Alan Watts: The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

This book explores an unrecognised but mighty taboo our tacit conspiracy to ignore who, or what, we really are...
ISBN: 9780285638532
Author: Alan Watts
Page: 176
Binding: Soft cover
Publication date: 2009
Format: Book
Publisher: PROFILE BOOKS
Language: English

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We are therefore in urgent need of a sense of our own existence which is in accord with the physical facts and which over comes our feeling of alienation from the universe. Alan Watts asks what is the cause of the illusion that the self is a separate ego, housed in a bag of skin, and which confronts a universe of physical objects that are alien to it. Rather a person s identity (their ego) binds them to the physical universe, creating a relationship with their environment and other people. The separation of the self and the physical world leads to the misuse of technology and the attempt to violently subjugate man s natural environment, leading to its destruction. Explaining man s role in the universe as a unique expression of the total universe, and interdependent on it, Alan Watts offers a new understanding of personal identity. It reveals the mystery of existence, presenting an alternative to the feelings of alienation that is prevalent in Western society, and a vision of how we can come to underst

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