This Is It: and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience
By Alan Watts
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With essays on “cosmic consciousness” (including Alan Watts’ account of his own ventures into this inward realm); the paradoxes of self-consciousness; LSD and consciousness; and the false opposition of spirit and matter, This Is It and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience is a truly mind-opening collection.
Alan Watts
Alan Watts published over 25 books, including The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, The Way of Zen and Tao: The Watercourse Way. He was a philosopher, academic and theologian, who wrote and spoke widely on Asian philosophy and theology. He is best known as an interpreter of Zen Buddhism in particular, and of Indian and Chinese philosophy in general. He was the author of more than twenty books on the philosophy and psychology of religion. He died in 1973.
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Reviews for This Is It
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Remarkable for his commentary on Kerouac and "Dharma Bums"
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The first book I ever picked up solely because of its cover, which reminded me of an incredible experience I had had. And reading this book definitely elucidated that experience. Alan Watts is wonderful medicine.