""We think that good theology means I got my knowledge from Rabbi So-And-So who got it from Rabbi So-And-So who got it from Rabbi-So-And-So who got it from Moses. But in any such infinite regression, the mistake is probably made in the first step. Perhaps knowledge starts from the present, and the past trails back from the present like the wake from a ship...The real 'Imitation of Christ' is finding what Christ found.""
""Alan Watts was perhaps the most misunderstood philosopher of our time. He was a poet, a scholar, a prodigious writer who preferred to let his words speak for themselves, undocumented. "In this society, the more the footnotes, the more the authority is really to be the author, to speak for oneself." For this very reason, Alan Watts has been dubbed by some "a popularizer." He, more than any other, introduced Eastern religions to the West,""
Alan Watts combined poetic language, scholarship, and provocative wit to introduce Eastern religions to Western audiences while resisting academic or institutional validation. He preferred undocumented expression and criticized reliance on footnotes as misplaced authority. He challenged traditional theological lineage, proposing that knowledge begins in the present with the past trailing behind, and equated genuine spiritual imitation with finding what Christ found. He embraced the label "popularizer" and described himself as a philosophical entertainer and rascal. He rejected religious, social, and linguistic conventions as forms of bondage and enacted playful, unconventional behavior to exemplify that freedom.
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