Alan Watts

a seminar lecture to psychologists and psychotherapists in which alan watts argues psychotherapy is an art rather than a science, tracing how denial of death, undefined guilt, and

a kpfk los angeles lecture in which alan watts examines g.k. chesterton's sense of wonder and his theology of holy nonsense, humor, and surprise.

an audio recording in which alan watts teaches practical meditation techniques including breathing, chanting, and listening exercises, framing meditation as effortless presence in

alan watts explores music, art and love as forms of communication that carry no information yet convey everything, moving from bach and mozart through hindu raga to the zen tale of

a lecture by alan watts arguing that the ordinary sense of self as an ego trapped inside a bag of skin is a hallucination, since every organism is inseparable from its environment.

alan watts' complete myth and religion radio series, six full talks recorded in chicago around new year 1971, covering the church's images of god, the authority of jesus and script

the opening part of a talk in which alan watts defines mythological language and introduces the hindu idea of brahma as the one self playing hide and seek through every form.

a 1960 kpfa berkeley radio talk in which alan watts argues that the search for life's meaning collapses into a delighted embrace of nonsense, play, and significance found only in t

a lecture using the thousand armed bodhisattva avalokiteshvara as a lens on new york city, examining how complex systems run without central control and why the ego cannot really a

a reading of upanishadic and bhagavad gita passages on aum, the self, and the created universe, without commentary.

a guided meditation on the sound om that identifies the listener's inner self with brahman and traces the hindu cosmological cycle of kalpas, yugas, and shiva's dance of destructio

a full length, three session alan watts seminar recording on the myths of a divine king and a mechanical universe, social institutions as convention, and accepting death as a way o

a fourteen hour compilation from the alan watts audio archives spanning the myth of the machine, the web of life, death, vedanta, buddhism, and hindu cosmology.

a talk introducing a contemplative ritual built around silence and wordless mantra rather than sermon, followed by an extended chanted musical ritual with bells and drumming.

a twelve part survey seminar in which alan watts introduces hindu, buddhist, taoist, and zen philosophy to a western audience, tracing the illusion of the separate self from ecolog

a lecture arguing that love cannot be taught or commanded, tracing it as one spectrum running from freudian libido to divine agape.

a two part alan watts wfmu lecture series arguing that hindu and buddhist practice seeks liberation from time rather than life, then extending that insight into an anecdote about a

a five part alan watts radio lecture series on philosophy and society, moving from perception and idealism through the nature of self, cosmology, mysticism and morality, to psychia

a lecture on taoist intuition and acting without choosing, illustrated with zen stories and the yijing's use in decision making.

a lecture on polar thinking in zen, tracing huineng's teaching method through iconoclasm, letting go of religion, and the space/solid balance in zen painting and haiku.

the opening of a 1973 philadelphia lecture, "symbols and meaning," in which watts sets out to examine the unexamined assumptions built into language and common sense.

a spoken reading of upanishadic and bhagavad gita passages on om, the self, and the creation of the universe, given without commentary.

an incomplete recording of a talk on daoism, covering lao tzu and zhuangzi on wu wei, the futility of enforced law and morality, and the body as a self governing organism.

alan watts reads ananda k. coomaraswamy's essay sahaja, on romantic love as a tantric path to spiritual liberation, illustrated through the story of the poet chandidas and the wash