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Alan Watts became famous first as a brilliant intellectual and then as a serious student of Buddhism and meditation. In the 1970s, the last years of his life, he retreated to a small, isolated cabin deep in the woods. He meditated every morning and then wrote. Still the Mind consists of several talks he gave in his later years, recorded and edited by his son, Mark Watts, and then published as a book. His speaking shows a maturity and wisdom that can only come after years of meditation.

Have you ever seen an inch or touched an hour? In The Holographic Web, Alan Watts reveals how our idea of the "self" is no more than these abstract concepts - and how to untrain ourselves from thier limitations. Join this self-proclaimed "spiritual entertainer" for an intriguing investigation of the nature of consciousness.

Alan Watts, beloved for bringing a childlike wonder to the spiritual journey, once wrote a story for children. The Fish Who Found the Sea brings this delightful and wise parable to life for a new generation. In this tale of a tail, we meet a fish with a curiously familiar problem - he’s gotten himself so mixed up that he spends all his time chasing himself in circles! Only the Great Sea knows how to help our poor fish get out of the mess he’s created with his own runaway thoughts.

It is often difficult - if not impossibe - to assimilate certain new ideas, especially if they come from an entirely different culture and time. In Playing Hide and Seek, the incomparable Alan Watts invties us to consider the mind-blowing truth of the total interdependence of everything in the world.

Vivemos em uma era de ansiedade sem precedentes. Constantemente ocupados em lamentar o passado e planejar o futuro, nos esquecemos de viver plenamente o aqui e o agora. É preciso, porém, aceitar nossas inseguranças e incertezas para viver o presente. Escrita em 1951 por Alan Watts, influenciando gerações, e citada atualmente em milhares de posts, vídeos e animações pela internet por fãs de todo o mundo, esta obra extremamente atual e necessária por fim chega ao Brasil, em edição com prefácio de Deepak Chopra e Lauro Henriques Jr.