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You're It!
- On Hiding, Seeking, and Being Found
- Narrated by: Alan Watts
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
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Just So
- An Odyssey into the Cosmic Web of Connection, Play, and True Pleasure
- By: Alan Watts
- Narrated by: Alan Watts
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Original Recording
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"If you were God," asked Alan Watts, "what kind of universe would you create? A perfect one free of suffering and drama? Or one filled with surprise and delight?" With Just So, the celebrated philosopher and self-described "spiritual entertainer" invites us to explore the hidden dimensions that shape both the cosmos and our personal experience of it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Perspective
- By Amazon Customer on 29-08-2017
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Out of Your Mind
- By: Alan Watts
- Narrated by: Alan Watts
- Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
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With Out of Your Mind: Essential Listening from the Alan Watts Audio Archives, you are invited to immerse yourself in 12 of this legendary thinker's pinnacle teaching sessions about how to break through the limits of the rational mind and begin expanding your awareness and appreciation for the Great Game unfolding all around us.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Could be so much better
- By Amazon Customer on 28-12-2019
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Leave It Be
- Alan Watts on the Art of Meditation
- By: Alan Watts
- Narrated by: Alan Watts
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Original Recording
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"What would it be like to see all as one?" Alan Watts asks. "We hear about attaining great states of consciousness. But the only way to have a real transformation is to stop thinking about it - and simply experience it." From the 1950s to the 1970s, this seminal teacher sparked the West's love for Eastern wisdom. Now, in these rare recorded gems, he inspires a new generation of inner explorers seeking deeper insights into meditation - its myriad forms, how they work, and what happens when we practice them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This would have to be one of my favourites.
- By Star-zy on 17-02-2020
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In My Own Way
- By: Alan Watts
- Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Macmillan Audio presents In My Own Way, Alan Watts' acclaimed autobiography, published for the first time in audio.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A full look into a masters life
- By Anonymous User on 21-05-2021
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Eastern Wisdom, Modern Life
- Collected Talks: 1960-1969
- By: Alan W. Watts
- Narrated by: Alan W. Watts
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Abridged
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Alan Watts introduced millions of Western listeners to Zen and other Eastern philosophies, but he’s also recognized as a brilliant commentator on Judeo-Christian traditions as well as a celebrity philosopher who exemplified the ideas — and lifestyle — of the 1960s counterculture.
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The Meaning of Happiness
- The Quest for Freedom of the Spirit in Modern Psychology and the Wisdom of the East
- By: Alan Watts
- Narrated by: Kern Schmidt
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Deep down, most people think that happiness comes from having or doing something. Here, in Alan Watts’s groundbreaking third book (originally published in 1940), he offers a more challenging thesis: authentic happiness comes from embracing life as a whole in all its contradictions and paradoxes, an attitude that Watts calls the “way of acceptance.” Drawing on Eastern philosophy, Western mysticism, and analytic psychology, Watts demonstrates that happiness comes from accepting both the outer world around us and the inner world inside us,
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Just So
- An Odyssey into the Cosmic Web of Connection, Play, and True Pleasure
- By: Alan Watts
- Narrated by: Alan Watts
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Original Recording
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"If you were God," asked Alan Watts, "what kind of universe would you create? A perfect one free of suffering and drama? Or one filled with surprise and delight?" With Just So, the celebrated philosopher and self-described "spiritual entertainer" invites us to explore the hidden dimensions that shape both the cosmos and our personal experience of it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Perspective
- By Amazon Customer on 29-08-2017
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Out of Your Mind
- By: Alan Watts
- Narrated by: Alan Watts
- Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 331
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With Out of Your Mind: Essential Listening from the Alan Watts Audio Archives, you are invited to immerse yourself in 12 of this legendary thinker's pinnacle teaching sessions about how to break through the limits of the rational mind and begin expanding your awareness and appreciation for the Great Game unfolding all around us.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Could be so much better
- By Amazon Customer on 28-12-2019
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Leave It Be
- Alan Watts on the Art of Meditation
- By: Alan Watts
- Narrated by: Alan Watts
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Original Recording
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"What would it be like to see all as one?" Alan Watts asks. "We hear about attaining great states of consciousness. But the only way to have a real transformation is to stop thinking about it - and simply experience it." From the 1950s to the 1970s, this seminal teacher sparked the West's love for Eastern wisdom. Now, in these rare recorded gems, he inspires a new generation of inner explorers seeking deeper insights into meditation - its myriad forms, how they work, and what happens when we practice them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This would have to be one of my favourites.
- By Star-zy on 17-02-2020
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In My Own Way
- By: Alan Watts
- Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Macmillan Audio presents In My Own Way, Alan Watts' acclaimed autobiography, published for the first time in audio.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A full look into a masters life
- By Anonymous User on 21-05-2021
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Eastern Wisdom, Modern Life
- Collected Talks: 1960-1969
- By: Alan W. Watts
- Narrated by: Alan W. Watts
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Abridged
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Alan Watts introduced millions of Western listeners to Zen and other Eastern philosophies, but he’s also recognized as a brilliant commentator on Judeo-Christian traditions as well as a celebrity philosopher who exemplified the ideas — and lifestyle — of the 1960s counterculture.
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The Meaning of Happiness
- The Quest for Freedom of the Spirit in Modern Psychology and the Wisdom of the East
- By: Alan Watts
- Narrated by: Kern Schmidt
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Deep down, most people think that happiness comes from having or doing something. Here, in Alan Watts’s groundbreaking third book (originally published in 1940), he offers a more challenging thesis: authentic happiness comes from embracing life as a whole in all its contradictions and paradoxes, an attitude that Watts calls the “way of acceptance.” Drawing on Eastern philosophy, Western mysticism, and analytic psychology, Watts demonstrates that happiness comes from accepting both the outer world around us and the inner world inside us,
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This Is It
- And Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience
- By: Alan Watts
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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With essays on "cosmic consciousness" (including Alan Watts' account of his own ventures into this inward realm); the paradoxes of self-consciousness; LSD and consciousness; and the false opposition of spirit and matter, This Is It: And Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience is a truly mind-opening audiobook collection.
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4 out of 5 stars
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good overall listen
- By Amazon Customer on 18-11-2022
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Four Ways to the Center
- By: Alan Watts
- Narrated by: Alan Watts
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
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Alan Watts discusses the fundamental attitudes that run through all religions or "ways of liberation," as the Far Eastern disciplines might better be described. By following these practices to the extremes of repentance, rebellion, and resignation, one may be freed from the endless cycles of reincarnation which perpetuate the human condition.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Inspirational
- By Andrep1272 on 17-05-2015
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Still the Mind
- An Introduction to Meditation
- By: Alan Watts
- Narrated by: Alan Watts
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Mark Watts compiled this work from his father's extensive journals and audiotapes of famous lectures he delivered, in his later years, across the country. In three parts Alan Watts explains the basic philosophy of meditation, how individuals can practice a variety of meditations, and how inner wisdom grows naturally.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting and useful compilation
- By Dean P on 07-03-2019
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Becoming Nobody
- The Essential Ram Dass Collection
- By: Ram Dass
- Narrated by: Ram Dass
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
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This audio collection brings us five essential sessions, featured in the Ram Dass documentary film Becoming Nobody, presented here in their entirety. Each beautifully illuminates a core dimension of Ram Dass’s wisdom. Through teaching stories, true accounts, eye-opening revelations, and his one-of-a-kind sense of humor, this legendary teacher helps show us the way out of the prison of our self-identity - and into the joy of being at once “nobody” and the universal divine at play in the world.
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3 out of 5 stars
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This man still needs a lot of attention
- By CJ on 14-05-2020
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The Wisdom of Insecurity
- A Message for an Age of Anxiety
- By: Alan Watts, Deepak Chopra - introduction MD
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Alan Watts draws on the wisdom of Eastern philosophy and religion in this timeless and classic guide to living a more fulfilling life. His central insight is more relevant now than ever: when we spend all of our time worrying about the future and lamenting the past, we are unable to enjoy the present moment—the only one we are actually able to inhabit.
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The Power of Space and Reincarnation
- By: Alan Watts
- Narrated by: Alan Watts
- Length: 3 hrs and 18 mins
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Space is considered to be nothingness by many. But after all it is the background in which we see everything. It is against space and within the dimension of time that we experience everything we experience. Space and time are the two basic dimensions of our world but are uncommonly illusive. We can say they are our way of thinking of the universe as being a system of patterns. And our awe at the vastness of space may be man's astonishment at himself.
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The Psychedelic Experience
- A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead
- By: Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner, Richard Alpert, and others
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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We are in the midst of a powerful psychedelic renaissance. After four decades of hibernation, the promise of the psychoactive 60s - that deeper self-awareness, achieved through reality-bending substances and practices, will lead to greater external harmony - is again gaining a major following. The signs are everywhere, from the influence of today's preeminent psychedelic thinker Daniel Pinchbeck, to the renewed interest in the legacy of Terence McKenna, and to the upsurge of collective cultural phenomena like the spectacle of Burning Man.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Worth a brief listening to... maybe
- By Anonymous User on 22-05-2020
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Reality, Art and Illusion
- By: Alan Watts
- Narrated by: Alan Watts
- Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
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Alan Watts discusses the Indian philosophy of the world as maya - under its multiple meanings as illusion, art, magic, creative power, measure, etc. Various techniques in the arts are used to illustrate the delicate and vibrational character of the material world, and to suggest a new approach to the old philosophy that the universe is "mind" only.
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Man, Nature, and the Nature of Man
- By: Alan W. Watts
- Narrated by: Alan W. Watts
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
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Drawn from hundreds of hours of rare archival recordings from the personal collection of his son, Mark Watts, this program presents the essential message of Alan Watts. Here is Alan Watts, recorded live in seminars conducted in America and Japan, personally explaining how the Eastern view of man and his place in the world can be made meaningful to the contemporary Westerner.
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Polishing the Mirror
- By: Ram Dass, Rameshwar Das
- Narrated by: Ram Dass, Rameshwar Das
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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Sometimes illumination occurs spontaneously or, as Ram Dass experienced, in a cosmic moment of the heart opening. More commonly, it happens when we remove the dust from the mirror of our spiritual heart with daily practice - to see beyond the illusion of our transient thoughts and emotions to the vast and luminous landscape of our true nature.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Invaluable Resource
- By Anonymous User on 02-05-2017
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The Dead Sea Scrolls
- By: Gary A. Rendsburg, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Gary A. Rendsburg
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
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Whether complete or only fragmentary, the 930 extant Dead Sea Scrolls irrevocably altered how we look at and understand the foundations of faith and religious practice. Now you can get a comprehensive introduction to this unique series of archaeological documents, and to scholars' evolving understanding of their authorship and significance, with these 24 lectures. Learn what the scrolls are, what they contain, and how the insights they offered into religious and ancient history came into focus.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Educational but quite dry
- By Howling Fantods on 13-08-2019
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Dying into Life
- A Week Long Program Recorded with These 2 Master Teachers in 1982
- By: Ram Dass
- Narrated by: Ram Dass
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
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These recordings are from a rare and inspiring five day retreat held in 1982. On these recordings, we hear the wonderful Stephen Levine interacting with Ram Dass and speaking on his own. These two masterful teachers explore a deeply personal and inspirational topic. With meditations, questions and answers, and brilliant lecture, this program will transform your view of life and also of death.
Publisher's Summary
Life is the ultimate game of hide and seek... and the good news is that you're it! With the combination of playful irreverence and penetrating insight that made him a legend in Western philosophy, Alan Watts investigates the surprisingly liberating concept of "the universe as play" found at the heart of Hinduism, Zen, and other wisdom traditions.
Carefully selected by his son and archivist Mark Watts, You're It: On Hiding, Seeking, and Being Found features more than 10 hours of newly restored historic talks from the "spiritual entertainer" who helped define Eastern thought to audiences in the West. Here is a rare chance for listeners to experience the enduring brilliance of one of the greatest spiritual voices of the 20th century.
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- Joshua Lawes
- 07-11-2019
Duplicate Content
This is excellent. It’s just that there is a lot of duplicated content with Out of Your Mind.
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- Anonymous User
- 12-11-2018
Simplicity at its finest & easy to understand
Alan doesn't preach, he just explains what is; all that is left is to understand.
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- blackiematt
- 26-07-2019
Fantastic - life-changing
You just need to rewind and listen to it over and over again so you keep getting reminded to stop taking yourself and everything else seriously 🌅🙏
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- Pedro
- 17-03-2016
Must have for any serious seeker
Absolutely love Alan Watts' work and this book has been a revelation for me. His philosophy has been instrumental in helping to discern what is
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- Dr. Luke Iggulden
- 04-01-2022
it's all on YouTube for free dont bother
alan watts is a amazing, but don't let this scumbag corporation make money off him. it's all on Archive.org and YouTube for free
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- Amazon Customer
- 24-06-2019
Watts up?
A review has to have at least fifteen words. This sentence provides the remaining six.
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- Jackson Rostagno
- 16-05-2019
The man, the myth, the legend
It's great to delve into the intelligent and deep mind of Alan Watts. It's like you are sitting in a room with him. These talks will leave you seeing yourself and the world in a more profound way.
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- James
- 30-01-2015
A culmination of his recorded lectures
I love Alan Watts and 12 hours of his recorded lectures are a great way to pass the time, broaden your perception of reality and submit to the great no thing. As well as an insightful overview of many eastern philosophies.
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- Andrep1272
- 01-01-2015
A collection of thought provoking lectures
I have enjoyed listening to this audio time and time again (I think I've played it 16 times, and always hear something different/new). While there are some issues you may not agree with there is plenty to "wake you up".
Alan Watts's lectures are as relevant today as they were in the 70's.
Delivered with his odd sense of humour, you can not take away (and feel) the deep moments through the lectures. His depth and passion are evident throughout.
A true brilliant and mind changing collection of lectures.
The best purchase in decades.
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- Lucy
- 23-09-2023
An ABSOLUTE go-to favourite!
I’ve listened to this book 30+ times; each time I learn something new.
It helps to settle my mind’s inner chatter before bedtime and shift my perspective during daily mundane tasks eg: sitting in traffic, chores.
Alan’s deeply profound sense of humour also helps ;)
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- Rich S.
- 02-12-2011
All the Watts you'll ever need
This series of lectures is a comprehensive compilation of Watts teaching on Buddhism, Zen, Hinduism and Taoism. Plus there is also the humor of his one-of-a-kind philosophy based on years of studying the Eastern religions and philosophy. As an Anglican Priest he also has great insights into Christianity. Once you've listened to this you've got everything Watts had to give. Although like me, you may find yourself drawn to rehearing these humorous and insightful talks over and over again.
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- Kelly-Ann Denton
- 04-08-2010
brilliant
This man is a genius. The audiobook is perfect for people who are tired of the "spin" associated with spirituality and want to deepen their understanding of the possibilities & philosophies of the human condition.
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- Rajesh
- 26-12-2010
Excellent!
I had never heard of Alan Watts. I've heard many other philosophers like Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra and others explain eastern/western spirituality, but the way Alan Watts explains it is very easy to understand and profound. I would have to say this is one I'll listen to several times.
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- Grant
- 12-01-2013
My thinking was provoked.
Alan Watts died 11 years after I was born, and I had not been exposed to his work until now. And I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed this recording of his discussions. It made me think. It made me laugh. It confirmed some of my deepest held convictions and dispelled a few misconceptions, especially my opinions, which apparently were not well formed and insufficiently researched, of Zen Buddhism and Hinduism. This collection of Watts speaking before small groups of people some time in the late 60s or early 70s is poorly recorded and often long, but it felt perfectly captured and all-too-short to my ears.
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- Doc S. Hodges
- 09-05-2011
A life changing look at ancient philosophy
I've listened to Alan Watt's for years but this collection is unique. Over several recorded talks he ties keys themes of the great faiths into a common liberating thread. No particular religious point of view is needed and neither are they demeaned. Like so many profound ideas, you may not get it on the first pass but after hearing it from more than one point of view it becomes clearer than ever.
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- Amazon Customer
- 26-09-2011
The perfect audio for those who love to think
So many people out there like to present thoughts and ideas in a way that gives you the answer.....The answer from their perspective. Alan Watts, in "You're It!" presents thoughts, ideas and perspectives that encourage you to think for yourself. He does not tell you what to do, or how to do it....He allows you to arrive at that on your own. What you do with it is up to you.
Alan Watts does not speak "like" anything....He is an intellectual (An intellectual is a person who uses intelligence (thought and reason) and critical or analytical reasoning in either a professional or a personal capacity.) and if this sort of thing bores you....Well, listen to it three more times.
I find that I randomly select a chapter and listen for a bit every day.....It's that good.
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- Greg
- 18-01-2012
This book will transform your life!
Alan Watts is a man of immense intelligent. The most brilliant man who ever lived! He is a master at painting concepts & ideas with words. His words have the power to shatter your world into million pieces. His wisdom is from another realm, since he has tapped into that infinite intelligence and he can speak from that space. If you truly give this book a chance you will be transformed by it. You will know the truth as he knows it, this truth will be directly experienced by you, it won't be just another idea, believe system, philosophy or thought swimming in your mind, but you will directly know this truth to be self evident and you will be liberated. Know this then "What you take to be the thinker ...of the thought....is just one of the thoughts." :) Tat Tvam Asi
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- Javier Chavez
- 20-10-2016
Though repetitive, essential Watts
Watts does repeat himself about the yin and yang of life at times but it correlates to what he talks about in that specific lecture. Nevertheless, this lecture runs deep into a beautiful view of the world and the individual. It fits well with "Out of Your Mind." I recommend OYM first then this one. Both are equally interesting that touch different topics. Highly recommended!
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- David
- 02-08-2012
Alan Watts is groovey.
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Just discovered him, so I guess that makes me late to the party. Better late than never.
Makes complex ideas digestible and interesting. One of the few authors I would listen to a book and then listen to it again immediately.
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Currently reading The Wisdom of Insecurity. Another treasure trove of insights.
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- Jay
- 28-05-2012
Yeah. If Alan Watts is an intellectual, so am I
Would you listen to You're It! again? Why?
Parts of it are worthy of listening to more than once.
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"Your It" is really a mixed bag. It is possible that some of the negative reviews were from people who didn't actually finish the lectures. But for some of the glowing reviews, I must say...it wasn't that good.
After starting it, the whole first 2 - 3 hours, I kept thinking, wow, if this guy is an intellectual, then so am I! Mr. Watts made me laugh out loud a few times, but really, he can manage to say a whole lot about nothing (Watts must be the original Seinfeld). I almost gave up on the thing as well.
However, it did get better toward the middle of the series, and toward the end was really good. If it hadn't been for the last few hours, I would have given it 3 stars instead of 4.
What I discovered about myself while listening to this is, if I were a better public speaker, I could have come up with a lot more interesting things to talk about. And I must say,
it is a little ego boost to find out you are an intellectual. That fact alone must be worth an audible credit. Yes?
I think Mr. Watts is good as simplifying things, but he simplified things so well that he managed to almost turn them into nothing other than him rambling.
But with all that said, when it was good, it was good. There is even another book by the Mr. Watts that I might take a chance on. Again, I don't feel the lectures were as mind blowing as the glowing reviews, but the book wasn't as bad as the negative reviews, either.
I think that Alan Watts is gifted, in that he can really break things down in a way that is understandable. But...I also think that sometimes this can be distracting, and he could have sped things up a little by leaving them a little more complicated.
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- Lewis
- 07-01-2015
Watts' words chime like a bell, inexplicably clear
The experience of hearing somebody talk has never been so fruitful. Watts' clarity and spirit resonate with wonderful energy, reverence an humour.
I listened to the entire 12 hours over the course of a week. I am now about to start listening all over again. The intellect of the man is unrivalled in its expression through the spoken word.
For many years I have been loath to think of the spiritual, due to an association with the seemingly flimsy concepts of the main theistic religions.
It is sometimes tempting to dichotomise a view of the world into scientific or spiritual terms - Alan Watts' genius is in his unrelenting, logical and passionate questioning of all preconceptions, which reveals to us that all our ideologies and rationalities are founded upon ultimately fallible principles.
His philosophical rigour is formidable, but his spirit playful. I think that listening to this audiobook would, to varying degrees, irrevocably alter anybody's world view. A gift.
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- Amazon Customer
- 22-08-2014
Strange audiobook
Where does You're It! rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
Anything with Alan Watts name on is gong to be enigmatic and motivating. His form of pragmatic spiritualism is great for western listeners as he's mediating between his understanding of eastern philosophy/spiritualism and western culture. This book is not really a book, it's a recording of some his lectures in America. The audio quality is not great - imagine watching lecture video filmed from the middle row. But his content is great and hearing the audience and the way he works with them is as intriguing an experience as reading some high minded literature. It makes you wonder how much his charisma was a cause for his popularity as we're his ideas.Not your regular audiobook and requires some dedicated listening - I tend to dip in and out every few weeks - I enjoy it every time.
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- Slayer 2029
- 24-04-2020
Could have been better
Anyone familiar with Alan Watts knows what to expect from this.
The downside is how the makers have put it together. They have formed it into ‘sessions’ like they should be the one deciding what you hear and shouldn’t.
This results in sessions ending before Alan has even finished the point but the makers have decided you’ve heard all they want you hearing of that specific point so they go on to the next session. Several sessions later you may find it comes back to something mentioned in a previous session resulting in a somewhat distorted and confusing course.
Other downside is sometimes you can hear what is about to be said by Alan faintly at a low volume like he is at the front of the room and you at the back, then you hear it repeated at the normal level of the book. This produces a really annoying echo effect where you can’t concentrate on what he is saying because you are already hearing what he is going to say next. At the beginning it’s like watching someone on a merry go round, it’s not that bad; as time progresses however you find your head getting sore and the whole thing difficult to follow.
The final downside is the layout of the chapters. Common sense would tell you if the makers have broken it down into sessions that each chapter would be the corresponding session; you’d be wrong. One chapter can have several sessions so if you want to go back to a session to listen again because there was something relevant or important in it; you’re going to have to skip through manually until you find it and then save it because first time round you don’t know what is going to be relevant and what isn’t until you finish it.
Conclusion is great as always from Alan; abysmal layout and formatting from the makers.
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- Mrs
- 13-04-2013
amazing
This book is exceptional. You can learn and understand so much from listening to this very clever, funny man. I would rate it with ten stars if I could.
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- Nicola Drayton
- 07-07-2014
You really are your own God.
If you could sum up You're It! in three words, what would they be?
This is a clearly illustrated ancient message, put across in excellent audio format.
What other book might you compare You're It! to, and why?
I compare this to the likes of David Hawkins, for its depth, intelligence, and educational value.
What does the narrator bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?
Alan Watts is a superb, charismatic performer, who brings passion, enthusiasm and most of all a down to earth feel about it.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
I listened to it a bit at a time because of its educational purpose.
Any additional comments?
Alan Watts was a talented educator, who knew his subject extremely well.
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- Akos
- 06-11-2013
Best philosophy book
If you could sum up You're It! in three words, what would they be?
Simple, fun, understandable
Any additional comments?
Allan Watts talks about philosophy in a fun, practical way which is easy to understand and to translate/use in everyday life. Highly recommended!
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- Stuart Johnson
- 24-02-2013
If you have a hole in your life, get this.
Alan Watts is the real deal. He left the world with a lot of audio & video material for us enjoy, long before we had YouTube. Yet his work has stood the test of time, and is a bit of a YouTube star,
You will not be disappointed with this audio collection. Lots for you to contemplate on, and plenty of laughs, and stories along the way, to help you understand what he is talking about.
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- paul mears
- 20-10-2018
very comprehensive
covered all the angles Very good book Well delivered
Loved it
Deep Funny Thought Provoking
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- Dominic Welsh
- 16-06-2018
Beautiful, simple, and self empowering
Chose this as my first free audiobook, what an incredible investment.. having already listened to a few of Alan's lectures through youtube, I was fully aware of I what I was getting here, and was not disappointed.
An insightful, useful and inspiring book, delivered with perfect pacing, making it easy to digest. Read with humour and true passion.
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- Ann
- 05-05-2013
Entertaining and informative
Recommended this one to friends. Found the presentation informative and entertaining. Followed up on a number of his suggestions re further reading.
Ann
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