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

    Written by Alan Watts

    Narrated by Sean Runnette

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    About this audiobook

    This inspiring audiobook contains 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 audiobook collection.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateJun 19, 2018
    ISBN9781250305466
    This Is It: and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience
    Author

    Alan Watts

    Alan Watts published over 25 books, including The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, The Way of Zen and Tao: The Watercourse Way. He was a philosopher, academic and theologian, who wrote and spoke widely on Asian philosophy and theology. He is best known as an interpreter of Zen Buddhism in particular, and of Indian and Chinese philosophy in general. He was the author of more than twenty books on the philosophy and psychology of religion. He died in 1973.

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    • 5/5
      The words of Alan Watts will always be worth your time. Never has the inexplicable essence of humanity been so artistically sculpted into the English language & translated for western minds.

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    • 5/5
      This book was interesting and insightful. Truly enjoyable ,looking forward to more.

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