Ep. 6 – On Being God
Alan Watts Being in the Way
Psychiatry and Western Religion
Sati patana is the name of a certain kind of buddhist meditation. A voice suddenly said to me, you practise sati patana? i looked up and there was skinny buddhist monk in yellow robe with rather red eyes looking at me. I use a different method. It's called zen. But official psychiatry has curious things in common with western religion - it inclines to regard other states of consciousness than the ordinary as sick. The great heresy was first in the west, committed by no less person than jesus christ, who believed himself to be god. For he said, i and the father are one. He who has seen me has seen the father
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