Alcoholics Anonymous

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is an organization for alcoholics, founded in 1939 by Bob Smith, Rowland Hazard (friend of Carl Jung), Bill Wilson, trained by MI6 agent Gerald Heard. It uses methods of the jesuits (Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola), the grade system of Aleister Crowley's AA (Astrum Argentum) and the Moral Re-Armament movement of Frank Buchman.

It works in alliance with the Narcotics Anonymous and National Institutes of Health. Bill Wilson participated in LSD (also used to dissociate) experiments with Gerald Heard, Betty Eisner (Stanford, Red Cross) and Aldous Huxley.

People involved with the creation of the AA: John D Rockefeller, Frank Amos (advisor of John D Rockefeller), Albert Scott (Rockefeller advisor), Pierre Fouquet, Max Glatt, Marvin Block, WW Bauer (American Medical Association, promoted AA on NBC Radio), Jack Norris, Bernard Smith, Neil Wing, Kirby Collier, Jack Alexander, Ed Dowling, EM Jellinek, Sister Ignatia (St Thomas Hospital in Akron Ohio), Pauline Schwab (mother of Frank Perry, trained at Actors Studio, nephew of Katy Perry),..

1939 was the year MGM released Wizard of Oz, used to learn children to dissociate.

Actors used in the AA

- Al Pacino (Pasadena Playhouse)
- Alec Baldwin
- Andy Dick
- Anthony Hopkins
- Belinda Carlisle
- Bonnie Riatt
- Bradley Cooper (jesuit)
- Brett Butler
- Carrie Fisher
- Charlie Sheen
- Cheryl Burke (Dancing With the Stars)
- Christian Slater
- Colin Farrell
- David Letterman
- Demi Moore (worked with Patsy Rugg, married Ashton Kutcher)
- Dick Van Dyke
- Don Johnson
- Dorothy Brando (mother of Marlon Brando)
- Edward Furlong
- Eric Clapton
- Gary Oldman (met his wife Donya Fiorentino at AA meeting)
- Gerard Butler
- Geri Halliwell (The Spice Girls)
- Glenn Beck (jesuit)
- Hank Azaria
- Jamie Lee Curtis (daughter of Janet Leigh)
- Janice Dickinson (Celebrity Rehab)
- John Goodman
- Kate Moss
- Kelsey Grammer (ABC show Cheers)
- Ke$ha and her mother Pebe Sebert
- Leonard Nimoy (jesuit, Star Trek, Pasadena Playhouse)
- Liam Neeson
- Lindsay Lohan (made a sex list as 5th step at the Betty Ford Clinic)
- Liza Minnelli (daughter of Judy Garland)
- Malcolm McDowell
- Mel Gibson
- Michael J Fox
- Naomi Campbell
- Nick Nolte (Pasadena Playhouse)
- Owen Wilson
- Ozzy Osbourne
- Paris Hilton
- Patty Schemel (Hole with Courtney Love)
- Patrick Kennedy
- Peter O'Toole
- Richard Cromwell (married to Angela Lansbury)
- Richard Dreyfuss
- Robert Downey Jr
- Russell Brand
- Samuel Jackson
- Shia LaBeouf
- Stephen King
- Stevie Ray Vaugn
- Tobey Maguire
- Tom Arnold
- Tommy Lee (Mötley Crue, married to Pamela Anderson)
- Walter Tevis (The Hustler, The Color of Money, The Queen's Gambit)

In Clean and Sober (1988) Michael Keaton visits an AA meeting. ABC produced movie My Name is Bill W in 1989 with James Woods, Gary Sinise, JoBeth Williams, James Garner and music by Laurence Rosenthal. In You Kill Me (2007) Ben Kingsley visits AA meetings. Barry Pepper played Bill Wilson in When Love is Not Enough (2010) with Juliette Lewis. In Flight (2012) jesuit Denzel Washington visits the AA. Anya Taylor-Joy played an alcohol addict in The Queen's Gambit.

Gerald Heard

the Jesuits

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