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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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Leave It Be
- Alan Watts on the Art of Meditation
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"What would it be like to see all as one?" Alan Watts asks. "We hear about attaining great states of consciousness. But the only way to have a real transformation is to stop thinking about it - and simply experience it." From the 1950s to the 1970s, this seminal teacher sparked the West's love for Eastern wisdom. Now, in these rare recorded gems, he inspires a new generation of inner explorers seeking deeper insights into meditation - its myriad forms, how they work, and what happens when we practice them.
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The best
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Out of Your Mind
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With Out of Your Mind: Essential Listening from the Alan Watts Audio Archives, you are invited to immerse yourself in 12 of this legendary thinker's pinnacle teaching sessions about how to break through the limits of the rational mind and begin expanding your awareness and appreciation for the Great Game unfolding all around us.
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Defrag my mind
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You're It!
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Life is the ultimate game of hide and seek... and the good news is that you're it! With the combination of playful irreverence and penetrating insight that made him a legend in Western philosophy, Alan Watts investigates the surprisingly liberating concept of "the universe as play" found at the heart of Hinduism, Zen, and other wisdom traditions.
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love it
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Becoming Nobody
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This audio collection brings us five essential sessions, featured in the Ram Dass documentary film Becoming Nobody, presented here in their entirety. Each beautifully illuminates a core dimension of Ram Dass’s wisdom. Through teaching stories, true accounts, eye-opening revelations, and his one-of-a-kind sense of humor, this legendary teacher helps show us the way out of the prison of our self-identity - and into the joy of being at once “nobody” and the universal divine at play in the world.
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Incredible
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The Power of Space and Reincarnation
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Space is considered to be nothingness by many. But after all it is the background in which we see everything. It is against space and within the dimension of time that we experience everything we experience. Space and time are the two basic dimensions of our world but are uncommonly illusive. We can say they are our way of thinking of the universe as being a system of patterns. And our awe at the vastness of space may be man's astonishment at himself.
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In My Own Way
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"What would it be like to see all as one?" Alan Watts asks. "We hear about attaining great states of consciousness. But the only way to have a real transformation is to stop thinking about it - and simply experience it." From the 1950s to the 1970s, this seminal teacher sparked the West's love for Eastern wisdom. Now, in these rare recorded gems, he inspires a new generation of inner explorers seeking deeper insights into meditation - its myriad forms, how they work, and what happens when we practice them.
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With Out of Your Mind: Essential Listening from the Alan Watts Audio Archives, you are invited to immerse yourself in 12 of this legendary thinker's pinnacle teaching sessions about how to break through the limits of the rational mind and begin expanding your awareness and appreciation for the Great Game unfolding all around us.
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Defrag my mind
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love it
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Becoming Nobody
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This audio collection brings us five essential sessions, featured in the Ram Dass documentary film Becoming Nobody, presented here in their entirety. Each beautifully illuminates a core dimension of Ram Dass’s wisdom. Through teaching stories, true accounts, eye-opening revelations, and his one-of-a-kind sense of humor, this legendary teacher helps show us the way out of the prison of our self-identity - and into the joy of being at once “nobody” and the universal divine at play in the world.
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Alan Watts introduced millions of Western listeners to Zen and other Eastern philosophies, but he’s also recognized as a brilliant commentator on Judeo-Christian traditions as well as a celebrity philosopher who exemplified the ideas — and lifestyle — of the 1960s counterculture.
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Unhappy with added music
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The now widely known map of calibrated levels of consciousness was presented in Power vs. Force in 1995 and has been translated into all the world's major languages. This was followed by The Eye of the I (2001), I: Reality and Subjectivity (2003), and Truth vs. Falsehood (2005), which explored the levels of truth reflected throughout society. Transcending the Levels of Consciousness returns to the exploration of the ego's expressions and inherent limitations and gives detailed explanations and instructions on how to transcend them.
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The Eye of the I is a brilliant work that dissolves the barriers between the known and the unknown, between science and spirituality, and between the Newtonian linear paradigm of the ego and the nonlinear reality of Enlightenment. With the resolution of the self, the self shines forth and reveals one's true identity.
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In 2017, Sounds True launched the first-ever online course with Michael A. Singer, the best-selling author of The Untethered Soul and The Surrender Experiment. The program features eight profound and inspiring all-new sessions drawn from Singer’s 50 years as a spiritual teacher (and a highly successful business entrepreneur). Living from a Place of Surrender brings you the same perspective-shifting, spiritually liberating teaching sessions for letting go of stress and fear and aligning with the flow of life in the moment.
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Alan Watts discusses the Indian philosophy of the world as maya - under its multiple meanings as illusion, art, magic, creative power, measure, etc. Various techniques in the arts are used to illustrate the delicate and vibrational character of the material world, and to suggest a new approach to the old philosophy that the universe is "mind" only.
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Great but incomplete
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Publisher's Summary
"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.
Here the luminary author and speaker explores three often overlooked yet essential universal dynamics: connection, play, and pleasure. This exceptional collection of sessions includes three complementary seminars:
The Cosmic Network - a journey into the interconnected web of the personal and the infinite
Ecological Awareness - reflections on how humanity and nature evolve through discovery and "purposeless" play
The Pursuit of Pleasure - how a true materialism connects us fully through our senses with others and to the natural flow of the cosmos.
Along the way you'll explore many other themes, at turns humorous, prophetic, and more relevant today than ever. What unfolds is a liberating view of life that arises from possibility and the unpredictable - perfect and "just so" not in spite of its messy imperfections but because of them.
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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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- Kate Arms
- 2023-10-21
Delightful!
Alan Watts has such joy and ease in the way he plays with ideas that many others take seriously.
A delightful way to fall deeper in love with the world as it is.
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- Colin Paranchych
- 2023-09-30
A profound revelation!!!
Wow Alan Watts reveals the world to us in these words of wisdom; a must for anyone interested in “What is”!!
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- Alex Rezansoff
- 2022-11-26
Mind is blown again.
I love all of Alan Watts material. This seems to be a good summary of his teachings.
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- Rob/Aley Peters
- 2022-09-06
love Alan Watts
love all his work. this one was a new favourite for sure. highly recommend
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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
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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.
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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.
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