Three talks by R. C. ZAEHNER , Spalding Professor of Eastern Religions and Ethics in the University of Oxford, and Fellow of All Souls College 3: Salvation through Death
Professor Zaehner suggests that until the churches recapture the mystical element in Christianity, which means the death of self, they will have failed. This is what Zen has to offer - the death of the empirical self and the discovery of man's timeless dimension. He recognises that drugs can produce this timeless experience, but at a terrible risk.