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Index
Cover
Titel
Copyright
Contents
List of Illustrations
Editors’ Preface
Introduction: Alan Watts and the Academic Enterprise
Pomp and Circumstance
Aims and Scope: Validity, Reliability, Necessity
The Whole and Its Parts
Part 1: Language and Mysticism
Part 2: Buddhism and Zen
Part 3: Christianity
Part 4: Comparative Religion
Part 5: Psychedelics
Part 6: Psychology and Psychotherapy
Alan Watts Reconsidered
References
Part One Language and Mysticism
Chapter One On the Meaning and Relation of Absolute and Relative (1950)
Do You Ever Wonder?
Our Incomplete Map of Life
Beyond Time and Space
Reference
Chapter Two The Negative Way (1951)
Chapter Three The Language of Metaphysical Experience: The Sense of Non-Sense (1953)
Notes
References
Chapter Four On Philosophical Synthesis (1953)
Chapter Five Philosophy beyond Words (1975)
Note
References
Part Two Buddhism and Zen
Chapter Six The Problem of Faith and Works in Buddhism (1941)
Notes
References
Chapter Seven Zen (1948)
Introduction
The Background in Indian Religion
The Background in Chinese Religion
The Momentous Harmony
Direct Pointing
Zen Meditation
The Cultural Effects of Zen
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter Eight The Way of Liberation in Zen Buddhism (1955)
English Notes
Chinese Notes
Chapter Nine Beat Zen, Square Zen, and Zen (1958)
Note
Chapter Ten Zen and Politics (1962)
Note
References
Chapter Eleven Prefatory Essay to Suzuki’s Outlines of Mahayana Buddhism (1963)
Notes
References
Part Three Christianity
Chapter Twelve Theologia Mystica: Being the Treatise of Saint Dionysius Pseudo-Areopagite on Mystical Theology, Together with the First and Fifth Epistles (1944)
Introduction
On Mystical Theology: The Treatise of St. Dionysius to Timothy
I. Of the Divine Darkness.
II. In what manner we must needs be united with God, and of the praise of the Maker of all things, who is above all.
III. What may be affirmed of Divine Truth, and what denied.
IV. That He partakes not of sensible things who is preeminently their Maker.
V. That He partakes not of intelligible things who is preeminently their Maker.
From the Epistles
Epistle I, To Gaius Therapeutes
Epistle V, To Dorotheus Liturgus
Notes
References
Chapter Thirteen The Case for God (1946)
The Evidence of the Universe and Man
The Five Proofs of St. Thomas
The Nature of God
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter Fourteen The Meaning of Priesthood (1946)
Notes
Chapter Fifteen The Christian Doctrine of Marriage (1946)
Note
Part Four Comparative Religion
Chapter Sixteen Worship in Sacrament and Silence (1964/1971)
Chapter Seventeen Western Mythology: Its Dissolution and Transformation (1970)
Chapter Eighteen The Future of Religion (1970)
The Hindu Conception of God
The Hebrew-Christian Morality
New Concepts of Religion
Speculations on “Religion” of the Future
Notes
References
Chapter Nineteen Unity in Contemplation (1974)
Note
Reference
Part Five Psychedelics
Chapter Twenty The Individual as Man/World (1963)
References
Chapter Twenty-One A Psychedelic Experience: Fact or Fantasy? (1964)
Chapter Twenty-Two Psychedelics and Religious Experience (1968)
Notes
References
Chapter Twenty-Three Ordinary Mind Is the Way (1971)
Part Six Psychology and Psychotherapy
Chapter Twenty-Four Asian Psychology and Modern Psychiatry (1953)
The “Ego” as an Abstraction
Western “Wrong-Awareness”
“Inspired Spontaneity”
Notes
References
Chapter Twenty-Five Convention, Conflict, and Liberation: Further Observations on Asian Psychology and Modern Psychiatry (1956)
Notes
References
Chapter Twenty-Six Eternity as the Unrepressed Body (1959)
Reference
Chapter Twenty-Seven Oriental and Occidental Approaches to the Nature of Man (1962)
Chapter Twenty-Eight The Woman in Man (1963)
Chapter Twenty-Nine An Interview with Alan Watts (1969)
Chapter Thirty Psychotherapy and Eastern Religion: Metaphysical Bases of Psychiatry (1974)
References
Appendix: Academic and Literary Reviews of Watts’ Major Texts
The Spirit of Zen: A Way of Life, Work, and Art in the Far East (1936)
The Legacy of Asia and Western Man: A Study of the Middle Way (1937)
The Meaning of Happiness: The Quest for Freedom of the Spirit in Modern Psychology and the Wisdom of the East (1940)
Behold the Spirit: A Study in the Necessity of Mystical Religion (1947)
Easter: Its Story and Meaning (1950)
The Supreme Identity: An Essay on Oriental Metaphysic and Christian Religion (1950)
The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety (1951)
Myth and Ritual in Christianity (1953)
The Way of Zen (1957)
Nature, Man and Woman (1958)
This is IT, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience (1960)
Psychotherapy East and West (1961)
The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness (1962)
The Two Hands of God: The Myths of Polarity [Patterns of Myth series, Vol. 2] (1963)
Beyond Theology: The Art of Godmanship (1964)
The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (1966)
Tao: The Watercourse Way (1975)
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Index
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