a talk tracing how official psychiatry has become the west's new religion complete with heresy and excommunication, before turning to jesus's claim to be god and closing with a pla

alan watts explains riji muge and jiji muge, the huayan buddhist principles of unity within particularity and universal interpenetration, using indra's net from the avatamsaka sutr

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 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 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 short recording of alan watts telling a zen story about a student who cannot act naturally, followed by a whimsical poem titled strange prayers that celebrates spontaneous, child

alan watts continues his four part kpfk seminar reality, art, and illusion, tracing philosophical idealism, the illusion of separateness, and the hindu concept of maya as play.

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 brief reading of the closing propositions of ludwig wittgenstein's tractatus logico philosophicus, ending with the line whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

a lecture in which alan watts describes love as a spectrum before turning to the mystical unity revealed by psychedelic experience and the social and legal panic around lsd in the

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

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