About This Book
Bill W. Conscious Contact reveals something about Bill Wilson that even the most devoted students of his life did not know.
In December 1969 — the final year of his life — Wilson was taught Transcendental Meditation. After his first session, he rushed outside into the cold December air and declared: “This thing works.” Later he told the young man who taught him: “I never understood the Eleventh Step until I started TM.”
This discovery — confirmed through Lois Wilson’s personal guest book at the Stepping Stones Archive — is documented here for the first time in print.
Drawing from over 110,000 items in the Stepping Stones Archive — the historic home of Bill and Lois Wilson in Westchester County, New York — this volume brings together rare archival photographs, Wilson’s own correspondence (including his letters to Carl Jung), and the complete film transcript.
Where the documentary provides motion, this book offers stillness. Through intimate archival photographs, we encounter a life that continues to resonate across generations — not as the cofounder of Alcoholics Anonymous, but as a man whose inner transformation significantly impacted history.
A joint venture with The Stepping Stones Foundation
Historic Home of Bill and Lois Wilson® · Katonah, New York
