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Myth and Religion: The Edited Transcripts

by Alan Watts

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Although he is best known as a masterful interpreter of Eastern thought, Alan Watts is also recognized in theological circles as a brilliant commentator on the Judeo-Christian traditions. His early books on the Western religions, The Supreme Identity and Behold the Spirit, reflect Wattss years as an Episcopalian minister, an experience that later enabled him to reflect insightfully on the way religious myths influence Western world views. This series of six controversial lectures challenges listeners to go beyond their usual mindsets to startling revelations about our most deep-rooted intellectual constructs. Not for the faint of heart!… (more)
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“I am a son of God,” well there’s the whole thing in a nutshell. If you read the King James Bible, you will see in italics, in front of the words “son of God,” THE “son of God.” Most people think the italics are for emphasis. They’re not. The italics indicate words interpolated by the translators. You will not find that in the Greek. In the Greek it says, a son of God.

It seems to me here perfectly plain. That Jesus has got it in the back of his mind that this isn’t something peculiar to himself. So when he says, “I am the Way, no Man comes to the Father but by me.” This “I am” this “Me” is the divine in us.

We are sons of, or of the nature of God. Manifestations of the divine. This discovery is the gospel. That is the Good News. But this has been perpetually repressed throughout the history of Western religion.
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Although he is best known as a masterful interpreter of Eastern thought, Alan Watts is also recognized in theological circles as a brilliant commentator on the Judeo-Christian traditions. His early books on the Western religions, The Supreme Identity and Behold the Spirit, reflect Wattss years as an Episcopalian minister, an experience that later enabled him to reflect insightfully on the way religious myths influence Western world views. This series of six controversial lectures challenges listeners to go beyond their usual mindsets to startling revelations about our most deep-rooted intellectual constructs. Not for the faint of heart!

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