Alan Watts

a lecture in which watts recounts his own lsd experiences alongside aldous huxley's mescaline experiment to argue that psychedelic induced unity consciousness is instrumental, not

argues that an intelligent species cannot come from a purely unintelligent universe, comparing human evolution to an apple tree that naturally apples.

a six part kpfa radio series in which alan watts moves from chinese cosmology and the yijing through buddhist doctrine and mysticism to joseph campbell's shamanic forest and a saus

a talk arguing that the western habit of separating the self from the world is an illusion of narrow attention, illustrated through a candle flame, a whirlpool, and a spinning gyro

a lecture by alan watts arguing that the ego and things are linguistic fictions produced by subject, verb, predicate grammar and reification, in a universe that is actually a singl

a lecture contrasting western psychiatry's quasi religious authority with the suppressed christian claim that a person may be one with god, closing with watts role playing a patien

alan watts uses a childhood egg and spoon race, indras net, and the image of a juggling shiva to explore the terror and the glory of discovering that each of us is, in a hidden way

a seminar talk in which alan watts explains vajrayana buddhism, covering mantra, tantric art, and the unity of opposites through the poetry of saraha.

two incomplete surviving fragments from alan watts's world as play seminar, one on i ching hexagram divination and one on ingroup and outgroup game theory.

a two part alan watts seminar pairing a lecture on japanese aesthetics and zen materialism with a guided meditation program on stilling inner chatter.

alan watts explores zen spontaneity as the controlled accident, tracing mushin and wu-wei through swordsmanship, tea ceremony, ceramics, and the democratization of japanese art by

a wfmu lecture in which alan watts questions the sense of self as an isolated ego trapped in a bag of skin, tracing it to two western myths of the universe as artifact and as mecha

a compiled alan watts audio program that moves from his reflections on wonder and faith into the lecture images of god and a set of zen tales drawn from his japan seminars.

a lecture in which alan watts argues that the ordinary sense of "i" is a hallucination and that the real self includes its whole environment, so genuine change comes not by effort