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Alan Watts & Nature At Its Wiggliest

Tue, 10/02/2007 - 12:58am — MJS

This YouTube video (part 3 of a 4 part series) of a 1971 television program features the late Alan Watts ruminating on how we humans attempt to rigidly control our view of life and nature, to the point of suffering the marriage of an illusion with a falsehood. You can find parts 1, 2 & 4 of this program, as well as other Alan Watts content, here.

Can we be like trees in the wind and still keep all of them from being chopped down?

I don't know.

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wow! i have got to make

By nezua limón xol... on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 8:06am

wow! i have got to make time for this. i have to say, watts was a real influence on my thinking about 20 - 22. i still love picking up one of his books every now and then to reorient myself in certain ways.

thanks for posting this.

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Revisiting Mr. Watts

By MJS on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 10:44am

For me, one of the nice things about revisiting Alan Watts is, though he is right where I left him, I seem to have moved, and so get a different view of him. Remarkable, that.

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At the same time, a different perspective

By kelley b on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 9:07pm
"For me there is only the traveling on the paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart. There I travel, and the only worthwhile challenge for me is to traverse its full length. And there I travel—looking, looking, breathlessly"...

-attributed to Don Juan, by Carlos Castenda

No Hell below us
Above us, only sky

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No Hell below us
Above us, only sky

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