Welcome to Alan Watts 301 Playlist: 10 videos (2 hours, 0 minutes) By now you're hopefully more familiar with Alan Watts' work and perhaps have greater interest in some of his most popular dives into Philosophy. Perhaps you've even started discussions on the channel's comment board or explored some of his other free lectures at play.alanwatts.org/. This playlist begins to explore ways to rethink your entrenched perspectives and liberate your consciousness from the binds of traditional mental boxes. Alan Watts - The Later Years (1960 to 1973) By the mid-fifties a “Zen Boom” was underway as Beat intellectuals in San Francisco and New York began celebrating and assimilating the esoteric qualities of Eastern religion into an emerging worldview that was later dubbed “the counterculture” of the 1960’s. Following the 1966 publication of The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, which sold very well, requests for appearances poured in. Alan lectured at colleges throughout the U.S. and conducted seminars at fledging “growth centers” across the country, such as the world-renowned Esalen Institute of Big Sur, California. Broadcasts of his talks continued at KPFA and KPFK, and spread east to WBAI in New York and WBUR in Boston. The weekly shows attracted a wide audience and Alan became an important figure in the counterculture movement. As the movement gathered steam, the San Francisco Bay Area became a hotbed for radical politics, and a focal point of interest in Far Eastern ideas of enlightenment and liberation. The growing movement united civil rights activists, antiwar protesters, and members of the Free Speech movement, drawing thousands of young people to the Bay Area in 1967. After his stirring performance at a “Zenefit” for the San Francisco Zen Center, and a celebrated article on “Changes” in the Oracle alternative newspaper, Alan soon became recognized as a spiritual figurehead of the revolutionary movement. (Recorded at the Avalon Ballroom on April 6, 1967, Alan’s Zenefit lecture is titled Zen Bones.) ▶ Learn more about Alan Watts | alanwatts.org/life-of-alan-watts/ ▶ For COMMERCIAL-FREE Alan Watts talks | play.alanwatts.org “There is no such thing as a single, solitary event. The only possible single event is all events whatsoever. That could be regarded as the only possible atom; the only possible single thing is everything.” - Alan Watts ▶ For more Alan Watts quotes | alanwatts.org/quotes/ #AlanWatts #alanwattsquotes #AlanWatts301 #EasternPhilosophy #ZenBuddhism #Spirituality #Mindfulness #Meditation #Enlightenment #Consciousness #Philosophy #RethinkPerspectives #LiberateConsciousness #Counterculture #EsalenInstitute #Zenefit #Oracle #SpiritualFigurehead #RevolutionaryMovement #ZenBones #fly #organism #attention #organism #pebble #beach #society #veil #thoughts #mystic #everything #listen #dream #man #nature