Alan watts podcasts

[The Salvia Kid]

Anyone else listening to these? I just love his speaking voice - I think most were recorded in the fifties and sixties. They are short and very interesting talks of a philosophical nature often with eastern religion as subject. Free in itunes.

[truthmissile]

I love Alan Watts. I used to listen to his podcasts, but started drifting back to Howard Stern, Dopefiend, Russell Brand, Queer Ninja, and Lefty.

Watts is really brilliant and entertaining. If you want an interesting look at Eastern Spiritual thought, check out Alan Watts.

[queerninja]

thanks guys...downloading now :) Let you know what I think.

[babylon_n_ting]

Anyone else listening to these? I just love his speaking voice - I think most were recorded in the fifties and sixties. They are short and very interesting talks of a philosophical nature often with eastern religion as subject. Free in itunes.

Yea I love Alan Watts. Can't believe how few Brits have even heard of him. Have you read any of his books?

[max_freakout]

Alan Watts was the single biggest influence behind the ego-death theory, i never heard his podcast i did see a few videos of his on youtube though, he was an alcoholic and that experience heavily influenced his philosophy

[The Salvia Kid]

Alan Watts was the single biggest influence behind the ego-death theory, i never heard his podcast i did see a few videos of his on youtube though, he was an alcoholic and that experience heavily influenced his philosophy

Used a fair few mushies, DMT and LSD as well - alcohol took over later in his life

[queerninja]

Man...this guy resonates with me :D Gonna do some more searching on him...I love it when you get that "totally....absolutely..." thing going on when you're listening to someone speak wisdom :) Wonderful teacher.

[babylon_n_ting]

Alan Watts was the single biggest influence behind the ego-death theory, i never heard his podcast i did see a few videos of his on youtube though, he was an alcoholic and that experience heavily influenced his philosophy

I posted the following re Alan Watts on the old grow report forum just before the server went down, so I doubt that anybody read it. So here it is again:

I just listened to Psychonautica 13 - the Michael Hoffman interview.

It was interesting to hear Hoffman's reference to Alan Watt's book, "The Way of Zen". However in the context of discussing free will, I would recommend another Watt's title, "The Book On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are". Whilst "The Book..." doesn't specifically focus on the free-will debate, it does examine the concept of non duality, which is central to the Indian, Advaita Vedanta philosophy.

Non duality, or more specifically the lack of a separate "I", may be another way of expressing the ego death state.

The following excerpt from the preface to "The Book..." may be of interest (posted here under the Fair Use / Fair Dealing terms):

"This book explores an unrecognised but mighty taboo--our tacit conspiracy to ignore who, or what, we really are. Briefly, the thesis is that the prevalent sensation of oneself as a separate ego enclosed in a bag of skin is a hallucination which accords neither with Western science nor with the experimental philosophy-religions of the East...."

Thus another way of looking at the argument over whether "I" have free will is to ask, who am "I"? In other words, the "I" that we individually perceive as being separate from the rest of the universe doesn't actually exist as a separate entity. Each individual's consciousness is the universal Self looking at Itself. Watts used the metaphor of God playing a trick on Himself: God only remembers that the separate "I" was an illusion after the death of the individual. This endless, fantastic game is played out for each consciousness (i.e. each person) on the planet.

If there is no separate "I", only a universal Self, then clearly the "I" does not have free will other than the will of the Self.

[earthmansurfer]

Anyone else listening to these? I just love his speaking voice - I think most were recorded in the fifties and sixties. They are short and very interesting talks of a philosophical nature often with eastern religion as subject. Free in itunes.

Funny you should ask. I was at the 3rd annual Shamanism conference this last July and had some pretty intense experiences. When I got back I put my mp3 player on Random, all 5500 songs! Funny, never tried it before, funny how psychedelics/entheogens break down these walls in all ways. What is odder is that 5 songs into playing , Allan Watts came on.

I didn't realize he was even on there, but I had 12 cds, most notably the "Out of your mind" collection. Well, a track from Cd 2 came on, and oddly enough what he was talking about was basically describing one of my experiences!!! I couldn't find the words to do so mylself (or barely so) but he was doing it. Odder yet, is that there were over 100 tracks from him and the one that was playing was just what I was needing.

Funny how the Universe works. If anyone is interested you can find this collection on Torrent.

Yes you are correct. He has a great speaking voice and the words to go with it. Really haven't seen someone speak so clearly in a while, reminds me of J. Krishnamurti in that sense.

Strongly recommended and ties in well (at times) with our altered state experience. You have to listen to understand that one...

Earthmansurfer

[max_freakout]

Used a fair few mushies, DMT and LSD as well - alcohol took over later in his life

Oh!! I assumed it was the other way round! That is suprising

[max_freakout]

I posted the following re Alan Watts on the old grow report forum just before the server went down, so I doubt that anybody read it. So here it is again:


I remember that post, Hoffman specifically addressess that issue on egodeath.com, the loss of separatenness is one way of looking at egodeath, but it isnt as practical as the no free-will interpretation. But they are both saying essentially the same thing

[SativaSilva]

I love alan watts, can't wait till they get more lectures of his up on the podcast..

[babylon_n_ting]

I remember that post, Hoffman specifically addressess that issue on egodeath.com, the loss of separatenness is one way of looking at egodeath, but it isnt as practical as the no free-will interpretation. But they are both saying essentially the same thing

Watts explained the concept of non duality by describing God playing an endless game with him/herself: a game in which God forgets he is God during our human lifespan.

[Xochipilli2012]

Love Everybody!

It's about time I work on my post count so I can start asking questions about m.o.m. ;) (hee...hee...)

Alan Watts was a huge influence on me when I was younger. My first encounters with him occurred in the late 70s when I was listening to Pacifica station KPFK in Los Angeles. I didn't even know his name, but he was fascinating. One "talk" was just him laughing.

Later, as I got interested in consciousness and its bio-chemical nature, I got turned on to his book The Joyous Cosmology (available online (http://www.druglibrary.org/SCHAFFER/lsd/jcbody.htm)), which was about his experiments with LSD. From there I started reading other books, and I was in love. One of my favorites is The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are. Wonderful!

The beauty of Watts is that he does a wonderful job of introducing Westerners to so-called "Eastern" concepts, whether in his writing or in his marvelous talks.

I have a lot of his talks on MP3. If anyone is interested, PM me (http://www.thegrowreport.com/Forums/private.php?do=newpm&u=80).

Blessings!

[Xochipilli2012]

Brothers and Sisters,

A Tribe friend turned me onto these Watts videos on YouTube that you might enjoy as well:

A Conversation With Myself (Part 1) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aufuwMiKmE)

A Conversation With Myself (Part 2) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ8WeLrtFnY)

A Conversation With Myself (Part 3) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RcjATFcbq4)

A Conversation With Myself (Part 4) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOYIE-RX3No)

Enjoy!

[Oldbay]

Wow, how did I miss this thread :mad:

I really enjoy his current talks (in his podcasts) about the limits of language. I always like how he uses the definitions and older meanings of the words to more fully explain what he is saying.

[Lorenzo]

Thanks for letting us know about the Watts podcasts. I've got a bunch of old cassette tapes of his but no longer have anything to play them on. So this is really good news. I recommend him very highly.

[Oldbay]

Thanks for letting us know about the Watts podcasts. I've got a bunch of old cassette tapes of his but no longer have anything to play them on. So this is really good news. I recommend him very highly.

Good to hear from you Lorenzo, hope your health is getting back up to speed with you.

I have some other MP3s of his work, but I don't know what the upload limit is here. Anyone have a guess?

[The Salvia Kid]

Thanks for letting us know about the Watts podcasts. I've got a bunch of old cassette tapes of his but no longer have anything to play them on. So this is really good news. I recommend him very highly.

Glad I have given you a small 'something' after all the small 'somethings' in the way of the excellent podcasts from the pyschedelic salon you have given me Lorenzo. :D

[BlackBeauty]

I have some other MP3s of his work, but I don't know what the upload limit is here. Anyone have a guess?

it's 3.01mb for mp3's and 3.39mb for zip files...might be better off posting a megaupload link or something....?

[Oldbay]

it's 3.01mb for mp3's and 3.39mb for zip files...might be better off posting a megaupload link or something....?

Cool, thanks BB

[Samwise Ganja]

Hey everyone, I´ve been listening to AW for a few years too and he is certainly an excellent speaker, story teller, etc.

It´s almost as if his talks are meditations in themselves. It´s as if by listening to him and thinking about what he says brings me into the egoless state. I love it.

[Oldbay]

Yeah Samwise,
He is almost like a modern day prophet or something, he doesn't tell the future or anything but he just has such an amazing mind and way of putting things into perspective.

BTW good to hear you all on the show. Love the Girl friends German accent. One of my favorite parts of hearing the "global" podcasts with df,qn,bb etc. Love the accents, the slang terms, the different attitudes etc...

[Samwise Ganja]

Yeah Samwise,
He is almost like a modern day prophet or something, he doesn't tell the future or anything but he just has such an amazing mind and way of putting things into perspective.

BTW good to hear you all on the show. Love the Girl friends German accent. One of my favorite parts of hearing the "global" podcasts with df,qn,bb etc. Love the accents, the slang terms, the different attitudes etc...

Aww thanks Oldbay. Yeah she´s my special little German and I am continually cracking up by her accent, because it´s becoming Australian, but doesn´t quite make it every time. Gold I tell you. I´m always teaching her new Australian slang phrases.

Also, you should have seen her face as she inhaled/exhaled from the Volcano (first time). Her eyes widened and a smile and expression of "oh my sweet knödel´s!" Was really nice to catch up with DF again and contribute to the show.

As for Alan Watts. Yeah man, he´s awesome to listen to whenever you need to bring it down to earth again. Or is it take it up into the sky? Not sure, probably both. Anyway, he´s good for mind un-training and a good laugh (which is the real secret).

Peace bro.:rolleyes: