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The Book - On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

The Book - On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

by Alan Watts

 eBook, Published by Faber Factory   (03 January 2011)

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Alan Watts overturns the illusion that individuals are merely 'egos' contained within their bodies who are separate from the rest of the universe. Drawing on the Vedanta religion, Alan Watts explains how a person's identity makes them the centre of the universe, and outlines that the universe has meaning only if each individual places himself at the centre of it.
The separation of the Self from the physical universe has led to Mankind's hostile attitude to the environment, and a destructive attitude to Nature. In coming to understand the individual's real place in the universe, Alan Watts presents a critique of Western culture and a healing alternative.
Alan Watts was born in Bromley in 1915 and became a Buddhist in his teens. He moved to California in 1951 and over the rest of his life was instrumental in introducing Eastern religious and philosophical thought to Western readers. He died in 1973.

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