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people spend decades in monestaries living like monks - yet never learn. You were closer to enlightenment before seeking it than after starting the practice. And the practice just attempts to break you.
terence mckenna explores the origin of consciousness and why humans emerged from millions of years of simpler biology
terence mckenna's 1998 talk in san francisco on consciousness, sleep, and the nature of reality through his extended metaphor about being awake versus asleep.
terence mckenna's 1991 talk seeking the stone distills thirty years of thinking about psychedelic shamanism into one comprehensive lecture
a brief philosophical meditation on cosmic transformation and the impermanence of all things, recorded from terence mckenna's archive.
a 1973 philadelphia radio talk in which alan watts examines how the grammar of noun and verb, form and stuff, shapes our sense of reality.
a lecture arguing that love cannot be taught or commanded, tracing it as one spectrum running from freudian libido to divine agape.
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 talk in which alan watts contrasts the analytic "scanning" mind that reduces nature's wiggliness into discrete measured things with the nervous system's wider capacity to grasp a
a short reading from alan watts's book still the mind, warning that compulsive thinking confuses signs like money and photographs with tangible reality.
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
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 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 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.