Behold the Spirit, Alan Watts
Behold the Spirit, Alan Watts
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Behold the Spirit
A Study in the Necessity of Mystical Religion

Author: Alan Watts

Narrator: Jeremy Stockwell

Unabridged: 10 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/06/2022

Synopsis

"The perfect guide for a course correction in life" (Deepak Chopra) that teaches us how to enjoy a deeper, more meaningful relationship with the spiritual in our present troubled times.

Drawing on his experiences as a former priest, Watts skillfully explains how the intuition of Eastern religion—Zen Buddhism, in particular—can be incorporated into the doctrines of Western Christianity, offering a timeless argument for the place of mystical religion in today’s world.

About Alan Watts

Alan Watts, one-time professional meteorologist, spent considerable time studying wind changes and short-term alterations in the weather. This, combined with his enthusiasm for sailing which began with the sea scouts, enabled him to assist people to read the weather from the signs in the sky. He died in May 2020.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Matt on December 06, 2008

I used to think I'd never touch theology with a ten-foot-pole, but this book was a pole-vault over a mountain of misgivings right into lap of mysticism, Christian or otherwise. Watts is most famous for popularizing and interpreting Eastern Mysticism/Religion for the public in the 60's and 70's, but......more

Goodreads review by Wally on June 10, 2010

Behold the Spirit: A Study in the Necessity of Mystical Religion is one of the best books on theology I have ever read. Alan Watts separates the "earn your way to heaven" theology of the legalistic religions from the simple gospel of grace and redemption found in the Bible.The author has a gift of t......more

Goodreads review by Claudia on December 27, 2007

The only method is giving up method......more

Goodreads review by Hans on July 07, 2012

Growing up I suffered severe disillusionment with the religious establishment, organized religion being guilty of crimes worse than most shady politicians and even governments. By the words of Christ "By their fruits ye shall know them" they seemed condemned. This book did more to restore my faith i......more

Goodreads review by Patricia on September 25, 2013

Behold the Spirit by Alan Watts-- I found this book at a used book sale at our library more than 10 years ago and I reread it at least once a year,discovering something new and meaningful each time.. The inside covers of my copy are full of notes and page after page contains underlined passages. The......more

Quotes

"I regard [the] book as one of the best—in fact the only first-rate—book in recent years in the field of religion. It gets to the fundamental problem, it honestly sees the weaknesses of contemporary Protestantism, and it attempts to diagnose and cure the evil in the only way a cure can be effected, namely by a doctrine with content at the basic metaphysical level.

"It also goes further than this, recognizing contributions from Oriental religion which simply are not present in contemporary Western religion. More than this it shows how the traditional Western doctrine of the Incarnation and the Atonement can be reconciled with and combined with the intuitive religion of the Orient, such as that of Zen Buddhism. These are exceedingly important and outstanding achievements."—F.S.C. Northrop

"Behold the Spirit will, I think, prove to be one of the half-dozen most significant books on religion published in the twentieth century."—Canon Iddings Bell

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