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Alan Watts1915–1973

The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego.

Alan Watts on philosophy

The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (1966), Inside Information

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