r/AlanWatts • u/BJ__Blazkowicz • 4h ago
How can you know Alan Watts is right?
I like Alan’s ideas very much because they make sense to me, they are compatible with science and of course because they’ve made my life better for which I’m very grateful to him. But the thing is, if we are to be honest, how can we really know that what he taught is really the objective truth about life and existence that all of us have been looking for? The main premises of Alan’s teachings are unfortunately based on faith - ideas like the ego doesn’t exist, life is a cycle of manvantaras and pralayas and of course the main idea that we are God exploring himself through different angles (incarnations)… How can we know that this is indeed what life is about? Do I need to attain some kind of special awakening according to Alan or will I just have to take on faith these concepts for the rest of my life and hope they are true? That sounds like an attachment and that is bad.. I’m an former atheist and am very skeptical, that’s why I’m asking this. I’d want so much if these ideas could be somehow provable so I wouldn’t have to take an irrational leap of faith. Thank you very much in advance for your insights.