Wow! Presumably this was recorded shortly before Alan died, 1972/73? I wish The Beatles had met Watts before they embraced Maharishi, he deserved a wider audience, which an association with The Beatles would have undoubtedly given him. Do we know if John Lennon was aware of his work?
alan watts was and is considered to be the most important figure when it comes to bringing the 'zen experience' to the west. and to answer your question, john was very aware of him. he read his books and listened to his lectures.
I actually wondered about this as well. I'm sure Alan Watts, along with many other "philosophers, gurus, mystics, teachers, etc" had great influence on his music.
A serendipitous find! Conversation that breathes with it's own life. Thank you, Elliot, for bringing out the finest in Alan Watts. All the more poignant since his journey among us earthlings was drawing to a close.
Elliot, Thank you very much for uploading this. I've listened to many of Alan Watts' lectures online, but this interview gives a feel of "freshness" to his views and his realization of life and everything in it. Thanks again. From, S.Korea
KPPC. I learned a lot from all of Mintz's interviews. Still listening to Watt's interviews this past month. Found this through Tin Machine interview. Full circle.
Elliot, this is a brilliant conversation. Thank you for being such a great interviewer/conversationalist here and thanks for sharing this! Do you have any of the other conversations with Alan you mentioned that you would be open to sharing?
Our modern social systems have wreaked havoc on the human experience. It has instilled in us an illogical fear of death and an insatiable need to know and control everything. This was a great conversation, thanks for the upload.
This is a wonderful recording. Thank you for making it available. It gives a new angle on Watts’ teachings, making them new again. I have never had the opportunity to speak with someone who met Alan Watts, so if I may ask Mr Mintz, in the time you spent speaking with him, what was your impression of the man? What was he like? Once again, thank you for this treasure.
alan was as affable and brilliant prior to our interviews as he was 'on the air'. there was no difference (to me) in his demeanor. if memory serves, he arrived alone. no entourage. his 'laughter' was expressive without restraint. he made deep eye contact and had a firm handshake. his appearance was quite conventional in terms of dress. he was instantly accessible. i miss him.
If Alan’s insight could somehow be taken up by the vast majority of people, so much suffering could be avoided. Alan and other teachers have helped “me” to be at ease in the world after about six decades of being uneasy in it.
I've heard a lot of Alan Watts lectures but I've never heard him in conversation. This new angle really adds to my understanding and appreciation of him as a person, as opposed to a lecturer. Thank you so much for sharing.
While I am not halfway through this interview, this interview, it is for me one of the best that I have heard thus far. I appreciate your honesty with Alan W. Especially when you said to him I don't understand. You were speaking for many of us then and many of us now and I'm sure in all the nows to come.. Great job. Thank you.
hi objective. if more people express their appreciation of these interviews by subscribing to this free channel ...... i will be inclined to post more of them. it all about reciprocity.
This was fun to listen to. I, much like Alan Watts, have spent my life in search of the way to explain what is this experience. Raised Catholic i America, I naturally began practicing what I later learned to be Zen as a very young child. I so hated the church, I was terrified of the grotesque Jesus imagery, and the mental and emotional energies in those churches is like psychic smog; just terrible. I even fought with the catechism teachers by age 4 that Noah wasn't real and neither was Jesus or this thing called God. It wasn't very sophisticated, but I remember getting into trouble for various rebellions Against the church, including finishing my first communion, getting my certification, and when I was to bring it to my mother I tore it up and threw it in her face. I so hated Christianity and distrusted Christians like I would a coiled snake. I have since learned that indeed Jesus never existed, one of my adoptive grandmother's, shall we say, is Paula Gott, who has written 2 books in a series called Following Philo, which examines the Essenes Exegesis of the Bible to unravel the contradictions in the texts. In it she demonstrates that Jesus wasn't real, but a manufactured deity created by combining Yahweh and Zeus into YahZeus (Iesous in Greek) and expounding on the Secret Goddess resurrection teachings in the biblical literature. I met her at a conference in Milwaukee where I also met Dr Richard Carrier, the author of "On the Historicity of Jesus: Why We Might Have Reason for Doubt". I rode my bicycle from Chicago to Milwaukee in just under a day to discuss my research into why both Dr Carrier and Paula Gott were correct. I carried 9 books, and several stacks of scientific papers explaining a solar flare cataclysm that hit the earth 13000 years ago. The electromagnetic discharges became known globally as the Tree of Life, collectively as creation and destruction mythology, and a part of the discharges looks like a stick man of light. Here is a recording of me outside yelling about my research to the crowd waiting to go into the venue. th-cam.com/video/wZXeDfXC1Nc/w-d-xo.html Dr. Carrier's work centers on the theory that Jesus Mythology began as a series of stories of a being of light in antiquity, as did Melchizedek and Adam, but also Brahman, Zeus, and so many more deities. Another friend, although recent events have created a break in our communication, Marinus Anthony van der Sluijs, has written a series of books comparing global myths to this catastrophe and found 425 areas of agreement between thousands of myths and this cataclysm. A talk of his is here th-cam.com/video/_DbVgApSg2g/w-d-xo.html It is based on the work of Dr Anthony Peratt's plasma physics research at Los Alamos labs that recreated a series of electromagnetic discharge patterns that also happen to be carved on rock globally. A video presentation of one of Peratt's talks on his work is here. th-cam.com/video/6meaU1QcSdA/w-d-xo.html And the research goes on and on, But, Alan Watts was very instrumental in helping piece it all together. In 2017, I first came across Alan Watts just before going to Chicago. I had, before that been living in Ningbo China, the City that Buddhism left China to go to Korea and Japan, for just over 3 years. For my birthday, 8/20/2017 I had some very powerful LSD and an MP3 set of Alan Watts' Out of Your Mind recording compilation by Sounds True. At about 11:30PM I dropped the Acid, then I started doing about 2-3 hours intense Yoga as the trip started, blasting solfeggio frequencies in the house, and in a small quiet room where I would rest was the Alan Watts audio collection playing on random for the entire night. Oh, to here him speak when on heavy psychedelics is an absolute joy! Ir can get rather scary I would assume for most people, because the ideas are not at all in line with what people expect reality to be, and some are quite deep. As I came out of the experience, the 8/21/2017 partial planetary alignment full solar eclipse was just beginning and I rode out the trip just buzzing and letting my mind stare deep into the heart of the sun. I was still in that little room with Alan Watts playing. A month later I rode my bicycle to Milwaukee, and a month after that I packed my gear and rode south on my bicycle, carrying books and some basic gear, $30, some basic food stuff, no map, a cellphone with no service, and a mission to make it to Austin Texas. I made it, enjoyed more LSD and magic mushrooms with Alan Watts, yoga, and various death metal artists such as Lamb of God and Slipknot and Tool. Continued my research, much of which is documented here egoproctor.simpl.com/ And Now I am living in an old historic fort in Marfa Texas that is also a place for artist residencies and I am getting some time to continue my work. I have practically no income, living almost entirely on charity, and I spend my days on social networking destroying Einstein's physics, Quantum Mechanics, the Big Bang, Biblical mythology, exposing the lies of bankers, and openly attacking with extreme prejudice the most vile of books ever written, the Babylonian Talmud, which began as the oral traditions of Sumerian banker priests who tricked agrarian minded traders who used cattle as a currency, calves the naturally born interest payment, and debt servitude the collateral; to borrower silver at interest, which cannot breed, has no utility, and must be spent to acquire goods, with debt slavery as the collateral. The merchants took control of the Sumerian temples, created Wall Street trade syndicates, began rewriting history, economic policy, and religion to fit their needs; and it is from this series of events the Talmudic doctrines emerged as oral traditions, not from the mythical Moses, and it is from those minds that the false history of the world known as the Torah/old testament grew. I do so love Alan Watts. I have found essentially every bit of science, including consciousness studies, that confirm and expand on Watts philosophy and theories presented in Out of your mind, such as Viktor Schauberger and Karl Schappeller and aether physics, water consciousness research, and more. It is just a glorious journey. Thank You for sharing this interview! Joshua a Roberts "-" egoproctor zen
you are welcome, joshua. you have obviously adopted a belief system that works best for you. as for me, i am equally comfortable with the teachings of watts as i am with jesus .... and a variety of others who address the subjects at hand. i did discuss me personal overview on my free website which you may wish to explore........ WWW.ELLIOTMINTZ.COM
Hi Elliot, thank you for informing me of the Alan Watts website, i am so grateful to you for that.It's reassuring in today's mad, greedy world, that i can look for something deeper and meaningful, and, as the saying goes, "Knock, and the door will be opened", and i intend to do just that.God Bless you my friend.
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This interview is a true Gem!
Wow!
Presumably this was recorded shortly before Alan died, 1972/73?
I wish The Beatles had met Watts before they embraced Maharishi, he deserved a wider audience, which an association with The Beatles would have undoubtedly given him. Do we know if John Lennon was aware of his work?
alan watts was and is considered to be the most important figure when it comes to bringing the 'zen experience' to the west. and to answer your question, john was very aware of him. he read his books and listened to his lectures.
i believe we recorded this conversation on december 10, 1972.
I actually wondered about this as well. I'm sure Alan Watts, along with many other "philosophers, gurus, mystics, teachers, etc" had great influence on his music.
as well as 'every day people'....@@barefootreader2023
A serendipitous find! Conversation that breathes with it's own life. Thank you, Elliot, for bringing out the finest in Alan Watts. All the more poignant since his journey among us earthlings was drawing to a close.
hi glo. have you subscribed to this free channel?
@@elliotmintzvideos Yes, sir. Thanks again!
Hi Elliot
We would love to see more of Alan's interviews.. they are quite different than his lectures hence so interesting to listen to. All the best
Elliot,
Thank you very much for uploading this.
I've listened to many of Alan Watts' lectures online, but this interview gives a feel of "freshness" to his views and his realization of life and everything in it.
Thanks again.
From,
S.Korea
So fantastic. Listening to Alan is a joy and Elliott was perfect in his interviewing.
This is it.
I remember listening to you on LA radio way back when. This is the first interview I heard with Alan Watts. A real treasure.
Exactly the same for me.
KPPC. I learned a lot from all of Mintz's interviews.
Still listening to Watt's interviews this past month.
Found this through Tin Machine interview. Full circle.
Elliot, this is a brilliant conversation. Thank you for being such a great interviewer/conversationalist here and thanks for sharing this! Do you have any of the other conversations with Alan you mentioned that you would be open to sharing?
hi rick. have you subscribed to this free channel?
@@elliotmintzvideos I just did :) all the way from Australia
Do you have any more talks with Alan you plan on sharing?
A jukebox for good speeches would be a great thing.
Our modern social systems have wreaked havoc on the human experience. It has instilled in us an illogical fear of death and an insatiable need to know and control everything.
This was a great conversation, thanks for the upload.
thank you. alan watts always placed the 'big picture' in the context of the moment. there is a vast archive of his talks on his channel and youtube.
Brilliant ! Thank you Elliott
This is a wonderful recording.
Thank you for making it available.
It gives a new angle on Watts’ teachings, making them new again.
I have never had the opportunity to speak with someone who met Alan Watts, so if I may ask Mr Mintz, in the time you spent speaking with him, what was your impression of the man?
What was he like?
Once again, thank you for this treasure.
alan was as affable and brilliant prior to our interviews as he was 'on the air'. there was no difference (to me) in his demeanor. if memory serves, he arrived alone. no entourage. his 'laughter' was expressive without restraint. he made deep eye contact and had a firm handshake. his appearance was quite conventional in terms of dress. he was instantly accessible. i miss him.
If Alan’s insight could somehow be taken up by the vast majority of people, so much suffering could be avoided.
Alan and other teachers have helped “me” to be at ease in the world after about six decades of being uneasy in it.
@@elliotmintzvideos great and exciting as a fan of his to hear a first hand account.
thanks for sharing!
I've heard a lot of Alan Watts lectures but I've never heard him in conversation. This new angle really adds to my understanding and appreciation of him as a person, as opposed to a lecturer. Thank you so much for sharing.
hi fly. you are welcome. it is a real joy for me to be able to share the thoughts of alan watts with so many.
Amazing can't believe I haven't found this before! Thank you
Enjoy!
You should share this channel on his big hit videos on youtube... this deserves so much attention. Thank you!
What year is this from?
This was a real privilege to listen to Elliot. Thank you
Alan watts at it again blowing my mind🤯👏🏻☯️
While I am not halfway through this interview, this interview, it is for me one of the best that I have heard thus far. I appreciate your honesty with Alan W. Especially when you said to him I don't understand. You were speaking for many of us then and many of us now and I'm sure in all the nows to come.. Great job. Thank you.
i'm pleased you enjoy listening. have you subscribed to this free channel. that is the simple way to express appreciation.
Great
You legend.!
Just brandish a unknown gem of incomparable quality out of nowhere?!!! And you created it?
hi objective. if more people express their appreciation of these interviews by subscribing to this free channel ...... i will be inclined to post more of them. it all about reciprocity.
This was fun to listen to. I, much like Alan Watts, have spent my life in search of the way to explain what is this experience. Raised Catholic i America, I naturally began practicing what I later learned to be Zen as a very young child. I so hated the church, I was terrified of the grotesque Jesus imagery, and the mental and emotional energies in those churches is like psychic smog; just terrible. I even fought with the catechism teachers by age 4 that Noah wasn't real and neither was Jesus or this thing called God. It wasn't very sophisticated, but I remember getting into trouble for various rebellions Against the church, including finishing my first communion, getting my certification, and when I was to bring it to my mother I tore it up and threw it in her face. I so hated Christianity and distrusted Christians like I would a coiled snake.
I have since learned that indeed Jesus never existed, one of my adoptive grandmother's, shall we say, is Paula Gott, who has written 2 books in a series called Following Philo, which examines the Essenes Exegesis of the Bible to unravel the contradictions in the texts. In it she demonstrates that Jesus wasn't real, but a manufactured deity created by combining Yahweh and Zeus into YahZeus (Iesous in Greek) and expounding on the Secret Goddess resurrection teachings in the biblical literature.
I met her at a conference in Milwaukee where I also met Dr Richard Carrier, the author of "On the Historicity of Jesus: Why We Might Have Reason for Doubt". I rode my bicycle from Chicago to Milwaukee in just under a day to discuss my research into why both Dr Carrier and Paula Gott were correct. I carried 9 books, and several stacks of scientific papers explaining a solar flare cataclysm that hit the earth 13000 years ago. The electromagnetic discharges became known globally as the Tree of Life, collectively as creation and destruction mythology, and a part of the discharges looks like a stick man of light.
Here is a recording of me outside yelling about my research to the crowd waiting to go into the venue.
th-cam.com/video/wZXeDfXC1Nc/w-d-xo.html
Dr. Carrier's work centers on the theory that Jesus Mythology began as a series of stories of a being of light in antiquity, as did Melchizedek and Adam, but also Brahman, Zeus, and so many more deities.
Another friend, although recent events have created a break in our communication, Marinus Anthony van der Sluijs, has written a series of books comparing global myths to this catastrophe and found 425 areas of agreement between thousands of myths and this cataclysm.
A talk of his is here
th-cam.com/video/_DbVgApSg2g/w-d-xo.html
It is based on the work of Dr Anthony Peratt's plasma physics research at Los Alamos labs that recreated a series of electromagnetic discharge patterns that also happen to be carved on rock globally. A video presentation of one of Peratt's talks on his work is here.
th-cam.com/video/6meaU1QcSdA/w-d-xo.html
And the research goes on and on,
But, Alan Watts was very instrumental in helping piece it all together. In 2017, I first came across Alan Watts just before going to Chicago. I had, before that been living in Ningbo China, the City that Buddhism left China to go to Korea and Japan, for just over 3 years.
For my birthday, 8/20/2017 I had some very powerful LSD and an MP3 set of Alan Watts' Out of Your Mind recording compilation by Sounds True. At about 11:30PM I dropped the Acid, then I started doing about 2-3 hours intense Yoga as the trip started, blasting solfeggio frequencies in the house, and in a small quiet room where I would rest was the Alan Watts audio collection playing on random for the entire night.
Oh, to here him speak when on heavy psychedelics is an absolute joy! Ir can get rather scary I would assume for most people, because the ideas are not at all in line with what people expect reality to be, and some are quite deep.
As I came out of the experience, the 8/21/2017 partial planetary alignment full solar eclipse was just beginning and I rode out the trip just buzzing and letting my mind stare deep into the heart of the sun. I was still in that little room with Alan Watts playing.
A month later I rode my bicycle to Milwaukee, and a month after that I packed my gear and rode south on my bicycle, carrying books and some basic gear, $30, some basic food stuff, no map, a cellphone with no service, and a mission to make it to Austin Texas.
I made it, enjoyed more LSD and magic mushrooms with Alan Watts, yoga, and various death metal artists such as Lamb of God and Slipknot and Tool.
Continued my research, much of which is documented here egoproctor.simpl.com/
And Now I am living in an old historic fort in Marfa Texas that is also a place for artist residencies and I am getting some time to continue my work. I have practically no income, living almost entirely on charity, and I spend my days on social networking destroying Einstein's physics, Quantum Mechanics, the Big Bang, Biblical mythology, exposing the lies of bankers, and openly attacking with extreme prejudice the most vile of books ever written, the Babylonian Talmud, which began as the oral traditions of Sumerian banker priests who tricked agrarian minded traders who used cattle as a currency, calves the naturally born interest payment, and debt servitude the collateral; to borrower silver at interest, which cannot breed, has no utility, and must be spent to acquire goods, with debt slavery as the collateral. The merchants took control of the Sumerian temples, created Wall Street trade syndicates, began rewriting history, economic policy, and religion to fit their needs; and it is from this series of events the Talmudic doctrines emerged as oral traditions, not from the mythical Moses, and it is from those minds that the false history of the world known as the Torah/old testament grew.
I do so love Alan Watts.
I have found essentially every bit of science, including consciousness studies, that confirm and expand on Watts philosophy and theories presented in Out of your mind, such as Viktor Schauberger and Karl Schappeller and aether physics, water consciousness research, and more. It is just a glorious journey.
Thank You for sharing this interview!
Joshua a Roberts
"-" egoproctor zen
you are welcome, joshua. you have obviously adopted a belief system that works best for you. as for me, i am equally comfortable with the teachings of watts as i am with jesus .... and a variety of others who address the subjects at hand. i did discuss me personal overview on my free website which you may wish to explore........ WWW.ELLIOTMINTZ.COM
th-cam.com/video/YHLTwp0A3eQ/w-d-xo.html
absolutely enthralling, thank you so much for this gem.
you are welcome, glynn.
hi glynn. there is a very comprehensive alan watts website where hundreds of hours of his lectures are available. a very valuable resource.
Hi Elliot, thank you for informing me of the Alan Watts website, i am so grateful to you for that.It's reassuring in today's mad, greedy world, that i can look for something deeper and meaningful, and, as the saying goes, "Knock, and the door will be opened", and i intend to do just that.God Bless you my friend.
@@elliotmintzvideos is this really "the" Elliot Mintz?
Bingo found what my 3rd eye was looking for
hi kriss. have you subscribed to this free channel? that's the way we exchange energy and support for the content.