Alan Watts

In order to come to your senses, Alan Watts often said, you sometimes need to go out of your mind.

Alan Watts (1915-1973, alanwatts.org) has inspired generations of spiritual seekers and, through his books and recordings, continues to enthrall new readers and listeners to this day.

"Anyone whose life needs a course correction would be fortunate to be guided by The Wisdom of Insecurity. My life still is, some thirty years later." —Deepak Chopra, from the Introduction

Alan W. Wattss message for an age of anxiety is as powerful today as it waswhen this modern classic was first published (in 1951).

 I have come to believe that the whole “hip” subculture, however misguided in some of its manifestations, is the earnest and responsible effort of young people to correct the self-destroying course of industrial civilization.

From the mid-1950s, when he wrote The Way of Zen, to his death in 1973, Alan Watts introduced millions of Western readers to Zen and other Eastern philosophies.

Since the publication of his first book The Spirit of Zen in 1936, Alan Watts (1915–1973) brought the essential teachings of the East to generations of seekers, suggesting the need to “go out of your mind in order to come to your senses.” His 1960s books The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

During the last decade of his life, Alan Watts lectured extensively as he traveled across the country. He often accompanied his talks with guided meditation sessions and contemplative rituals designed to instruct his audiences in the art of meditation. Still the Mind is drawn from recordings of those lectures, meditations, and rituals.