Posted: Mar 20, 2011 7:43 pm
SpeedOfSound wrote:cavarka9 wrote:SpeedOfSound wrote:
Hope I didn't misread this. You want to know about him? Me too. I read his stuff when I was a teen and I'm re-reading it now forty years later. Back when i first got into Watts I was struggling with hallucinations, suicidal depression and a nearly lethal overdose of existentialism and skepticism. His influence was the single most important element of how I use AA today and what I have cobbled together as a rabid atheistic mysticism.
I can't find a damned thing in his work so far that makes me think he is not an atheist. He is more like the Carl Sagan of the human spirit.
I would want to know about him,
he was a sort of traveler, few videos I saw were good
This may be the place to discuss him seeing as he died of alcoholism and I attribute my not meeting the same fate to him more-so than AA. If he had not given me a secular way to approach spirituality I doubt I would be alive. This is the conundrum of any intelligent atheist walking into AA for the first time. Watts is my Rosetta stone for translating AA into atheism.
Do tell what you read of him