The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan W. Watts

The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

Alan W. Watts with Sean Runnette (Narrator)

4 hours, 51 minutes first pub 1966 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy psychology informative reflective medium-paced

Description

Alan Watts asks what is the cause of the illusion that the self is a separate ego, housed in a bag of skin, and which confronts a universe of physical objects that are alien to it. Rather a person's identity (their ego) binds them to the physical ...

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