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The Essential Lectures of Alan Watts

The Essential Lectures of Alan Watts

10.0 IMDb tt10235016 1972 Reality · Talk · Documentary · Comedy

The Essential Lectures of Alan Watts video series was recorded in 1971 above Muir Woods, California, and in 1972 aboard the ferryboat the SS Vallejo in Sausalito. Produced by his son Mark and directed by long-time archivist Henry Jacobs, the series explores core philosophical themes that spawned over Watts' career.

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Alan Watts

Episodes 12

Nothing 1
Nothing 5h 42m Basing his ideas on sensory perception and physical experience, Alan Watts makes a compelling argument that everything actually…
Ego 2 ▶ Playing
Ego 5h 42m Alan Watts was concerned with the way we trap ourselves in words. He considered it unfortunate that we…
Meditation 3
Meditation 5h 42m As Alan Watts explains, "A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts…
God 4
God 5h 42m To many of us the image of God as a gray-bearded omnipotent and omnipresent supreme being has become…
Cosmic Drama 5
Cosmic Drama 5h 42m Alan Watts further explores the Hindu dramatic view of the universe, in which God plays all of the…
Time 6
Time 5h 42m Here Alan Watts points out that our insistence that the past determines the present is nonsensical.
Work & Play 7
Work & Play 5h 42m Alan Watts swirls an orange on a string and shoots an arrow high into the air before explaining…
Death 8
Death 5h 42m Alan Watts comments on the circle of life and our response to the surprising event of being born…
The More It Changes 9
The More It Changes 5h 42m Alan Watts speaks on our fascination with reproduction through media, and on the far out notion that human…
Clothing 10
Clothing 5h 42m After talking about growing up near London, Alan Watts demonstrates a variety of cultural garb and points out…
Do You Smell? 11
Do You Smell? 5h 42m Alan Watts speaks about our most repressed sense. Here he introduces viewers to the intricacies of incense in…
Conversation with Myself 12
Conversation with Myself 5h 42m While walking in a field above Muir Woods, Alan Watts points to humankind's attempts to straighten out a…