Alan Watts

An archive of Alan Watts, born in Chislehurst in 1915 and dead at Druid Heights in 1973, who wrote on Zen before he was twenty, took Episcopal orders in 1945 and resigned them in 1950, taught at the American Academy of Asian Studies, broadcast weekly and unpaid on KPFA from 1953, recorded two seasons of Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life for public television, and spent the rest of his life interpreting Asian thought for Western readers from a converted ferry moored at Sausalito. It holds his lectures, seminars, broadcasts and interviews, the films made about him, and the work of his that other people have adapted. It also holds the parts that are usually left out: that he was never ordained a Zen monk and held no Zen transmission, that scholars and practising teachers disputed his readings, and that friends described heavy drinking in his final years. His claims about Zen and Vedanta are recorded here as his positions rather than as facts about those traditions. Two things are worth knowing before you start. Where a recording can be dated, it carries that date: the 1959 and 1960 television seasons, the 1971 conversation filmed aboard the ferry, the Dallas interview of March 1970. His estate publishes most of the tape library without any recording date at all, and those scenes carry the day the recording was published instead, which is the one date that can be verified. And because his lectures are still licensed by his estate, everything here is embedded from its source.

A chronological documentary of 260 moments spanning 1950–2026 on Loreline.

Curated by Olivier · last updated 2026-09-20

1. 1950-01-01 - No formal Zen authorisation. He was never ordained a Zen monk and held no Zen transmission. He left formal Zen training in New York because the teacher's method did not suit him. His only ordination was Episcopal, held from 1945 until he resigned in 1950.
2. 1951 - The Wisdom Of Insecurity Completel Audiobook By Alan Watts. (HD). Psychological security is not the answer to this issue; rather, the key is to live totally in the present and acknowledge that life will never be assured. A lot of folks are depressed and fearful about what lies ahead.
3. 1951 - #44 The Wisdom of Insecurity (Alan Watts, 1951) | Will & Luke Discuss. This week we discuss 'The Wisdom of Insecurity' by Alan Watts. A seminal book of his that is an exploration of the law of reversed effort in a human's quest for psychological security and our efforts to find spiritual and intellectual security in religion and philosophy.
4. 1951 - The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age… by Alan Watts · Audiobook preview. The brain can only assume its proper behavior when consciousness is doing what it is designed for: not writhing and whirling to get out of present experience, but being effortlessly aware of it.
5. 1951 - [NEW UPDATE]The Wisdom of Insecurity Full Audiobook | Unabridged Alan Watts Masterpiece. On his argument that the search for security is itself what produces the anxiety it means to cure.
6. 1951 - The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts | Free Audiobooks Full Length Best Sellers. On his argument that the search for security is what produces the anxiety it means to cure.
7. 1951 - Stop Chasing Certainty | The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts (Full Audiobook Summary). For the certainty, the stability, the permanent foundation beneath a life that makes sense and holds together. Alan Watts spent his life explaining why that search is the problem.
8. 1957-01-01 - Popular against scholarly. His readings of Zen and Vedanta were disputed by scholars and by practising teachers, who held that he presented the traditions in a form shaped for Western readers rather than as they were taught. He wrote and spoke as an interpreter rather than as a lineage holder.
9. 1957 - The Way of Zen by Alan Watts | Full Audiobook. Written by Alan Watts, one of the most influential interpreters of Eastern philosophy for Western audiences, this book provides an accessible exploration of Zen thought and its approach to life, awareness, simplicity, and spiritual understanding.
10. 1957 - The Way of Zen by Alan Watts | Full Audiobook. On the book that made his name, and the account of Zen it set out.
11. 1957 - "The Way of Zen" by Alan Watts, Audiobook Excerpt 1. Watts writes with eloquence, trying to express the inexpressible nature of Zen Buddhism with the sun setting in the backdrop. All rights are reserved to Macmillan Audio (2009) and to Alan Watts/his son.
12. 1957 - The Way of Zen by Alan W. Watts--Audiobook Excerpt. A talk given under the title The Way of Zen. He takes up Zen as he read it, which is a reading his critics disputed.
13. 1959 - Alan Watts - Madness (Animated). What is really happening in the world from a musical, poetic perspective.
14. 1959 - Alan Watts - Man And Nature (1959). On the claim that a person is continuous with an environment rather than set against it.
15. 1959 - She is Black, Images of God - Lecture By Alan Watts (No Music). In this lecture, Alan Watts challenges the notion that God's essence must adhere to rigid definitions, proposing an alternative and fluid concept beyond the conventional depictions in religious imagery.
16. 1959 - Alan Watts - Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life: S1 E12 - Law and Order | Remastered. On the difference between order imposed from outside and order that arises from within a system.
17. 1959 - Alan Watts Become Interesting. On attention, and what makes a person worth listening to.
18. 1959 - Alan Watts - Zen in Gardens & Architecture - Art & Nature reel. On how Japanese gardens and buildings are laid out to be moved through rather than looked at.
19. 1959 - Alan Watts - Eastern Wisdom & Modern Living - Nonsense. A talk given under the title Eastern Wisdom Modern Living Nonsense.
20. 1959 - Alan Watts - "I" (Animated). His recorded voice over animation, asking what the word I actually refers to.
21. 1959 - Alan Watts - Going Out with a Bang. Great advice from Alan Watts when faced with a tough decision.
22. 1959 - Alan Watts - Life and Music (Animated). His recorded voice over animation, using music as the case of an activity whose point is not its ending.
23. 1959 - Alan Watts - Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life: S1 E4 - The Void | Remastered. On emptiness as a positive term in Buddhist thought rather than a simple absence.
24. 1959 - Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life - Alan Watts - Time - program three (1959). From the half hour public television programmes he made in San Francisco, delivered straight to camera with almost no visual aids.
25. 1959 - Alan Watts - Eastern Wisdom & Modern Living - The Silent Mind. On what happens to attention once the internal commentary stops.
26. 1959 - Alan Watts - Personality Types (Animated). His recorded voice over animation, on two habits of attention he thought a culture trains into people.
27. 1959 - Alan Watts - The Greatest Skill of All (Animated). Alan talks about his revelation of harnessing the power of nature. In 1957, he published his bestselling Way of Zen which started his rise in popularity.
28. 1959 - Man and Nature - Alan Watts | Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life TV Series. This is the first episode of Alan Watts' 1959 KQED television series, Eastern Wisdom & Modern Life.
29. 1959 - Alan Watts - Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life: S1 E16 - Zen in Gardens and Architecture | Remastered. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior general interest in receiving similar information for research and educational purposes.
30. 1959 - Eastern Wisdom & Modern Life (1959) with Alan Watts - Program 3: Time. From the Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life broadcasts, recorded 1959. He takes up time, and why the present is the only place anything occurs.
31. 1959 - Alan Watts - Two Types of Consciousness. Our two types of consciousness as defined by Alan Watts: Spotlight and Floodlight. Our culture largely ignores our floodlight consciousness.
32. 1959 - Alan Watts - Eastern Wisdom & Modern Living - The Void. From the Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life broadcasts.
33. 1960 - Alan Watts - Contemplation of Buddhism and Science | Studio Quality Rare Lecture. Enjoy this rare 1960 lecture HQ studio remaster. Renowned author Alan Watts reveals their distinct forms of knowledge, avoiding hasty labels for Buddhism as scientific.
34. 1960 - Alan Watts - Full Lecture On Mahayana Buddhism 1960. A prolific author and speaker, Alan Watts was one of the first to interpret Eastern wisdom for a Western audience.
35. 1960 - Alan Watts - The Discipline of Zen (1960) Video Archive. A talk given under the title The Discipline of Zen Video Archive. He takes up Zen as he read it, which is a reading his critics disputed.
36. 1960 - Alan Watts on Zen Gardens & Architecture (1960) Part 1. Zen taste in rock sand gardens and in the creation of architectural styles harmonious with the natural landscape has influenced contemporary American architecture.
37. 1960 - Studs Terkel & Alan Watts Interview 1960. Renowned broadcaster Studs Terkel engages in a thought-provoking conversation with the pioneering philosopher Alan Watts.
38. 1960 - Alan Watts on Zen Gardens & Architecture (1960) Part 3. He takes up Zen as he read it, which is a reading his critics disputed.
39. 1960 - Alan Watts on Zen Gardens & Architecture (1960) Part 2. A talk given under the title on Zen Gardens Architecture. He takes up Zen as he read it, which is a reading his critics disputed.
40. 1960 - Alan Watts Lecture: Buddhism & Science (w/ brief reference to the spinning yin/yang/taijitu symbol). He takes up the basic moves of Buddhist thought as he understood them.
41. 1960 - Was ALAN WATTS Wrong About BUDDHISM? The Truth Behind the Voice of ZEN. Alan Watts made Zen Buddhism feel alive for millions of Western seekers. His voice introduced people to Buddhism, no-self, emptiness, awakening, and Eastern philosophy in a way few teachers ever could.
42. 1960 - Alan Watts on Zen Gardens & Architecture (1960) Part 4 End. A demonstration of the remarkable integration of traditional Japanese homes and gardens within the rural landscape, and the celebration of natural forms of mountains and waters in Zen gardens.
43. 1961 - Alan Watts | Tribute to Carl Jung (1961). Watts on Carl Jung, recorded after Jung's death in 1961.
44. 1962 - Alan Watts: Joyous Cosmology - Being in the Way Podcast Ep. 21 (Black Screen Series). In this episode, Watts explored: If there could be a theory of the world that justifies and makes worthwhile the difficulties and suffering that we undergo.
45. 1962 - Alan Watts - The Joyous Cosmology Audiobook (HQ). Ryan reads The Joyous Cosmology by Alan Watts.
46. 1962 - The Joyous Cosmology by Alan W. Watts. In describing the effects of mescaline, Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception opened a proverbial door for a generation of seekers.
47. 1962 - The Joyous Cosmology Alan Watts on #consciousness, #mysticism and #innerpeace. It explores consciousness expansion theoretically, not as advocacy.
48. 1962 - The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness | Alan Watts. Alan Watts's The Joyous Cosmology, published in 1962, explores altered states of consciousness induced by mescalin, LSD, and psilocybin.
49. 1966 - Alan Watts, interviewed by Esalen co-founder Michael Murphy (1966) - Part One. Today we present a rare archival conversation between Esalen co-founder Michael Murphy and philosopher Alan Watts, recorded in 1966. Watts, who taught at Esalen from its founding in 1962 until his death in 1973, was among the foremost interpreters of Eastern philosophy for Western audiences.
50. 1967-02 - Changes: The Houseboat Summit - Alan Watts & Friends - Being in the Way Ep.15 (Black Screen Series). From the Being in the Way series.
51. 1967-02 - Alan Watts - 1967 Houseboat Party 1/5. Footage from the Sausalito waterfront community that formed around the moored ferries.
52. 1967-02 - Alan Watts - 1967 Houseboat Party 5/5. It featured a recorded debate between Timothy Leary, Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg, and Alan Watts.
53. 1967-02 - Alan Watts Life as told by his Children. I personally am an agnostic/atheist who is still interested in spirituality without all of the dogmatic spookery. Alan Watts is arguably one of the most popular thoughts leaders to emerge from the 20th century.
54. 1967-02 - ALAN WATTS The Houseboat Summit Full Conversation TIMOTHY LEARY ALLEN GINSBERG GARY SNYDER. The 1967 conversation aboard the Vallejo between Watts, Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder on what the counterculture should do next.
55. 1967-03-29 - Alan Watts: Zen Bones - Being in the Way Podcast Ep. 5 (Black Screen Series). From the tape library his son Mark Watts curates, issued with the original recording left unedited.
56. 1967-03-29 - Alan Watts | Zen Bones. On the bare bones of Zen as he read it, stripped of the institutional apparatus he thought obscured it.
57. 1969 - 1969 Alan Watts Documentary - The Flow of Zen. A talk given under the title Documentary The Flow of Zen. He takes up Zen as he read it, which is a reading his critics disputed.
58. 1969 - Alan Watts - MIND OVER MIND | Self-Improvement, Grace, and the Paradox of Control (FULL TALK). In this full talk, Alan Watts unpacks the paradox at the heart of self-improvement: the mind cannot truly control the mind.
59. 1970 - Alan Watts - A rare recording (1970) speaking about the real you and Universe. On the self as something the universe is doing rather than something a person owns.
60. 1970 - Alan Watts on looking after our world | the real you (1970) old footage. In this rare video from 1970, the wise Alan Watts discusses the real you and the universe.
61. 1971 - Alan Watts | Conversation with Myself | Essential lectures of Alan Watts. This is a lecture by Alan Watts on finding inner depth and how one must use it. He wrote more than 25 books and articles on religion and philosophy, introducing the emerging hippie counterculture to The Way of Zen (1957), one of the first bestselling books on Buddhism.
62. 1971 - Alan Watts - Concept of Ourself. Recorded in 1971 at Druid Heights, above Muir Woods near San Francisco. Created by Alan Watts, Mark Watts, and Henry Jacobs.
63. 1971 - Alan Watts: A Conversation with Myself-Part 3. He takes up the separate self examined as an idea people inherit rather than observe.
64. 1971 - Alan Watts: Conversation with Myself (Full). Filmed for television at Druid Heights, with Watts walking the hillside and talking directly to camera.
65. 1971 - Alan Watts: A Conversation with Myself- Part 4. Filmed for television at Druid Heights, with Watts talking directly to camera.
66. 1971 - Alan Watts: A Conversation with Myself- Part 2. 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.
67. 1971 - Was Alan Watts Enlightened Even If He Was A Cheater, Absent Father & Alcoholic?. The contested parts of the record, including the drinking and his conduct as a father, discussed directly.
68. 1971 - Alan Watts: The Art Of Meditation (1971) [Rare Documentary]. On meditation treated as an activity with no purpose beyond itself.
69. 1971 - Alan Watts - You Can't Do It! From A Conversation with Myself, 1971. The series was ultimately made with Alan Watts by Mark Watts and Henry Jacobs aboard the Ferryboat Vallejo and in the Twin Peaks house at Druid Heights .
70. 1971 - Alan Watts Self and Whole. He takes up the self examined as a convention rather than a discovery.
71. 1972-02 - Alan Watts - Great Artists - Work as Play. Great artists come to a point where it's pleasurable to sit for hours and hours studying technique. Their periods of practice are more like a dance than work.
72. 1972 - Alan Watts on Cosmic Drama (The Essential Lectures, 1972, Remastered). From The Essential Lectures, recorded 1972. He takes up existence described as a drama in which one actor plays every part.
73. 1972 - Alan Watts on God (The Essential Lectures, 1972, Remastered). He takes up the image of God as a bearded omnipotent being, which he thought had become implausible while the notions of divine authority around it persisted.
74. 1972 - Alan Watts on Meditation (The Essential Lectures, 1972, Remastered). From The Essential Lectures, recorded 1972. He takes up meditation as an activity with no aim beyond its own doing.
75. 1972 - Alan Watts - Philosophy of Nature (Essential Lectures) Comparative Philosophy. From the Comparative Philosophy series, setting Western and Asian thought side by side.
76. 1972 - Alan Watts on Time (The Essential Lectures, 1972, Remastered). From The Essential Lectures, recorded 1972. He takes up time, and why the present is the only place anything occurs.
77. 1972 - In My Own Way by Alan Watts · Audiobook preview. On finding a way of living that does not borrow its shape from anyone else.
78. 1972 - Alan Watts on Ego (The Essential Lectures, 1972, Remastered). From The Essential Lectures, recorded 1972. He takes up the ego treated as a social convention rather than a thing anyone actually has.
79. 1972 - Alan Watts | Lecture on Work & Play | Essential lectures of Alan Watts. In Psychotherapy East and West (1961), he argued that Buddhism could be thought of as a form of psychotherapy.
80. 1972 - Alan Watts | Clothing - It's Importance | Essential lectures of Alan Watts. This is a lecture by Alan Watts himself on the importance of what we wear, our clothing in our life and how it effects us in society.
81. 1972 - Alan Watts on The More It Changes (The Essential Lectures, 1972, Remastered). One of the Essential Lectures, the set the estate treats as the core of the recorded work.
82. 1972 - Alan Watts on Death (The Essential Lectures, 1972, Remastered). All rights and credit go to its rightful owners.
83. 1972 - The Essential Lectures of Alan Watts - Nothing. Here Alan Watts speaks on Nothingness and his philosophy of Zen Buddhism.
84. 1972 - Alan Watts - Time & The More It Changes (Sausalito, California 1972). On time, and on why the present is the only place anything occurs.
85. 1972 - Interview d'Alan Watts (1972). An interview recorded in 1972, in which he answers questions rather than lecturing.
86. 1972 - Alan Watts on Do You Smell (The Essential Lectures, 1972, Remastered). Here he introduces viewers to the intricacies of incense in front of a small Buddhist altar, while commenting on the types of incense used in Church rituals and all across Asia.
87. 1972 - Alan Watts, Author of 25 Books 50/60s Daughter Anne Watts.. Some American Buddhists criticized him for not sitting regularly in zazen, even though he recorded several guided meditations teaching a variety of mediation techniques. In 1957 he published his bestselling Way of Zen, and in 1958 returned to Europe where he met with CG Jung.
88. 1973 - Alan Watts: His Final Radio Interview in 1973 |🌸| A Cosmic Conversation on Life as Play. In his characteristic eloquence, Watts encourages us to view life not as a serious ordeal but as a playful adventure, urging us to engage with existence as one would play a game.
89. 1973 - Alan Watts - Interview 1973. He answers questions rather than lecturing, which puts him on ground he has not prepared.
90. 1973 - Rare Footage Interview With Alan Watts. Footage of him on camera, from material that saw little circulation.
91. 1973-11-16 - The death. He died at Druid Heights in Marin County on 16 November 1973, aged 58. Accounts of the cause differ: contemporary reporting cited a heart condition, while his son Mark said he had planned it meticulously. He was cremated the same morning he was found, so no post mortem was made.
92. 1973-11-16 - The drinking. Friends and relatives described heavy drinking in his final years. Gary Snyder, who knew him, said that toward the end Watts was putting away a bottle of vodka a day, as reported by David Guy in Tricycle.
93. 1994-09-01 - Tricycle reconsiders him. Writing in the Buddhist magazine Tricycle in 1994, David Guy recorded that Watts never underwent, and did not particularly believe in, rigorous Zen training, and set that beside the reach his books and talks had achieved.
94. 2009-12-30 - Alan Watts interviews Bertrand Russell Part 1 of 6. A recorded exchange said to be between Watts and Bertrand Russell, whose provenance is not established.
95. 2010-06-11 - Anne Watts - Always the Children. Inspired by school geography lessons that told of far-off lands, she broke out of the conventional options open to women in post-war Britain, defying her Merchant Navy father's dated views. She trained as a nurse and midwife, joined the Save the Children Fund, and was posted to Vietnam in 1967.
96. 2012-07-15 - Harmony with the Tao from "Why Not Now?" with Alan Watts. You can keep up with its progress under News at the website. The audio is Taoist Way of Dropping Out from the Philosophies of Asia series, cinematography is by Brian Ziffer
97. 2012-11-16 - Gordon Onslow Ford interview. An interview with painter Gordon Onslow Ford by Lyn Kienholz for Netropolitan: Museum without walls.
98. 2012-12-18 - Documentary Zen - The Best of Alan Watts. A documentary account assembled from recordings and from people who knew him.
99. 2013-11-02 - Alan Watts Zen Stories as Told By Alan Watts No Music. A talk given under the title Zen Stories as Told By. He takes up Zen as he read it, which is a reading his critics disputed.
100. 2013-11-16 - Alan Watts - Life and Music [Eng Sub+HQ]. If that were so, the best conductors would be those who played fastest; and there would be composers who only wrote finales. People go to concerts only to hear one crashing chord, because that's the end.
101. 2015-03-21 - Animated Watts - Intro to Zen (Part 1 of 6). His recorded voice over animation, introducing Zen as he read it.
102. 2015-03-21 - Animated Watts - Language of Madness (Part 5 of 6). His recorded voice over animation, on madness and on where a culture draws the line around it.
103. 2015-11-03 - Alan Watts - Out of Your Mind. A talk given under the title Out of Your Mind. He takes up the trap in trying to improve the very mind doing the improving.
104. 2017-02-04 - Alan Watts: Life and Music. This is the best of the 3 videos that were made in my opinion!
105. 2017-02-22 - Live Fully Now: Mark Watts. Mark Watts, who recorded and curates the tape archive, speaking about his father.
106. 2017-10-24 - Alan Watts | South Park Animations | Combined Animated Shorts (HD). The you that goes on of itself.", Alan Watts Production Manager: Tina Reynolds.
107. 2018-01-08 - 🌟 ANNE WATTS: How to Discover the Real You - from the Daughter of Alan Watts | Who Are You. Valentine's Day Sale -- Give as a gift, only $11.11! She honors each individual for the gift she or he is, and believes that love and nurturance are the most important aspects in human healing.
108. 2018-01-17 - Ep 32: The Life of Alan Watts (Part Two with Anne Watts). Anne Watts is a facilitator and educator who is committed to creating a world where everyone wins.
109. 2018-02-01 - Alan Watts - Why Not Now (Bonus material - The Animated Alan Watts). It's wierd and funny and in between the lines you can read the obvious Watts wisdom.
110. 2018-02-01 - A conversation with Anne Watts about her work, new book, her beloved father, Alan Watts and more.. Anne and I discuss her work and teachings, as well as her beloved father; his gifts, faults, and inspirations. The conversation also includes information about the book, Zen Odyssey: The Story of Sokei-an, Ruth Fuller Sasaki, and the Birth of Zen in America.
111. 2018-02-09 - Gordon Onslow Ford interview. Island Time is a film made by Madeline Tourtelot in 1969 about Gordon Onslow Ford (1912, 2003). Gordon Onslow Ford was one of the last surviving members of the 1930s Paris surrealist group.
112. 2018-02-14 - Druid Heights talk by the National Park Service part 1 Sausalito, 2/13/18. A talk on the Marin County settlement, now sitting inside national parkland.
113. 2018-03-22 - Conscious Community Podcast Ep 12 Anne Watts on Alan Watts. This video includes photos from the collections of Anne & Joan Watts and New World Library. Thank you all for sharing these wonderful resources with us!
114. 2018-04-11 - JOAN and ANNE WATTS: The Collected Letters of Alan Watts, on Dare To Dream with Debbi Dachinger. Meet the daughters of Alan Watts: Joan and Anne. Joan Watts grew up in the United States and England and studied Japanese ink painting in Japan.
115. 2018-05-02 - Alan Watts | Zen & Meditation | Why Not Now (full). Additional animated material made alongside the film about him.
116. 2018-05-02 - Alan Watts | Tao of Philosophy | Coincidence of Opposites. In this engaging talk, he challenges the prevalent belief that life is purely scientific, asserting that as human beings, we inherently engage with metaphysical assumptions about the good life and our existential positions.
117. 2018-05-02 - Alan Watts | Ways of Liberation | Way of Liberation (full). A fascinating entry into the deepest ways of knowing.
118. 2018-05-02 - Alan Watts | Comparative Philosophy | Spiritual Alchemy. Alan dives into the potential of various methods, including chemicals like LSD and ancient spiritual practices, to unlock a deeper understanding of reality and ourselves. Alan discusses the limitations of scientific inquiry.
119. 2018-05-02 - Alan Watts | Tao of Philosophy | Seeing Through the Net (1-2). It's a bridge through which the external world flows into you.
120. 2018-05-02 - Alan Watts | The Universe | Individual and the World (1-4). He critiques the 19th-century scientific view of a mechanical, unfeeling cosmos, which fosters alienation and drives destructive technological exploitation.
121. 2018-05-02 - Alan Watts | Philosophies of Asia | Eco Zen (1-2). He delves into the teachings of Zen Buddhism without the usual dogma.
122. 2018-05-02 - Alan Watts | Comparative Philosophy | Mind Over Mind (1-2). Alan navigates through various perspectives, from theological considerations to philosophical musings and practical approaches. Beginning with the theological question of divine will and grace, Alan journeys through Oriental philosophy's wisdom, contemplating concepts like Nirvana and desire.
123. 2018-05-21 - Gerd Stern talk and poetry reading at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art 5/20/2018. While there is some necessary overlap with the prior day's event much is different.
124. 2018-05-23 - Abandoned Druid Heights/Muir Woods. An awesome short exploration through some abandoned buildings near by muir woods.
125. 2018-05-28 - GERD STERN ENTERS THE "ZENDO" IN THE TWIN PEAKS HOUSE AT DRUID HEIGHTS. Besides Gerd are his partner Judith and Michael Toivonen of Save Druid Heights. Notice was given to the National Park Service one week prior to our
126. 2018-05-31 - SVMA Discussion about the S.S. Vallejo, Alan Watts, & Jean Varda. The converted ferry at Sausalito that he shared with the painter Jean Varda, used as a home and a meeting place.
127. 2018-06-19 - Alan Watts | Philosophies of Asia | Eco Zen ("I am an Entertainer" excerpt). I am not a Zen Buddhist, I am not advocating Zen Buddhism, I am not trying to convert anyone to it. He doesn't want you to join an organization in favor of Mozart's music as opposed to, say, Beethoven's.
128. 2018-08-18 - Alan Watts | Human Consciousness | Education for Non-Entity (full). It is a thought-provoking critique of the education system and society's strong focus on materialism over the true enjoyment of life.
129. 2018-09-17 - Alan Watts: The Philosopher, The Writer And The Father with Joan Watts #252. Together they edited The Collected Letters of Alan Watts.  For the show notes? Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated!
130. 2018-09-26 - Gerd Stern's Druid Heights story recorded 5/24/18. The Marin County hillside where he kept a cabin, and where he was found in November 1973.
131. 2018-12-02 - Alan Watts - Individual and the World Pt 1 Full Lecture - Alan Watts Organization Official. No work or 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.
132. 2018-12-15 - Druid Heights: Interpreting an Alternative Lifestyle. The argument over preserving the Marin County settlement and its hand built houses.
133. 2019-03-25 - Alan Watts The Veil of Thoughts Lecture YouTube. Understanding ourselves is understanding life here is a wonderful guide from Alan Watts on our thoughts.
134. 2019-08-02 - Alan Watts | Zen & Meditation | Why Not Now (excerpt). Not mere absence of sound, but of the compulsive chattering of words and calculations inside our heads. Only by such silence can we get into firm touch with the real world which our languages, signs, symbols, and mathematics represent (somewhat crudely) but are not.
135. 2019-10-29 - Unraveling Ontological and Epistemological Knots, with Guest Mark Watts S4:E60 (2012). Mark Watts is a Film Producer and the son of the British-born Philosopher, Writer and Speaker, Alan Watts. He authored more than 20 excellent books on the philosophy and psychology of religion, and lectured extensively, leaving behind a vast audio archive.
136. 2019-12-02 - Alan Watts | Philosophies of Asia | Intellectual Yoga (excerpt). In his account, Jnana Yoga emphasized through intuitive insight, through intelligence rather than through all kinds of service postures, and visualizations.
137. 2020-01-23 - Alan Watts - Myth of Myself Full Lecture Part 1 - Alan Watts Organization Official. Part of the sequence in which he argues the separate self is a social convention rather than a fact.
138. 2020-01-24 - Alan Watts | Philosophy & Society | Veil of Thoughts Part 1 (full). This seminar delves into how thoughts can sometimes conceal the truth, despite being a valuable human faculty. Alan touches on how society has been deceived by abstract concepts, like money and wealth, with a particular focus on the confusion surrounding these symbols.
139. 2020-01-27 - Alan Watts - Taoist Way Full Lecture - Alan Watts Organization Official. On the Taoist idea of moving along the grain of a situation rather than against it.
140. 2020-05-20 - Episode 9: The Image of Man Lecture by ALAN WATTS. In this episode, I go over the main ideas of this lecture, the ceramic and dramatic model.
141. 2020-05-24 - Alan Watts Lecture - Everything. On the whole of things treated as a single process rather than a collection of parts.
142. 2020 - An Interview with Anne Watts: A Conversation on the Legacy of her father Alan Watts. Thanks to Shankar we were able to connect with Anne Watts, the second daughter of Alan Watts. Alan Watts was an English writer and speaker known for being a bridge between the oriental world and the occidental.
143. 2020-12-09 - Alan Watts - What Is Reality?. On what the question of reality can even mean once the questioner is included in it.
144. 2020-12-09 - Alan Watts - We As Organism. On the body treated as a process continuous with its surroundings rather than a thing inside them.
145. 2021-01-09 - Alan Watts | Rare Footage (1960s) | "We Put Ourselves into Boxes" Speech. In a rare bit of footage from the 1960s, Alan Watts delivers a short speech about how we've divided things up into boxes.
146. 2021-02-01 - Alan Watts - The TAO of Philosophy (Slices Of Wisdom). From the Tao of Philosophy series, on the Taoist idea of acting with the grain of a situation rather than against it.
147. 2021-02-03 - Ram Dass - Here and Now - Ep 175 - Ram Dass x Alan Watts From Separation to Unity, Intuition & Trust. Challenging the pervasive myth that we are small separate selves individualized within our bodies, Alan Watts proposes the idea that we are far beyond the concepts we define ourselves as.
148. 2021-02-04 - Alan Watts Psychedelics LSD Lecture No Music. On the drug experiments of the late fifties and the limits he later placed on them.
149. 2021-02-10 - Mindrolling - Raghu Markus - Ep. 227 - Honoring Alan Watts with Anne and Joan Watts. Honoring Alan Watts Joan and Anne talk about their incredible task of going through file cabinets full of their father's documents and collecting priceless correspondences between Alan Watts and some of the greatest thinkers of his era.
150. 2021-02-10 - Zen Sammich #18 | w/ Joan Watts, the daughter of Alan Watts. She and her sister Anne Watts are the co-editors of The Collected Letters of Alan Watts.
151. 2021-02-27 - Alan Watts & Films on High | Why Do We Fly?. That is, to go on doing things you don't like doing.
152. 2021-05-25 - What You Never Knew About Me!!!-ALAN WATTS reads his own biography. Thank you Alan Watts for being so incredibly talented.
153. 2021-06-04 - Alan Watts and his Daughter: why they used and stopped using LSD. His daughter on their use of LSD and on why it stopped.
154. 2021-07-08 - First Wednesday: Following Alan Watts with Mark Watts. It was in 1968 in New York City that 15 year old Mark Watts was given the task of recording lectures and seminars for his father, author, philosopher, and religious scholar, Alan Watts.
155. 2021-07-20 - Alan Watts' Being in the Way Podcast Ep.3: In Your Own Way. Furthering outlining his father's storied life and works, Mark shares perspective on Alan's early literary successes, radio work, and ensuing lecture tours.
156. 2021-10-02 - Alan Watts "People See It Too Late" - Alan Watts Lecture Meditation. The later years of Alan watts' life were dedicated to sharing his knowledge to general public which included broadcasting But in later years the usefulness of that decision was revealed (Alan watts' words remain preserved and true to this day).
157. 2021-11-29 - The Tao of Philosophy - Part 1 ☯ Alan Watts. From the Tao of Philosophy series. He takes up the Taoist idea of moving with the grain of a situation rather than against it.
158. 2021-12-25 - The Middle Way ☯ Alan Watts (FULL LECTURE, NO MUSIC). On the middle way, and why he read it as a refusal of extremes rather than a compromise.
159. 2022-03-09 - Essential Teachings from the Gita w/ Alan Watts & Ram Dass - Ep. 195. In this special episode of Here and Now, Ram Dass and Alan Watts offer their thoughts on some of the essential teachings from the Bhagavad Gita and how we can apply them to everyday life.
160. 2022-04-13 - Alan Watts takes LSD and meets Shiva at the Gas Station | Animated Film | Psychedelics Documentary. The film features an animated account of Alan Watts' adventues on LSD in the 'ordinary' world, taken from his book 'The Joyous Cosmology'.
161. 2022-04-28 - @AlanWattsOrg Legacy: Mark Watts and @EndelSound Oleg Stavitsky talk Wiggly Wisdom. On the contrast between the straight lines people impose and the wiggly forms nature actually takes.
162. 2022-05-05 - Inside Druid Heights, the hidden bohemian village in the redwoods. I rode my motorcycle out to Druid Heights, a place I've wanted to see for many years. Druid Heights was a thriving counterculture bohemian village where famous poets, musicians, activists and philosophers lived for decades.
163. 2022-06-02 - Alan Watts - Culture - Full Lecture. On culture as a set of conventions people mistake for the nature of things.
164. 2022-08-26 - Alan Watts Lecture - Coincidence of Opposites. On opposites treated as two ends of one thing rather than a conflict to settle.
165. 2022-09-12 - Alan Watts: The Tao of Philosophy ~ Episode 06 of 07: "Man in Nature". Alan Watts's 7-part lecture series on The Tao of Philosophy explains our existence, what this all means, and Humans in Nature.
166. 2022-09-19 - Alan Watts Lecture on Understranding Life. Alan Watts gives a powerful speech about who you are, what this all means, and why the hell we are here on earth. Watts gained a following while working as a volunteer programmer at the KPFA radio station in Berkeley.
167. 2022-12-26 - Alan Watts: Learning the Human Game - Being in the Way Ep. 17 - Hosted by Mark Watts. Contemplating the coincidence of opposites within the 'human game,' Alan ponders the simple yet thought-provoking question: is existence serious? We also like to see when the waves break on the shore, the patterns of foam.
168. 2022-12-26 - Alan Watts: Veil of Thoughts - Being in the Way Podcast Ep. 10 - Hosted by Mark Watts. Watts explored the 'veil of thoughts' in money, civilization & progress; before shifting gears to the 'divine madness' of marriage & falling in love.
169. 2022-12-26 - Alan Watts: Dropping Out From Karma - Being in the Way Podcast Ep. 2 - Hosted by Mark Watts. In the second episode of Being in the Way, an Alan Watts Beginners Mind, Zen Mind Taoist Way of Dropping Out From Karma Wisdom of the Ridiculous "The whole conception of nature is as a self-regulating, self-governing, democratic organism.
170. 2022-12-26 - Alan Watts: Psychology of Mystical Experience - Being in the Way Ep. 13 - Hosted by Mark Watts. On mystical experience set against life and death, and on what he meant by the power of nothingness.
171. 2022-12-26 - Alan Watts: Our Place In The Universe - Being in the Way Podcast Ep. 4 - Hosted by Mark Watts. Uncovering how we arise mutually with all things, Alan Watts examines our place in the universe and how very natural it is to be human.
172. 2022-12-26 - Alan Watts & Ram Dass: Essential Teachings from the Gita - Being in the Way 11 - Host: Mark Watts. Ram Dass joins Alan for a look at the tools that the Bhagavad Gita offers us to face life's most difficult challenges. The Inner Battlefield Essential Teachings from the Gita Root and Ground "At a symbolic level, what the Gita is, is a dialogue between God and the seeker.
173. 2022-12-26 - Alan Watts: Aesthetics and Mystical Vision - Being in the Way Podcast Ep. 14 - Hosted by Mark Watts. Functional Art Creating Works of Nature Meaning and Insanity "You and I have all conspired with ourselves to pretend that we are not really God, but of course we are. We are all apertures through which the universe is looking at itself.
174. 2022-12-26 - Alan Watts: The Unpreachable Religion - Being in the Way Podcast Ep. 18 - Hosted by Mark Watts. You can't touch it, it doesn't smell, and it has no taste. You might think that people getting home to the real point of life in a robust material culture would go home to a colossal banquet, an orgy of love making, or a riot of music and dancing.
175. 2022-12-26 - Alan Watts: Cosmic Drama - Being in the Way Podcast Ep. 12 - Hosted by Mark Watts feat. Cory Allen. On existence described as a drama in which every part is played by the same actor.
176. 2022-12-26 - Alan Watts: Inevitable Ecstasy - Being in the Way Podcast Ep. 9 - Hosted by Mark Watts. Illuminating the truth of the relationship between awareness and self, Alan Watts naturally opens us to the inevitable ecstasy of surrender. It's like the space in which we live, which is everywhere.
177. 2022-12-26 - Alan Watts: Drugs: Turning the Head or Turning On - Being in the Way Ep. 7 - Hosted by Mark Watts. Watts explored the drug question, in this psychedelically infused episode of Being in the Way.
178. 2022-12-26 - Alan Watts: Man and Nature - Being in the Way Podcast Ep. 8 - Hosted by Mark Watts. In this intimate session, Alan Watts shares distinctive philosophical vantage points outlining humankind's relationship to nature. The aim of dancing is to dance, is the present.
179. 2022-12-26 - Alan Watts: A Coincidence of Opposites - Being in the Way Podcast Ep. 16 - Host: Mark Watts. On opposites treated as two ends of one thing rather than as a conflict to be settled.
180. 2023-01-20 - Alan Watts: OUT OF YOUR MIND - 02 The Myth Of The Ceramic Construct. This concept explores the idea that the world is made up of shapes and forms that we can create and manipulate. He explains how our perception of the world is shaped by our understanding and that we can use this understanding to make meaning out of our experiences.
181. 2023-01-30 - Alan Watts: Man is a Hoax - Being in the Way Ep. 20 - Hosted by Mark Watts. Sifting down behind the cultural myth of man as separate, Alan explores how we are all actually Earth, the Universe, and the Big Bang.
182. 2023-04-08 - ALAN WATTS ❁ LIBERATION FROM KARMA ALAN WATTS FEAT RAM DASS. He takes up what liberation is supposed to mean, and why he thought seeking it defeats itself.
183. 2023-04-12 - Ram Dass x Alan Watts: The Spiritual Pendulum. Describing how we stretch all the way back to the big-bang, and far beyond our current state of being, Alan cuts through society's hypnotizing illusion of separation, inviting us into an awareness of the eternal Universe as our true being.
184. 2023-05-21 - Gerd Stern & Friends at Druid Heights, 5/24/18. Gerd Stern, who knew the Druid Heights household, recalling the place and the people in it.
185. 2023-05-24 - Alan Watts: Out of the Trap Pt. 1 - Being in the Way Podcast Ep. 22 - Hosted by Mark Watts. Delving into the historically complicated human relationship to divinity, Watts described the trap of separateness. That image, you see, has absolutely haunted Western man throughout his whole development because he has felt that he is in the universe on probation and sufferance.
186. 2023-06-23 - Alan Watts: Out of the Trap Pt. 2 - Being in the Way Podcast Ep. 23 - Hosted by Mark Watts. Picking up from last episode, Alan elucidates faith versus belief, and how our individual existence is connected with the totality of the universe.
187. 2023-07-02 - Alan Watts - Who Am I? The Individual and the World - Full Lecture. On the question of who the self is, and whether a person can be separated from the world that produced them.
188. 2023-08-04 - Alan Watts: Myth of Myself - Being in the Way Podcast Ep. 24 - Hosted by Mark Watts. This problem has fascinated me for many years. Most Western people locate their ego inside their heads.
189. 2023-09-05 - Alan Watts | PLAY | New & Official Alan Watts App | What Is Reality (excerpt). He takes up what the question of reality can mean once the questioner is counted in it.
190. 2023-09-23 - Alan Watts | Tao of Philosophy | Man in Nature (excerpt). From the Tao of Philosophy series. He takes up a person treated as continuous with an environment rather than set against it.
191. 2023-11-22 - Alan Watts on the Relevance of Eastern Philosophy - Being in the Way Ep. 26 - Hosted by Mark Watts. Using wisdom from Eastern philosophies, Watts explained why Westerners should let go of any preconceived notions of God.
192. 2023-12-26 - ALAN WATTS: BEAT ZEN, SQUARE ZEN E ZEN. On the essay setting the Beats' Zen against the institutional kind, published 1958 or 1959.
193. 2024-01-02 - Alan Watts - Enjoy the Dream 🌸 Seminar on Buddhism and Buddhist Doctrine 🙏. Life, when viewed through the lens of a dream, becomes a fluid, unpredictable journey filled with endless possibilities. Like a dream that unfolds with its own rhythm and narrative, life can surprise, challenge, and delight us in unexpected ways.
194. 2024-01-12 - Alan Watts - The Way of Zen (Full Lecture). His influential ideas continue to resonate in various modern spiritual and philosophical discussions.
195. 2024-02-06 - Alan Watts on the Limits of Language - Being in the Way Podcast Ep. 28 - Hosted by Mark Watts. Taking a trip through the constructs of form and labeling, Alan Watts philosophizes about the limits of language.
196. 2024-04-10 - Alan Watts: Become Disciplined - Rare Lecture 🪔 Finding Purpose that Transcends the Modern Rat Race. Here are some key aspects of Alan Watts' life and work: 1. Religious and Philosophical Exploration: ◦ Watts initially trained as an Anglican priest but left the Church in his early twenties.
197. 2024-04-14 - Alan Watts: On Being God - Being in the Way Podcast Ep. 6 (Black Screen Series). On the Vedantic claim that the ground of being and individual awareness are not two things.
198. 2024-04-14 - Alan Watts: The Unpreachable Religion - Being in the Way Podcast Ep. 18 (Black Screen Series). A talk given under the title The Unpreachable Religion.
199. 2024-04-14 - Alan Watts: Following the Taoist Way - Being in the Way Podcast Ep. 1 (Black Screen Series). What that tells us secretly, is that although bees and flowers look different from each other, they're inseparable.
200. 2024-04-25 - Alan Watts - Basic Assumptions. This talk, 'Seeing Through the Net,' was recorded for an IBM systems research group, where Alan Watts was invited to talk with engineers about the influence of cultural assumptions on design and the desired extent of controls.
201. 2024-05-02 - Alan Watts on Symbolic Reality vs. Real Reality - Being in the Way Ep. 30 (Black Screen, No Music). In a lecture on symbolic reality versus real reality, Watts explained the importance of total sensory awareness and looking at our motivations. Real Reality, Being in the Way Real Reality, Being in the Way Heart-Centered wisdom from Ram Dass, Jack Kornfield,
202. 2024-05-11 - Alan Watts - Taoist Way - Philosophy of the Tao - Pt 2. He takes up the Taoist idea of moving with the grain of a situation rather than against it.
203. 2024-05-25 - Alan Watts - The Spirit of Buddhist Chanting. Flow 3 -The Spirit of Buddhist Chanting is a deep dive into the practice of mediation, beginning with surfing the vibrations of sound. Here we get beyond the discrimination between sounds, and get into sound itself, to tap into the vibration of the world.
204. 2024-07-04 - 002 RARE INTERVIEW! Audio Clips with Dr Alan Watts. Alan Watts, a renowned philosopher and author, shares his unique insights on Eastern philosophy and its impact on the Western world. Known for his deep understanding of consciousness and spirituality, Dr.
205. 2024-07-30 - Alan Watts: Religion of No Religion - Being in the Way Podcast Ep. 31 Hosted By Mark Watts. Explaining the delicate balance of religiousness, Alan Watts lectures on the principle of leaving no trace.
206. 2024-08-13 - Episode 294 :: Joan and Anne Watts :: The Collected Letters of Alan Watts. His daughters Joan and Anne Watts on the correspondence they edited and what it shows of him.
207. 2024-09-02 - DT Suzuki, Christmas Humphries and Alan Watts. D.T. Suzuki and Christmas Humphreys, the two figures who shaped his first encounter with Zen.
208. 2024-09-15 - Alan Watts - half an hour interview with god - NO MUSIC OR ADS. NO VIDEO. He takes up what the word God can mean once it stops naming a person in charge.
209. 2024-09-24 - Alan Watts - The Spice of Life. Vallejo in Sausalito, C.A., in the spring of 1972. The recordings by Alan were taped by his son Mark, and sound engineer Henry 'Sandy' Jacobs.
210. 2024-09-29 - Alan Watts - Spiritual Alchemy - The Psychedelic Experience. On the psychedelic experience and what he thought it could and could not show.
211. 2024-10-02 - Alan Watts: Love Of Waters - Being in the Way Podcast Ep. 27 - Hosted by Mark Watts (re-upload). From the Being in the Way series. He takes up love treated as a subject for philosophy rather than for advice.
212. 2024-10-04 - Alan Watts - The Tao of Philosophy - Limits of Language. From the Tao of Philosophy series. He takes up the gap between words and whatever they are taken to name.
213. 2024-10-04 - Alan Watts - The Tao of Philosophy - Coincidence of Opposites. Please Note: These are original, non-edited, and non- Alan Watts lectures. We share this content without any intention of financial gain.
214. 2024-10-08 - Alan Watts - Philosophies of Asia - Intellectual Yoga. From the Philosophies of Asia series, his survey of the Asian traditions he spent his career interpreting.
215. 2024-10-09 - Alan Watts OUT OF YOUR MIND. From the Out of Your Mind seminars. He takes up the trap in trying to improve the very mind doing the improving.
216. 2024-10-12 - Alan Watts - The More It Changes. Watts described three of his favorite philosophical fantasies, including the one on the history and future of reproduction, and another about one star's way of becoming other stars.
217. 2024-10-12 - Alan Watts - In Order to Feel Good. A short piece on pleasure and the conditions people attach to it.
218. 2024-10-23 - Alan Watts: Zen and the Art of the Controlled Accident - Being in the Way Podcast Ep. 32. Focusing on cosmic balance, Alan Watts outlines the fundamentals of Taoism and how to skillfully interfere with our environment. We get anxious; we're afraid that death may be the end of us.
219. 2024-11-22 - Alan Watts: Zen Reconsidered - Being in the Way Podcast Ep. 33. Re-familiarizing us with Zen traditions, Alan Watts inspires listeners to move beyond going through the motions of practice.
220. 2024-11-30 - ALAN WATTS | OUT OF YOUR MIND / PART 2 - BLACK SCREEN #meditation #relax #blackscreen. From the Out of Your Mind seminars. He takes up meditation as an activity with no aim beyond its own doing.
221. 2024-12-21 - OUT OF YOUR MIND | ALAN WATTS - BLACK SCREEN / PART 5. With his signature blend of wit, wisdom, and insight, Watts delves into topics such as the nature of reality, the self, and the interconnectedness of all things.
222. 2025-01-23 - The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts Book PReview - A Message for an Age of Anxiety. He reminds us that lasting fulfillment doesn't come from clinging to the illusion of control, but from surrendering to the now. This book is a call to let go, live fully, and rediscover the wisdom in impermanence.
223. 2025-01-31 - Alan Watts on Confucianism vs. Taoism - Being in the Way Podcast Ep. 34 Hosted by Mark Watts. Roughly speaking, the Confucian way of life is for people involved in the world. The Taoist way of life is for people who get disentangled.", Alan Watts Alan Watts on Confucianism vs.
224. 2025-02-13 - Introducing Zen Buddhism - Alan Watts & D.T. Suzuki. Central concepts of Zen Satori Practical applications of Zen Outro
225. 2025-03-19 - Alan Watts - The Lost Tapes - Part 1 - Rare Lecture (Original Audio). Audio recovered from the tape library, issued without editing.
226. 2025-05-12 - The Life of Alan Watts | Biography of a Modern Spiritual Pioneer told Through a Visual Storyline. Discover the remarkable story of Alan Watts, the philosopher who brought Eastern wisdom to the Western world. In this biographical video, we explore his journey from a British Christian upbringing to becoming a Zen interpreter, author, and one of the most influential voices in modern spirituality.
227. 2025-05-15 - Alan Watts: Dreaming the World | Being in the Way Podcast Ep. 35. Diving into the cosmic drama of reality, Watts described the world as a divine dream which is poetic, playful, and only sometimes serious. You, lurking behind the mask of being an impermanent human person, are really responsible for the whole thing.
228. 2025-05-19 - Psychedelics: Spiritual Tool or Hedonistic Trap? Alan Watts explains (Aubrey Marcus Talk). A discussion of where his position on psychedelics actually sat, between endorsement and dismissal.
229. 2025-06-15 - Alan Watts - from 'Conversations with Myself'. A talk given under the title from 'Conversations with Myself'. He takes up the separate self examined as an idea people inherit rather than observe.
230. 2025-08-21 - Alan Watts is Alive & Well... Dead - With Jeremy Stockwell Episode #390. This episode takes us right into the heart of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 🎭, recorded live on the buzzing streets of Edinburgh.
231. 2025-08-26 - Alan Watts - The Lost Tapes - Part 3 - Rare Lecture (Original Recording). Audio recovered from the tape library and issued without editing, one of several parts.
232. 2025-08-27 - Alan Watts: Seeing Through The Net | Being in the Way Podcast Ep. 36. In this new, technological age, Watts explained how seeing reality via only one perspective can lead to a fragmented view of the world; instead, he encourages listeners to adopt both the analytical and the organic.
233. 2025-08-31 - Alan Watts - DIVINE MADNESS | Love, Surrender, and the Sanity of Insanity - Beach Overlook (FULL). In this full talk, Alan Watts examines the experience of falling in love as a form of divine madness, a spontaneous, disruptive force that defies logic, morality, and social expectation.
234. 2025-10-09 - Alan Watts - Philosophy of the Tao pt.1 | Flow, Balance, and the Course of Nature - (FULL TALK). Through the principles of yin and yang, wu wei (effortless action), and the inseparability of opposites, Watts reveals how the Tao, the Course of Nature, is not something to control or define, but to flow with.
235. 2025-10-13 - You Don't Actually Exist (And That Will Set You Free) | Ego Death | Buddha, Ram Dass, Alan Watts. Today, we explore ego death, not as something terrifying, but as the most liberating recognition a human being can have. We're not learning, we're remembering what we've always been.
236. 2025-11-02 - Alan Watts, Out Of Your Mind…reflections on the nature of consciousness (part one). From the seminars in which he argues that trying to fix the mind is the mind's own trap.
237. 2025-11-09 - Alan Watts, Out Of Your Mind…reflections on the nature of consciousness (part two). From the Out of Your Mind seminars. He takes up what consciousness is doing when it tries to examine itself.
238. 2025-11-16 - Alan Watts, Out Of Your Mind…reflections on the nature of consciousness (part three). From the Out of Your Mind seminars, recorded in front of a live audience.
239. 2025-12-14 - Alan Watts - Beyond Good and Bad: Seeing Reality as It Is | MEDITATION AND FLOW (Full Talk). In this talk from the Tao for Now series, Watts explored how our experience of reality is shaped by the selective nature of our senses, and by the mental habits we inherit long before we know we're choosing anything at all.
240. 2025-12-28 - Alan Watts: An Original And Unfettered Philosopher - Joan Watts. Through his collected letters they show how he was always learning something new, how he was clear that wisdom is not a static thing and his views were always under revision.
241. 2026-03-05 - Alan Watts: Reality, Art and Illusion. You get a specialist who really understands the function of the gall bladder. He studied gall bladders ad infinitum, and he really thinks he knows all about it.
242. 2026-03-11 - Alan Watts: Learning the Human Game - Being in the Way Ep. 17 - Hosted by Mark Watts. The funny thing is you can look at those patterns hour after hour and realize that they never make an aesthetic mistake.
243. 2026-04-04 - Alan Watts - Intellectual Yoga | On the Limits of Thought (FULL). In this talk, Watts explored the intellectual approach to yoga: not as physical practice, but as a path where the mind exhausts its own questions and opens into direct experience. Watts begins with scholarship and intellect and proceeds with art and eloquence to the frontiers of the spirit.
244. 2026-04-17 - Alan Watts: What Is It? | Being in the Way Podcast Ep. 38. Watts explored the inseparable dance between structure and formlessness, revealing why the universe can never be fully captured by words alone.
245. 2026-05-14 - Alan Watts' Being in the Way Podcast | Ep. 39. Moving beyond the imagined boundary of form, Watts explored the idea that humanity is a microcosm of the universe and that the two are inseparable. It looks at human beings as if they arrived in this world like a bunch of birds on the branches of a barren tree.
246. 2026-05-16 - Alan Watts - Being in the Way 2 | On Taoism, Energy & the Illusion of Separateness (Full Talk). Beginning with the concept of Tao as the course or flow of nature, Watts contrasts ancient Western views of the universe as solid matter with modern physics' understanding of energy, movement, and relationship.
247. 2026-06-23 - Alan Watts - Man in Nature Pt 1 | You Are the Universe Experiencing Itself. Drawing from Western culture, Hindu philosophy, Taoist thought, and ecology, he presents a different way of seeing ourselves, not as strangers in the universe, but as expressions of the entire process that brings forth life.
248. 2026-06-24 - Alan Watts Being in the Way Podcast Ep. 40 | Nature of Consciousness. Learn more and give at Dismantling the illusion of separation, Alan Watts shares how recognizing our fundamental unity with the universe transforms the way we live, perceive, and prepare for death.
249. 2026-07-09 - The Wisdom of Insecurity - Alan Watts. Alan Watts challenges the modern obsession with control and security, revealing that life becomes meaningful only when we stop resisting change.
250. 2026-07-16 - Ram Dass Had Everything Watts Wanted Including the Death Watts Feared. Alan Watts spent forty years describing the Tao and died never quite living it. Ram Dass, his contemporary in the Western search for Taoist wisdom, actually got there, but not through more practice.
251. 2026-07-24 - Alan Watts: Don't Interfere With Life. On the difference between acting with a situation and forcing it.
252. 2026-07-26 - Alan Watts: Why Beauty Needs No Explanation. Not everything you love needs to be justified. Some things are here to be enjoyed, and that is enough.
253. 2026-07-26 - Alan Watts: You Are the Actor Playing Every Part at Once. In this talk, Watts laid out three very different models of the universe, and quietly dismantles the one most of us inherited. He begins with the Hindu picture: every person is a mask of a single Godhead, the one player behind all the games.
254. 2026-07-29 - Alan Watts on the One Thing Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism All Lack. We call Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism religions. Watts held that is a mistake, and in this talk he explains why by going back to what the word actually means.
255. 2026-08-11 - Alan Watts on Why You Are the Universe. He takes up the universe treated as one process rather than a collection of separate things.
256. 2026-08-17 - Alan Watts: You Are Not a Stranger in This World. Here is a tree in the garden, and every summer it produces apples. We call it an apple tree, Watts said, because the tree apples.
257. 2026-08-20 - Alan Watts: If You Don't Understand, Look at It Again. Every answer comes back as structure, form, pattern. Ask what the forms themselves are made of, and there is nowhere left to stand.
258. 2026-08-20 - Alan Watts Being in the Way Podcast | Ep. 41. Alan Watts reveals the harmony of embracing our human role while also recognizing that we are the entire cosmos.
259. 2026-08-27 - Alan Watts: Why Words Miss Your Life. Most of us are trying to live on abstractions and wondering why we are still hungry.
260. 2026-09-13 - Alan Watts | Philosophy & Society | Divine Madness. This powerful talk invites you to step outside society's expectations and look at life from a completely different perspective. Sometimes, what appears irrational to the ordinary mind may reveal a deeper truth about existence, consciousness, and the nature of reality.

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