I read The Wisdom of Insecurity by #AlanWatts yesterday. Although it didn't start there, I kind of regret the militancy of my formerly militant agnosticism. One thing my journey of the past few years has made clear: rational skepticism is not the One True Way Of Being, not by a long shot.
I can tell this is a book I'll understand better after another couple years on my path. Which is faintly ironic if you're familiar with it.
This isn't the first echo I've had lately from that time in undergrad. Ending up at a Zen Buddhist temple quite by accident was the first one, a few months ago. I choose to interpret these sorts of occurrences as the multiverse telling me to #payattention.
@muninn As one does.
@thegibson How convenient that I've kept that book with me for fifteen years without ever finishing it and that it was sitting three feet from me just now.
@muninn Pay Attention.
@muninn I have been on the path seriously for five years. Some of those arcane zen phrases are starting to make sense. I would suggest reading the Untethered Soul by Michael Singer. Fantastic in my opinion.
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Don't know how I missed this toot before! Thanks!
Aaand now, in the wiki article on #AlanWatts, there's a tie-in to #AldousHuxley and his last novel Island, which was also the final book in a dystopian fiction comp-lit class I once took with a very memorable and admirable professor who was definitely using his position in academia to influence young minds in a good way. I never did finish Island. I think it's time now, all these years later.