Top products from r/AlanWatts
We found 14 product mentions on r/AlanWatts. We ranked the 12 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
2. Reflections on the Art of Living: A Joseph Campbell Companion
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Harper Perennial
3. A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (Oprah's Book Club, Selection 61)
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Great product!
4. The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
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Vintage Books
5. Myths of Light: Eastern Metaphors of the Eternal (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
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Used Book in Good Condition
6. Out of Your Mind: Essential Listening from the Alan Watts Audio Archives
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12 CDs, 14.25 hourssix complete seminarsselected from hundreds of recordings that capture the true scope of this brilliant teacher
7. The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness
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8. The Secret Oral Teachings in Tibetan Buddhist Sects
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11. Zen Effects: The Life of Alan Watts (SkyLight Lives)
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12. Alan Watts Trust the Universe T-shirt
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Perfect tshirt for Alan Watts fans, philosophers or spiritual people who believe life is more than what we can perceive. The universe is the bigger force. We are surrounded by energy.This shirt is great to wear to spiritual retreats, yoga classes, Buddhists, spiritual gatherings, meditation, synchro...
From Library Journal
This first biography of the British expatriate turned Sixties counterculture guru, philosophical entertainer, and Zen popularizer is highly entertaining. Drawing on extensive interviews with surviving family members and making balanced use of Watts's amusing but selectively incomplete autobiography, Furlong paints a compelling portrait of a complex, brilliant man who wandered through three marriages and several careers while maintaining a lifelong involvement with Asian spirituality. Included are accounts of Watts's early education, his rise to prominence as an author, his experiments with psychedelic drugs, and his end as an exhausted alcoholic. Furlong successfully re-creates a colorful slice of recent American popular history through the life history of one of its famous protagonists. Paul E. Muller-Ortega, Religious Studies Dept., Michigan State Univ., East Lansing
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Hope this is ok... but I just published a book! - [The Fall of Man: Days of Judgment] (http://www.amazon.com/Fall-Man-Days-Judgment-ebook/dp/B019BJN7FK/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1450461728&sr=8-5&keywords=the+fall+of+man) a couple of days ago.
While I didn't write it to explicitly representing Watt's philosophy, for those who love Watts they will definitely see his influence in the background playing out through the story (especially the concept of life as a game).
Now I just have to find people to read it ;)
"The Joyous Cosmology" is a wonderful exposé of Alan's experience using psychedelic drugs.
I also found "The Way of Zen" to be a really great explanation of the history of Zen as well as many Zen principles and ideas (through the lens of Alan's own philosophy, of course).
I recommend this talk by Watts, prob my favorite. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jX8PqznN0ao
Also Joseph Campbell is incredible. He has some lectures on iTunes that are pretty good, and this book (link below) is a good introduction to his work.
http://www.amazon.com/Reflections-Art-Living-Campbell-Companion/dp/0060926171
The Power of Myth is excellent stuff. Myths of Light is also good if you're interested in Eastern thought specifically.
We can observe our thoughts as they come and go, in the moment, as a same happening as anything else in the external world. By shedding acceptance and self-love on everything that occurs in this moment, they lose their power.
Thought certainly has a purpose in this world, but the key is to not get lost in thought as if it is our identity.
I think before delving into Alan Watts, it would be wise to first check out either Eckhart Tolle or Sam Harris.
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Highly recommend this book.
When you create art, do you sit down and think about the exact brush stroke, or exact notes you want to play and plan each of them out step by step like a computer program? or do you let it flow, consciously experiencing it as it becomes?
For me, creating art is not a conscious activity. I will set the intention with my conscious mind (I want to create a song in this style that is about this idea) but the actual melodies, lyrics and chords come from the muse.
"The Book: on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are" -- https://www.amazon.com/Book-Taboo-Against-Knowing-Who/dp/0679723005
Awesome title btw
Alan Watts Trust the Universe T-shirt https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079W8JFF9/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_l7lRAbZQ86BZS
That would be Alan's "I told you so" book:
The Secret Oral Teachings in Tibetan Buddhist Sects
by Alexandra David-Neel (Author), Lama Yongden (Author)
This book
Out of your mind lecture series — http://www.amazon.com/Out-Your-Mind-Alan-Watts/dp/1591791650