c/alan-watts
The largest collection of talks by Alan Watts — the British-American philosopher who made Eastern wisdom accessible through witty and profound teachings.
…because we have so little trust in our own nature. For the same reason, I was mentioning in a recent broadcast the work of Charlotte Selva, and she often tells me that when she gets a student and asks him to lie on the floor and remember that the…
…particular personalities and approaches and styles, shall we say have taught this kind of method. I think particularly, for example, of Charlotte Selva, who works in New York, who also was a student of Elsa Gindler. I've been looking at an article she…
…describe the indescribable. This is the whole art of speech in literature. Perhaps I might introduce this by a story which Charlotte Selva once told me about herself and her study with Elsa Gindler. One of the things that Elsa Gindler tried sometimes to…
…still have the caste of mind, the tendency to look to authority of some kind to tell them what they ought to be. And Charlotte Selva has often told me that people who come to work with her expect to be told what kind of physical posture, what kind of…
…be able to let yourself go in the faith that you'll arrive back all in one piece. I have a friend. Her name is Charlotte Selva, and she does a kind of work for which there is no name. She calls it sensory awareness and one of her experiments is…
…particular personalities and approaches and styles, shall we say have taught this kind of method. I think particularly, for example, of Charlotte Selva who works in New York, who also was a student of Elsa Gindler. I've been looking at an article she wrote…
…describe the indescribable. This is the whole art of speech and literature. Perhaps I might introduce this by a story which Charlotte Selva once told me about herself and her study with Elsa Gindler. One of the things that Elsa Gindler tried sometimes to…
…there in the right position. There were several people in the class and when all the drawings were put up along the wall, Charlotte Selva was astonished to see that none of the other drawings looked in the least bit like her own. They were all kinds of…
…still have the cast of mind, the tendency to look to authority of some kind to tell them what they ought to be. And Charlotte Selva has often told me that people who come to work with her expect to be told what kind of physical posture, what kind of…
…a constant state of tension, as if ready to jump, ready to defend yourself, or even you're trying to hold your body together. Charlotte Selva finds that when she gets people to lie on the floor and relax, they can't do it because they are in fact…
…fighting all the time. Most people are, some aren't, but most people are fighting the external world all the time. My friend Charlotte Selva often tries an experiment where she makes a person lie down on the floor and says to them: now look the floor…