In six revolutionary essays, philosopher Alan Watts explores the relationship between spiritual experience and ordinary lifeand the need for them to coexist within each of us. With essays on ';cosmic consciousness' (including Watts' account of his own ventures into this inward realm); the paradoxes of self-consciousness; LSD and consciousness; and the false opposition of spirit and matter, This Is It and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience is a truly mind-opening collection.From the Paperback edition.