Are We Losing Touch With Reality? The music of existence - Alan Watts
Alan Watts was a British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and populariser of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, England, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York. Pursuing a career, he attended Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, where he received a master's degree in theology. Watts became an Episcopal priest in 1945, then left the ministry in 1950 and moved to California, where he joined the faculty of the American Academy of Asian Studies.
Watts gained a large following in the San Francisco Bay Area while working as a volunteer programmer at KPFA, a Pacifica Radio station in Berkeley. Watts wrote more than 25 books and articles on subjects important to Eastern and Western religion, introducing the then-burgeoning youth culture to The Way of Zen (1957), one of the first bestselling books on Buddhism. In Psychotherapy East and West (1961), Watts proposed that Buddhism could be thought of as a form of psychotherapy and not a religion. He considered Nature, Man and Woman (1958) to be, "from a literary point of view—the best book I have ever written." He also explored human consciousness, in the essay "The New Alchemy" (1958), and in the book The Joyous Cosmology (1962).
Towards the end of his life, he divided his time between a houseboat in Sausalito and a cabin on Mount Tamalpais. Many of his books are now available in digital format and many of his recorded talks and lectures are available on the Internet. According to the critic Erik Davis, his "writings and recorded talks still shimmer with a profound and galvanizing lucidity."
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Alan Watts Organization - http://www.alanwatts.org/
The Ego and the Universe: Alan Watts on Becoming Who You Really Are - https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/01/27/alan-watts-taboo/
Why Alan Watts Believed Our Idea of Work is Completely Wrong - http://upliftconnect.com/our-idea-of-work-is-completely-wrong/
Alan Watts’ Jaw-Dropping Explanation of Mankind’s Deepest Nature - http://highexistence.com/alan-watts-human-nature/
Alan Watts taught me the 'trick' to mediation - https://ideapod.com/alan-watts-taught-trick-meditation-us-get-wrong/
Wisdom readings by Alan Watts - http://www.awakin.org/read/index.php?op=author&sel=Alan+Watts
Alan Watts Biography - https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/alan-watts-159.php
The Practice of Meditation by Alan Watts - http://consciouspanda.com/the-practice-of-meditation-by-alan-watts/
Alan Watts - 'Getting Into the Meditative State' - https://www.reddit.com/r/Meditation/comments/23287h/alan_watts_getting_into_the_meditative_state/
WHAT IS MEDITATION ABOUT? – ALAN WATTS - https://www.mindfulnessx.com/project/what-is-meditation-about-alan-watts/
The Art of Meditation – Alan Watts - http://educateinspirechange.org/spirituality/art-meditation-alan-watts/
Video attributions - Creative Commons videos used to make this video:
Is it Serious? – Alan Watts - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btDL06V39L4
Terranaut – Alan Watts - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7PwUIGNy5E
Symbolic Solitude – Alan Watts - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfHwUTX8dzg
