Mysticism and Philosophy is a book on mystical experience published by Walter Terence Stace in 1960. Stace's work is, as its name implies, a philosophical work. It is not about life skills, nor is it an ethical guide, but it clarifies concepts…
Sometimes, very rarely, though, it happens that unexpectedly our mind behaves strangely and, for a while, we experience something called a mystical experience. However, our consciousness does not expand or rise to a higher level even though it may seem so. On…
What makes us human? Is it consciousness? Is it our ability to reach reality? And specifically better than other species? Do we have a purpose? Are we closer to the gods because of that? Because humans represent such a radical break with…
Alan Watts (1915-73) was an Americanised British disseminator of Oriental thinking in the West. In a film shot in 1971, he discusses things that my book deals with and seeks to open up. Watts localises the problem to man’s particular urge to…