
Alan Watts Philosophy Lecture
Alan Watts Lectures
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The Transformation of Human Consciousness Through Meditation Is Frustrated
If you're going to say I'm God, you must allow it for everyone else too. But this was a heretical idea from the point of view of Hebrew theology. So what they did with Jesus was they pedestalized him. That means kicked him upstairs so that he wouldn't be able to influence anyone else. And only you may be God. And that stopped the gospel cold right at the beginning. It couldn't spread. Well anyway, this is therefore to say that the transformation of human consciousness through meditation is frustrated. If we think of it in terms of something that I myself can bring about, by some kind of wangle, by some sort of gimmick, because you see
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