Get Inspired by Alan Watts Podcasts
In our hectic lives, where practical day-to-day concerns tend to dominate our waking thoughts, it’s refreshing and inspiring to spend a little time immersing ourselves in the words and thoughts of great thinkers and teachers. Fortunately, the Internet can be a great ally in this pursuit.
Take for example the Alan Watts podcasts. Alan Watts was, in the words of Wikipedia, “a philosopher, writer, speaker, and expert in comparative religion. He was best known as an interpreter and popularizer of Asian philosophies for a Western audience.” His eldest son, Mark launched a podcast of his father’s talks a few weeks ago, and they’re well worth a listen.
With the weekend upon us, perhaps you’ll have time to check them out. Visit http://www.alanwattspodcast.com/ and have a listen. You might also want to subscribe to the podcast feed so each new edition will be automatically delivered to your computer. If you don’t already use some other podcast-capable feed reader, you can use iTunes.
From the site:
Alan Watts is one of the most widely read philosophers of the 20th century. In addition to his 28 books, Alan Watts delivered hundreds of public lectures and seminars the recordings of which have been preserved in the archives of the Electronic University, a non-profit organization dedicated to higher education. For the past two years Alan’s eldest son, Mark Watts has reviewed and cataloged these talks to prepare them for public broadcast. The Electronic University is now pleased to present the highlights of the spoken works of Alan Watts.
For a little preview of Alan Watts, have a look at these clever animations by Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
Have a great weekend, and have fun listening to Watts!
October 7th, 2007 at 4:45 pm
Question: when you click the link, how do you listen to watt’s?
Your link for the podcast feed does not work (I’m just telling you ^_^)
And the animation was funny “and by jove you’re already in graduate school” or something…
October 7th, 2007 at 8:04 pm
Haley, To listen to the podcasts on the site, simply click the “listen…” link under the episode that interests you. As for the feed, perhaps this link will work better for you?