Alan Watts: The Natural Environment and Religion

Watts critiques our scholastic obsessions and urges an experiential approach to life, blending the spiritual and concrete like a Zen gardener planting mysteries among truths. He laments our sterile materialism and bureaucratic rigidity, championing a dance with risk, creativity, and nonverbal wisdom. With tales of mystics, scientists, and madmen, he celebrates the spice of oddballs, the necessity of nonsense, and the ineffable richness of being alive.