a radio talk in which alan watts argues that western schooling, career and retirement culture is an elaborate hoax rooted in a false sense of separate personal identity, and refram

a seminar talk contrasting christian and hindu cosmology, tracing the fall, the incarnation, and the double bind of guilt and grace, and closing with the symbolism of the christian

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 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.

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 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 two part wfmu lecture on carl jung, arguing that good and evil rest on an underlying unity and that eastern disciplines like yoga and buddhism function as skillful means for seei

an audiobook reading in which watts contrasts compulsive thinking with direct experience, then walks listeners through watching thought and breath as the start of meditation.

a nine part alan watts lecture series moving from the limits of language and the myth of the separate self through theories of nature, technological control, images of god, and the

a talk given to the tahoe institute in which watts argues the anxious "quaking mess" we find on self examination cannot be transformed away, only watched.

a lecture on meditation using the chinese character for quiet observation to contrast linear, abstract thought with direct sensory experience of the world.

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

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 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