Description
Watts, Alan
Electronic University Publishing, San Anselmo, California, USA, 1997. Audiobook. 2 audio cassette tapes, 2 hours. Brand New/Sealed.
The Out of the Trap series features over twenty hours of Alan Watts’ most engaging talks drawn from his in-depth seminars, plus a rare talk on education and OM, a sonic experience of mediation and sacred Hindu texts on human identity.
These live sessions were recorded in the sixties at Esalen in Big Sur, San Francisco, and Los Angeles before enthusiastic audiences at the height of the counter culture movement, and offer powerful insights that have fully come of age.
Tracks/Topics:
– Do You Do It, or Does It Do You?
– Birth, Death and The Unborn
– Cosmic Network
– Ecological Awareness
– Education for Non-Entity
– Future of Communications
– Problems in Meditation
– Pursuit of Pleasure
– Nothingness & Ego
– OM, the Sound of Hinduism
Alan Watts was born in London, studied with D.T. Suzuki and Christmas Humphreys, and later moved to the United States, where he became famous as a leader of the San Francisco counterculture in the 1960s. Watts played a crucial role in integrating of Oriental philosophy into the emerging world view of the late 20th century, helping to awaken millions to new ways of knowing. He is the author of The Way of Zen; This Is It; The Wisdom of Insecurity; The Book: On the Taboo against Knowing Who You Are; and a vast collection of audio recordings.
