The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

Summary: "In The Book Alan Watts attacks the problem of alienation head-on, and lays down specific guidelines for a new experience of life that incorporates the essence of his insights into Western science and Eastern intuition. In formulating his own solution to the urgent problem of personal identity, Dr. Watts modernizes and restates the ancient Hindu philosophy of Vedanta, demonstrating its power as a means for breaking through our world of cool relationships, canned lives, and outsider anxieties. In such chapters as 'How To Be a Genuine Fake,' 'The World Is Your Body,' and 'It,' he persuades the reader to a self examination that shatters 'the big lie and hallucination' of alienation. A summary statement of Alan Watts' investigations into the nature of the self, The Book offers a fresh and provocative answer to the question 'Who am I?'"