Call for PapersThe Legacy of Alan Watts
177 words January 6, 2015 will be the 100th birthday of Alan Watts, the English-born writer on Eastern and Western religion whose work had an immense influence on the Beatniks of the 1950s and the...
View ArticleThere & Then:Personal & Memorial Reflections on Alan Watts (1915-1973)
7,833 words Alan Watts–Here and Now: Contributions to Psychology, Philosophy, and Religion Ed. Peter J. Columbus and Donadrian L. Rice Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2012 “It is the peculiar nature of my...
View ArticleAlan Watts at 100
1,714 words Spanish translation here Alan Watts is one of my favorite writers. Today is his 100th birthday. Born in Chislehurst, Kent, England, Watts was raised an Anglican, but became a Buddhist at...
View ArticleAlan Watts a los 100
1,811 words English original here Alan Watts es uno de mis escritores favoritos. Hoy es su cumpleaños número 100. Nació en Chislehurst, Kent, Inglaterra. Watts fue criado anglicano, pero se volvió...
View ArticleDon Draper’s Last Diddle The Finale of Mad Men
1,722 words Having followed Mad Men from the start, with initial enthusiasm[1] gradually tempered by the increasingly exposed triumphalist agenda,[2] I found the series finale, pumped (or pimped) by...
View Article“PC is for Squares, Man” Alan Watts & the Game of Trump
3,123 words “Why . . . so . . . serious?” — The Joker[1] “It’s all a joke.” — The Comedian[2] “All humane people should admit that they are jokers; that they are playing games and playing tricks. That...
View ArticleThe Wisdom of the East?
1,359 words Inspired by the unique revaluation of Alan Watts on Counter-Currents, I want to share my reflections on two decades of studying the “wisdom of the East” which Watts helped to popularize in...
View ArticleRemembering Alan Watts:January 6, 1915 to November 16, 1973
124 words Alan Watts was born on this day in 1915. A prolific scholar and dazzling stylist, Watts is best known as the chief popularizer of Asian philosophy for the Beat and Hippy movements, but he was...
View ArticleOf Apes, Essence, & the Afterlife
4,893 words Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: When did you first . . . become . . . well, develop this theory? General Jack D. Ripper: Well, I, uh, I first became aware of it, Mandrake, during the physical...
View ArticleAlan Watts: The First Alt-Academic
4,334 words Alan Watts Alan Watts Alan Watts — In the Academy: Essays and Lectures (SUNY series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology) Edited and with an introduction by Peter J. Columbus and...
View ArticleRe-Kindling Alan Watts, Part One
9,403 words Part 1 of 2 Alan W. Watts Behold the Spirit: A Study in the Necessity of Mystical Religion New York: Pantheon, 1947; reissued with a new Preface, 1971 Kindle, 2016 “For God is not niggardly...
View ArticleRe-Kindling Alan Watts, Part Two
9,927 words Part 2 of 2. Part 1 here. Partings II – Watts and The Church Today: Real Presence or Real Estate? Watts was quite successful in his attempt to express the religio perennis in the language...
View ArticleRemembering Alan Watts:January 6, 1915 to November 16, 1973
139 words Alan Watts was born on this day in 1915. A prolific scholar and dazzling stylist, Watts is best known as the chief popularizer of Asian philosophy for the Beat and Hippy movements, but he was...
View ArticleRemembering Alan Watts:January 6, 1915–November 16, 1973
159 words Alan Watts was born on this day in 1915. A prolific scholar and dazzling stylist, Watts is best known as the chief popularizer of Asian philosophy for the Beat and Hippy movements, but he...
View ArticleRemembering Alan Watts:January 6, 1915–November 16, 1973
159 words Alan Watts was born on this day in 1915. A prolific scholar and dazzling stylist, Watts is best known as the chief popularizer of Asian philosophy for the Beat and Hippy movements, but he was...
View ArticleHe’s Our Bannon, Only Better: From Meme Magick to Evolian Populism
2,462 words James J. O’Meara Mysticism After Modernism: Crowley, Evola, Neville, Watts, Colin Wilson & Other Populist Gurus Melbourne, Australia: Manticore Press, 2020 “For me real and imagined, by...
View ArticleRemembering Alan Watts (January 6, 1915–November 16, 1973)
159 words Alan Watts was born on this day in 1915. A prolific scholar and dazzling stylist, Watts is best known as the chief popularizer of Asian philosophy for the Beat and Hippy movements, but he was...
View ArticleCounter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 401 Five Essential Books
250 words / 2:35:59 Host Greg Johnson was joined by learned Counter-Currents writers Stephen Paul Foster, Mark Gullick, James J. O’Meara, and Kathryn S. on the last installment of Counter-Currents...
View ArticleRemembering Alan Watts (January 6, 1915–November 16, 1973)
172 words Alan Watts was born on this day in 1915. A prolific scholar and dazzling stylist, Watts is best known as the chief popularizer of Asian philosophy for the Beat and Hippy movements, but he was...
View ArticleThe Counter-Currents 2022 Fundraiser A Call to All You Daydream Believers
Neville Goddard 705 words This year, Counter-Currents is raising $300,000. Thus far our grand total is $179,160.94. That puts us at 59% of our goal. Thanks so much to all our donors for their support....
View ArticleEcce Homo: The Apotheosis of Neville Goddard
4,019 words Neville Goddard Neville Goddard’s Final Lectures, edited and introduced by Mitch Horowitz New York: G&D Media, 2022 Carter phoned Neville the next morning and said, “Neville you are...
View ArticleRemembering Alan Watts (January 6, 1915–November 16, 1973)
173 words Alan Watts was born on this day in 1915. A prolific scholar and dazzling stylist, Watts is best known as the chief popularizer of Asian philosophy for the Beat and Hippy movements, but he was...
View ArticleIn Defense of Nature: An Introduction to the Philosophy of F. W. J....
A daguerreotype of F. W. J. Schelling from 1848, the first known photograph of a philosopher. 4,839 words Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here) 1. Introduction: A Philosophical Rebel This essay is a continuation...
View ArticleRemembering Alan Watts (January 6, 1915–November 16, 1973)
198 words Alan Watts was born on this day in 1915. A prolific scholar and dazzling stylist, Watts is best known as the chief popularizer of Asian philosophy for the Beat and Hippy movements, but he was...
View ArticleMysticism as the Path to Political and Social Change: The Aristocratic...
You can buy James J. O’Meara’s Mysticism After Modernism here. 1,646 words James J. O’Meara has a book out, Mysticism After Modernism: Crowley, Evola, Neville, Watts, Colin Wilson, and Other Populist...
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