Alan Watts is a fascinating figure, and on the short list of role models for my aspiring career as an academic1. He groks the eastern sensibility of religion, but comes from a decidedly western context. Combining that with an apparently natural ease of conversation, he really makes the wider field of comparative religion accessible, engaging, and practical—an impressive trick!
The Alan Watts podcast (accessible via a link at http://alanwatts.com/) is a nice presentation of some of his talks intermixed with some nice chill music to give you time to digest what you just heard. It’s a pretty innovative way of presenting the material, and it really, really works. The podcast is free for the current issues, but costs for the archives, so start pulling them down while the getting is good!
For those subscribed to the EnfranchisedMind podcast feed, you just picked up an episode entitled “The Coincidence of Opposites (Part 1)”. It’s very cool if you’re even remotely interested in soul hacking. More on “soul hacking” later in this blog (here).
Also, I’m going to be standardizing the whole Sample Podcasts thing in the near future. Stay tuned for how.
1 Profs. WNK, Tim Polk, Michael Nagler, Ben Witherington, and Bart Ehrman flesh out the remainder of the list. Oh, and my homeboy, Knuth.
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