Behold the Spirit

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, offering a timeless argument for the place of mystical religion in today's world. "I regard [the] book as one of the best, in fact the only first-rate-book in recent years in the field of religion. It gets to the fundamental problem, it honestly sees the weaknesses of contemporary Protestantism, and it attempts to diagnose and cure the evil in the only way a cure can be affected, namely by a doctrine with content at the basic metaphysical level.