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The Book

The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

byAlan Watts

His most personal and accessible statement. Written as the book a parent might give a child on entering adult life, it argues that the sense of being an ego enclosed in a bag of skin is a social hallucination and that the universe is a single process playing hide-and-seek with itself. It blends Vedanta, Taoism, ecology and cybernetics in a lively, humorous style and became an emblematic book of the counterculture.

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