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Ep 66 Bill W Was Coerced Into A Cult – Cult Religion 3 of 6
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How Bill W was coerced into a cult.. Bill W was drugged on Belladonna in an alcohol rehab center when he was coerced into a cult religion.
For a year prior to that, Bill Wilson was aggressively recruited into the Oxford Group — a fundamentalist cult religion — by his friend Ebby then he became its proselytizer.
What we were taught about the “birth of AA” is a false narrative.
Timestamps:
00:00 AA cult religion origins intro
02:00 Ebby's coerced conversion
02:48 Ebby coerces Bill's conversion
06:58 Generational recovery trauma
08:46 Bill starts deceptively proselytizing
11:48 Spiritual experience or coerced conversion?
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