Jay Stinnett is a grateful channel of the wisdom of the beverage program and producer of the film Bill W Conscious Contact. He can be found in the 4th Dimension in Sedona Arizona where he visits the 5th and entertains people that are locked in the 3rd Dimension.

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Q. If you are in recovery, what was your drug(s) of choice and when is your sobriety date?

A. Alcohol and everything but opioids. Sobriety date: 5/2/1979.

Q. What do you like most about 12-step meetings?

A. Seeing an unnamed force infuse the hopeless person.

Q. Do you think addiction is an illness, disease, a choice, or a wicked twist of fate?

A. Spiritual malady.

Q. Who is your favorite celebrity in recovery?

A. Eric Clapton.

Q. If you ever retire, would you prefer to live by the ocean, lake, river, mountaintop, desert, or penthouse?

A. I live in the 4th dimension in Sedona and retirement does not seem to have found me yet.

Q. Is there anything special in your sobriety toolkit that helps keep you sober?

A. A joyous variety of meditation practices over the past 46 years.

Q. How do you measure success?

A. By the range of my emotions.

Q. What is your biggest pet peeve?

A. Technology and my inability to meld with it.

Q. If you had an extra million dollars, which charity would you donate it to?

A. Initiatives of Change (MRA/Oxford Group.)

Q. Who has been the biggest influence throughout your life?

A. William Griffith Wilson.

Q. From what school of thought or teacher did you learn the most from?

A. The Hermosa Beach Men’s Stag Or Frank Buchman.

Q. Where are you from and where do you reside now?

A. El Segundo, CA/The aforementioned 4th Dimension.

Q. If you were giving a dinner party for your 3 favorite authors, living or dead, who would they be?

A. Bill Wilson, William James, Carl Jung, Gerald Heard.

Q. What is your Astrological sign?

A. Cancer.

Q. What’s your concept of a Higher Power?

A. The power of good that lies beyond our synthetic knowledge.

Q. What book(s) have you read more than once?

A. Cosmic Consciousness by Bucke, The Imprisoned Splendor by Frank Bachman, Remaking the World by Frank Buchman, The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis, Alcoholics Anonymous.

Q. Which film have you watched the most?

A. Angel A— Luc Bresson.

Q. Who is your favorite film director?

A. Luc Bresson.

Q. What surprised you most about living sober?

A. My ever expanding capacity for love.

Q. If you could give advice to your younger self what would it be?

A. The evolution of your life will be far more wondrous than any plan you’ll ever make.

Q. What books are you reading now?

A. A Search in Secret India, by Paul Brunton.

Q. What is your favorite App?

A. MLB (Major League Baseball.)

Q. Are you binge watching any TV series?

A. I have not had a television since 1993.

Q. What is your favorite play or musical?

A. La Aux Folles.

Q. Who is your favorite performer, living or dead?

A. Serge Gainsbourg.

Q. What is your favorite musician and or band?

A. Jane Birkin.

Q. What is one word you would use to describe yourself?

A. Eclectic.

Q. What is your favorite city?

A. Wherever my feet are.

Q. What is your favorite hotel?

A. Currently, The Oberoi New Delhi.

Q. What sport(s) do you like to play or watch?

A. Baseball.

Q. What is your favorite restaurant?

A. Neung Roi at Radisson Blu, New Delihi.

Q. What is your favorite cuisine?

A. Plants.

Q. What is the best piece of advice someone has given you?

A. You are not responsible for what your family thinks of you.

Q. What is the best piece of advice you’ve given someone else?

A. Fear is the misapprehension that I will not have the spiritual tools necessary to meet the challenge presented.

Q. Have you ever been arrested and, if so, what for?

A. Drunk Driving, Drunk in Public, Pubic Napping, Attempted Sales…I’m a drunk.

Q. What is one thing that always makes you smile?

A. Sunrise.

Q. What was the proudest moment in your life?

A. The amends my daughter made to the person she had the most difficulty with.

Q. What is a style trend you wish would come back?

A. Nudism.

Q. What do you love most about yourself?

A. My ability to receive and transmit spiritual experience.

Q. What are five things you always carry with you?

A. Consciousness of the nearness of my creator. The certainty that my life is not my own, it is only a vehicle for that which transformed me. The knowledge that every person has the opportunity to begin life again at this moment (relapse is not necessary to begin again). The joy of the second life and inflicting that on everyone I see and at some moment, I will see evidence that I live in an intelligent universe.

Q. What is your biggest fear?

A. That my lover will discover how shallow I really am.

Q. Where do you go when you want to be alone?

A. I go to the ridge overlooking Cathedral Rock.

Q. What is your biggest regret?

A. I have two people that I was unable to make direct amends to because I couldn’t find them and that I would have caused more harm if I engaged with them.

Q. What is the greatest risk you’ve ever taken?

A. Getting down on my knees and asking for help from something I have no desire to be able to
articulate to help me not to drink and on all five occasions, it passed.

Q. What is something you are currently curious about?

A. Whether there is a living trumpet medium.

Q. What book would you most like to see turned into a movie or TV show that hasn’t already been adapted?

A. Paul Brunton, The Secret Life of India.

Q. What is the hardest amends you’ve ever had to make?

A. To my daughter for leaving her and her mother when she was five.

Q. How important is human connection?

A. Without the believing mirror of another spiritual being in human form I am unable to recognize myself and the evolution of my spirit.