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 ArticleThe Spiritual Materialism of Alan Watts: A Review of Does it Matter?
2,245 words French translation here Alan Watts Does It Matter?: Essays on Man’s Relation to Materiality New York: Vintage, 1971 Does it Matter? is one of my favorite Alan Watts books, to which I have...
View ArticleRemembering Alan Watts: January 6, 1915 to November 16, 1973
1,500 words Alan Watts is one of my favorite writers. Born in Chislehurst, Kent, England, Watts was raised an Anglican, but became a Buddhist at age 15. In 1941, while Watts was living in New York...
View ArticleThe View from Hippie Hill
2,575 words A number of years ago I went through a long period of depression, and when I found myself coming out the other end of it, I developed an interest in “Eastern Philosophy.” A friend loaned me...
View ArticleInterview with James J. O’Meara
3,409 words Editor’s Note: Before beginning this interview, I knew very little about James J. O’Meara. Based simply on his writings, I would describe him as a New Right/Radical Traditionalist-oriented...
View ArticleAlan Watts:January 6, 1915 to November 16, 1973
55 words Alan Watts was born on this day in 1915. In commemoration of his birth, I wish to draw your attention to three works on this website: Greg Johnson, “Remembering Alan Watts: January 6, 1915 to...
View ArticlePodcast no. 14 Interview with Charles Krafft, Part 1
time: 56:15 / 7,643 words [jwplayer file=”http://cdn.counter-currents.com/radio/CCPodcast-28APR12.mp3″ streamer=”rtmp://s3cxt7hxkp9tvh.cloudfront.net/cfx/st” provider=”rtmp” duration=”3375″] To...
View ArticleRemembering Alan Watts: January 6, 1915 to November 16, 1973
1,545 words Editor’s Note: I first published this piece in 2011. I am republishing it as a notification that this time next year, Counter-Currents will publish a symposium in honor of Alan Watts’...
View ArticleLe materialisme spirituel d’Alan Watts
2,615 words English original here Alan Watts Does It Matter?: Essays on Man’s Relation to Materiality New York: Vintage, 1971 Edition française : Matière à penser Denoël, 1975 Does it Matter ? [Est-ce...
View ArticleCall 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 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 Article