A New Way of Looking at Life

ONE AFTERNOON a few months ago, I found myself reviewing the story of AA co-founder Bill W.'s encounter with cosmic consciousness in Towns Hospital. I had come across a well-detailed account of the incident and had not proceeded far into it before I began to experience feelings of envy. After all, I reasoned, why shouldn't I have my own "mountaintop" ecstasy? I longed to achieve the awareness Bill described, to discover for myself the essential unity of the created world.