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[galactic_dev]

by Alan Watts

I was going to write a long review here of the many very interesting, thought provoking things in this book, but I'm too tired. Alan argues that we can overcome our sense of American isolation by realizing that we are an indivisible part of the universe as a whole, and that there can be no light without darkenss, etc.

I didn't buy the whole philosophy, but I found it interesting and thought provoking, even though the author wandered and rambled a bit.

(Note: although this book was another rather short book of 145 pages or so, I'm taking a moral victory in that I didn't take credit for reading the first 180 pages of Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, which was such a lame and boring book that I stopped halfway through it.)

[galactic_dev]

I should also mention that he was attempting to explain to Westerners the ideas of Vedanta Hinduism. That the idea of each one of us being an individual is a myth, that we are rather just part of the universe expressing itself, etc.

[shaw]

Did he write "the last self-help book"?