Alan Watts's "The Book"
(Photo from Wikipedia) I came across Alan Watts while browsing the religion bookshelves at the Strand about a month ago. I was looking for books on Sikhism, and Watts's "The Book: On the taboo against knowing who you are" caught my eye, and then my mind. So many things he wrote resonate. We do not need a new religion or a new bible. We need a new experience--a new feeling of what it is to be "I" (12). * ...the physical world is basically vibration. Whether we think of this vibration in terms of waves or of particles, or perhaps wavicles, we never find the crest of the wave without a trough or a particle without an interval, or space, between itself and others. In other words, there is no such thing as a half wave, or a particle all by itself without any space around it. There is no on without off, no up without down (26). * (Of the problem of cause and effect) Again, this is a problem which comes from asking the wrong question. Here is someone who has never see...