The Essential Alan Watts

This book focuses on a couple of main themes: the idea of “self” and what that really means; and an exploration into the concepts of god and the cosmos. This book is comprised of lectures Watts gave in 1972. It is great reading, but at 66 pages, it hardly constitutes what I would call the “essential “ Alan Watts.

From book's back cover: "For more than twenty years [circa 1977] Alan Watts earned a reputation as one of the foremost interpreters of Eastern philosophies to the West. Beginning at the age of 20, when he wrote The Spirit of Zen, he developed an audience of millions who were enriched by his book, tape recordings, radio, television, and public lectures. Just before his death he completed the project most dear to his heart... Read Full Review

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The content of this book is divided into 10 modes:EGO,GOD,Meditation,Incense,Nothingness,Death,Time,The Nature Of Man,The Cosmic Drama,Philosophical Fantasies. The basic content is that you do not exist as EGO; you are "free" to be a organism/environment,thus releasing you, so to speak, from being "trapped" inside your body as though you were a prisoner. The EGO content, in my opinion, equates to 90% of all of the book... Read Full Review