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A compelling read. As I dip my toes into philosophy and mythology, Watts and Campbell have been incredible teachers. This will be a book. I will revisit from time-to-time, especially the first two chapters that need more care and attention.

The second half of this enlightening account gets more scandalous with its storytelling, where the gods and sources of creation reveal their dirty minds, where all of it is a reflection of the authors of these myths and mysteries: the humans who look around their immediate surroundings and think something else must be going on. Takes a mind like Watts to elucidate that this something is really some things in dualism.

Very unlike most of Watts’ writing, where he hands over the authorial voice to ancient sages and storytellers, quoting passages at length from Lao-tzu, I Ching, Mahabharata and Bardo Thōdol that it seems a bit superfluous to have his name on the front of the book. However the off-kilter advice these quotes provide are important components of Watts’ worldview worthy of deep exploration.