Description: The BOOK ON THE TABOO AGAINST KNOWING WHO YOU ARE ALAN WATTS Vintage Books A Division of Random House, Inc. New York Religion and Philosophy Perhaps the most famous of all of Alan Watts's works, The Book delves into the cause and cure of the illusion that the self is a separate ego, housed in a bag of skin, which "con-fronts" a universe of physical objects that are alien and stupid. According to Dr. Watts, this illusion underlies the misuse of technology for a violent and hostile subjugation of man's natural environ-ment, leading to its eventual destruction. To find the urgently needed answer to this problem of personal iden-tity, the author modernizes and restates the ancient Hindu philosophy of Vedanta and brings out the full force of its startling and psychologically subversive way of realizing that the self is in fact the root and ground of the universe. With his customary lucidity and wit, Alan Watts presents this "lowdown" on the nature of the self in the form of The Book —a manual of initiation into the central mystery of existence which any father might slip to his son, or mother to her daughter, upon the threshold of adult life.
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Book Title: Book : on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
Number of Pages: 176 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Topic: Personal Growth / General, Hindu, Hinduism / General
Publication Year: 1989
Item Height: 0.5 in
Genre: Religion, Philosophy, Self-Help
Item Weight: 5.8 Oz
Item Length: 8 in
Author: Alan Watts
Item Width: 5.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
