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Alan Wilson Watts was a British philosopher, writer and speaker known for interpreting and popularising Buddhism, Taoism, and Hinduism for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, England, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York. He received a master's degree in theology from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary and became an Episcopal priest in 1945. He left the ministry in 1950 and moved to California, where he joined the faculty of the American Academy of Asian Studies.
Most Popular Alan Watts Trailers
Total trailers found: 14
01 January 1972
Alan Watts talks about our perception of the world, and how we derive metaphysics from it. Watts recorded this video in 1971 as a pilot for a public television series in the United States.
01 January 1968
Visualizes the mood of Buddhism as the oneness of man and nature. Includes commentary by Alan Watts.
25 September 2016
Trapped by daily routine, a man experiences complete freedom by dreaming himself across the country in a psychedelic Volkswagen with the guiding words of philosopher Alan Watts.
03 May 2024
This short film takes place in a world that is moving way too fast, a world riddled with overwhelming anxiety and doubt regarding our meaning and belonging.
28 September 2018
A dance music theatre piece that evokes the world of childhood and its careless pleasures. But beyond pure entertainment, this performance contemplates the meaning and the importance of play when we become adults.
11 November 1971
This VHS video includes two short documentaries by Elda Hartley. In the first, THE ART OF MEDITATION, Alan Watts gives us techniques and advice for meditating.
01 April 2020
A philosophical video and art exploration of the Earth's passage through a black hole.
01 January 1994
A memorial anthology of Alan Watt's work. Watts (1915-1973), who held both a master's degree in theology and a doctorate of divinity, is best known as an interpreter of Zen Buddhism in particular, and Indian and Chinese philosophy in general.
14 May 1972
Taped by his son shortly before Watts' death, this program captures the noted philosopher/mystic's ideas on the meaning of time and change, if they have meaning at all.
01 January 1973
Alan Watts discusses the Western dichotomy of work and play, and explains that when you take the play out of work life becomes joyless drudgery.
01 January 1969
Gently experimental film introducing Zen concepts, narrated by Alan Watts.
11 February 2017
It's a simulation of reality where you can see the world from everything's point of view - it's kind of a philosophy project in the form of a game.
01 January 1969
Alan Watts illustrates in this elegant meditation on Buddhism the nature of reality using the paradigm of flowing water.
