Listen to Alan Watts in his own voice.
The official archive offers a route to Watts’s original lectures and seminars. Explore attention, identity and how we relate to experience through the full context of his talks.
Read the guideFind the book behind the quotation.
The official bibliography helps students find Watts’s published work and read an idea in context. It is a better foundation than a quotation with no traceable source.
Academy reading guide · Source reviewed
Why it is on the Academy shelfA question worth
A question worth
spending time with.
Choose a book that fits your current question. Record the title and edition with any passage you want to discuss, and distinguish the author’s words from your own response.
Put the source in context
A philosophical reading route. A meaningful quotation is not a test of whether a supernatural claim is true.
A note for your journal
What does the surrounding chapter add that a short quotation leaves out?
Academy discussion prompt · not a quotation from the author.
Write your first response in your own words. Add what you observed, what you inferred and what could change your interpretation. Keep identifying details about other people out of shared notes.
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