Alan WattsHere and Now
Author: Peter J. Columbus
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 2012-06-01
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1438441991
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConsiders the contributions and contemporary significance of Alan Watts.
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Alan Watts–Here and Now
Author: Peter J. Columbus
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2012-06-13
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1438442017
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlan Watts—Here and Now explores the intellectual legacy and continuing relevance of a prolific writer and speaker who was a major influence on American culture during the latter half of the twentieth century. A thinker attuned to the spiritual malaise affecting the Western mind, Watts (1915–1973) provided intellectual and spiritual alternatives that helped shape the Beat culture of the 1950s and the counterculture of the 1960s. Well known for introducing Buddhist and Daoist spirituality to a wide Western audience, he also wrote on psychology, mysticism, and psychedelic experience. Many idolized Watts as a guru-mystic, yet he was also dismissed as intellectually shallow and as a mere popularizer of Asian religions (the "Norman Vincent Peale of Zen"). Both critical and appreciative, this edited volume locates Watts at the forefront of major paradigmatic shifts in Western intellectual life. Contributors explore how Watts's work resonates in present-day scholarship on psychospiritual transformation, Buddhism and psychotherapy, Daoism in the West, phenomenology and hermeneutics, humanistic and transpersonal psychology, mysticism, and ecofeminism, among other areas.
The Collected Letters of Alan Watts
Author: Alan Watts
Publisher: New World Library
Published: 2018-12-11
Total Pages: 634
ISBN-13: 1608686094
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhilosopher, author, and lecturer Alan Watts (1915–1973) popularized Zen Buddhism and other Eastern philosophies for the counterculture of the 1960s. Today, new generations are finding his writings and lectures online, while faithful followers worldwide continue to be enlightened by his teachings. The Collected Letters of Alan Watts reveals the remarkable arc of Watts’s colorful and controversial life, from his school days in England to his priesthood in the Anglican Church as chaplain of Northwestern University to his alternative lifestyle and experimentation with LSD in the heyday of the late sixties. His engaging letters cover a vast range of subject matter, with recipients ranging from High Church clergy to high priests of psychedelics, government officials, publishers, critics, family, and fans. They include C. G. Jung, Henry Miller, Gary Snyder, Aldous Huxley, Reinhold Niebuhr, Timothy Leary, Joseph Campbell, and James Hillman. Watts’s letters were curated by two of his daughters, Joan Watts and Anne Watts, who have added rich, behind-the-scenes biographical commentary. Edited by Joan Watts & Anne Watts
Alan Watts - Here and Now
Author: Peter J. Columbus
Publisher:
Published: 2014-05-14
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781461907756
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConsiders the contributions and contemporary significance of Alan Watts.
This Is It
Author: Alan Watts
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2011-09-28
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 0307784320
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSix revolutionary essays from "the perfect guide for a course correction in life, away from materialism and its empty promise" (Deepak Chopra), exploring the relationship between spiritual experience and ordinary life—and the need for them to coexist within each of us. With essays on “cosmic consciousness” (including Alan Watts’ account of his own ventures into this inward realm); the paradoxes of self-consciousness; LSD and consciousness; and the false opposition of spirit and matter, This Is It and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience is a truly mind-opening collection.
Become What You Are
Author: Alan Watts
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Published: 2024-07-16
Total Pages: 145
ISBN-13: 1645472868
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscover the path to your authentic self and embrace your true identity with these insightful teachings from celebrated author and spiritual luminary Alan Watts. In this collection, Watts displays the intelligence, playfulness of thought, and simplicity of language that has made him so perennially popular as an interpreter of Eastern thought for Westerners. He draws on a variety of religious traditions and covers topics such as the challenge of seeing one’s life “just as it is,” the Taoist approach to harmonious living, the limits of language in the face of ineffable spiritual truth, and the psychological symbolism of Christian thought. Throughout, he shows how our true self is never to be found anywhere other than this very life and this very moment.
The Tao of Philosophy
Author: Alan Watts
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeaturing the edited transcripts of eight lectures delivered by Alan Watts from 1960 to 1973. The Tao of Philosophy offers a rich introduction to the wit and wisdom of one of the foremost philosophers of the twentieth century.
Eastern Wisdom, Modern Life
Author: Alan Watts
Publisher: New World Library
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1577311809
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlan Watts introduced millions of Western readers to Zen and other Eastern philosophies. But he is also recognized as a brilliant commentator on Judeo-Christian traditions, as well as a celebrity philosopher who exemplified the ideas — and lifestyle — of the 1960s counterculture. In this compilation of controversial lectures that Watts delivered at American universities throughout the sixties, he challenges readers to reevaluate Western culture's most hallowed constructs. Watts treads the familiar ground of interpreting Eastern traditions, but he also covers new territory, exploring the counterculture's basis in the ancient tribal and shamanic cultures of Asia, Siberia, and the Americas. In the process, he addresses some of the era's most important questions: What is the nature of reality? How does an individual's relationship to society affect this reality? Filled with Watts's playful, provocative style, the talks show the remarkable scope of a philosopher at his prime, exploring and defining the sixties counterculture as only Alan Watts could.
Still the Mind
Author: Alan Watts
Publisher: New World Library
Published: 2010-10-05
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 1577313291
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMark Watts compiled this book from his father's extensive journals and audiotapes of famous lectures he delivered in his later years across the country. In three parts, Alan Watts explains the basic philosophy of meditation, how individuals can practice a variety of meditations, and how inner wisdom grows naturally.
