Alan Watts was a British philosopher, writer, and speaker known for interpreting and popularizing Buddhism, Taoism, and Hinduism for the Western world. He published over 25 books inviting you to explore your inner self. He was very adept at translating difficult philosophical and religious concepts in a way that made them intelligible to large numbers of people.
Pick up his book, The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for the Age of Anxiety, if you want a taste of his ideas.
With respect to this quote---the forest can be an inner place, something you can find anywhere at any time by returning to the breath.
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Robin Roberston is a clinical psychologist whose works you may not know but which are some of my favourites. His interests are broad –Jungian archetypes, chaos theory, the path of individuation as mapped out in “The Lord of the Rings.” He passed away in 2021. In an article that appeared in Psychological Perspectives, he was remembered in this way:
“Robin was a Renaissance Man of the mind who was master of his material, whether he was discussing the shadow of wholeness, or the mathematical proof of an archetypal process (with real-world examples). Robin argued he could not even write without an authorization coming in some sense from his deepest inner reality. Authenticity was his leader in this regard. Conversations with him were often scintillating (and Robin often wrote about the scintillae), and his critical insights and judgments were helpful and instructive.”
Books he wrote and that I love include: Jung and Frodo, Indra’s Net, Jungian Archetypes, The Shadow’s Gifts.
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