Behold the Spirit: A Study in the Necessity of Mystical Religion

Just as groundbreaking today as it was when it first appeared, Behold the Spirit is philosopher Alan Watts’s timeless argument for the place of mystical religion in today’s world. Drawing on his experiences as a former priest, Watts skillfully explains how the intuition of Eastern religion—Zen Buddhism, in particular—can be incorporated into the doctrines of Western Christianity, allowing people of all creeds to enjoy a deeper, more meaningful relationship with the spiritual in our present troubled times.

• Become What You Are
• The Meaning of Happiness: The Quest for Freedom of the Spirit in Modern Psychology and the Wisdom of the East
• The Supreme Identity
• Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence, and the Cosmic Game of Hide and Seek
• Cloud-hidden, Whereabouts Unknown: A Mountain Journal
• This Is It: and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience
• The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
• Nature, Man and Woman
• The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
• Myth And Ritual In Christianity