a brief philosophical meditation on cosmic transformation and the impermanence of all things, recorded from terence mckenna's archive.

a brief spoken fragment by terence mckenna on auditory sensation and perception during an altered state.

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

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 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.

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 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 on how thought and perception construct the world we take to be objectively given, followed by a survey of meditation methods for seeing past that construction.

an audiobook reading of watts's book the way of zen, narrated by ralph blum and interwoven with recordings of watts himself, tracing zen's taoist and buddhist roots through to its

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

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

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