The Two Hands of God

By: Alan Watts

Narrated by: Jeremy Stockwell

The forgotten book on world mythology by Alan Watts is now an audiobook for the first time.

Alan Watts is today remembered as a trailblazing interpreter of Eastern philosophy, but The Two Hands of God reveals a different side of his multifaceted genius.

In this ambitious work, Watts takes listeners on a fascinating journey through the mythology of China, Egypt, India, the Middle East, and medieval Europe. His theme is the human experience of polarity, a condition in which opposing qualities define and complement each other. Light cannot exist without darkness, good cannot exist without evil, and male cannot exist without female. Chinese philosophy expresses this idea of universal polarity with the concepts of yin and yang, while other cultures express it through the symbolic language of myth, literature, and art. Watts illustrates the way great sages and artists across time have seen beyond the apparent duality of the universe to find a deeper unity that transcends and embraces everything.

A Macmillan Audio production.

©1963, 2020 Joan Watts and Anne Watts; Alan Watts (P)2022 Macmillan Audio

Watts inspires

Fantastic and inspirational. Love the reader. The words of Watts continue to inspire new generations.

Watts the Wise

Loved everything about this book, even the narrator was great for having to compete with Alan’s style.

not Alan's best

I didn't hate it, but I don't feel like I got much out of it, as I have with his other books. of course it doesn't help that Alan couldn't record this one.
it just felt like a mishmash of quotations eventually.

My worst read of the year

I couldn't even finish the introduction. Its just ramblings and all over the place. After listening to 75% of the introduction and 50% of chapter one I cant tell you anything more than I understood before I started. It reads like a last minute paper with a required word count of a high school or undergraduate student that couldn't care less about a class other than it was needed for graduation.