…cat problem which brings me back to the book I was reading from earlier. You see it's all one seamless web, as Alan Watts used to say. The schrödinger's cat dilemma is this: if you—by the way schrödinger called this a fiendish device, many people when…

…in the psychedelic salon, and before I introduce today's talk I want to point out something from last week's podcast with Alan Watts that I forgot to mention. In his presentation, watts seemed a little bit dismissive about the then current adventures of…

…Myron Stolaroff under the title lone pine stories, somewhere in one of those you're going to hear the REST of the story about Alan Watts. So what happened I guess it's probably a year or so after watts gave the talk that we listened to last week is…

…needed to have a talk with Leary and try to calm him down a bit and nudge him back into the shadows. So they enlisted Alan Watts to travel to the millbrook estate in New York where Leary and his gang were ingesting a lot of LSD and watts was to try…

…us and joined them. Unfortunately I never followed up about that and so I don't know if Myron was exaggerating or if Alan Watts actually did join the fun and games at millbrook. Maybe somebody will post an answer to that question in the comments section…

…from someone many of our fellow salonners have been asking for for a long time: Robert Anton Wilson. And like in the case of Alan Watts, there really isn't much that I can say in the way of an introduction, since most of us here in the salon are…

…younger was in a bowling alley in yorba Linda California, where Richard Nixon grew up. You see it's all one seamless web, as Alan Watts used to say, and originally mal was printing pope cards and distributing them and I started doing that too and then I…

…Crowley and he heard about it from a Buddhist Monk in ceylon. Why did I read a book by Alistair Crowley? Well because Alan Watts recommended a biography of Crowley. And you go on adding reasons and after a while you come up with things like: I'm…

…my childhood fantasy the roman empire existed on another plane of reality but the Catholic Church was its mechanism by which it Alan Watts you've heard of Alan Watts yes sure, Alan Watts the great exponent of oriental philosophy for us I look in clergy…

…empire existed on another plane of reality but the Catholic Church was its mechanism by which it Alan Watts you've heard of Alan Watts yes sure, Alan Watts the great exponent of oriental philosophy for us I look in clergy and I look in clergy entity…

…another plane of reality but the Catholic Church was its mechanism by which it Alan Watts you've heard of Alan Watts yes sure, Alan Watts the great exponent of oriental philosophy for us I look in clergy and I look in clergy entity I'm trying to avoid…

…philosophy for us I look in clergy and I look in clergy entity I'm trying to avoid the human chauvinism of saying clergy person. Alan Watts told me once at a party we were both kind of drunk a clergy critter, let's say he told me that historians were…

…Bob the roman empire never fell it controls the western world still through the Catholic Church and the mafia. No that was Alan Watts opinion circa 1958 or so. That's amazing because in my fantasy the mafia was the evolution of the ancient roman tax…

…I'll bet Alistair Crowley has been a major influence. Well that's unusual. How has he influenced you? Well it started out with Alan Watts. I was having dinner with Alan Watts and I mentioned the illuminatus book that che and I were writing and the idea…

…a major influence. Well that's unusual. How has he influenced you? Well it started out with Alan Watts. I was having dinner with Alan Watts and I mentioned the illuminatus book that che and I were writing and the idea that the eye on the pyramid on the…

…pyramid on the dollar bill is the secret symbol of the illuminati, which I thought was one of the crazier conspiracy theories. And Alan Watts said that reminds me the best book I've read all year is called the eye in the triangle. It's a biography of…

…as a Chinese Seller or anything like that, but the little bit of Chinese I picked up through fanalosa and pound and Alan Watts, who usually has the Chinese Ideograms for the key terms, at least in some of his books, and Needham's Science and civilization…

…and he heard about it from a Buddhist Monk in ceylon. But why did I read a book by Alistair Crowley? Well because Alan Watts recommended a biography of Crowley. And you go on adding reasons and after a while you come up with things like: I'm sitting…

…younger was in a bowling alley in yorba Linda California, where Richard Nixon grew up. You see it's all one seamless web, as Alan Watts used to say, and originally mal was printing pope cards and distributing them and I started doing that too and then I…

…yes, yes, this is the tip of the iceberg, which is part of the age old Italian Conspiracy to control the western world. Alan Watts said to me 20 years ago: the chief error of academic historians is the belief that the roman empire fell. It never did.…

…Or it can mean somebody you're honoring, like Kung Fu Tzu Lao Tzu Monk Tzu, Etc. Ran is I give up on ran, I think. Well Alan Watts translates Tzu ran as self such if that helps you in any way, I think the best translation is Dao Fa Tzu ran the Dao…

…those things that were so bitterly fought for in the Renaissance if they ever come back again and the inquisition goes away. Alan Watts told me the worst error of historians is their belief that the roman empire fell. It never fell it still controls the…

…and he heard about it from a Buddhist Monk in ceylon. But why did I read a book by Alistair Crowley? Well because Alan Watts recommended a biography of Crowley. And you go on adding reasons and after a while you come up with things like I'm sitting…

…as a Chinese Scholar or anything like that, but the little bit of Chinese I picked up through fanalosa and pound and Alan Watts who usually has the Chinese Ideograms for the key terms, at least in some of his books, and Needham Science and civilization…

…and he heard about it from a Buddhist Monk in ceylon. But why did I read a book by Alistair Crowley? Well because Alan Watts recommended a biography of Crowley. And you go on adding reasons and after a while you come up with things like: I'm sitting…

…cat problem which brings me back to the book I was reading from earlier. You see it's all one seamless web as Alan Watts used to say. The schrödinger's cat dilemma is this: if you by the way schrödinger called this a fiendish device. Many people…

…right and that queen Elizabeth is behind the whole marijuana? According to LaRouche, queen Elizabeth Personally sent Aldous Huxley and Alan Watts over here to corrupt America. How do we know? We don't know. There's no certitude anywhere. We're all like the…

…that's because I have a machiavellian mind. But you've got to think that way if you want to understand Italian Politics. Alan Watts said to me once: the greatest error of professional historians is their belief that the roman empire fell. It never fell.…

…again. So thank you very much for the birthday note. It's all one seamless unity. That's right. You see you don't need Alan Watts every night. Somebody else can say it too. It also struck me funny you mentioning offhandedly before Ty Cobb the most hated…

…Krishnamurti makes more sense to me than practically anybody else in that field. I was just being whimsical. Krishnamurti and Alan Watts make sense. That is the unique characteristic among all the favorite new age philosophers: they both make sense. I think…

…uh Hayakawa, Alexander the great was one of aristotle's students college and that was really good. Shortly after that I listened to Alan Watts and Alan Watts said: you know, you know it's obvious that what Hayakawa is saying is true and I want to tell…

…Alexander the great was one of aristotle's students college and that was really good. Shortly after that I listened to Alan Watts and Alan Watts said: you know, you know it's obvious that what Hayakawa is saying is true and I want to tell you guys that…

…or it can mean somebody you're honoring, like Kung Fu Su Lao Su, Monk Su Etc. Ran is I give up on ran, I think well Alan Watts translates Su ran as self such if that helps you in any way, I think the best translation is Dao Fat Su ran the Dao…

…bitterly fought for in the Renaissance, if they ever come back again and the inquisition goes away. You know there's a part Alan Watts told me the worst error of historians is their belief that the roman empire fell. It never fell it still controls the…

…he meant was don't think critically, in other words don't second guess yourself. So I then started reading I read whatever books by Alan Watts were available at the time and the more I read the more I was attracted to this. And I read some Aldous…

…Watts were available at the time and the more I read the more I was attracted to this. And I read some Aldous Huxley, Alan Watts, Eugen Harigel, and there wasn't much more that was around, I think, at that time and it didn't really I can't say it…

…the place. I didn't actually get the opportunity to meet and work with any Zen Teachers then but the literature expanded tremendously and Alan Watts was writing a lot of stuff at that time and it was very influential articles and books and so on and I…

…it was very influential articles and books and so on and I have to Zen. Orthodox Zen people have a tendency to put down Alan Watts which I think is very unfortunate. I think that they do it on the grounds, you know people say: well he never really…

…trained in western thinking to understand and make them understandable and sometimes only momentarily. I mean you would read a book by Alan Watts and for about an hour afterwards you would go around thinking you finally got it you know and then it would…