Amazing Interview With Alan Watts

It just occurred to me, after 52 years of living, that laughter, real spontaneous laughter, is an expression of understanding and appreciation of the fundamental truth about life. "Everybody knows, that I'm a rascal; that I drink too much, I sleep with too many women..." That, really made me laugh. A toast then, to the universe, to life and to Allan Watts.

Interviews with Alan Watts are like the Holy Grail, for me. The world needs his kind of unique sanity. Imagine his take on the state on the world today. Thank you.

One of the truest liberators . I love this man. This man is sheer beauty . Love is. Understanding

I’d love to have heard him talking about the world we’re in today. He was in many ways very farsighted and clear sighted, and I think optimistic, and he might see something in the current mess, even nightmare, that we cannot see.

I can't believe I haven't heard this one before. Absolutely dazzling. Thank you so much for sharing

A few of us in HS in the late 60s early 70s were reading Alan Watts. I am not sure if I had heard his spoken voice then. He's such a comfort to listen to now. I love his laugh. ❤

Not fake. He did several interviews promoting his autobiography back then. I wouldn’t mind hearing “The Way of Zen” read by an AI Alan though!

I’ve never listened to him interview; I’m excited. Love this man. My mom passed away 2 weeks ago, and I have coincidentally been on an Alan Watts/Sam Harris, et al. mindfulness journey the last 2 years after the my choices in life lost me a really wonderful relationship. I thought I was gearing up for future relationships; little did I know the universe was setting me up to handle losing my mom with dignity.

Loved hearing this interview. Thank you.

Thanks for sharing this interview with all of us. If you didn’t know who Alan was or when he was alive, you’d swear he was living now and quite concisely speaking of today’s civilization. I sometimes wonder if “awakening” on a large scale has always been happening regardless of the era. That the only reason it seems so immense now is due to the size of the population. Waking up is not a new thing. I wonder how many people are desperately trying to attain it and how many have actually started the process. Either way I’d rather have people trying to gain enlightenment. As opposed to having people so entrenched in their personhood that life is a fear filled struggle. I was one of them.

Unique, never will be another like him. brought such knowledge and understanding and fun to life. god bless him always

I can hear him heartily laughing at the Trans movement 🤣

Foe everybody thinking this is fake it is not. There is a video of this conversation,alan have big glassy red eyes. This is legit. I myself dont like new age ai shit.

Authentic Intelligence might be differentiated from simple ai by the receiver's interpretations. Although words in a goulash of time and space can seem "other worldly", may it be our karma as of cognitive action and intention, just thinkin it over, the thought experiment as entertaining ourselves without being tubed nor screened into particular consumered and authoritarian biases. Alan's rhetorical muse seems always allowing for All to elope from conscriptions of the conventional indoctrinational mindset debilitating humankind at this very moment, through veils of ignorance, fear and guilt. An albatross flying free, for a nest, we the land, all the best !

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Damn. I have listened for two minutes Damn.

Is this a legitimate interview or is it created by AI?? I've come across very few Q&As and the audio here is so crisp. Too crisp...

What is this Growth Centre he’s talking about?

Hmmmmmmm......My own ideas/feelings about nothingness makes me a fellow traveler with Watts at this late stage methinks. An high positive.

The problem with Alan's psychology was that he drew a false dichotomy between being a happy self-destructive binge-drinking chain-smoking hedonist who dies young, and a miserable neurotic health-obsessed hypochondriac who lives a long time. I suspect he created this as a justification for addiction. Lots of people are living lives that aren't a drag, but they aren't chain-smoking alcoholics who (by their own admission) neglected their own children. The irony is that as much as he espoused the idea of the middle way, this was a middle way he seemed to have a blind spot for.