Alan Watts

I love this guy, read almost all of his books and listened hours to him. It’s all the same philosophy/psychology really but he has such a wit for them that you learn something new every time. Must watch!

The Wisdom of Insecurity, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, This is It, Cloud Hidden-Whereabouts unknown are my favorites, but in general, you can’t go wrong. (Allthough I just read Still The Mind, also by AW, but thought it was really basic).

His general ideas come from his insights into the interconnectedness of all things. He uses many metaphors that makes it apparant that we, without our environment, couldn’t exist, that, in the same way our environment influences us, we influence the environment.

I learned that the normal idea of who or what I am was not correct, or complete. That ideas are abstract concepts symbolizing reality that walk a linear path and that they never completely describe how things are because it is based in exclusion, in duality.

Meh, guess it’s kinda hard to summarize, read some of his works, its pure poetry, and come back to the topic! :)

Here’s the full one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE5M8743a1s

I don’t think south park is randomly picking on people, I think they are really smart and use incredible metaphors for things happening in our society that are, well, just ridiculous.

I think that this is one of the best things I have ever discovered so far!Thank you all! Thank you Syn Ther!! :)

Alan Watts is somewhat new to me…it was all you guys who turned me onto him.. this one cracks me up :)

i saw alan watts give a talk when i was 14 in california way back in the 60s.
then i read all his books that he had written at the time of my mind blowing mescaline trip. watts was for me one of my first gurus. im happy to see you guys are finding him as a good teacher. he indeed had a lot of insight and was together with tim leary one of the pioneers in this type of thinking.

just purchased another 5 books of his after reading the taboo against knowing yourself and become what you are, this man has just opened my level of understanding and got me deeply thinking, in a really amusing way

can’t stop lending them to anyone who pays any attention!