Tag Archives: Alan Watts

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

159 words

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

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

159 words

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

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

139 words

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

Re-Kindling Alan Watts, Part Two

9,927 words

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

Re-Kindling Alan Watts, Part One

9,403 words

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

Alan Watts:
The First Alt-Academic

4,334 words

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

Of Apes, Essence, & the Afterlife

4,893 words

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

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

124 words

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

The Wisdom of the East?

Martin Aurelio

1,359 words

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

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

3,123 words

“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

Don Draper’s Last Diddle
The Finale of Mad Men

1,722 words

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

Alan Watts a los 100

1,811 words

English original here

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

Alan Watts at 100

1,714 words

Spanish translation here

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

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

7,833 words

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

Call for Papers
The Legacy of Alan Watts

177 words

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

Call for Papers
The Legacy of Alan Watts

177 words

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

Le materialisme spirituel d’Alan Watts

2,615 words

English original here

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

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

1,545 words

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

Podcast No. 14
Interview with Charles Krafft, Part 1

Counter-Currents Radio

time: 56:15 / 7,643 words

Audio Version: To listen in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save link as.”

To subscribe to our podcasts, click here.

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

55 words

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

The View from Hippie Hill

Jef Costello

2,575 words

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

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