
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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Air Date: 1972-12-31
Basing his ideas on sensory perception and physical experience, Alan Watts makes a compelling argument that everythin...
Air Date: 1972-12-31
Alan Watts was concerned with the way we trap ourselves in words. He considered it unfortunate that we separate the "...
Air Date: 1972-12-31
As Alan Watts explains, "A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts and loses touch ...
Air Date: 1972-12-31
To many of us the image of God as a gray-bearded omnipotent and omnipresent supreme being has become implausible, yet...
Air Date: 1972-12-31
Alan Watts further explores the Hindu dramatic view of the universe, in which God plays all of the parts - all the wh...
Air Date: 1972-12-31
Here Alan Watts points out that our insistence that the past determines the present is nonsensical.
Air Date: 1972-12-31
Alan Watts swirls an orange on a string and shoots an arrow high into the air before explaining why the art of living...
Air Date: 1972-12-31
Alan Watts comments on the circle of life and our response to the surprising event of being born in the first place.
Air Date: 1972-12-31
Alan Watts speaks on our fascination with reproduction through media, and on the far out notion that human beings may...
Air Date: 1972-12-31
After talking about growing up near London, Alan Watts demonstrates a variety of cultural garb and points out how eac...
Air Date: 1972-12-31
Alan Watts speaks about our most repressed sense. Here he introduces viewers to the intricacies of incense in front o...
Air Date: 1971-12-31
While walking in a field above Muir Woods, Alan Watts points to humankind's attempts to straighten out a wiggly world...