This Is It: and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience

This Is It: and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience

Six revolutionary essays exploring the relationship between spiritual experience and ordinary life—and the need for them to coexist within each of us. <br><br> With essays on “cosmic consciousness” (including Alan Watts’ account of his own ventures into this inward realm); the paradoxes of self-consciousness; LSD and consciousness; and the false opposition of spirit and matter, <i>This Is It and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience </i>is a truly mind-opening collection.