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Happy Birthday Alan
Alan Watts was born 99 years ago today. To celebrate Brian Pickings has a really nice article on his classic (and my favourite book) “The Wisdom of Insecurity”. Here’s an archive of all the posts I’ve...
View ArticleInterdependence for Non-Hippies
Disaster Communism Environmentalism: the question is posed incorrectly from the beginning. There is no external object called “the environment” to which another object called “society” must relate. The...
View ArticleAlan Watts on the 1970 Brazil World Cup team
If you happened to witness, in 1970, the World Cup championship of soccer, you would have seen that the winning team from Brazil played soccer in the most extraordinary way. They played it like...
View ArticleAlan Watts: Rascal guru or inspirational poster boy?
As readers of this blog will know I am a big fan of the late English philosopher Alan Watts. He has been one of, if not the, most formative influences on my way of thinking. As such, I am keen for more...
View ArticleAldous Huxley on Alan Watts
I came across this pretty good summation of Alan Watts’ life (although riddled with typos) and it describes an encounter between Aldous Huxley and Alan, after which Huxley remarked: ‘What a curious...
View ArticleAlan Watts and Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
If you’ve read any of my blog you will be aware of my love of the work of Alan Watts, who has been one of the most influential people on my own philosophy and outlook. Interestingly, Alan moved in the...
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To Work for a True Catholicity
I have been trying almost all my life to work for a true catholicity, a fellowship wherein Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, Taoists, Jews and the rest could recognise their common Ground, and...
View ArticleAlan Watts and the problem of “self-love”
You often hear the idea being bandied about that “You cannot begin to love others, until you first love yourself” I’ve never really given it much thought, but have always been vaguely suspicious of it....
View ArticleRichard Baker’s eulogy for Alan Watts
The culmination of the ceremony was the eulogy by Richard Baker. Using the dharma names he’d given Watts and holding Watts’ jangling staff, which he’d inherited from Suzuki, he spoke: “Alan, Daiyuin...
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