Alan Watts Podcast

Introduction to Zen 1 of 4

The AlanWatts.com website features free audio downloads, program lists, and information on Alan Watts life and works.

Alan Watts is one of the most widely read philosophers of the 20th century. In addition to his 28 books, Alan Watts delivered hundreds of public lectures and seminars the recordings of which have been preserved in the archives of the Electronic University, a non-profit organization dedicated to higher education.

For the past two years Alan's eldest son, Mark Watts, has reviewed and cataloged these talks to prepare them for public broadcast.

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W E B T R A I L

* Marijuana product placement on grocery shelves? link

* Visualize that the Holy beings enter your heart chakra or a Dharma wheel in the form of lights before you move anything on the altar. There really is a method to moving your altar. link

* A Pima, Arizona, couple has stepped down as leaders of a church that considers marijuana a sacrament and deity. The government contends the church is a front for drug trafficking. link

* Dr. Bronner's Magic Soapbox - A documentary. link

* I didn't know Richard Clarke had a website. link

* BBQ-ing with Bobby Seale - Yes, that Bobby Seale. link

* Help Hastert Hide the Perv and more silliness - link

* David Byrne offers up “Record Companies: Who needs Them?” and gives his opinion on the Montreal music this week. link


FULL MOON
Take some time around this Full Moon to create more balance in your life, in whatever way you feel called. Use the tools you have to stay centered. listen to your heart, and remember: "To go out of our minds at least once a day is tremendously important. By going out of your mind you come to your senses! When you come out of the conditioned, limited and unaware mind the center of gravity naturally shifts to the heart." --Alan Watts

Two notable men both born on the same day in 1915. Alan Watts was born on Jan 6, 1915, in Chiselhurst, England. The original California guru, polymath, liberationist. He become widely recognized for his Zen writings and for The Book On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are. He died in 1973 at his home in California, and is survived by his second wife and seven children. {Deoxy Link}
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And John Lilly who was born on Jan. 6, 1915, in St Paul, MN. A physician and psychoanalyst specializing in biophysics, neurophysiology, electronics, computer theory, and neuroanatomy. Inventor of The Isolation Tank Method of exploring consciousness. Which led to research projects between man and dolphin. Specifically a research program dedicated to interfacing dolphins and whales through music, art, and ceremony: Interspecies Communication.