The Book

It was pretty good, but worth a second listen. Haven't been in the mindset of philosophy in a while, so it was a nice change of pace.

I read this book while I was exceptionally sick, so I feel like I would give it five stars if I was in a better place to take it all in. My experience reminded me of the the first time I read Tolle's “A New Earth.” I didn't quite understand it all; yet, fast forward a few years later when I reread it, and everything made complete sense to me. It was as if I was still learning the language during the initial read. I think “The Book” by Alan Watts will land beautifully into my consciousness upon my second read. I “get it” but my brain did hurt at times. Ha ha

I look forward to reading more of his Watts' books... I'm surprised it took this long for him to spend quality time with me on my path.

Super awesome. For years I've been meditating and blindly following the instruction that there is ‘no self' with ABSOLUTELY no idea what that all meant.

This was a brilliant little intro into the idea of ‘non-duality' and of some pretty quirky and wonderful eastern thought.

Watts is so cheeky. So many brilliant metaphors.

Will hang on to this one and refer back when I need a quick refresh of why we are all one and the same.

‘Nothing human is foreign to me'

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I am a little disappointed with the content of the book with which I'm familiar from his other works, including mainly his talks.
I can imagine a reader who is not familiar with Alan's philosophy in whole not to be able to understand it by just reading this book.

That said, I enjoyed reading this book which gave me a little more deeper look at some of his concepts.