Rodin, a retrospective of his work in the main house shows his work process, his drawings, watercolours, plaster and terracotta as well as objets d'art from his private collection.
In the former chapel in the grounds of the Museum-mansion, German artist, Anselm Keifer exhibits works he created while in residence at the Hôtel Biron, inspired by Rodin's illustrated book of 1914, The Cathedrals of France.
Keifer's work is often monumental, whether in tall glass cases or exposed. Like Rodin, Keifer who was born about a century after Rodin, explores all kinds of materials for their relief and their vibe.
"Keifer-Rodin - Cathédrales" which closes in October 2017 reveals a significant bond between the two important artists.
Véronique Mattiussi, in charge of archives and history at the Musée Rodin says "visitors who meander through the exhibition will be able to see different aspects in Rodin's work."
At the Grand Palais, the "Rodin Centenary Exhibition", places Rodin's works next to artists who worked in his highly productive workshop in the late 19th and early 20th century, and who went on to earn their own international reputations.
The works themselves are arresting for their beauty and because Rodin had a gift for creating the illusion that he infused stone and metal with human feelings.
Their juxtaposition to more recent sculptures in bronze, marble or even wood, shows how Rodin's works transmit his acute sense of emotions, from one artists to another, over the decades.
The Rodin Centenary puts the artist at the centre of exhibitions, and of films with Jacques Doillon's biopic about a period at the end of his relationship with sculptress Camille Claudel, 'Rodin' starring Vincent Lindon, as well as two new documentaries on his work and the social and political period which nourished it.
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St. Kitts and Nevis introduces its newest Citizenship by Investment option: The Hurricane Relief Fund Investment Contribution.
IMF: ST. KITTS AND NEVIS HAS ECCU'S STRONGEST FISCAL GROWTH
"St. Kitts and Nevis attained the strongest growth and fiscal performance in the ECCU [Eastern Caribbean Currency Union] region in recent years," according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in its recently concluded 2017 Article IV Consultation.The Federation's debt-to-GDP ratio, which stands at 63.2%, is the lowest among the independent states in the currency union. And both the Caribbean Development Bank and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean have also commended St. Kitts and Nevis' stellar economic performance.
TAIWAN ANNOUNCES VISA-FREE ENTRY FOR ALLIES IN CARIBBEAN
The Government of Taiwan on Wednesday announced visa-free entry for nationals of its diplomatic allies in the Caribbean, with immediate effect. According Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, this is being done to "demonstrate the closeness between Taiwan and its allies in the Caribbean " and "the principles of mutual benefit and reciprocity".
ST. KITTS-NEVIS CBI UNIT LEADS IN DUE DILLIGENCE
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St. Kitts and Nevis Receives Global ICT Awards
St. Kitts and Nevis clinched two coveted awards at the World Telecommunications/ICT Indicators Symposium held in Gaborone, Botswana.
ST. KITTS-NEVIS DEEPENS NORWEGIAN PARTNERSHIP
Prime Minister Harris and Norwegian Ambassador, Ingrid Mollestad, discussed possible cooperation between St. Kitts-Nevis and Norway in areas like Alternative Energy, Scholarships and a Sovereign Wealth Fund.
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The St. Kitts and Nevis Passport comes in for high praise as it is now ranked number one in the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), according to Prime Minister Timothy Harris, quoting the Nomad Passport Index - 2017.
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St. Kitts & Nevis celebrates its 21st Annual Music Festival
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