Author:Alan W Watts
'A spiritual polymath, the first and possibly greatest' Deepak Chopra
The spiritual is not to be separated from the material, nor the wonderful from the ordinary
This remarkable collection of essays from pioneering Zen scholar Alan Watts offer a challenging and comprehensive insight into 'cosmic consciousness'. From the paradoxes of self-consciousness to psychedelics and the connection of spirit and matter, this is a mind-opening exploration into the relationship between spirituality and ordinary life.
The perfect guide for a course correction in life
—— Deepak ChopraThis is a fantastic book, I've told my son Noah, aged 11, you have to read this book[...] I can't tell you how much I loved this bookbecause you talk about confidence and I struggled with confidence
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—— Expert ReviewsThis astonishingly brave, deeply important and emboldening book offers hope and encouragement for women to find freedom and solace in the joyous expanse of the natural world
—— HELEN CARR, author of What is History, Now?A stunning, raw and powerful book - about grief and putting ourselves back together, about freedom and the fight for it, and about strength and the hunger to test it
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—— Emily Coates , The Professional MountaineerIn her Nature reanimates the stories of the past to reveal, brilliantly, the conditions through which women so often have to battle in the present... [it] will make you want to run, and to experience something of the hard-won emotional and physical freedom that Hewitt's prose so movingly evokes
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—— ANNA FLEMING, author of Time on RockA life-affirming book about the thrill of exploring the great outdoors, asking why so many women are excluded from running, hiking and mountaineering. It confronts the obstacles we face every day, including violence, assault and the general assumption that we don't belong here; but In Her Nature proves we have a right to run free
—— NATASHA CARTHEW, author of UndercurrentAn urgent, beautifully written and fiercely important book
—— HELEN CASTOR, author of She-WolvesWith intimate attention and in beautiful prose, IN HER NATURE moves deftly between the inner life and the great outdoors. Rachel Hewitt shows that not only do women have a history as runners, climbers and adventurers; we also have a right to the outdoors that is as crucial - and fragile - today as it ever was
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