Just So

From the luminary and prophetic Alan Watts, an invitation to embrace pleasure, play, and connection in our ever-evolving world

"If you were God," asked Alan Watts, "what kind of universe would you create? A perfect one free of suffering and drama? Or one filled with surprise and delight?"

From the 1950s to the 1970s, Eastern spiritual philosophies sparked in the West profound new ways of perceiving ourselves, the mysteries of reality, and the unfolding destiny of humanity. And through his live gatherings and radio talks, Alan Watts was at the forefrontigniting astonishing insights into who we are and where we're heading.

Based on a legendary series of seminars, Just So illuminates three fascinating domains: money versus real wealth, the spirituality of a deeper materialism, and how technology and spirituality are both guiding us to ever greater interconnection in the universe that we find ourselves in.

Along the way, readers will explore many other themes, at turns humorous, prescient, and more relevant today than ever. What unfolds is a liberating view of humanity that arises from possibility and the unpredictableperfect and "just so," not in spite of its messy imperfections, but because of them.

Book highlights:

1. Going With
Theology and the Laws of Nature
Thinking Makes It So
Everything Is Context
Going With
What We Mean by Intelligence
Ecological Awareness
Of Gods and Puppets

2. Civilizing Technology
The Problem of Abstractions
We Need a New Analogy
Working with the Field of Forces
Trust
Synergy and the One World Town
Privacy, Artificiality, and the Self
Groups and Crowds

3. Money and Materialism
The Material Is the Spiritual
Money and the Good Life
True Materialism
Wiggles, Seriousness, and the Fear of Pleasure
The Failure of Money and Technology
The Problem of Guilt

4. In Praise of Swinging
Rigidity and Identity
Now Is Where the World Begins
Are We Going to Make It?
Polarization and Contrast
No Escape

5. What Is So of Itself
Spontaneity and the Unborn Mind
Relaxation, Religion, and Rituals
Saving the World

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