Alan Watts
But what we've got going wrong is we've got a kind of bifurcation [in cultural development]: You take your classified telephone directory, and open up "Churches", and have a ruler in your hand. And you will find that the longest space is occupied by , Bible-banging churches. And these people are barbarians, who take the written word of the Bible literally. Because they need terribly, they have a personal need, for something to depend on. … Therealizes that there is a very large number of people like that; and therefore, to keep their , they have to pander to those kind of people. And these are the boys who never grew up; they always need Papa. … The trouble is that the boys who need Papa, are violent. They have the . And they are the types of people who like to be soldiers, policemen— tough guys. And therefore they have a great deal of . — Alan Watts people If you awaken from this illusion, and you understand that black implies white,implies other,implies— or shall I say,implies life — you can conceive yourself. Not conceive, butyourself, not as ain the , not as someone here on sufferance, on probation, not as something that has arrived here by fluke, but you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental. What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself. So, say in Hindu mythology, they say that the world is the drama of . God is not something in Hindu mythology with a white beard that sits on a throne, that has royal perogatives. God in Indian mythology is the self, . Which means , that which is, chit, that which is consciousness; that which isis . In other words, what exists,itself is gorgeous, it is the fullness of total . — Alan Watts life
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