Nature, Man and Woman

I have been reading and rereading this book since 2002, when a dear friend mailed it to me as a present. It accompanies me on most of my travels, and I can just start reading on a random page. It never fails to challenge my thoughts and beliefs. Even after reading it 10 or 20 times, I still get new insights and sudden revelations about my place in the universe and my relation to the world, nature and my fellow man. On top of that, the writing is erudite and eloquent, in a beautiful British English, more like literature.During my first read I chuckled when I suddenly realized it must have been written before the Internet time, even though it read as a thoroughly contemporary book. So I looked up the publishing date - and saw an amazing 1957...

Like other of his books, Alan Watts challenge the reader with his incisive views and examples, requires mindful reading to grasp his wisdom.

Alan Watts is one of the most profound thinkers of the 20th century, in my opinion. I've read many of his books over the years & with the advent of the Internet & specifically YouTube listened to the many recorded lectures & talks he gave over the years. This is one of his best books I think. He makes esoteric topics like mysticism & eastern religions somewhat understandable for the western mind & this book is no exception. Highly recommended.

Got this and two other Alan Watts books for some “new year, new me” soul searching for my boyfriend and myself. Very excited to read this one in particular!

I decided to transition into a better person decades ago. That everything that I know and believe was founded on my social experiences to date. To improve on that, I would need to consider other concepts and ideas from those that gained their experience from such. I do not consider myself an expert in any one topic. Although, I am told, "expert," is just another word for "experienced." Grain of salt! Alan Watts took a different path in life and I am grateful to his memory of such a path.

I read Nature "Man and Woman" in paper back, when just out of high school. It introduced me to Eastern philosophy and to Alan Watts. Later, when when the US army say fit to post me to South Korea, I met and married my Wife Yong Cha. We've been very happily married for nearly fifty years. I thought it was time to add the hard cover edition to my library. Where else but Amazon partners would one look?

Watts' work is still amazingly relevant. His exposition of timeless philosophical themes is deep and accessible at the same time. His articulation of the limits of narrow logical consciousness is still the best antidote to the sickness of the current hyper-capitalist disrespect for nature that I have read. He flows easily from discussion of narrow consciousness to a discussion of more natural and intuitive forms of consciousness to the application of that intuition in interpersonal relations. Still amazing!

One does not complete this book. This book serves as a constant reference to not only spiritually, but just generally for life's ills and triumphs. Watts exemplifies his ability to engage the reader so directly in easy to understand language and conceptually simple examples, while still being broad enough to suggest his wisdom for the majority of one's spiritual, emotional and cognitive queries.

This is a great informative text on gender and how that translates into living. I haven't quite finished it but it's on my list of books to keep long after others have gone to the charity shop simply because there are some real pearls of wisdom in there and some great views to consider.

In this book watts completely 'presences' nature to his mind (thus to ours), he doesn't re-present it. This book was his proudest achievement, and rightly so. When he describes the ultimate sexual experience as a melting in to one another, and climaxes the book, he nails just that receptiveness and reciprocalness that is love in its un-grasped form.

Alan Watts what can I say

It is an amazing reading to who are looking for self-improvement

I love it.