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.
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.
@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.
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.