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Remembering Alan Watts
(January 6, 1915–November 16, 1973)

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Alan Watts was born on this day in 1915. A prolific scholar and dazzling stylist, Watts is best known as the chief popularizer of Asian philosophy for the Beat and Hippy movements, but he was also an original thinker in his own right and a quiet man of the Right. In commemoration of his birth, I wish to draw your attention to these works at Counter-Currents: Read more …

Published: January 6, 2021 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, comparative religion, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals | 3 Responses

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He’s Our Bannon, Only Better:
From Meme Magick to Evolian Populism

Peter D. Bredon

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James J. O’Meara
Mysticism After Modernism: Crowley, Evola, Neville, Watts, Colin Wilson & Other Populist Gurus
Melbourne, Australia: Manticore Press, 2020

“For me real and imagined, by the way, is just the same. Because the world is our imagination.” — Aleksandr Dugin [1] Read more …

Published: May 11, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aleister Crowley, articles, book reviews, hermeticism, James J. O'Meara, Julius Evola, Neville Goddard, New Age, North American New Right, occultism, originals, Platonism, populism, Steve Bannon, Traditionalism | 10 Responses

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Remembering Alan Watts:
January 6, 1915–November 16, 1973

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Alan Watts was born on this day in 1915. A prolific scholar and dazzling stylist, Watts is best known as the chief popularizer of Asian philosophy for the Beat and Hippy movements, but he was also an original thinker in his own right and a quiet man of the Right. In commemoration of his birth, I wish to draw your attention to these works at Counter-Currents: Read more …

Published: January 6, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, comparative religion, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals | Leave a comment

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Remembering Alan Watts:
January 6, 1915–November 16, 1973

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Alan Watts was born on this day in 1915. A prolific scholar and dazzling stylist, Watts is best known as the chief popularizer of Asian philosophy for the Beat and Hippy movements, but he was also an original thinker in his own right and a quiet man of the Right. In commemoration of his birth, I wish to draw your attention to these works at Counter-Currents: Read more …

Published: January 6, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, comparative religion, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals | 4 Responses

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Remembering Alan Watts:
January 6, 1915 to November 16, 1973

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Alan Watts was born on this day in 1915. A prolific scholar and dazzling stylist, Watts is best known as the chief popularizer of Asian philosophy for the Beat and Hippy movements, but he was also an original thinker in his own right and a quiet man of the Right. Read more …

Published: January 6, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals | Leave a comment

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Re-Kindling Alan Watts, Part Two

James J. O'Meara

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Part 2 of 2. Part 1 here.

Partings II – Watts and The Church Today: Real Presence or Real Estate?

Watts was quite successful in his attempt to express the religio perennis in the language of Christian theology; not just in my opinion today, but among his Episcopal peers at the time (one bishop even called it “the most important book on religion in this century”[1]), Read more …

Published: January 5, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Anglicanism, articles, book reviews, Brideshead Revisited, Buddhism, Catholicism, Christianity, Evelyn Waugh, Frithjof Schuon, James O'Meara, mysticism, New Age, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, philosophy of history, Protestantism, Rene Guénon, Traditionalism, Vedanta | 3 Responses

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Re-Kindling Alan Watts, Part One

James J. O'Meara

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Part 1 of 2

Alan W. Watts
Behold the Spirit: A Study in the Necessity of Mystical Religion
New York: Pantheon, 1947; reissued with a new Preface, 1971
Kindle, 2016

“For God is not niggardly in his self-revelation; he exposes himself right before our eyes.” — Alan Watts Read more …

Published: January 4, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Anglicanism, articles, book reviews, Brideshead Revisited, Buddhism, Catholicism, Christianity, Evelyn Waugh, Frithjof Schuon, James O'Meara, mysticism, New Age, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, philosophy of history, Protestantism, Rene Guénon, Traditionalism, Vedanta | 10 Responses

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Alan Watts:
The First Alt-Academic

James J. O'Meara

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Alan Watts

Alan Watts
Alan Watts — In the Academy: Essays and Lectures
(SUNY series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology)
Edited and with an introduction by Peter J. Columbus and Donadrian L. Rice
Albany: State University of New York Press, 2017

“I have a confession to make: I enjoy reading Alan Watts’ books. This simple statement [is] a veritable coming out of the philosophical closet.” — Philosophy professor Samir Chopra[1] Read more …

Published: July 3, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged academia, book reviews, James J. O'Meara, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, religion | 2 Responses

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Of Apes, Essence, & the Afterlife

James J. O'Meara

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Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: When did you first . . . become . . . well, develop this theory? Read more …

Published: March 29, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Buddhism, Christianity, God, Islam, James O'Meara, North American New Right, originals | 5 Responses

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Remembering Alan Watts:
January 6, 1915 to November 16, 1973

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Alan Watts was born on this day in 1915. A prolific scholar and dazzling stylist, Watts is best known as the chief popularizer of Asian philosophy for the Beat and Hippy movements, but he was also an original thinker in his own right and a quiet man of the Right. Read more …

Published: January 6, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals | 1 Response

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The Wisdom of the East?

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Inspired by the unique revaluation of Alan Watts on Counter-Currents, I want to share my reflections on two decades of studying the “wisdom of the East” which Watts helped to popularize in his lifetime.

Indeed, I remember when I read Psychotherapy East and West, my first Watts book and also one of the first books I read about Eastern philosophy and religion. Read more …

Published: May 11, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Confucius, Eastern philosophy, Eastern religion, European identity, Indo-Europeans, Martin Aurelio, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Rene Guénon, Taoism, Traditionalism | 13 Responses

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“PC is for Squares, Man”
Alan Watts & the Game of Trump

James J. O'Meara

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“Why . . . so . . . serious?” — The Joker[1]

“It’s all a joke.” — The Comedian[2]

“All humane people should admit that they are jokers; that they are playing games and playing tricks. That I am doing it on you—I am most ready to admit this. I hoaxed you all into coming here to tell you . . . what?” [laughs loudly, crowd laughs] — Alan Watts[3] Read more …

Published: May 9, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Intelligent Design, James J. O'Meara, moralism, non-dualism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, political correctness, Protestantism, religion, self-righteousness, Social Credit | 7 Responses

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Don Draper’s Last Diddle
The Finale of Mad Men

James J. O'Meara

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Having followed Mad Men from the start, with initial enthusiasm[1] gradually tempered by the increasingly exposed triumphalist agenda,[2] I found the series finale, pumped (or pimped) by the network as “the end of an era,” Read more …

Published: May 18, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Henry James, James J. O'Meara, Mad Men, North American New Right, originals, the 1960s counter-culture, the Jewish question, TV reviews | 1 Response

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Alan Watts a los 100

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Alan Watts es uno de mis escritores favoritos. Hoy es su cumpleaños número 100.

Nació en Chislehurst, Kent, Inglaterra. Watts fue criado anglicano, pero se volvió Budista a los 15 años. En 1941, cuando Watts estaba viviendo en Nueva York, su primera esposa tuvo una visión mística de Jesús. Read more …

Published: January 6, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Ananda Coomaraswamy, articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, in Spanish, in translation, non-dualism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, religion, Rene Guénon, the left hand path, Traditionalism, Watts Centennial Symposium | Leave a comment

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Alan Watts at 100

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Alan Watts is one of my favorite writers. Today is his 100th birthday.

Born in Chislehurst, Kent, England, Watts was raised an Anglican, but became a Buddhist at age 15. In 1941, while Watts was living in New York City, his first wife Eleanor had a mystical vision of Jesus. Read more …

Published: January 6, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Ananda Coomaraswamy, articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, non-dualism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, religion, Rene Guénon, the left hand path, Traditionalism, Watts Centennial Symposium | 6 Responses

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There & Then:
Personal & Memorial Reflections on Alan Watts (1915-1973)

James J. O'Meara

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Alan Watts–Here and Now: Contributions to Psychology, Philosophy, and Religion
Ed. Peter J. Columbus and Donadrian L. Rice
Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2012

“It is the peculiar nature of my adolescent explorings of the Devon countryside . . . that made me what I am—and in many other ways besides writing. . . . I have never gained any taste for what lies beyond the experience of solitary discovery. . . . Read more …

Published: January 5, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Buddhism, Intelligent Design, James J. O'Meara, Michael Hoffman, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, religion, Taoism, Vedanta, Watts Centennial Symposium, Zen | 4 Responses

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Call for Papers
The Legacy of Alan Watts

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January 6, 2015 will be the 100th birthday of Alan Watts, the English-born writer on Eastern and Western religion whose work had an immense influence on the Beatniks of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s. Watts also had a tremendous influence on my thinking, and, when I published a pair of essays on him at Counter-Currents Read more …

Published: December 12, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Greg Johnson, news item, originals, philosophy, religion, the 60s counter-culture | 6 Responses

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Call for Papers
The Legacy of Alan Watts

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January 6, 2015 will be the 100th birthday of Alan Watts, the English-born writer on Eastern and Western religion whose work had an immense influence on the Beatniks of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s. Watts also had a tremendous influence on my thinking, and, when I published a pair of essays on him at Counter-Currents (here and here), I was delighted to learn that he had influenced a number of other writers in the New Right milieu.

In honor of Watts’s centenary, Counter-Currents will publish an online symposium, with a special focus on what is useful or problematic in his work for the New Right. Read more …

Published: October 11, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Greg Johnson, news item, originals, philosophy, religion, the 60s counter-culture | 10 Responses

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Le materialisme spirituel d’Alan Watts

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Alan Watts
Does It Matter?: Essays on Man’s Relation to Materiality
New York: Vintage, 1971

Published: May 14, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Buddhism, drugs, ecology, economics, Greg Johnson, in French, in translation, nondualism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, religion, Social Credit, Vedanta, vegetarianism | 1 Response

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Remembering Alan Watts:
January 6, 1915 to November 16, 1973

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Editor’s Note:

I first published this piece in 2011. I am republishing it as a notification that this time next year, Counter-Currents will publish a symposium in honor of Alan Watts’ 100th birthday. Contact me at [email protected] if you wish to write a paper.

Alan Watts is one of my favorite writers. Read more …

Published: January 6, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Ananda Coomaraswamy, articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, non-dualism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, religion, Rene Guénon, the left hand path, Traditionalism | 8 Responses

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Podcast No. 14
Interview with Charles Krafft, Part 1

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Published: April 29, 2012 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged art, Buddhism, Charles Krafft, Corneliu Codreanu, Counter-Currents Radio, Laibach, modern art, painting, podcasts, popular music, postmodernism, Rammstein, Romania, sculpture, Slovenia, the Iron Guard | 16 Responses

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Alan Watts:
January 6, 1915 to November 16, 1973

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Alan Watts was born on this day in 1915. In commemoration of his birth, I wish to draw your attention to three works on this website:

Greg Johnson, “Remembering Alan Watts: January 6, 1915 to November 16, 1973”
Greg Johnson, “The Spiritual Materialism of Alan Watts: A Review of Does It Matter?” Read more …

Published: January 6, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged commemorations, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, religion | Leave a comment

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The View from Hippie Hill

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A number of years ago I went through a long period of depression, and when I found myself coming out the other end of it, I developed an interest in “Eastern Philosophy.”

Published: February 26, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, drugs, Eastern philosophy, Jef Costello, mysticism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, West Coast White Nationalism | 8 Responses

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Remembering Alan Watts:
January 6, 1915 to November 16, 1973

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Alan Watts is one of my favorite writers. Born in Chislehurst, Kent, England, Watts was raised an Anglican, but became a Buddhist at age 15. In 1941, while Watts was living in New York City, his first wife Eleanor had a mystical vision of Jesus. This led him to return to Anglicanism.

Published: January 6, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Ananda Coomaraswamy, Anglicanism, articles, Buddhism, Christianity, commemorations, Eastern philosophy, Greg Johnson, non-dualism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, religion, Rene Guénon, Taoism, the 60s counter-culture, the Beatniks, the left hand path, Traditionalism, Vedanta | 6 Responses

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The Spiritual Materialism of Alan Watts:
A Review of Does it Matter?

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French translation here

Alan Watts
Does It Matter?: Essays on Man’s Relation to Materiality
New York: Vintage, 1971

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Published: December 11, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Buddhism, dandyism, drugs, Eastern philosophy, ecology, economics, Greg Johnson, Johnson on economics, non-dualism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, religion, Social Credit, Taoism, the 60s counter-culture, the Beatniks, Third Way economics, Vedanta, vegetarianism | 8 Responses

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