Alan Watts

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

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

According to Alan Watts, Zen taste deplores the cluttering of a picture or of a room with many objects. In that sense, this minimalist book embodies the aesthetic of Zen itself. As with brushstrokes in a Japanese ink painting, the words have been used sparingly and arranged precisely, with no unnecessary detail.

A lost classic, now back in print

In order to come to your senses, Alan Watts often said, you sometimes need to go out of your mind.

Alan Watts (1915-1973, alanwatts.org) has inspired generations of spiritual seekers and, through his books and recordings, continues to enthrall new readers and listeners to this day.

"Anyone whose life needs a course correction would be fortunate to be guided by The Wisdom of Insecurity. My life still is, some thirty years later." —Deepak Chopra, from the Introduction

Alan W. Wattss message for an age of anxiety is as powerful today as it waswhen this modern classic was first published (in 1951).

 I have come to believe that the whole “hip” subculture, however misguided in some of its manifestations, is the earnest and responsible effort of young people to correct the self-destroying course of industrial civilization.