Season 1 (1972)

Nothing
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December 31, 1972 • 5h 42m

Basing his ideas on sensory perception and physical experience, Alan Watts makes a compelling argument that everything actually de...Read more

Ego
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December 31, 1972 • 5h 42m

Alan Watts was concerned with the way we trap ourselves in words. He considered it unfortunate that we separate the "I" from reali...Read more

Meditation
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December 31, 1972 • 5h 42m

As Alan Watts explains, "A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts and loses touch with reality....Read more

God
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December 31, 1972 • 5h 42m

To many of us the image of God as a gray-bearded omnipotent and omnipresent supreme being has become implausible, yet the common s...Read more

Cosmic Drama
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December 31, 1972 • 5h 42m

Alan Watts further explores the Hindu dramatic view of the universe, in which God plays all of the parts - all the while pretendin...Read more

Time
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December 31, 1972 • 5h 42m

Here Alan Watts points out that our insistence that the past determines the present is nonsensical.

Work & Play
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December 31, 1972 • 5h 42m

Alan Watts swirls an orange on a string and shoots an arrow high into the air before explaining why the art of living is being pai...Read more

Death
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December 31, 1972 • 5h 42m

Alan Watts comments on the circle of life and our response to the surprising event of being born in the first place.

The More It Changes
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December 31, 1972 • 5h 42m

Alan Watts speaks on our fascination with reproduction through media, and on the far out notion that human beings may just be one ...Read more

Clothing
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December 31, 1972 • 5h 42m

After talking about growing up near London, Alan Watts demonstrates a variety of cultural garb and points out how each influences ...Read more

Do You Smell?
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December 31, 1972 • 5h 42m

Alan Watts speaks about our most repressed sense. Here he introduces viewers to the intricacies of incense in front of a small Bud...Read more

Conversation with Myself
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December 31, 1971 • 5h 42m

While walking in a field above Muir Woods, Alan Watts points to humankind's attempts to straighten out a wiggly world as the root ...Read more