Alan Watts Lectures and Essays
Alan Watts (1915-1973) who held both a master's degree in theology and a doctorate of divinity, is best known as an interpreter of Zen Buddhism in particular, and Indian and Chinese philosophy in general. He authored more than 20
excellent books on the philosophy and psychology of religion, and lectured extensively, leaving behind a vast audio archive. With characteristic lucidity and humor Watts unravels the most obscure ontological and epistemological knots with the greatest of ease.
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Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap.
Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit---to the "conquest" of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature.
Alan Watts, Psychedelics and Religious Experience
These lectures are transcripts of recordings made from
non-commercial radio broadcasts. They are fairly complete with some errors in spelling, grammar, and minor tape break omissions. Alan Watts was a highly-skilled lecturer who left behind a massive audio and video tape archive curated by
alanwatts.com
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