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5.0 out of 5 stars Changed my perception of reality for the better -Instantly!, 2 Jun 1996

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It is time for you to throw away all your self help books and all the gimmicky, new wave, pop psychology junk that has been weighing down our bookshelves as well as our minds and lose yourself in this wonderful piece of inspired writing. A truly mystical experience, practically evoking enlightenment by altering or restructuring my world view. Enlightenment or cosmic consciousness is the state whereby everything that is as bad as can be suddenly flips to everything being as good as can be. Stop blaming others for your misery. Happiness, peace and serenity is an "inside" job. Alan Watts has given us this option with warmth, compassion and humor. A book for everyone. Don't miss it!

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4.0 out of 5 stars Part of the Vietnam crisis, 3 Dec 1999

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This pamphlet came out at a time of unprecedented spiritual agony for a new USA generation in the late 1960s. They were being called up by lottery for a war few believed in, that was being waged against a Buddhist nation. Watts, a Buddhist scholar, taught in Sausalito, at the very gate to Asia, where warships passed his houseboat every day, leaving San Francisco Bay for Pacific bases. Thousands of war resisters read this book, and had their lives changed by it. It must be one of the most powerful spiritual tracts ever penned, yet Alan Watts has become a non-person in his native English culture. His ideas about changing Christianity from an instrument of royalist domination to a liturgy of nature and renewal have been utterly ignored and rejected, with the predictable result: an irrelevant priesthood preaching to empty churches while Christian man destroys the planet.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Now You Understand, 31 Jul 1999

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If you read 10,000 books in your lifetime, this is the one you will beg others to read. I've given this book to family members and friends, and even the most closed-minded, rooted-in-religion die-hards have closed its cover changed to the core of themselves. Please read this book!!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Sorry, you're not what you thought you were! But!
This piece is the concise exposition of the man's (Alan Watts) whole philosophy in numerous other books,many tapes,videos and public appearances over his life. Read more

Published on 13 Dec 1998

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Published on 4 Dec 1998

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