The X Factor and the Grace of Higher Power – 1967 – Bill W.
About This Speaker Tape
1932, a businessman is cut down by the grog. He seeks out Carl Jung, only to be told that the art of psychiatry has failed him. Jung points toward a "benign lightning" that strikes rarely—a spiritual conversion. Bill W. recalls this as the bedrock of the program. He describes the "X Factor," a term used by scientists to explain the sudden, inexplicable shift in motivation that defies medical logic.
Bill recounts his own "deflation at depth," the crushing despair of a man who believed he was merely a piece of prehistoric ooze. He speaks of the "spectacle of release" he saw in his friend Ebby, a man who had emerged from the same wreckage. After being scared to death by Dr. Silkworth, Bill hit a wall of pride and desperation. He cried out like a child in the dark, and the room lit up in a glare of white light. He felt a great clean wind blow through him and knew he was a free man. This is the light, the soil, and the grace of a Higher Power.
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