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Recently discovered Alan Watts
Posted on 10/2/18 at 10:44 pm
Posted on 10/2/18 at 10:44 pm
What are the OT's thoughts on this guy? I was sleuthing around YouTube watching Jordan Peterson videos and stumbled upon Alan Watts. I don't know what to think of him. I'm not the type of guy that thinks of things like Peterson or Watts or a lot of these philosopher types. So I don't really know what to make of him.
From wikipedia:
Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British philosopher who interpreted and popularised 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."[2] 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. According to the critic Erik Davis, his "writings and recorded talks still shimmer with a profound and galvanizing lucidity."[3]
Here's a video of him implying? if this life is a dream.
LINK
From wikipedia:
Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British philosopher who interpreted and popularised 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."[2] 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. According to the critic Erik Davis, his "writings and recorded talks still shimmer with a profound and galvanizing lucidity."[3]
Here's a video of him implying? if this life is a dream.
LINK
This post was edited on 10/2/18 at 10:47 pm
Posted on 10/2/18 at 10:46 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
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What are the OT's thoughts on this guy?

Posted on 10/2/18 at 10:59 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
It’s pretty interesting stuff to think about, but the whole time I’m just picturing Terence Stamp talking, so it’s hard to really get into it.
Posted on 10/2/18 at 11:01 pm to Slagathor
I think it’s pretty interesting too. But sometimes I think the philosophers and those types think way too much on matters. But I guess that’s their job essentially is to think and meditate.
Posted on 10/2/18 at 11:06 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
I'm a big Peterson fan but I tend to tune out when he gets into these kind of topics. I'm much more interested in the hard political topics. Free speech debate, in particular, with JP.
Posted on 10/2/18 at 11:21 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
I like some of Watts stuff. I like what he has to say though his delivery is a bit to pseudo motivational speaker-ish. He's best read in a series of quotes. I think in bringing eastern philosophy to the masses you have to have some tradeoffs though
This post was edited on 10/2/18 at 11:25 pm
Posted on 10/3/18 at 12:15 am to TigerFanInSouthland
I was really into his stuff a few years back. I new nothing about him until I started listening to Starfricker and they had snippets of his recordings as monologues before some of their songs.
Posted on 10/3/18 at 12:23 am to TigerFanInSouthland
Looks like some librul wackjob.
Posted on 10/17/18 at 9:19 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
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