#Alan Watts

Author: Mike Colagrossi / Source: Big Think Alan Watts believed that we can comprehend a greater sense of the self. The self is not alienated from the universe, but a part of the whole process. Scientists have conceptualized a similar idea that sounds like it’s straight out of the Indian

Author: Mike Colagrossi / Source: Big Think Anxiety doesn’t exist for someone who has a life lived in the present. Our concerns for a spectral future fuel anxiety. Taoist philosophy teaches us a new way of living. Varying degrees of anxiety awash over millions. Whether it’s stress from the

Author: Mike Colagrossi / Source: Big Think Quotes on the immediacy of experience and life. Learn a Zen Koan or two and scramble rationalist thought. Ponder on the meaning of life with Alan Watts. To this day, Alan Watts’s words impactful and wise words circulate through the culture. We find

Author: Mike Colagrossi / Source: Big Think Alan Watts cuts to the root of what meditation really is all about. Meditative practice has no motive, except to experience the present moment. Practice a guided meditation by focusing on the now. Meditation has left the ashrams and become a fixture

Author: Mike Colagrossi / Source: Big Think Joseph Campbell’s monomyth as a guide to finding one’s self. Alan Watts explores the notion of symbolically returning to the forest. How to set ones own meaning in a world of confusion and chaos. Joseph Campbell’s life work covered a wide range of