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>
zlib_text:   
  
  > > > > THE BOOK
  
  > > On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
  
  > > > > ALAN WATTS
  
    
    
  
  Alan Watts, who died in 1974, held both a master's degree in theology and a
  doctorate of divinity, and was best known as an interpreter of Zen Buddhism in
  particular, and of Indian and Chinese philosophy in general. He was the author
  of many books on the philosophy and psychology of religion, which include _The
  Way of Zen, The Supreme Identity, The Joyous Cosmology,_ _Beyond Theology,
  Nature, Man and Woman*, Cloud-Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown*_ and _In My Own
  Way: An Autobiography._
  
  > > > > *Also available in Abacus
  
    
  
  > > _Also by Alan Watts in Abacus_
  
  > NATURE, MAN AND WOMAN
  
  CLOUD-HIDDEN, WHEREABOUTS UNKNOWN
  
    
  
  > > Alan Watts
  
    
  
  > **THE BOOK**
  
  On the Taboo Against Knowing
  
  > > Who You Are
  
    
  
  > > ABACUS edition published in 1973 by Sphere Books Ltd
  
  > 30/32 Gray's Inn Road, London, WC1X 8JL
  
  > > Reprinted 1976, 1977 First published in Great Britain
  
  > > by Jonathan Cape Ltd 1969 C