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The classic 1958 work that explores the relationships between humanity and nature, and between men and women, from a Westerner's synthesis of Eastern philosophical viewpoints (chiefly Taoism and Hinduism).

One of the most striking things about this book is how little its contents have dated: nearly half a century later, we are still in the grip of an unquestioning faith in technology to solve all our problems (especially the ones it has itself created); we still try to deny the role of the body in consciousness; we still don't really have a satisfactory explanation of what consciousness itself entails; and society as a whole still values women less than men. I want to reread this as many times as it takes for me to absorb it fully.