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In my own way : an autobiography, 1915-1965 / Alan Watts.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Novato, Calif. : New World Library, [2007]Edition: [2nd ed.]Description: xiv, 385 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781577315841
  • 1577315847
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Foreword by Laurence W. Watts -- Preface -- Prologue -- The stoned wood -- Tantum religio -- I go to the Buddha for refuge -- On being half-miseducated -- My own university -- Dawn in the western sky -- The sunwise turn -- Paradox priest -- Interlude -- Journey to the edge of the world -- Beginning a counterculture -- Other selves -- Breakthrough -- The soul-searchers -- The sound of rain.
Summary: Alan Watts was a philosopher, lecturer and the West's foremost popularizer of Asian religion & philosophy. This autobiography tracks his spiritual and philosophical evolution from a child of religious conservatives in rural England to a spiritual teacher who challenged Westerners to challenge convention and think for themselves.
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In this new edition of his acclaimed autobiography -- long out of print and rare until now -- Alan Watts tracks his spiritual and philosophical evolution from a child of religious conservatives in rural England to a freewheeling spiritual teacher who challenged Westerners to defy convention and think for themselves. From early in this intellectual life, Watts shows himself to be a philosophical renegade and wide-ranging autodidact who came to Buddhism through the teachings of Christmas Humphreys and D. T. Suzuki. Told in a nonlinear style, In My Own Way wonderfully combines Watts' own brand of unconventional philosophy and often hilarious accounts of gurus, celebrities, psychedelic drug experiences, and wry observations of Western culture. A charming foreword written by Watts' father sets the tone of this warm, funny, and beautifully written story of a compelling figure who encouraged readers to "follow your own weird" -- something he always did himself, as his remarkable account of his life shows.

Originally published: Pantheon Books, 1972.

Includes index.

Foreword by Laurence W. Watts -- Preface -- Prologue -- The stoned wood -- Tantum religio -- I go to the Buddha for refuge -- On being half-miseducated -- My own university -- Dawn in the western sky -- The sunwise turn -- Paradox priest -- Interlude -- Journey to the edge of the world -- Beginning a counterculture -- Other selves -- Breakthrough -- The soul-searchers -- The sound of rain.

Alan Watts was a philosopher, lecturer and the West's foremost popularizer of Asian religion & philosophy. This autobiography tracks his spiritual and philosophical evolution from a child of religious conservatives in rural England to a spiritual teacher who challenged Westerners to challenge convention and think for themselves.

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