Ego by Alan W. WattsMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
From the Illustrated Series - The Essence of Alan Watts
Book VIII
Ego – what is the I, what is me.
According to Alan Watts is more than your thoughts, your body. But we often distance ourselves from the body parts. We typically mean I as in the brain, our thoughts and thinking selves. We feel outside of our bodies, not a part of the world. Watts says this is image is an hallucination of ego. We are the sum of our body, inside and out, and the environment that we live in. Yes, we need the environment too, it is part of us.
The rest of the book discusses how we came to this false identity, this symbolism of ego and I as separate from everything.
I only have a few of the books from the series:
Book I - God
Book VII - Philosophical Fantasies
Book VIII - Ego
Book IX - Cosmic Drama
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