This Is It

and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience

Alan Watts

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English

Vintage
12 March 1973

Religion & beliefs; Zen Buddhism

Six revolutionary essays from ""the perfect guide for a course correction in life, away from materialism and its empty promise"" (Deepak Chopra),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 Experienceis a truly mind-opening collection.

By: Alan Watts
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 174mm, Width: 105mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 79g
ISBN: 9780394719047
ISBN 10: 0394719042
Pages: 158
Publication Date: 12 March 1973
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface 1.) This Is IT 2.) Instinct, Intelligence, and Anxiety 3.) Zen and the Problem of Control 4.) Beat Zen, Square Zen, and Zen 5.) Spirituality and Sensuality 6.) The New Alchemy Bibliography

Alan W. Watts, who held both a master's degree in theology and a doctorate of divinity, is best remembered as an interpreter of Zen Buddhism in particular, and of Indian and Chinese philosophy in general. Standing apart, however, from sectarian membership, he has earned the reputation of being one of the most original and unrutted philosophers of the twentieth century. Watts was the author of some twenty books on the philosophy and psychology of religion that have been published in many languages throughout the world, including the bestselling The Way of Zen. An avid lecturer, Watts appeared regularly on the radio and hosted the popular television series, Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life, in the 1960s. He died in 1973.

Reviews for This Is It: and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience

Perhaps the foremost interpreter of Eastern disciplines for the contemporary West, Watts had the rare gift of 'writing beautifully the unwritable.' --<i>Los Angeles Times</i>