Wake UP !!!! Allan Watts
That the point that I wish to make most strongly is that behind a vital religious life for the West there has to be a faith which is not expressed in things to which you cling, in ideas, opinions to which you cling in a kind of desperation. Faith is the act of letting go, and that must begin with letting go of God. Let God go. But, you see, this is not atheism in the ordinary sense. Atheism in the ordinary sense is fervently hoping that there isn’t a God. It has become extremely plausible that this trip between the maternity ward and the crematorium is what there is to life. And we still have going into our common sense the 19th century myth, which succeeded the ceramic myth in Western history. I call it ‘The myth of the fully automatic model of the universe’. Namely, that it’s stupid, it’s blind force, it’s Heinkels gyrations , or fortuitous congress of atoms, is at the same vintage as Freud’s libido, the blind surge of lust at the basis of human psychology. But, when you conside