Whatever one thinks of Alan Watts (and I know in your case, Paul, that's not very much) he does in this lecture illuminate two very different ways of thinking of Christ, one common and one effectively obfuscated by the Church. Those ways are, first, as a singular, extraordinary being/event, or second, as a mystic showing the way for any …
Whatever one thinks of Alan Watts (and I know in your case, Paul, that's not very much) he does in this lecture illuminate two very different ways of thinking of Christ, one common and one effectively obfuscated by the Church. Those ways are, first, as a singular, extraordinary being/event, or second, as a mystic showing the way for any willing to follow.
If in fact this second, mystic Jesus, is the correct understanding of the "Good News", your conversion experience was perhaps not a call from Christ, but rather a Christ-like or Christ-experience:
Whatever one thinks of Alan Watts (and I know in your case, Paul, that's not very much) he does in this lecture illuminate two very different ways of thinking of Christ, one common and one effectively obfuscated by the Church. Those ways are, first, as a singular, extraordinary being/event, or second, as a mystic showing the way for any willing to follow.
If in fact this second, mystic Jesus, is the correct understanding of the "Good News", your conversion experience was perhaps not a call from Christ, but rather a Christ-like or Christ-experience:
https://youtu.be/avN_gQ7NC0I