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Oct 31, 2022
The Tao of Philosophy (Part 8)
Alan Watts explains how language helps to construct reality, and what to do about it. He then follows up with the challenges of expressing the ineffable.
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Oct 31, 2022
The Veil of Thoughts (Parts 1-4)
Alan describes the ways in which we have concealed truth behind a veil of thoughts. He talks about how and why we mistake symbols for reality, argues that civilization may be a misguided experiment, offers observations about the way in which abstractions have become more powerful than the realities they are referencing, and explains how we can become “unbamboozled” from these ways of thinking.
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Oct 31, 2022
Intelligent Mindlessness
Alan discusses ways in which Western civilization confuses symbols with reality and introduces meditation and its associated gadgets as tools to get in touch with reality. Then he encourages his audience to cast off their reliance on symbols by guiding them through various mantra in a half-hour demonstration of this intelligent mindlessness.
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Oct 31, 2022
Thusness
Part 1 00:00 Now, the title of the seminar is a very strange word, translatable into English as “thusness” or “suchness;” in Sanskrit: tathātā. And this is based on the Sanskrit word tat, which is etymologically the root of our word “that.” And it’s supposed—in India, you see—that this is the first word that a […]
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Oct 31, 2022
The Tao of Philosophy (Part 7)
00:00 Tonight, at any rate, we’ve got to go through some theoretical materials, so we’re on a head trip. I don’t know where the trip will end up; it depends on you. But in order to lay the foundation for this, we’ve got to examine ideas that are basic to our common sense. Ideas are […]
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Oct 31, 2022
The Tao of Philosophy (Part 6)
Highlights from the "The Love of Wisdom" radio series by Alan Watts
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Oct 31, 2022
The Tao of Philosophy (Part 5)
In a talk given to the IBM Systems Group, Alan Watts describes the wiggly world of nature and the net we cast over it.
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Oct 31, 2022
Turning the Head, or Turning On
Talking to an audience at San José State University, Alan Watts recounts the first time he tried consciousness-altering substances after meeting Aldous Huxley. He argues that Western society largely isn’t ready for the mystical experience which can be triggered in these mental states, but nonetheless advocates for them, as they may arouse positive transformation in the human collectivity.
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Oct 31, 2022
The Tao of Philosophy (Part 4)
Alan Watts explains how we are not born into this world, but grow out of it; for in the same way an apple tree apples, the Earth peoples.
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Oct 31, 2022
The Tao of Philosophy (Part 3)
Alan Watts talks on the impact of various models of the ultimate reality, and the contrasts between male and female symbolism.
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