Was listening to an Alan Watts on a walk yesterday afternoon and my ears perked up when the woman questioner mentioned "too much Social Action." Watts was speaking to a group of psychologists at a 1971 conference on Western therapy and Eastern religions. He was playing the role of a role of a clinical patient who realizes they’re God and answering questions posed to him by the psychiatrists...

"Questioner:

There’s a certain danger, isn’t there, in everything and everyone being God? Because if you’ve really found yourself as God, then you know that certain things you, as God, have created—things that don’t personally affect you—you’ve created for a reason. You stay out of them and go on and do good.
But if you think you’re God, and then try to go into too much social action, trying to change the evils of the world, you end up hurting yourself—and a lot of people. You’re playing God, but you’re not really being God.

Watts (as God):

Well, I admit to you, my dear, this is a very, very dangerous conversation. And I thoroughly agree with you. But we didn’t come here, did we, to play it safe?
All profound ideas and profound questions are dangerous. It’s dangerous to go into science—as we all know too well. It’s dangerous to go into medicine. Dangerous to go into writing, because the pen is often mightier than the sword. So, I don’t think we should withdraw from certain things merely because they’re dangerous.

If I were, as it were, in the spirit of God, and went about social reform, I’d be failing to realize the construction of my own universe. Because when you interfere with it, you’ve got to know exactly how you’re interfering. Otherwise, the most amazingly unexpected things will happen.

So when people ask for miracles, they don’t realize what miracles involve.
If I turned this microphone into a rabbit, it’s entirely possible that you might drop dead—because those events might be connected."