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"Between Western psychology psychiatry and psychotherapy, and the so-called religions of Asia, there is common ground because both are interested in changing states of human consciousness, whereas institutional Western religions; Christianity, Judaism, and even Islam, are relatively less interested in this matter.

Western religions are more concerned with behavior, doctrine, and belief, than with any transformation of the way in which we are aware of ourselves and the world. But this matter concerns psychiatry and psychology very much only those states of consciousness which are not normal are usually treated in Western psychology as being in some way sick." - Alan Watts