“modern man is therefore indifferent to religion as he knows it, and yet his nervous recklessness, his chronic sense of frustration, his love of sensationalism as an escape, his fitful use of every substitute for religion from state-worship to getting drunk, show his soul still desires that release from itself, that infusion of life and meaning through being possessed by a power greater than itself, which is found perfectly in union with God alone.”

— Alan Watts, Behold the Spirit