TO AVOID THE CONTEMPT OF CONFUSION A CURTAIN DROP CONCLUSION

On page 8 of The Big Book, it reads: “I was soon to be catapulted into what I like to call the fourth dimension of existence. I was to know happiness, peace, and usefulness, in a way of life that is incredibly more wonderful as time passes.” Then, on page 25, we find: “We have found much of heaven and we have been rocketed into a fourth dimension of existence of which we had not even dreamed.” Twice in two chapters we are told of the alcoholic entering this fourth dimension of existence.  And the words do not suggest that the alcoholic slowly wanders into such a place; they do not suggest that the alcoholic is leisurely led to such a place; they do not suggest that the alcoholic, through measured concentration and deliberation, moves in tortoise-like fashion toward a time where the fourth dimension will open its doors to him.  No, in one instance, we are told that we are to be “catapulted” and in another that we will be “rocketed.”