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.
…survival, it's necessary to be very wide awake to the ecological problem. There is a historian of science by the name of Lynn White, Who's a professor of history at UCLA, and he said recently: the roots of our ecological crisis are religious and therefore…
…planted in the navel? What is the resistance to this? It goes back deeper than those parts of judeo Christian Origins which Lynn White has described: the sphere of living creatures as a whole, as also from the geological domain of the earth itself and…
…takes so long, because we have to scan such a tremendous mileage of linear print and that is very different. That's why Lynn White said a little while ago that sometimes the pictures are far more revealing than what people wrote. But here you see we…
…listen to your own heart, do do do do, do do, do do, see it swings. So I think that I will agree with Lynn White in this respect there are not only those marvelous traditions of the eastern church in our own religious heritage, but there is also, if…
…yet they make this absolutely incredible joinery work all by eye. So the difficulty here, you see is that I think Lynn White is perfectly correct in saying we have too much human. The Catholics often criticize the liberal Protestants for singing glory to…
…of controlling and understanding the world in terms of the methods of mechanical science. Not so long ago I was talking to Lynn White who used to be president of mills college, and he was saying that our academic world values only three kinds of…
…survival it's necessary to be very wide awake to the ecological problem. There is a historian of science by the name of Lynn White, Who's a professor of history at UCLA, and he said recently: the roots of our ecological crisis are religious and therefore…
…to work out a way of making the brain itself more efficient, and this is the thing that civilised education has neglected. Lynn White I'd like to quote him again used to say that the academic world today only values three kinds of intelligence: verbal…