This is IT, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience - Couverture souple

Watts, Alan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0712672125 ISBN 13 : 9780712672122

Editeur : Rider & Co, 1996

Synopsis

These essays, written between 1956 and 1960, deal with the relationship between mystical experience and everyday life. The author claims that we need to disentangle ourselves from habits of speech and thought which make it impossible to see that everyday experience is the real thing.

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Biographie de l'auteur

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.

Présentation de l'éditeur

In six revolutionary essays, philosopher Alan Watts explores 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 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 collection.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rider & Co
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0712672125
• ISBN 13: 9780712672122
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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