Gary

Gee, you have me "falling off the wagon already" when I just posted I'd abstain. Not up on all the AA euphemisms so I took it literally that you actually knew him. I've been reading stories of his life for over thirty years and I found the Wikipedia article pretty accurate. As for Bill W and LSD, even the Central Texas AA website acknowledges it
Texas AA and Bill W LSD It's also detailed in Susan Cheever's book My Name is Bill: Bill Wilson: His Life and the Creation of Alcoholics Anonymous.
In the words of Timothy Leary, set and setting are essential elements of benefiting from LSD. Bill W was friends with Aldous Huxley, author of a Brave New World who also wrote the Doors of Perception about psychedelics
One writer summed it up nicely
[quote]Both men believed that the drugs might be used to treat addiction. But beyond LSD, both Bill and Huxley were interested in how change is possible, both on the level of the individual person and society in general. Huxley called Bill "the greatest social architect of the 20th century," according to Cheever.[/quote]
You are right that effective recovery periods are spiritually based because IMO alcoholism is not a disease of the body but of the soul.
CONGRATULATIONS ON BEING AND STAYING SOBER one day at a time.
Charm