Author: Watts, Alan W

A provocative and enduring work that reexamines humanity's place in the natural world - and the spirit's relation to the flesh - in the light of Chinese Taoism.
That human beings stand separate from a nature that must be controlled, that the mind is somehow superior to the body, and that all sexuality entails a seduction - are all assumptions upon which much of Western thought and culture is based. And all in some way underlie our exploitation of the earth, distrust of emotion, and loneliness and reluctance to love.
Few books have challenged these assumptions as directly as this engaging work by the author of The Way of Zen. Drawing on the precepts of Taoism, Watts offers an alternative vision of man and the universe - one in which the distinctions between self and other, spirit and matter give way to a more holistic way of seeing.