Beat Zen – Alan Watts

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by Alan Watts: It is as difficult for Anglo-Saxons as for the Japanese to absorb anything quite so Chinese as Zen. 

The New Alchemy – Alan Watts

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by Alan Watts: Besides the philosopher’s stone that would turn base metal into gold, one of the great quests of alchemy in both Europe and Asia was the elixir of immortality.

Alan Watts Taoism

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by Alan Watts: In order to go into Taoism at all, we must begin by being in the frame of mind in which it can be understood.

Alan Watts: The Nature of Consciousness

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by Alan Watts: I find it a little difficult to say what the subject matter of this seminar is going to be, because it’s too fundamental to give it a title. I’m going to talk about what there is.

The Mysteries of LSD – Alan Watts

Alan Watts: On returning to America I was introduced to psychiatric adventures of a different order, for Aldous Huxley had recently published Doors of Perception 

Judo: The Gentle Tao

by Alan Watts: “Man at his birth is supple and tender, but in death, he is rigid and hard. Thus, suppleness and tenderness accompany life,