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The Book On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

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Simple, says Watts - we need to see the Big Picture and our place within it. Then we can start to find Ourselves. The individual is separate from his universal environment only in name. When this is not recognized, you have been fooled by your name. Confusing names with nature, you come to believe that having a separate name makes you a separate being. This is — rather literally — to be spellbound.”

Perhaps the foremost interpreter of Eastern disciplines for the contemporary West, Alan Watts had the rare gift of ‘writing beautifully the un-writable’. Watts begins with scholarship and intellect and proceeds with art and eloquence to the frontiers of the spirit. A fascinating entry into the deepest ways of knowing.” Watts, Alan (1970) Does It Matter?: Essays on Man's Relation to Materiality, Pantheon Books, ISBN 0-394-71665-5

Think of fads, peer pressure, endlessly distracting breaking news releases, keeping up with the Joneses, inane pop-up ads, family demands... the list is endless! It's the taboo against knowing who you REALLY are. It's the "unbearable lightness of being." The impossibility of getting any real answers. The immense difficulty in getting to the ‘bottom’ of yourself. Or even finding a secure foundation for an endless stream of very random thoughts.

Alan Watts – Life and Works". Archived from the original on 2 August 2014 . Retrieved 25 July 2014. Watts makes a case for quieting the mind by leaving it alone. 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. [4] You're IT [ edit ] In his last novel, Island (1962), Huxley mentions the religious practice of maithuna or spiritual-sexual union without emission by both partners, as being similar to that which Roman Catholics call " coitus reservatus". A few years before, Watts had discussed the theme in his own book, Nature, Man and Woman, in which he discusses the possibility of the practice being known to early Christians and of it being kept secretly by the Church.At the root of human conflict is our fundamental misunderstanding of who we are. The illusion that we are isolated beings, unconnected to the rest of the universe, has led us to view the “outside” world with hostility, and has fueled our misuse of technology and our violent and hostile subjugation of the natural world. To help us understand that the self is in fact the root and ground of the universe, Watts has crafted a revelatory primer on what it means to be human—and a mind-opening manual of initiation into the central mystery of existence. We as human beings are generally insecure about things that we think about too much and are always prone to finding flaws. We then put aside the many or little positive elements and always focus on the flaws.

Memories overtime convinces you that ‘I’ is real—they are actually one of the key parts of the ego-sensation. It gives an impression of a self, the executive, as something that remains constant as life changes—as if our conscious selves were a static mirror reflecting a fixed perception.

The first entry on our Alan Watts books list is The Way of Zen. Alan was a man who was familiar with and studied many religions such as Buddhism. In The Way of Zen, he wanted to show all his readers how fascinated he was with this mythical way of life for many Asian people. This is one of Alan Watts’s top books divided into two sections. Two Parts

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