Does it Matter?
Essays on Man's Relation to Materiality
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| Author(s) : Watts, Alan W |
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| ISBN : 1577315855 | | EAN : 9781577315858 | | Cover : Paperback | | Pages : 140 | | Size : 216 x 140mm | | Publisher : New World Library | | Published : 2007 |
Category : East-West
Category 2 : Spirituality
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Synopsis:
New edition. This classic series of essays represents Alan Watts's thinking on the astonishing problems caused by our dysfunctional relationship with the material environment. Here, with characteristic wit, a philosopher best known for his writings and teachings about mysticism and Eastern philosophy gets down to the nitty gritty problems of economics, technology, clothing, cooking, and housing. Watts argues that we confuse symbol with reality, our ways of describing and measuring the world with the world itself, and thus put ourselves into the absurd situation of preferring money to wealth and eating the menu instead of the dinner.
With our attention locked on numbers and concepts, we are increasingly unconscious of nature and of our total dependence on air, water, plants, animals, insects, and bacteria. We have hallucinated the notion that the so-called external world is a cluster of objects separate from ourselves, that we encounter it, that we come into it instead of out of it.
Originally published in 1972, Watts foretells the environmental problems that arise from this mistaken mind-set. Not all of his predictions have come to pass, but his unique insights can still change the way you look at the world.
The chapters include: Wealth versus Money, Clothes - On and Off, the Spirit of Violence and the Matter of Peace, Psychedelics and Religious Experience, and seven short essays: the Basic Myth, the Great Mandala, On Selecting Vibrations, Planting Seeds and Gathering Fruit, Art with a Capital A, the Buddhism of Aldous Huxley, and D.T.Suzuki: the "Mind-less" Scholar. |
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