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MYTH AND RELIGION THE EDITED TRANSCRIPTS ALAN WATTS at a seminar aboard the SS Valle;o, 1966 MYTH AND RELIGION THE EDITED TRANSCRIPTS Charles Tuttle Co., Inc. E. Boston+ Rutland, Vermont+ Tokyo Publisihnce hdUe n icSecda rien1s9 9 6 by CharlEe.Ts u ccCloem panIyn,co .f RuclVaenrmdo,n &t TokyJoa,p an, wicehd itooriffiaclea sc1 5 3 MilSkc reBeocs,t oMna,s sachu0s21e0t9. ts Copyrig©h t1996 MarWka ccs Allri ghtrse servNeodp .a roefc hipsu blicmaatyib oern e produced, scorienad r etriesvyaslt oermc ,r ansmiinca cneyfod rm orb ya ny meanesl,e ctrmoencihca,n ipchaolt,o copryeicnogr,do iron tgh,e rwise, wichoupcr ipoerrm issfirooncm h peu blisher. LibroafrC yo ngrCeascsa Claogrn du mbe96r- 60087 ISBN0- 8048-3055-X Phoccoo urteosfAy l aWna ccElse ctroEndiucc atiPornoagrla ms FirEsdti tion 00 99 98 97 96 l 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 Printiendc hUen itSecda roefAs m erica Westecrnro iliziasit nia so tna otfce h aoIsth. a lso esffte ctive knowledogfme a n'tsr unea tuarnedd estNieniyt.ph heirl osophy norrc !iagsit ohnrya rkcn ownt oddaoym uctho g ivmea nt he conscioutshnatethsd ese epcecsntto er"r g rouonfhd i"bs e iinstg o bef ounidnt haett ernarle alwihryi cihsi nt hWee scta llGeodd . -Alan Watts, 1951 COt'1TENTS Introduction lX I.U ltimAautteh ority 1 II.NotWh at ShouBled, ButWh at Is! 19 IIIJ.esus-HRiesl igoirot nh,e ReligAiboonu Hti m? 9 3 N. Democraicnty h Kien gdom OfH eaven SS v. The ImagoefsM an 73 VI. ReligainodSn e xuality 91 INTRODUCTION D uring his last television appearance in 1973 Alan Watts was asked what it was he found lacking in modern Christianity that led him toward Far Eastern philosophies, and he replied that it was an experiential basis. Simply put, the knowledge of transcendental or mystical experience has been lost in the mythology of modern Western religions, and with it has disappeared the original source of spiri tual authority. In the West ultimate authority is based on "the word of God" as it has been handed down to us as part of a mythotOgy in which humans are the creations of a
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