• Playing Hide and Seek

  • The Individual as the Aperture of the Cosmos
  • By: Alan Watts
  • Narrated by: Alan Watts
  • Length: 29 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (105 ratings)

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Playing Hide and Seek

By: Alan Watts
Narrated by: Alan Watts
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It is often difficult - if not impossibe - to assimilate certain new ideas, especially if they come from an entirely different culture and time. In Playing Hide and Seek, the incomparable Alan Watts invties us to consider the mind-blowing truth of the total interdependence of everything in the world.

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Alan Watts did a wonderful job in this book

the point of view from Alan Watts was wonderful how he interpreted the world and how everything comes together the true meaning of everything in this universe

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Great listen!

The only thing I wish is hat it was longer. I defiantly recommend Alan Watts - You Are It or zen tales. Both are great books but either way Alan Watts never disappoints.

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1 thing I don't like...

It cuts off mid speech....not sure why they even put this on here 😂😭 It is Alan Watts tho so 5stars

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A beautiful and short journey into acceptance

absolutely love a wonderful lecture from a loving kind funny man whom I knew briefly

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Ends mid-sentence

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

In as much as I love Alan Watts & all of his works, this "book" ends in mid-sentence, HUGELY disappointed.

What did you like best about this story?

Alan Watts

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of the narrator?

I would have cast it exactly as it was.. but I would have FINISHED the speech.

Do you think Playing Hide and Seek needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?

No, Alan Watts is dead.

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Super disappointment

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Great author

I fancy any and everything that Alan Watts produces. His material is fantastic and I recommend him greatly.

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Too short to be relevant.

This is an excerpt from Alan Watts' seminar and in my opinion it is too short to be really useful. It speaks about duality had such but it's clipped off at the end abruptly and he makes reference to other parts of his lecture. I recommend buying the complete book or at least one of the excerpts that's more than an hour long. That said, it's still Alan Watts which means it's all good.

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don't buy

just a broken piece not worth anything maybe more like an incomplete sample Will return as soon as possible

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Short

Only 30 min long. I love Alan Watts but this should be combined w other works or cost less. Ok

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Loved the content. Ended rather abruptly.

Loved the content. Ended rather abruptly. Love Alan Watts’s wisdom and presentation. Recommend all of his work.

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