[The Book on The Taboo] came out at a time of unprecedented spiritual agony for a new USA generation in the late 1960s. They were being called up by lottery for a war few believed in, that was being waged against a Buddhist nation. Watts, a Buddhist scholar, taught in Sausalito, at the very gate to Asia, where warships passed his houseboat every day, leaving San Francisco Bay for Pacific bases. Thousands of war resisters read this book, and had their lives changed by it. It must be one of the most powerful spiritual tracts ever penned, yet Alan Watts has become a non-person in his native English culture. His ideas about changing Christianity from an instrument of royalist domination to a liturgy of nature and renewal have been utterly ignored and rejected, with the predictable result: an irrelevant priesthood preaching to empty churches while Christian man destroys the planet.
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Would you care to step outside, sir! 
