The Book On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

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Do you sometimes get the feeling that there is an unwritten taboo written all across the faces of the faceless crowd around you? Carefully chosen from hundreds of recordings by Watts’ son, this book consists of seminars that captures Watts at his most brilliant. As we said above and we are gonna say it again, it is Alan Watts’s best book and one of Watts’s books ranked as the best-selling. That, upon analysis, is a vanishing point on the horizon, a heurism, a convenience of reference to this Erik body and its habits of behavior.

However, if you sit there and think, “I am listening to music”, you’re not actually listening to it. Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.He's associated with many of Watt's (no S) most frequently mentioned villains, such as Aldous Huxley, Gregory Bateson, and the Esalen Institute. Our generation knows a cold hell, solitary confinement in this life, without a God to damn or save it.

He argues that we are "addicted to thoughts" and want to avoid ourselves, and that this quest for self-avoidance leads to a "vicious circle" of worry. In the end Watts takes a full book to state the obvious; opposites can't exist without each other and everything in the universe is connected. An interesting fact about this book is that Watts wrote it during a retreat he took in the foothills of Mount Tamalpais in California.g., his book Nature, Man and Woman and his essay "The New Alchemy") mentioned some of his early views on the use of psychedelic drugs for mystical insight. Further, we view the self-sensations as what makes ‘I’ a conscious being—we are hypnotized by this disjointed vision of the universe. Alan Watts invites readers to immerse themselves in 12 of his pinnacle thinking sessions in this best book.