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Alan Watts Books
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The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 27,800 ratings — published 1951
The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 24,118 ratings — published 1966
The Way of Zen (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 23,016 ratings — published
Tao: The Watercourse Way (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 6,577 ratings — published 1975
Become What You Are (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 5,726 ratings — published 1955
Nature, Man and Woman (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 1,672 ratings — published
Out of Your Mind (Audio CD)
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avg rating 4.42 — 4,499 ratings — published 1998
The meaning of happiness: The quest for freedom of the spirit in modern psychology & the wisdom of the east (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 866 ratings — published 1940
Cloud-Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 1,295 ratings — published 1973
The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 1,538 ratings — published 1962
In My Own Way: An Autobiography (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 1,297 ratings — published 1972
Psychotherapy East and West (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 1,135 ratings — published 1961
Does It Matter? (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 1,423 ratings — published 1958
The Essential Alan Watts (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.48 — 821 ratings — published 1977
This is It and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 4.27 — 3,280 ratings — published 1960
Zen Effects: The Life of Alan Watts (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 283 ratings — published 1985
The Spirit of Zen (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 699 ratings — published 1936
Behold the Spirit: A Study in the Necessity of Mystical Religion (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 438 ratings — published 1971
Still the Mind: An Introduction to Meditation (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 2,825 ratings — published 2000
Buddhism: The Religion of No-Religion (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 834 ratings — published 1996
Beyond Theology: The Art of Godsmanship (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 240 ratings — published 1960
The Two Hands of God (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 199 ratings — published 1963
Out of the Trap (Audio Cassette)
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avg rating 3.92 — 146 ratings — published 1985
Nothingness (Essence of Alan Watts 3)
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avg rating 4.48 — 82 ratings — published 1974
Death (Essence of Alan Watts 4)
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avg rating 4.13 — 52 ratings — published 1975
The Cosmic Drama (Essence of Alan Watts 9)
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avg rating 4.61 — 49 ratings — published 1975
What Is Tao? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 1,139 ratings — published
What Is Zen? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 694 ratings — published 2000
Myth and Ritual In Christianity (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 196 ratings — published 1955
The Collected Letters of Alan Watts (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 128 ratings — published 2017
Taoism Way Beyond Seeking (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 180 ratings — published
Myth and Religion: A Thorn in the Flesh (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 205 ratings — published 1996
The Culture of Counter-Culture: Edited Transcripts (Love of Wisdom)
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avg rating 4.22 — 130 ratings — published 1998
The Supreme Identity (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 169 ratings — published 1950
Alan Watts–Here and Now: Contributions to Psychology, Philosophy, and Religion (Transpersonal Humanist Psychol)
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avg rating 4.13 — 15 ratings — published 2012
Zen and the Beat Way (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 259 ratings — published 1900
The Tao of Philosophy: The Edited Transcripts (The Love of Wisdom Library)
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avg rating 4.09 — 364 ratings — published 1995
Just So: Money, Materialism, and the Ineffable, Intelligent Universe (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 367 ratings — published 2020
Leave It Be: Alan Watts on the Art of Meditation (Audio CD)
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avg rating 4.33 — 259 ratings — published
Myself: A Case of Mistaken Identity (Audio CD)
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avg rating 4.18 — 33 ratings — published 1999
The Secret of the Golden Flower: A Chinese Book of Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 1,873 ratings — published 2004
The Fish Who Found the Sea (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.76 — 229 ratings — published 1944
Alan Watts - In the Academy: Essays and Lectures (Transpersonal Humanist Psychol)
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avg rating 4.35 — 17 ratings — published
Do You Do It, or Does It Do You? How to let the universe meditate you (Audio CD)
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avg rating 4.27 — 367 ratings — published 2005
The Philosophies of Asia: Edited Transcripts (Love of Wisdom)
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avg rating 4.09 — 247 ratings — published 1995
Talking Zen: Reflections on Mind, Myth, and the Magic of Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 182 ratings — published 1994
Seeds of Genius: The Early Writings of Alan Watts (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 31 ratings — published 1998
God (Essence of Alan Watts 1)
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avg rating 4.35 — 60 ratings — published 1974
Time (His The essence of Alan Watts ; book 6)
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avg rating 4.44 — 48 ratings — published 1975
The Nature of Man (Essence of Alan Watts 5)
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avg rating 4.35 — 79 ratings — published 1975
“In a relativistic universe you don't cling to anything, you learn to swim. And you know what swimming is - it's kind of a relaxed attitude with the water. In which you don't keep yourself afloat by holding the water, but by a certain giving to it.”
― The Essential Alan Watts
― The Essential Alan Watts
“For Kerouac, the embodiment of American Zen was Gary Snyder, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Buddhist poet and essayist, who he fictionalized as Japhy Ryder in The Dharma Bums. Snyder was a practicing Buddhist and a translator of classic Chinese texts before Kerouac met him. He was the Zen guru of the Beats at the same time that Alan Watts popularized Buddhism for middle-class Americans in best-selling books and magazine articles of the late 1950s. Snyder had studied with Watts for a while but thought him 'square.' 'He was cool in relation to the people around him,' Snyder once said, referring to 'middle class, needy' Americans, but he was 'never actually cool.' Then Snyder added with a wink, '[and] you know what I mean, as the Big Bopper says,' invoking the rock-and-roll classic 'Chantilly Lace' for those hip and in-the-know.”
― The Origins of Cool in Postwar America
― The Origins of Cool in Postwar America
