title: This Is It: and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience
author: Alan W. Watts
description: Perhaps the foremost interpreter of Eastern disciplines for the contemporary West, Watts had the rare gift of writing beautifully the unwritable. <i>Los Angeles Times</i>
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  **ALSO BY ALAN WATTS**
  
  
  The Spirit of Zen
  
  
  The Legacy of Asia and Western Man
  
  
  The Meaning of Happiness
  
  
  The Theologia Mystica of St. Dionysius
  
  
  Behold the Spirit
  
  
  Zen
  
  
  Easter—Its Story and Meaning
  
  
  The Supreme Identity
  
  
  The Wisdom of Insecurity
  
  
  Myth and Ritual in Christianity
  
  
  The Way of Liberation in Zen Buddhism
  
  
  The Way of Zen
  
  
  Nature, Man, and Woman
  
  
  This Is It
  
  
  Psychotherapy East and West
  
  
  The Joyous Cosmology
  
  
  The Two Hands of God
  
  
  Beyond Theology: The Art of Godmanship
  
  
  Nonsense
  
  
  The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing
  
  
  Who You Are
  
  
  Does It Matter? Essays on Man’s Relation to Materiality
  
  
  Erotic Spirituality
  
  
  In My Own Way: An Autobiography
  
  
  The Art of Contemplation
  
  
  
  
  
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  **VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, MARCH 1974**
  
  
  Copyright © 1968, 1970, 1971, 1973 by Alan Watts
  
  
  All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright
  Conventions. Published in the United States by Random