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Just So
- An Odyssey into the Cosmic Web of Connection, Play, and True Pleasure
- Narrated by: Alan Watts
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
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- Categories: Politics & Social Sciences, Philosophy
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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.
From the 1950s to the 1970s, Eastern spiritual philosophies ignited in the West profound new ways of perceiving ourselves and the mysteries of life. And from the beginning, Alan Watts was at the forefront - sparking insight after insight at live gatherings and radio broadcasts. Today Alan Watts' books and recordings bring perennial delight to new listeners of all ages and beliefs.
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The Cosmic Network - a journey into the interconnected web of the personal and the infinite
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- Anonymous User
- 2019-08-12
Alan Watts... Perfection
Alan Watts' material and voice, as a coupling, are one of my very favorite to listen to.
I highly suggest this, or any of his lectures.
Thankyou Audible for providing this amazing material!
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- Ryan
- 2018-05-29
AW is the best. period.
Learn this stuff and you're life will never be the same again. AW was a revolutionary human being.
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- Cassandra
- 2020-01-26
Alan Watts was a marvellous being
Beautiful relaxing an witty seminar. A must for anyone on a spiritual or lay journey.
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- Mathieu Morin
- 2019-04-01
Interesting ways to think about a carrot
vary intense book I do recommend if your looking for a different way of seeing the same thing.
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- P
- 2018-05-10
Favorite Alan Watts yet!
I have listened to a good number of his lecture series and this is my favorite yet.
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- Eric C
- 2017-03-25
If you've enjoyed any lecture of his on YouTube you're going to be enthralled
A combination of over 20 hours of Watts speaking of self realizations and the true meaning to life. I have new perspective for everything I have done and will do moving forward.
I'm already restarting the audiobook because of how fantastic the first 1/3 of it is. The middle half is extremely intellectual and philosophical so one might feel a sort of drone, but the final third is reward enough for sticking it out.
I recommend listening at 1.25x
20 people found this helpful
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- Will Foley
- 2017-06-01
Alan Watts is more relevant today than ever
We need more teachers like this in our lives. I have been listening to Alan's teachings now for a couple years. Wish I found this in my twenties. Practical advice and deconstruction of things I was taught as a child. In a time when insulation and separateness are all we hear about, it is a real eye opener to see we really haven't come as far as you think. Still lots of work to do. These are words that will ring true, if you let them.
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- Jermaine McGruder
- 2017-01-28
Just so is Just so good
This is really good. I'm glad these collections keep coming out. This one is really interesting in the why it's presented. For example they put all the chapters in short clips, and that makes it easier to get back to spots you really liked. Over all the audiobook is great. Worth the money and time.
7 people found this helpful
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- Don
- 2017-11-01
It’s Watts, so it’s good, but...
It feels a bit cobbled together and doesn’t flow as well as it should. I would still recommend it to fans of Watts, but maybe not as a first intro to Watts. Then again, the magic is still there...
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- Keith
- 2018-02-02
A Watts Essential
My favorite Watts series after having listened to all others. The only downfall I might say this series has is the lecture on money a quarter of the way through. After that, it is superb listening that entices you to think of the subject at hand in a way that you may have not previously considered. The last 3 lectures are particularly grand, leaving you with a smile on your face and a zest for this thing called life.
Watts: “Life is not a duty, it is a pleasure.”
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- Karolis Astrauka
- 2018-05-04
Amazing spiritual entertainment
It's worth listening after "Out of your mind" book - goes deeper into the topic of being
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- El Bruno tal
- 2017-12-17
Prescient lectures
Alan Watts doesn't disappoint. These lectures have great content.
The narration does leave a bit the entertaining tone, and gets more serious at times.
Watts covers a number of topics that remain relevant today, or have become now even more relevant, such as:
- The proliferation of cheap plane flights; the globalization.
- The progressive loss of privacy, its advantages and disadvantages, and the implications for society.
All in all a very recommended listen, would happily listen again.
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- A. Smith
- 2017-01-01
Achieve higher enlightenment
What made the experience of listening to Just So the most enjoyable?
Listen to his soothing voice while he opens your mind, scrambles it like eggs and returns it to the plate.
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- Bric
- 2018-07-18
This is a must listen!
You you are interesting in this in anyway or you enjoy Alan Watts then this is a must. Great lectures and great stories that everyone should hear really. I highly recommend it.
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- Ryan's Joy
- 2017-02-18
magic as always
i have never understood life and my role in it more clearly than when explained to me through Watts's uncommon brilliance. a true master of thought and language.
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- Anonymous User
- 2020-11-14
Yes please.
I've enjoyed every second of it. Loving is not something you do on a hurry. Watts is not trying to get you anywhere, except where you already are. Here and now.
As much as you don't control the beating of your heart, you don't control the turning of your Sun, as you are the Universe.
Inside and outside are two faces of the same coin and are defined by each other.