Sajid's Reviews > Out of Your Mind

It was very enjoyable and mind-opening kind of book at the same time.The important thing about reading any Alan watts book is that your face will be illuminated with a magical smile at every piece of line. Make your mind peaceful is the first and foremost duty of Alan watts book.It is so often that even a very complex and layered an idea had been explained by Alan watts with so much ease,beauty and spiritual bliss.
In this book,Watts comes across as both a confident philosopher of religion and as a spiritual trickster whose enthusiasm for ideas is contagious. Out of Your Mind contains six digitally-restored seminars running fourteen and one-half hours. They have been selected from hundreds of recordings by Alan Watts' son Mark. The six seminars are: The Nature of Consciousness, The Web of Life, The Inevitable Ecstasy. The World as Just So, The World as Self, and The World As Emptiness. Here Watts puts on display his wide-ranging knowledge about Eastern and Western philosophy. Whether exploring the myth of ourselves based on our separation from others, the nature of selfishness, the fallacy of misplaced concreteness, or the illusion of the ego, Watts takes delight in demolishing the traps of conventional thinking. He asserts that we miss too much of the diversity and majesty of our experience when we close ourselves off to mystery, playfulness, and improvisation.
There are so many beautiful and soul touching quotes and i can't show all of them right here,but the quote which i loved the most must be lamented here:

“If we can see that the ego is purely fictitious—that it is merely an image of ourselves coupled with a sensation of muscular strain occasioned by trying to make this image an effective agent to control emotion and direct the nervous operations of our organism—then it becomes clear that what we have called ourselves isn’t able to do anything at all.”