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November 1978

The Spiritual Angle

The Episcopal clergyman who "passed on the spiritual keys by which we were liberated" speaks of the heart of our program - From the October 1955 Grapevine

IT WAS CLEAR to Bill from the first, I take it, that Dr. Jung's simple declaration that science knew no answer, Dr. Silkworth's incalculable help from the medical angle, and William James's great wisdom in Varieties of Religious Experience still left, the great need for a spiritual factor which would create a synthesis and offer a dynamic motive to sobriety. The problem was how to translate the spiritual experience into universal terms without letting if evaporate into mere ideals and generalities.

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