Alan Watts - Atheist Spirituality
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"Atheism in the name of God is an abandonment of all religious beliefs . . . giving up the attempt to make sense of the world in terms of any fixed idea or intellectual system. It is becoming again as a child and laying oneself open to reality as it is actually and directly felt, experiencing it without trying to categorize, identify or name it." -Alan Watts
Alan Watts: A Conversation with Myself - Part 1
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A 1971 television recording with Alan Watts walking in the mountains and talking about the limitations of technology and the problem of trying to keep track of an infinite universe with a single tracked mind. Video posted by Alan's son and courtesy of alanwatts.com.
Alan Watts: A Conversation with Myself- Part 2
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A 1971 television recording with Alan Watts walking in the mountains and talking about the limitations of technology and the problem of trying to keep track of an infinite universe with a single tracked mind. Video posted by Alan's son and courtesy of alanwatts.com.
Alan Watts: A Conversation with Myself-Part 3
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A 1971 television recording with Alan Watts walking in the mountains and talking about the limitations of technology and the problem of trying to keep track of an infinite universe with a single tracked mind. Video posted by Alan's son and courtesy of alanwatts.com.
Alan Watts: A Conversation with Myself- Part 4
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A 1971 television recording with Alan Watts walking in the mountains and talking about the limitations of technology and the problem of trying to keep track of an infinite universe with a single tracked mind. Video courtesy of alanwatts.com home of the Alan Watts archives.
Alan Watts - fear of enlightenment
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A must hear vid...originally posted by Indigorevolution who is currently suspended fortunately the vid is in the LR archive too...phew! wouldn't want to loose a gem like this one... (to preserve your videos...go to http://informationstation.ning.com
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Alan Watts On Buddhism - Test Clip 1
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Alan Watts On Buddhism - Test Clip 1
Produced with cartoon pictures found on the Internet.
Alan Watts - Unintelligent Universe
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Alan Watts, master philosopher brought to life with modern technology.
Alan, you never really left us.
Alan Watts - The Art Of Meditation
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We do not need a new religion or a new bible. We need a new experience - a new feeling of what it is to be "I."
Alan Watts - On Nothingness
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Alan has us take nothing into consideration.
How We Got the Bible. Pt.1
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Now, the King James Bible did not, as one might gather from listening to fundamentalists, descend with an Angel from heaven A.D. 1611, when it was first published. It was an elegant, but often inaccurate, translation of Hebrew and Greek documents composed between 900 B.C. and A.D. 120. There is no manuscript of the Old Testament, that is, of the Hebrew Scriptures, written in Hebrew, earlier than the Ninth Century B.C. But we know that these documents were first put together and recognized as the Holy Scriptures by a convention of rabbis held at Jamnia (Yavne) in Palestine shortly before A.D. 100. On their say-so. Likewise, the composition of the Christian Bible, which documents to include and which to drop, was decided by a council of the Catholic Church held in Carthage in the latter part of the Fourth Century. Several books that had formerly been read in the churches, such as the Shepherd of Hermas and the marvelous Gospel of Saint Thomas , were then excluded. The point is that the books translated in the King James Bible were declared canonical and divinely inspired by the authority (A) of the Synod of Jamnia and (B) of the Catholic Church, meeting in Carthage more than 300 years after the time of Jesus. It is thus that fundamentalist Protestants get the authority of their Bible from Jews who had rejected Jesus and from Catholics whom they abominate as the Scarlet Woman mentioned in Revelation.
How we got the Bible Pt.2
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THE WORLD'S MOST DANGEROUS BOOK
Now, the King James Bible did not, as one might gather from listening to fundamentalists, descend with an Angel from heaven A.D. 1611, when it was first published. It was an elegant, but often inaccurate, translation of Hebrew and Greek documents composed between 900 B.C. and A.D. 120. There is no manuscript of the Old Testament, that is, of the Hebrew Scriptures, written in Hebrew, earlier than the Ninth Century B.C. But we know that these documents were first put together and recognized as the Holy Scriptures by a convention of rabbis held at Jamnia (Yavne) in Palestine shortly before A.D. 100. On their say-so. Likewise, the composition of the Christian Bible, which documents to include and which to drop, was decided by a council of the Catholic Church held in Carthage in the latter part of the Fourth Century. Several books that had formerly been read in the churches, such as the Shepherd of Hermas and the marvelous Gospel of Saint Thomas , were then excluded. The point is that the books translated in the King James Bible were declared canonical and divinely inspired by the authority (A) of the Synod of Jamnia and (B) of the Catholic Church, meeting in Carthage more than 300 years after the time of Jesus. It is thus that fundamentalist Protestants get the authority of their Bible from Jews who had rejected Jesus and from Catholics whom they abominate as the Scarlet Woman mentioned in Revelation.
The Great Heresy
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On spiritual and social identity
Watts felt that absolute morality had nothing to do with the fundamental realization of one's deep spiritual identity. He advocated social rather than personal ethics. In his writings, Watts was increasingly concerned with ethics applied to relations between humanity and the natural environment and between governments and citizens. He wrote out of an appreciation of a racially and culturally diverse social landscape. At the same time, he favored representative government rather than direct democracy (which he felt could readily degenerate into mob rule).
He often said that he wished to act as a bridge between the ancient and the modern, between East and West, and between culture and nature.
Watts led some tours for Westerners to the Buddhist temples of Japan. He also studied some movements from the traditional Chinese martial art T'ai Chi Ch'uan, with an Asian colleague, Al Chung-liang Huang. Watts lived his later years at times on a houseboat in Sausalito on San Francisco Bay and at times in a secluded cabin on Mount Tamalpais. Laden with social and financial responsibilities, he struggled increasingly with alcohol addiction, which probably shortened his life.[3] In October 1973 he returned from an exhausting European lecture tour. Watts died of heart failure in his sleep at his home on Mt. Tamalpais the following month at the age of 58.
Alan Watts - The Solution to The Problem of Life
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Alan Watts, master philosopher brought to life with modern technology.
Alan, you never really left us.
Alan Watts - Work as Play (part 1)
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Alan Watts discusses viewing work as a dance, and how life is spontaneous, instead of driven by external forces. http://broodbox.blogspot.com
Alan Watts - Work as Play (part 2)
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Alan Watts discusses viewing work as a dance, and how life is spontaneous, instead of driven by external forces. http://broodbox.blogspot.com
Alan Watts - Work as Play (part 3)
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Alan Watts discusses viewing work as a dance, and how life is spontaneous, instead of driven by external forces. http://broodbox.blogspot.com
Alan Watts - Man in Nature Part 1
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The Tao of Philosophy
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Alan Watts - Man in Nature Part 2
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The Tao of Philosophy
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Alan Watts - Man in Nature Part 3
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The Tao of Philosophy
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Alan Watts - Man in Nature Part 4
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The Tao of Philosophy
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Alan Watts - Man in Nature Part 5
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The Tao of Philosophy
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Alan Watts - Man in Nature Part 6
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The Tao of Philosophy
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Alan Watts - Coincidence of Opposites Part 1
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The Sense of Non-Sense
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Alan Watts - Coincidence of Opposites Part 2
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The Sense of Non-Sense
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Alan Watts - Coincidence of Opposites Part 3
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The Sense of Non-Sense
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Alan Watts - Coincidence of Opposites Part 4
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The Sense of Non-Sense
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Alan Watts - Coincidence of Opposites Part 5
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The Sense of Non-Sense
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Man and the Hoax Pt.1
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Alan Watts - "No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve in quality as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing it is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them."
Man and the Hoax Pt.2
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For a time, Watts came to prefer writing in the language of modern science and psychology (Psychotherapy East and West is a good example), finding a parallel between mystical experiences and the theories of the material universe proposed by twentieth-century physicists. He later equated mystical experience with ecological awareness, and emphasized whichever approach seemed best suited to the audience he was addressing.
Man and the Hoax Pt.3
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Alan Watts - "We must see that consciousness is neither an isolated soul nor the mere function of a single nervous system, but of that totality of interrelated stars and galaxies which makes a nervous system possible."
Alan Watts - Veil of Thought Pt. 1
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Alan Watts - "No work of love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now."
Alan Watts - Veil of Thought Pt. 2
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The idea of nothing has bugged people for centuries, especially in the Western world.We have a saying in Latin, Ex nihilo nuhil fit, which means "out of nothing comes nothing." It has occurred to me that this is a fallacy of tremendous proportions. It lies at the root of all our common sense, not only in the West, but in many parts of the East as well. It manifests in a kind of terror of nothing, a put-down on nothing, and a put-down on everything associated with nothing, such as sleep, passivity, rest, and even the feminine principles. But to me nothing -- the negative, the empty -- is exceedingly powerful. I would say, on the contrary, you can't have something without nothing. Image nothing but space, going on and on, with nothing in it forever. But there you are imagining it, and you are something in it. The whole idea of there being only space, and nothing else at all is not only inconceivable but perfectly meaningless, because we always know what we mean by contrast.
The idea of nothing has bugged people for centuries, especially in the Western world. We have a saying in Latin, Ex nihilo nihil fit, which means "out of nothing comes nothing." It has occurred to me that this is a fallacy of tremendous proportions.
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