The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

By Alan Watts

Written as the book Watts wished someone had handed him as a child, this is his case against the "skin-encapsulated ego" — the hoax that each of us is a separate self peering out at a foreign universe. In its place he offers the older intuition that you are not a stranger in the world but something the world is doing. Playful, mischievous and startlingly direct.