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A revelatory primer on what it means to be human and a mindopening manual of initiation into the central mystery of existence by perhaps the foremost interpreter of Eastern disciplines for the contemporary West Los Angeles Times

At the root of human conflict is our fundamental misunderstanding of who we areThe illusion that we are isolated beings unconnected to the rest of the universe has led us to view the outside world with hostility and has fueled our misuse of technology and our violent and hostile subjugation of the natural world To help us understand that the self is in fact the root and ground of the universeAlan Watts provides us with a muchneeded answer to the problem of personal identity distilling and adapting the Hindu philosophy of Vedanta