(December 24, 2014 at 2:32 pm)JaceDeanLove Wrote: Sorry for the shortness. I'm curious about what everyone thinks of Alan Watts and his ideas.
I read "The Supreme Identity" and "Behold the Spirit."
Not sure about his ideas, but I remember his words "beyond theology" to be very descriptive of the state of mind Joseph endured while Christ was born onto him.
We can call this 'beyond reason' as non-rational, and I place this just opposite to the famous 'altar call' event [of any sort] when searching souls accept Jesus as their Lord and savior . . . as if something is wrong with them and they need a crutch to lean on with the promise made of better days ahead after they die.
In his lean towards Zen, Watts called this an abomination that I would call a fornication of the [so called] child within because a partial enlightenment is provoked by the 'public exhibition' (often including some sort of a confession) that surrounds the event.
This would be just opposite to the Gospel's "thief in the night" that Zen tries to provoke with it's subtle Zen technique, that is believed can do this on its own. A rosary can do the same, and in Africa they try it with placing peas from one pot into another and back again the next day. All they are trying to do is reach this 'relaxed' (?) state of mind that he called 'beyond theology' for a spark to fly from our left to our right, while the evangelist tries to yank a rip in the hymen between our left and our right . . . and they will be singing "I have seen the light" from that moment on and Jesus is alive in them, so they say.
Not sure why Watts became a drunk, and why would he, someone might ask.
