The Book On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

For chivalry is the debonair spirit of the knight who ‘plays with his life’ in the knowledge that even mortal combat is a game.

Alan Watts was a British-born philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as interpreter and populariser of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. InThe Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are,Watts states the cure and cause of separateness that keeps us from embracing the richness of life.

He argues that the whole universe consists of a cosmic self-playing...