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This Is It: and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience Mass Market Paperback – March 12, 1973

by Alan W. Watts (Author)

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Six revolutionary essays exploring the relationship between spiritual experience and ordinary life—and the need for them to coexist within each of us.

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.

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“Perhaps the foremost interpreter of Eastern disciplines for the contemporary West, Watts had the rare gift of ‘writing beautifully the unwritable.’” —Los Angeles Times

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The six essays in this volume all deal with the relationship of mystical experience to ordinary life. The title essay on "cosmic consciousness" includes the author's account of his own ventures into this inward realm. "Instinct, Intelligence, and Anxiety" is a study of the paradoxes of self-consciousness; "Spiritually and Sensuality," a lively discussion of the false opposition of spirit and matter; and "The New Alchemy," a balanced account of states of consciousness akin to spiritual experience induced by the aid of lysergic acid. The collection also includes the text of Watts' celebrated pamphlet, "Beat Zen, Square Zen, and Zen."

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Mass Market Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: Vintage (March 12, 1973)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0394719042
ISBN-13: 978-0394719047
Product Dimensions: 4.1 x 0.4 x 6.8 inches
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- #70 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Philosophy > Eastern > Buddhism > Zen > Philosophy
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Wonderful old Alan Watts book. he was one of the best.

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The observer and observed. What's the distinction?

The collection of essays that form “This Is It” reach their culmination and offer their most significant observations in the final entry, “The New Alchemy.Read more

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I enjoy anything ala watts says I have been following him ...

I enjoy anything ala watts says I have been following him off and on for many years well worth the small amount of money for the book. I have nothing bad to say thank you.

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natalie nicholson

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A collection of essays written in the 1950s. It has not aged well. I'm sure this was mind-blowing stuff in the 50s, 60s,70s,and even into the 80s, but a lot of this seems naive...Read more

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An inspiration to Pandeism.

Alan Watts is one of the geniuses of all time, and an inspiration to the theological theory of Pandeism, really one of the best philosophers to point to for an exemplification of...Read more

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Drug addict basically

Disgusted in his righteousness in validating use of drugs to get off spiritually and to link that to zen is even more incomprehensible, f ing drug addict

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Brilliant and funny. Pure Watts. Electrifying insights.

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This Is It !!!!!

I really like Alan Watts books and lectures alike. They are inspiring, charismatic and humorous from one moment to the next and often all at once.

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