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3.97 AVERAGE
3.97 AVERAGE
strange amount of heteronormativity but still profound and informative. also the last 20 pages were a bit wild for me. im giving it 5 stars ?
I think I got more from The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley and from some modern similar books, Waking Up by Sam Harris, and The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt. This is a good companion book though and it goes in its own very unique direction. Plus I always give bonus points for brevity.
funny
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
I certainly don't agree with him on everything, but this book is life changing. I mostly took off a s tar because he tends to be hypocritical at times - he criticizes superiority complexes but clearly has one, and talks about politics in ways he criticizes people for doing so.
not as lucid as some of watt's other works but there are a million and one ideas here to suckle upon.
Another Eastern-Western fusion philosophy book, with the characteristic mixture of profundity and cruelty. No, let me be more clear: I get easily seduced into the ontology that shows the ego as a naughty trickster, and troubles the boundaries between bodies and worlds. But the moment all human suffering and evil is written off as illusion I start to get embarrassed for the author. A bold move for a white man to make in 1966.
This isn't to say he's not right. What do I know?
(Just as a heads up: Watts basically only uses male pronouns. Every time you see a female pronoun get prepared to cringe about 60s gender norms).
This isn't to say he's not right. What do I know?
(Just as a heads up: Watts basically only uses male pronouns. Every time you see a female pronoun get prepared to cringe about 60s gender norms).
This is Alan Watts in his best and most approachable form. While he does get overly wordy in a few places, the general message is highly digestible by almost anyone, with plenty of mind-sticking quotes. I'm always surprised by how his insights from half a century ago are more pertinent today than they've ever been.
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced