What to Tell Children About God by Alan Watts

Myth . . . is the form in which I try to answer when children ask me those fundamental metaphysical questions which come so readily to their minds: “Where did the world come from?” “Why did God make the world?” “Where was I before I was born?” “Where do people go when they die?” Again [...]

The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan Watts

This feeling of being lonely and very temporary visitors in the universe is in flat contradiction to everything know about man (and all other living organisms) in the sciences. We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual [...]

Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth’s Lost Civilization by Graham Hancock

What is prehistory, after all, if not a time forgotten – a time for which we have no records? Could it be that the myths themselves are historical records? Could it be that these cunning and immortal stories, composed by anonymous geniuses, were the medium used to record such information and pass it on in [...]

Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder

He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.  – Goethe Who am I? Where does the world come from? Why are we here? The Garden of Eden At some point something must have come from nothing. Only conjuring up an intense feeling of one day being dead could one [...]