OK, last Watts video for a while, I promise. But allow me to explain what occurred to me: I’ve been listening to and reading the works of all manner of gurus ever since I was a kid. And yet, having discovered Alan Watts only recently, I feel like someone who has been eating Hydrox his whole life, thinking they were perfectly good, only to just discover that there’s this thing called Oreo’s which is vastly truer and better than what I’ve been consuming all this time. That’s Alan Watts. He’s the original. He’s the Oreo. The others are bad copies.
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Watts & Materialism
I know I’ve gone kind of Watts-bonkers, and I’ve got more to say about it. But for now, I’ll just leave this video:
Watts
I recently stumbled upon a recording of a man, Alan Watts, who, from what I gather, was a very popular British philosopher back in the 1960s. His spoken recordings are widely-respected to this very day. I am quite captivated by the man, and I wanted to share this tidbit:
Freedom From Fear
Evidently there is a Black Friday Sale happening on anything to do with safety and security. Whether it is gold………
The Unspoken Pain
It’s an odd thing. Many people write to me. A surprising number of them tell me of their troubles, some of which are sweeping. Trading troubles. Spouse troubles. Do I seem empathic? Perhaps. I should take it as a compliment. Or maybe on bad hair days, I resemble Ann Landers, which compels strangers to write Anyway, I am reminded of this quote we have all heard:
