This is a 1971 television recording where Alan Watts was walking in his backyard and talking about the limitations of technology and of trying to track an infinite universe with the mind.
He passed away 2 years later in his sleep at his home in Mount Tamalpais.
Time has passed since but many of his ideas are still relevant today.
Watts often said that he wished to act as a bridge between the ancient and the modern, between East and West, and between culture and nature.
Although he did have a fellowship for several years at Harvard University, when questioned sharply by students during his talk at UC Santa Cruz in 1970, he responded that he was not an academic philosopher but rather "a philosophical entertainer".
The video is a bit long but it is still "entertaining"...
I propose that we listen to him in a way that he is not just talking to himself. Of course, not that he cares one way or the other as he is dead, but for the sake of our potential growth and expansion.
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