Steppers, answer me this...

It's like a fingerprint with you.

Boniface is a name. The one in question is also a Saint. You can't look up the definition of people. You can look up people's opinions of people. Try Danny Bennison on fornits - quite an eye opener.

“One turned up the other day calling himself Boniface. Said he was a Benedictine missionary and English. Had been a man of learning, knew missionary work and a lot about structures. I think he said this all the more modestly but that was the gist of it. I’d never heard of this gentleman but he checked out pretty well in the Encyclopedia. If this one is who he says he is—and of course there is no way of knowing—would this be licit contact in your book?”

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- Bill Wilson; AA co-founder. In a letter to Father Ed Dowling. Describing his encounter ghostly encounter with Boniface, the 15th-century monk who Bill claims dictated to him the book Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions.

I have not been able to find a quote from Bill that unequivocally states that Boniface dictated the 12&12 to him. I must not be looking at the same references some of you people are.
I have heard 2nd and 3rd parties say this but not Bill himself. I could be mistaken.

Yuppie, you don't believe there exist a parallel universe, a spiritual world, ghosts, people from the dead who speak or something like I am describing.
If not life must be boring.

YuppieMonkey, agreed. Either way, BATSHITCRAZY!!

You're not thinking clearly. They are definitely two different things. Talking to a dead person is not at all uncommon; many people, if not most people, engage in this behavior at some time during their lives, when a loved one dies and they are reminded of that loved one in some way. There is nothing unnatural or unbalanced about it. It's no different than telling a refrigerator you hope it keeps things cool all night when the power goes off, or a suitor telling a bunch of flowers, "Do your best to make a good impression on Mary!"

Many Catholics (and Bill was a Catholic, if I'm not mistaken) speak to the saints in times of trial, such as when an article is lost (St. Anthony) or they are faced with a tax audit (St. Jude). It is part of the nomenclature of the religion and it is quite common. If Bill Wilson believed he was being guided by Boniface, then he drew some sort of inspiration from the saint in whom he believed. You can call it bat shit crazy if you must, but I find that right disrespectful toward not only Bill Wilson but toward all human beings who put faith in the unknown. Where is your humanity? Where is your tolerance? Or are you a person who is so wrapped up in himself that he insists his way is the only way and all others are full of shit? What is it that makes you so intolerant, so hateful, so narrow-minded, so arrogant and flip? You regularly pop in here to pick and choose the people whom you think you can insult with the least amount of effort and thought, and then you go back to your allegedly satisfying life of glory and fulfillment. I don't buy that scenario for a moment. A truly happy person wouldn't have to stoop to shit like that. But if living above the surface of the ground, without contact and compassion, keeps you breathing, have at it.