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by ALAN Y WATTS (Author)
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  • Paperback: 152 pages
  • Publisher: Random House USA Inc (19 May 1988)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0394718534
  • ISBN-13: 978-0394718538
  • Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.4 x 1.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting, but bitty, 30 Mar 2008
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Taking the reader from an imagined standard Western compartmentalised world view and massaging in ideas of the onness of the universe using religious and mystic ideas, without any of the man-with-beard shaped baggage, this book works as an excellent starter for metaphysical reading, and many of his ideas have been built on - there are shades of his writing in the philosophy of The Idler and certain of the saner parts of the environmentalist movement.

Mr Watts seems genuinely fearful of the path society is treading; but can't get too riled about it as he accepts his irritants and enemies as friends through his philosophy.

The Book has few defects, but one which stands out is a hurriedness which does not allow for explanation on certain crucial points. His statement that the universe is necessarily intlligent in and of itself isn't properly explored, neither the statement that it perhaps came into being when there was an intelligent mind to perceive it. But then the book is 150 pages long, not 15,000 and if its intention is to coax the reader into looking at the universe differently, it succeeds.
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