Out of Your Mind

By: Alan Watts

Narrated by: Alan Watts

Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins

Publisher's summary

In order to come to your senses, Alan Watts often said, you sometimes need to go out of your mind. Perhaps more than any other teacher in the West, this celebrated author, former Anglican priest, and self-described spiritual entertainer was responsible for igniting the passion of countless wisdom seekers to the spiritual and philosophical delights of Asia and India.

Now, with Out of Your Mind: Essential Listening from the Alan Watts Audio Archives, you are invited to immerse yourself in 12 of this legendary thinker's pinnacle teaching sessions about how to break through the limits of the rational mind and begin expanding your awareness and appreciation for the Great Game unfolding all around us.

Whether you're completely new to Alan Watts or familiar with his work, here is a rare opportunity to experience him at his best, improvising brilliantly before a live audience on Out of Your Mind: Essential Listening from the Alan Watts Audio Archives.

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A must for fans Alan Watts

Fourteen hours of wisdom from the legendary Alan Watts. I own all of the other lecture series by Watts that are available on Audible and I did not hear any repeated material from those. I thoroughly enjoyed every minute, the sound quality is excellent given the age of some of the recordings. This is a great introduction to Zen and Eastern philosophy in general. I can't recommend this highly enough, if you are a fan or just getting into this wonderful, entertaining philosopher you will not be disappointed!

The intent is to drive you OUT OF YOUR MIND

If you’ve listened to books by Alan Watts before, how does this one compare?

Alan is a great orator and I want to hear his words direct from the source. Unfortunately he does not have a significant number of recordings available here on Audible, at least not ones of any significant length. This particular one was very good, but it did require me to listen to short sections over an extended period, versus longer sessions of a few hours. I do plan to go back and listen again in between other books and lectures. There is a TON of good stuff here and each listen goes to another level.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

NO ... that would have truly driven me out of my mind in a bad way. Alan is a master of Zen practice, particularly keen in his ability to ask open ended questions that really don't warrant an answer. That process is truly designed to bring you outside of the box, outside of your mind and INTO your heart, intuition, creative and authentic self. However, listening to 14+ hours of Alan Watts in one sitting would not be a healthy endeavor.

Any additional comments?

If you enjoy Mr. Watts, consider checking out Robert Bly, Joseph Campbell and Wayne Dyer. Watts was inspiring to all of them.

I having to do this, I am NOT the same person!

if you are interested in Zen - or Chan - - without deiti's, rituals, scriptures, or other BS, listen to this!

Out of my mind :)

Enlightening as always with Alan Watts.
Some of my favorites concepts directly from his lips :)

Superb!!!

Way ahead of his time! Great listen for those of us that deal with strong anxiety daily.

If you get the message, hang up the phone.

Alan Watts has been a great help to me in rediscovering joys of life, dynamic nature of humanity, and tranquility of an untouched mind.

Boing!

This is a fantastic collection of Alan Watts material that can deliver quite a shift in perspective if one is open to such a thing. Watts' also had a voice that I enjoy listening to. I loved this set of talks and I'm sure I'll listen to it more than once.

Watts is a delight!

This is a collection of lectures that Alan Watts has given. It covers some of his biggest concepts, and the audio collection is arranged pretty well.

Alan Watts' humor and wit is a timeless delight as he discusses consciousness, the way the world works, and explains the reasoning of several eastern religions. Just such a refreshing take! He was such a great mind.

Many of these lectures are labeled the name of the series by the audiobook before Alan Watts starts speaking, which is very helpful for me. I wish all of the chapters had that, but it's OK. The quality was superb, it was a pleasure listening to this book.

Life changing book

This book changed my life! Its amazing I just enjoyed it so much its awesome!

There is nothing like Alan Watts.

So much knowledge in the spoken words of the great Alan Watts! you need not subscribe ro any particular religion to benefit from these works.