a 1968 esalen institute talk in which alan watts argues that political, financial, and technological crises all stem from confusing abstract symbols such as money and nationhood wi

a lecture to psychologists on metaphysics arguing that opposites such as positive and negative coincide as one, and that existence is best understood as playful and musical rather

a 1960s lecture recorded before a live audience and broadcast on kpfk los angeles, in which alan watts argues the ecological crisis is rooted in religious and philosophical ideas t

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 short reading from alan watts's book still the mind, warning that compulsive thinking confuses signs like money and photographs with tangible reality.

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.