Alan Watts and his writings

Way back I read a few books by Alan Watts. Not totally impressed, and I left the guy behind with thoughts that he was maybe a bit superficial and new agey. But a few years ago after a long journey of my own - call it an inner journey but maybe that seems a bit pretentious - I picked up a book of his in zen, and it was very good. Hit the mark. Since then I dipped into a few others by him and they are quite impressive.

One I am reading at the moment, "Beyond Theology: The Art of Godmanship" , is particularly good. Chapter Three very much so, "How must we have faith".

Anyone else know of him?

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There is, of course, no satisfactory way of arguing the merits of any one of the great world religions against the others. In all such debates the judge and the advocate are the same person, for a man judges his own religion the best simply because the standard he uses is that of his own religious upbringing. Almost all apologies for the superiority of one religion over others come down to this tediously circular argument.

(Alan Watts)