WAVE: Big Book Study with Corey Session Two - The Doctor's Opinion

The Daily Ripples Podcast · Aug 10, 2026 · 51m · transcript

Corey picks up where the forewords left off and moves into the chapter that sets the whole book in motion. He opens with the man behind it — Dr. William Silkworth, a neurologist who by some counts worked with tens of thousands of alcoholics in the years before the book was written, and who describes a patient in late 1934 he'd come to regard as hopeless. That patient was Bill Wilson. From there Corey walks the letters line by line, marking the words worth circling: must, only, essential, necessary. He lands on the three facts stacked in the first letter, the phrase "manifestation of an…