In the Flesh

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It’s true. I pretty much listen to Alan Watts every day at this point. Rare is the opportunity to see the man, however. Almost all the stuff you’ll find on YouTube is voice recordings, many of them overlaid by stoners with the most insipid and annoying music. I avoid those. I just listen to pure Alan. Today, however, I stumbled upon this talk he gave on his houseboat, shortly before he drank himself to death (the silly sod). I love this man!

https://youtu.be/uvc-sxtH7kQ

If you prefer the pre-guru version, when he was more the visiting English scholar, here is something from 1959:

https://youtu.be/1PFxAiVwfis