In this fascinating book, Alan Watts examines the history of rebellions of consciousness, focusing particularly on those that arose against conventional wisdom.

Watts traces the roots of the counterculture movement to ancient tribal cultures and shamanic peoples of Asia, Serbia, and the Americas. In the process, the great questions that every generation has grappled with emerge: What is the nature of reality? How does our individual relationship with society affect reality? How can we awaken to the spiritual dimension?

The Culture of the Counterculture offers a clear vision of the central aspect of counterculture: its grounding in experience, and in particular, in the experience of the divine. Watts also analyzes the inevitable impact that this form of spiritual democracy will have on art and science.