Watts wrote:  “The prevalent sensation of oneself as a separate ego enclosed in a bag of skin is a hallucination which accords neither with Western science nor with the experimental philosophy-religion of the East … This hallucination underlise the misue of technology for the violent subjugation of man's natural environment, and, consequentially, its eventual destruction.”  In this book Watts'  plays intellectual Zen master to the West.  Humorous, yet seriously concerned with the direction of the human world, he works to bring about a change of perception, urging his readers to accept the responsibility inherent in living as an aspect of God.