Ebook {Epub PDF} The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan W. Watts

THE BOOK On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are ALAN WATTS Alan Watts, who died in , held both a master's degree in theology and a doctorate of divinity, and was best known as an interpreter of Zen Buddhism in particular, and of Indian and Chinese philosophy in general. He was the. The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing who You are: Author: Alan Watts: Edition: reprint, reissue: Publisher: Vintage Books, ISBN: , Length: pages: Subjects4/5(15). It's beautifully written - Alan Watts sure knew how to turn a phrase. Elegant language and complex thought, with no academic jargon sight. Although it's not always easy reading. This book deals with the meaning and substance of life, so the ideas may require a bit of time to digest. But Alan Watts talks to the reader like a friend and like an bltadwin.ru by:

The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are Paperback - Illustrated, Aug. 28 by Alan Watts (Author) › Visit Amazon's Alan Watts page. Find all the books, read about the author and more. See search results for this author. Alan Watts (Author) out. Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, Paperback by Watts, Alan, ISBN , ISBN , Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Drawing upon ancient Hindu philosophy, the author explores the human psyche and the importance of personal identity. $ Although I'd first heard of Alan Watts' The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are several years ago, it wasn't until I watched Dakota Wint's YouTube video Top 5 Books Every New Spiritual Seeker Needs that I was motivated enough to actually check it out.

Watts describes his book as an attack against the notion that we are individual egos in bodies. I have come to accept this position for various reasons. Among them are: I have memories of being all sorts of creatures. The point is to get with it, to let it take over - fear, ghosts, pains, transience, dissolution, and all. And then comes the hitherto unbelievable surprise; you don't die because you were never born. You had just forgotten who you are.”. ― Alan Wilson Watts, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are. Book Overview. In The Book, Alan Watts provides us with a much-needed answer to the problem of personal identity, distilling and adapting the Hindu philosophy of Vedanta. At the root of human conflict is our fundamental misunderstanding of who we are. The illusion that we are isolated beings, unconnected to the rest of the universe, has led us to view the "outside" world with hostility, and has fueled our misuse of technology and our violent and hostile subjugation.