Jesus people: it’s not Alan Watts. It’s John Chandos. Listen to Chandos interviewing Bertrand Russell and you’ll recognize his voice. Seems the pitch has been altered slightly.
"In 1960 Huston Smith arranged for Watts to meet Aldous Huxley at dinner in Cambridge, Massachusetts, when Watts was again lecturing at Harvard and Huxley was a visiting professor at MIT..The two had been at the same social gatherings before but bad never conversed. Smith recalls the end of the evening: “I could almost see the wheels in Aldous’s mind sort of sorting things out after Alan left. And then came the verdict, (continued in a reply to this comment)
This is not Alan Watts. I have listened to hours and hours of lectures and it just isn't his accent, if you listen to him talk for a while I feel like it's pretty clear. And Alan Watts would not ask him those questions about psychedelics, he knew all about those, and Huxley would know that. Also I find it hard to believe that Alan Watts would be this disengaged from the conversation. He liked to talk. His "interview" with Laura Huxley, for example, is simply him talking to her about Aldous.
The voice of A W is quite distinct, and I would argue this is not him at all. I have listened to 500 to 1000 hours of Watts when I was obsessed with what he talked about.
According to discogs the interviewer is some playa called John Chandos. www.discogs.com/Aldous-Huxley-Speaking-Personally-Aldous-Huxley/release/1806772
i meant this to say "then".. listen to the way he's inflecting his voice he's obviously saying "[in that case] then i would have been good enough.." he says "then" a lot just like all english people do in the place of the more american "like". it's like that. now if that weren't enough, he also interviewed laura huxley for 100% certain. but fine if you don't think so, Jung would agree with you.
(continuation) And then came the verdict, ‘What a curious man. Half monk and half race-course operator.’ I told Alan some time later. Alan loved it and said, ‘He’s got me exactly right.” Huxley and Watts became close friends.
I could be wrong. In that case, just know that if you came to this hoping for some Alan Watts-style wisdom dropped on you, you're out of luck either way, because this is pretty much a Huxley monologue. If you're here for the Huxley, you're in the right place.
Seems to occur to the imagination like following a route on a... map. One finds his spatial analogy for the trip He, Huxley, traced backwards and forwards in time.
@DeprivedToast It was mostly directed at the explanation at the Sybille Bedford quote. I had taken it as something he had typed in error, thinking one thing, typing another, as Ive been known to do. It seemed also to me that all the fruit had been shaken from this tree, perhaps there is a list of Huxley interviews online that gets you closer. It's obviously not Watts. More likely a generic BBC presenter, judging by the dead rapport. I guess Id only be that concerned were I citing it in a paper.
Confirming what is said below: definitely not Alan Watts… I've listened to practically all of his lectures, and the voice is a bit similar, but it's not him.
I'm inclined to think it is Alan Watts. I'm not implying I know any more or less about Alan Watts than any of you, just that I've watched enough of his videos I think to recognize his voice. That's it. He has a very slow, deliberate way of speaking, especially at the end of sentences with emphasis, that is not just any british accent. His voice sounds more mechanical and rote because he presumably prepared the questions in advance. This is common of most interviews.
Okay I don't know for sure who is doing the interview now. It might be Sybille Bedford or Alan Watts. Whatever the case just enjoy hearing from Aldous Huxley. Thanks to all for your comments related to this video.
OMG.... It IS NOT ALAN WATTS......... just cause they have an accent dont mean its him.... Alan Watts would not just ask question after question like a robot like that.... no way.. they would speak in a more friendlier or casual manner to my perception of it because they were aquainted idk how well of friends.
Huxley was able to assimilate the dominant historical/philosophical/psychological/geopolitical perspectives of his day and understood how those ideas, when followed to their logical conclusions, could unfold upon the world. So, he offered us his conclusions in "Brave New World". He had the tremendous ability to stand outside and coolly observe. Huxley admits as much in the interview by saying he would have been a research scientist had he studied medicine. Unfortunately, for us, he was right.
One of the many tremendous things about this 'internet' kerjigger, is that items like this are made widely available. Things like this, the Mencken interview, Huxley's "The Ultimate Revolution" talk, and a superb series on Richard Feynman. Nobody has any excuses anymore (not even those who were rendered functionally illiterate by the 'whole language' pedagogic fraud favoured by US educational systems).
I’ve just seen the comments and then went to read the description and I agree that the one asking the questions isn’t Alan Watts. I know Watts respected and perhaps admired Huxley a great deal, but I’m not too certain if they ever met. Perhaps someone can correct me on this. Regardless, that’s not Alan speaking in this video. Not sure who it is but it doesn’t affect the interview whatsoever it’s still a great piece of material.
i dunno what you're talking about but at around 1:42 he says "them". i don't hear a single word that sounds like Tim. As for the remark about Eastern thought, it isn't spoken about outright but it's always running just beneath the surface. Zen isn't and Western philosophy aren't mutually exclusive. it's quite common (and was even more common then) for good news programs to ask special guest interviewers from the same field on to make the questions more efficient. Is it really so bizarre?
It is Alan Watts. Very exciting. Watt's is disciplined. Did you know Aldous Huxley died the same moment as John Kennedy was murdered. Alan Watts is interviewing Aldous Huxley beyond doubt.
Alan Watt is a different person. His voice is not at all like the interviewer. He doesn't look like the photo included here, and he didn't interview Huxley, but read his work.
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@DeprivedToast Allow Watts sounded very stiff prior to his own active interest in the very substances he was talking with Aldous here about. If you need any further proof this IS Watts, listen to his interview with Bertrand Rusell, same exact stiff British voice.
The cabal...? That would be Alan Watt, not Alan Watts, you're thinking of, who is much younger than both Watts and Huxley. Alan Watts was a British philosopher best known as a popularizer of Asian religions and early proponent of psychedelic drugs.
@DeprivedToast Then, FOR THE LOVE OF FUCKING PANCAKES, LET IT GO! Get over it, yeah? Or are you just dancing inside with delight that you can continue to find fault with the poster- who, were I him, I'd remove both halves, and replace them with Tom&Jerry cartoons, to better seek the level of the TH-cam community.
Why does spiritually scare you? I will tell you: People with low IQ have Simple Minds. Morons and Idiots cannot follow the speech of Smart Fellows. I say they are "Fart~ Smellers"
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Except this isn't Alan Watts it's John Chandos, the background and previous title are 100% misleading. There's no lyrical humour to the interviewer and his voice is not nearly the same as Watts.
Aldous Huxley was the finest actor in the world. A morally bankrupt and evil elitist man. He wasn't warning people about fascism. He was ever so gently explaining what his personal friends had in mind for the future. Apparently so was Alan, to have been his buddy ...... sad lost souls.
Great points. I feel this. However I’ve moved to that same side myself. Never thought I would. It takes much experience to break through. If one spends much time trying to “help” or “wake” others, one should easily conclude that it’s impossible. If one becomes “enlightened”, one will immediately realize there is only a small group who’s broken through this veil and it is literally impossible to lead, inspire, invite or even drag anyone else through it. If one becomes “enlightened” and spends time this way amongst the others, one can easily conclude that this small group of “conscious” folks are enslaved by the voting mass of unconscious. As pointed out in the great novel “the fountainhead”, at this point, one usually has but two choices regarding the “mob”… to submit or rule. After trying to submit, a conscious person will conclude they cannot. This leaves the option to rule. Still not everyone is born with a desire to rule. But if one does decide to “rule” the “mob”, it’s obvious that today this is done by telling them what they wanna hear and helping them get everything they want until they’ve had enough. Based on all the crap I just laid out and having read most of these guys books and spending many years in the trenches walking amongst the mob 🧟🧟♂️🧟♂️🧟♀️🧟♀️🧟♀️🧟♂️🧟♂️ …. I can easily see how what you said may very well be true. I’ve sure become all of that myself on my journey. It really picked up speed when I started asking myself questions like “what if the opposite is true”? Authors like Robert Anton Wilson are great at leading us places where the opposite is both true and untrue simultaneously along with countless other seeming contradictions that are simultaneously true and not true all happening or not all at the same time or not. Doesn’t help me get closer to any answers but helps me get unstuck from illusions that I tell myself are the real things in a world of illusions. Anyway… when you get like this, like I’m talking now….from the guy back at the beginning of the “journey” we appear to be… “morally bankrupt evil elitists” TO THEM. 👌🏽 couldn’t have said it better myself. But, what if the opposite is true? 🤔
its all related. alan watts talks about it aswell. your probably too zoned out to notice. especially his IBM lecture and life is a hoax lecture. dont know what world your living on.hahahahahahaha
Two men whose books left a profound effect on me when I was young.
Jesus people: it’s not Alan Watts. It’s John Chandos. Listen to Chandos interviewing Bertrand Russell and you’ll recognize his voice. Seems the pitch has been altered slightly.
Thank you so much for uploading these!
"In 1960 Huston Smith arranged for Watts to meet Aldous Huxley at dinner in Cambridge, Massachusetts, when Watts was again lecturing at Harvard and Huxley was a visiting professor at MIT..The two had been at the same social gatherings before but bad never conversed. Smith recalls the end of the evening: “I could almost see the wheels in Aldous’s mind sort of sorting things out after Alan left. And then came the verdict, (continued in a reply to this comment)
Exquisite eloquence united to superior intellect, astonishing insights and total recall! All the Huxley's were brilliant and fascinating individuals.
Huxley and Watts what more could you want.
This is not Alan Watts. I have listened to hours and hours of lectures and it just isn't his accent, if you listen to him talk for a while I feel like it's pretty clear. And Alan Watts would not ask him those questions about psychedelics, he knew all about those, and Huxley would know that. Also I find it hard to believe that Alan Watts would be this disengaged from the conversation. He liked to talk. His "interview" with Laura Huxley, for example, is simply him talking to her about Aldous.
The voice of A W is quite distinct, and I would argue this is not him at all. I have listened to 500 to 1000 hours of Watts when I was obsessed with what he talked about.
According to discogs the interviewer is some playa called John Chandos.
www.discogs.com/Aldous-Huxley-Speaking-Personally-Aldous-Huxley/release/1806772
+Seda DasLeek Me too... defo not Alan.
Correct!
4 hours every work day for almost 3 years
About every night for about 7 years on Watts. Now that's how you program your subconscious!
i meant this to say "then".. listen to the way he's inflecting his voice he's obviously saying "[in that case] then i would have been good enough.." he says "then" a lot just like all english people do in the place of the more american "like". it's like that. now if that weren't enough, he also interviewed laura huxley for 100% certain. but fine if you don't think so, Jung would agree with you.
(continuation) And then came the verdict, ‘What a curious man. Half monk and half race-course operator.’ I told Alan some time later. Alan loved it and said, ‘He’s got me exactly right.” Huxley and Watts became close friends.
I could be wrong. In that case, just know that if you came to this hoping for some Alan Watts-style wisdom dropped on you, you're out of luck either way, because this is pretty much a Huxley monologue. If you're here for the Huxley, you're in the right place.
Seems to occur to the imagination like following a route on a... map. One finds his spatial analogy for the trip He, Huxley, traced backwards and forwards in time.
That is not Watts on the other end. The thumbnail got me. I think this interview happened in 1961
John Chandos is the interviewer. The credits for this interview are on Discogs for the album Speaking Personaly ... Aldous Huxley
It's not Alan Watts.
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That isn't Alan Watts's voice and at 1:39 he calls him Tim. Nice interview, though.
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Thank you for uploading this.
@DeprivedToast It was mostly directed at the explanation at the Sybille Bedford quote. I had taken it as something he had typed in error, thinking one thing, typing another, as Ive been known to do. It seemed also to me that all the fruit had been shaken from this tree, perhaps there is a list of Huxley interviews online that gets you closer. It's obviously not Watts. More likely a generic BBC presenter, judging by the dead rapport. I guess Id only be that concerned were I citing it in a paper.
Confirming what is said below: definitely not Alan Watts… I've listened to practically all of his lectures, and the voice is a bit similar, but it's not him.
I'm inclined to think it is Alan Watts. I'm not implying I know any more or less about Alan Watts than any of you, just that I've watched enough of his videos I think to recognize his voice. That's it. He has a very slow, deliberate way of speaking, especially at the end of sentences with emphasis, that is not just any british accent. His voice sounds more mechanical and rote because he presumably prepared the questions in advance. This is common of most interviews.
Aldous Huxley, C.S. Lewis and JFK all died on the same day weird
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Can anyone list the books that influenced Huxley in this?
Okay I don't know for sure who is doing the interview now. It might be Sybille Bedford or Alan Watts. Whatever the case just enjoy hearing from Aldous Huxley. Thanks to all for your comments related to this video.
It isn't Watts. At 1:39 he calls him Tim.
OMG.... It IS NOT ALAN WATTS......... just cause they have an accent dont mean its him.... Alan Watts would not just ask question after question like a robot like that.... no way.. they would speak in a more friendlier or casual manner to my perception of it because they were aquainted idk how well of friends.
And his questions would have been much longer, and conversational as you say.
i'm gonna side with everyone else and say that's not alan watts, though of course I've only discovered the man about a few months ago
yea I got know choice really I wanna believe it is, though if it was Alan he would be talking a lot more then this
@@irishelk3 - what does that mean?
@@guitarlover1370 great point!
Huxley was able to assimilate the dominant historical/philosophical/psychological/geopolitical perspectives of his day and understood how those ideas, when followed to their logical conclusions, could unfold upon the world. So, he offered us his conclusions in "Brave New World". He had the tremendous ability to stand outside and coolly observe. Huxley admits as much in the interview by saying he would have been a research scientist had he studied medicine. Unfortunately, for us, he was right.
One of the many tremendous things about this 'internet' kerjigger, is that items like this are made widely available. Things like this, the Mencken interview, Huxley's "The Ultimate Revolution" talk, and a superb series on Richard Feynman.
Nobody has any excuses anymore (not even those who were rendered functionally illiterate by the 'whole language' pedagogic fraud favoured by US educational systems).
Alan Watts, hell yeah to anyone whos heard his lectures, pretty interesting stuff..
I’ve just seen the comments and then went to read the description and I agree that the one asking the questions isn’t Alan Watts. I know Watts respected and perhaps admired Huxley a great deal, but I’m not too certain if they ever met. Perhaps someone can correct me on this. Regardless, that’s not Alan speaking in this video. Not sure who it is but it doesn’t affect the interview whatsoever it’s still a great piece of material.
i dunno what you're talking about but at around 1:42 he says "them". i don't hear a single word that sounds like Tim. As for the remark about Eastern thought, it isn't spoken about outright but it's always running just beneath the surface. Zen isn't and Western philosophy aren't mutually exclusive. it's quite common (and was even more common then) for good news programs to ask special guest interviewers from the same field on to make the questions more efficient. Is it really so bizarre?
Several sources say he chose to trip on acid while on his death bed...What a Boss!!!
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Read "This timeless moment" by Laura Huxley
if only there was something like a youtupedia, or wikiyoutupedia. the freedom and creativity of youtube, the proficiency and accuracy of wikipedia.
Wikipedia is not accurate in all cases, my friend.
It is Alan Watts. Look of other videos of his on here.
@pogglemindboggle do you have any evidence for this besides opinion? i am interested in getting to the bottom of this. thanks.
Although it does seem to be Watts asking the question here.
Damn our Brave New World!
It is Alan Watts. Very exciting. Watt's is disciplined. Did you know Aldous Huxley died the same moment as John Kennedy was murdered. Alan Watts is interviewing Aldous Huxley beyond doubt.
Oh brave new world, with men such as this in it.
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Alan Watt is a different person. His voice is not at all like the interviewer. He doesn't look like the photo included here, and he didn't interview Huxley, but read his work.
@MrPilotans The sound is very good
It almost sounds like the original interviewers voice is cut out and and someone elses prerecorded, robotic questions are added in. Seems odd.
It can't be Alan Watts because at some point he would have let slip his irrepressible contagious laugh. The tone is to drily academic for Alan.
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@DeprivedToast Allow Watts sounded very stiff prior to his own active interest in the very substances he was talking with Aldous here about. If you need any further proof this IS Watts, listen to his interview with Bertrand Rusell, same exact stiff British voice.
@MrPilotans It sounds crap on my speakers but I wear headphones and its fine.
Alan Watts is not on this recording.
This sounds like Watts. He's using his interviewing voice.
Great combination, Mr. Watts and Huxley.
Sorry, not watts
The cabal...? That would be Alan Watt, not Alan Watts, you're thinking of, who is much younger than both Watts and Huxley. Alan Watts was a British philosopher best known as a popularizer of Asian religions and early proponent of psychedelic drugs.
love Watts! his work has had such a profound impact on my life.
It’s not Watts: it’s John Chandos
@louiscfc93 it must be my laptop then.
@contrarian420 interesting. thank you.
This is not definitely Alan Watts. The voice is off and he woulda been talking a lot more haha
Solid gold
Sorry, but this is not Alan Watts
OMG listening to this dude is like pulling my own teeth out !
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@DeprivedToast Then, FOR THE LOVE OF FUCKING PANCAKES, LET IT GO!
Get over it, yeah? Or are you just dancing inside with delight that you can continue to find fault with the poster- who, were I him, I'd remove both halves, and replace them with Tom&Jerry cartoons, to better seek the level of the TH-cam community.
It's not Watts.
Both Watts and Huxley were always a good listen but too spiritually oriented for me .
Why does spiritually scare you? I will tell you: People with low IQ have Simple Minds. Morons and Idiots cannot follow the speech of Smart Fellows. I say they are "Fart~ Smellers"
2012 my eyes
/watch?v=ACpNVD5GMUw
have seen the glory of the coming of the lord, helen keller
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Alan Watts may be the worst interviewer I ever heard.
Except this isn't Alan Watts it's John Chandos, the background and previous title are 100% misleading.
There's no lyrical humour to the interviewer and his voice is not nearly the same as Watts.
This guy is interesting but has a crappy pom monotone voicehard to understand all sounds like one sentence.
It does actually sound like a very young Watts. Not young, but it’s Alan at a certain stage in his life.
10:15
Aldous Huxley was the finest actor in the world. A morally bankrupt and evil elitist man. He wasn't warning people about fascism. He was ever so gently explaining what his personal friends had in mind for the future. Apparently so was Alan, to have been his buddy ...... sad lost souls.
Great points. I feel this. However I’ve moved to that same side myself. Never thought I would. It takes much experience to break through. If one spends much time trying to “help” or “wake” others, one should easily conclude that it’s impossible. If one becomes “enlightened”, one will immediately realize there is only a small group who’s broken through this veil and it is literally impossible to lead, inspire, invite or even drag anyone else through it. If one becomes “enlightened” and spends time this way amongst the others, one can easily conclude that this small group of “conscious” folks are enslaved by the voting mass of unconscious. As pointed out in the great novel “the fountainhead”, at this point, one usually has but two choices regarding the “mob”… to submit or rule. After trying to submit, a conscious person will conclude they cannot. This leaves the option to rule. Still not everyone is born with a desire to rule. But if one does decide to “rule” the “mob”, it’s obvious that today this is done by telling them what they wanna hear and helping them get everything they want until they’ve had enough. Based on all the crap I just laid out and having read most of these guys books and spending many years in the trenches walking amongst the mob 🧟🧟♂️🧟♂️🧟♀️🧟♀️🧟♀️🧟♂️🧟♂️ …. I can easily see how what you said may very well be true. I’ve sure become all of that myself on my journey. It really picked up speed when I started asking myself questions like “what if the opposite is true”? Authors like Robert Anton Wilson are great at leading us places where the opposite is both true and untrue simultaneously along with countless other seeming contradictions that are simultaneously true and not true all happening or not all at the same time or not. Doesn’t help me get closer to any answers but helps me get unstuck from illusions that I tell myself are the real things in a world of illusions. Anyway… when you get like this, like I’m talking now….from the guy back at the beginning of the “journey” we appear to be… “morally bankrupt evil elitists” TO THEM. 👌🏽 couldn’t have said it better myself. But, what if the opposite is true? 🤔
This is not AW
its all related. alan watts talks about it aswell. your probably too zoned out to notice. especially his IBM lecture and life is a hoax lecture. dont know what world your living on.hahahahahahaha
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.. Two Tavistock members pretending to be anything but😑😒👍