This Is It: and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience

Six revolutionary essays exploring the relationship between spiritual experience and ordinary life—and the need for them to coexist within each of us.

With essays on “cosmic consciousness” (including Alan Watts’ account of his own ventures into this inward realm); the paradoxes of self-consciousness; LSD and consciousness; and the false opposition of spirit and matter, This Is It and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience is a truly mind-opening collection.

• Become What You Are
• Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence, and the Cosmic Game of Hide and Seek
• The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
• Nature, Man and Woman
• The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
• The Way of Zen
• Still the Mind: An Introduction to Meditation
• Tao: The Watercourse Way
• Does It Matter?: Essays on Man's Relation to Materiality
• In My Own Way: An Autobiography