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.
…long as you are defending you can't do it because you are still under the bewitchment of the terror. I remember a funny story Joseph Campbell told me once he was talking with a Hindu Swami and the Hindu Swami was saying: oh he said I think that the…
…Chinese called a bluff on a lot of Indian Nonsense. I have to explain this by telling a sort of a modern anecdote. Joseph Campbell, who is as you know the editor of all the works of Heinrich Zimmer, Actually wrote them himself out of Zimmer's notes…
…unfortunately died in the prime of his life, around 1940, and therefore his writings have been edited from notes by Joseph Campbell, and this book is one of the very best introductions to Indian Philosophy that you can get. It's extraordinarily fascinatingly…
…up because they find it comforting, but easterners are always trying to get away from being reborn. It was so funny once Joseph Campbell told me a story that he was sitting with a vedanta swami, one of these vedanta society swamis, and the swami was…
During the past few months I have been studying an extraordinarily interesting paper written by Joseph Campbell, whose name will be familiar to many of you as the author of a book on mythology called the hero with a thousand faces. Joseph Campbell is also…
…name will be familiar to many of you as the author of a book on mythology called the hero with a thousand faces. Joseph Campbell is also the editor of the posthumous works of Heinrich Zimmer which have been published by the bollingen foundation and as a…
…of a lady who has for a long time been interested in the work of c g Jung. And the particular paper which Joseph Campbell presented at this conference was called the symbol without meaning. It isn't published in this country as yet and only appears in…
…authoritative style of religion in which the individual derives his experience from a tradition usually embodied in a priesthood. And Campbell goes on to point out that the first historical instances of the appearance of the familiar circle symbol which is…
…of a community. It is not unlike, for example a stockaded village or city, a ring of defense around a center. And Campbell shows that the symbol represents the formation of the kind of society we're talking about, where the human functions are divided and…
…the mask. In a forthcoming book, the second volume of the masks of god it's not published yet but I've just seen a copy Joseph Campbell contrasts the way in which the myth of the one who became two, the one that became many, has gone in two quite…
…great deal of discussion about his remarks all over the place and I happen to be discussing them in New York with my friend Joseph Campbell, whose name will be familiar to many of you as the author of the hero with a thousand faces and the recent book…
…then uniquely and outstandingly represents this sort of attitude. I have to explain this by telling a sort of a modern anecdote. Joseph Campbell, who is, as you know the editor of all the works of Heinrich Zimmer and actually wrote them himself out of…