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The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
The Book On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are Author:Alan Watts In The Book Alan Watts attacks the problem of alienation head-on, and lays down specific guidelines for a new experience of life that incorporates the essence of his insights into Western science and Eastern intuition. In formulating his own solutions to the urgent problem of personal identity, Dr. Watts modernizes and restates the ancient Hindu... more » philosophy of Vedanta, demonstrating its power as a means for breaking through our world of cool relationships, canned lives, and outsider anxieties. In such chapters as "How To Be a Genuine Fake," "The World Is Your Body," and "It," he persuades the reader to a self-examination that shatters "the big lie and hallucination" of alienation. A summary statement of Alan Watts' investigations into the nature of the self, The Book offers a fresh and provocative answer to the question "Who am I?"« less
This eye-opening book is one of the author's true classics. Your ideas and perceptions of yourself and "reality" will be changed after reading this gem.
This book TOTALLY blew my mind. I'm STILL chewing it over. I think I have to re-read it many times to totally get it all. It changed the way I think about pretty much everything.