Lectures by Alan Watts in Los Angeles, ca. 1950-1969.

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Lectures by Alan Watts in Los Angeles, ca. 1950-1969.

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Collection consists of notes of seminars and lectures given by Alan Watts in the Los Angeles area, transcribed by Marcella Scott Krisel from shorthand notes, typed, and in paper binders. Lecture subjects include sacred and profane love, meditation, discipline, the unspeakable experience, psychotherapy and the problem of pain, the way beyond the West, Zen aesthetics and ethics, marvelous labyrinth, Zen and psychotherapy, Zen and the discipline of the will, and time the devourer.

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University of California, Los Angeles

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University of California, Los Angeles

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Krisel, Marcella Scott.

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Alan Wilson Watts was born on Jan. 6, 1915 in Chislehurst, England; edited The middle way (London, 1934-8); became member of council of the executive committee, World Congress of Faiths (1937-9); came to the US in 1938; was ordained an Anglican priest, 1944; became a religious counselor at Northwestern Univ. (1944-50), where he began to question the linearity of thought in Christianity; he became professor of comparative philosophy (1951-7), dean (1953-6), and writer and lecturer (1956-73) at th...

Watts, Alan, 1915-1973

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