The Concept of Anxiety
The Concept of Anxiety (): "A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin", is a philosophical work written by Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard in 1844. The original 1944 English translation by Walter Lowrie (now out of print), had the title The Concept of Dread. "The Concept of Anxiety" was dedicated "to the late professor Poul Martin Møller". He used the pseudonym Vigilius Haufniensis (which, according to Kierkegaard scholar Josiah Thompson, is the Latin transcription for "the Watchman" of Copenhagen) for "The Concept of Anxiety".
Ego death
Concepts and ideas from mysticism and bohemianism were inherited by the Beat Generation. When Aldous Huxley helped popularize the use of psychedelics, starting with "The Doors of Perception", published in 1954, Huxley also promoted a set of analogies with eastern religions, as described in "The Perennial Philosophy." This book helped inspire the 1960s belief in a revolution in western consciousness and included the "Tibetan Book of the Dead" was one of the sources. Similarly, Alan Watts, in his opening statement on mystical experiences in "This Is It," draws parallels with Richard Bucke's Cosmic Consciousness, describing the "central core" of the experience as