The Collected Letters of Alan Watts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Collected Letters of Alan Watts write by Alan Watts. This book was released on 2018-12-11. The Collected Letters of Alan Watts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Philosopher, author, and lecturer Alan Watts (1915–1973) popularized Zen Buddhism and other Eastern philosophies for the counterculture of the 1960s. Today, new generations are finding his writings and lectures online, while faithful followers worldwide continue to be enlightened by his teachings. The Collected Letters of Alan Watts reveals the remarkable arc of Watts’s colorful and controversial life, from his school days in England to his priesthood in the Anglican Church as chaplain of Northwestern University to his alternative lifestyle and experimentation with LSD in the heyday of the late sixties. His engaging letters cover a vast range of subject matter, with recipients ranging from High Church clergy to high priests of psychedelics, government officials, publishers, critics, family, and fans. They include C. G. Jung, Henry Miller, Gary Snyder, Aldous Huxley, Reinhold Niebuhr, Timothy Leary, Joseph Campbell, and James Hillman. Watts’s letters were curated by two of his daughters, Joan Watts and Anne Watts, who have added rich, behind-the-scenes biographical commentary. Edited by Joan Watts & Anne Watts
In My Own Way
In My Own Way - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In My Own Way write by Alan Watts. This book was released on 2011-02-09. In My Own Way available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this new edition of his acclaimed autobiography — long out of print and rare until now — Alan Watts tracks his spiritual and philosophical evolution. A child of religious conservatives in rural England, he went on to become a freewheeling spiritual teacher who challenged Westerners to defy convention and think for themselves. Watts's portrait of himself shows that he was a philosophical renegade from early on in his intellectual life. Self-taught in many areas, he came to Buddhism through the teachings of Christmas Humphreys and D. T. Suzuki. Told in a nonlinear style, In My Own Way combines Watts's brand of unconventional philosophy with wry observations on Western culture and often hilarious accounts of gurus, celebrities, and psychedelic drug experiences. A charming foreword by Watts's father sets the tone of this warm, funny, and beautifully written story. Watts encouraged readers to “follow your own weird” — something he always did himself, as this remarkable account of his life shows.
The Supreme Identity
The Supreme Identity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Supreme Identity write by Alan W. Watts. This book was released on 1950. The Supreme Identity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Nature of Man
The Nature of Man - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Nature of Man write by Alan Watts. This book was released on 1975. The Nature of Man available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the development of hybrid corn, the history of eugenics, human genetics, the nature-nurture debate, the origins of the Marxian concept of proletarian science, the shift in the meaning of "fitness" in evolutionary theory, the practice of normal science in Nazi Germany, and the making and selling of science textbooks. While the topics are diverse, a common theme unites them - each explores links between biological science, social power, and public policy.
The Book
The Book - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Book write by Alan Watts. This book was released on 1989-08-28. The Book available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A revelatory primer on what it means to be human, from "the perfect guide for a course correction in life" (Deepak Chopra)—and a mind-opening manual of initiation into the central mystery of existence. At the root of human conflict is our fundamental misunderstanding of who we are. The illusion that we are isolated beings, unconnected to the rest of the universe, has led us to view the “outside” world with hostility, and has fueled our misuse of technology and our violent and hostile subjugation of the natural world. To help us understand that the self is in fact the root and ground of the universe, Watts has crafted a revelatory primer on what it means to be human—and a mind-opening manual of initiation into the central mystery of existence. In The Book, Alan Watts provides us with a much-needed answer to the problem of personal identity, distilling and adapting the Hindu philosophy of Vedanta.
