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Over the course of nineteen essays, Alan Watts ruminates on the philosophy of nature, ecology, aesthetics, religion, and metaphysics. Assembled in the form of a “mountain journal,” written during a retreat in the foothills of Mount Tamalpais, CA, Cloud-Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown is Watts’s meditation on the art of feeling out and following the watercourse way of nature, k Over the course of nineteen essays, Alan Watts ruminates on the philosophy of nature, ecology, aesthetics, religion, and metaphysics.
Assembled in the form of a “mountain journal,” written during a retreat in the foothills of Mount Tamalpais, CA, Cloud-Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown is Watts’s meditation on the art of feeling out and following the watercourse way of nature, known in Chinese as the Tao. Embracing a form of contemplative meditation that allows us to stop analyzing our experiences and start living in to them, the book explores themes such as the natural world, established religion, race relations, karma and reincarnation, astrology and tantric yoga, the nature of ecstasy, and much more. Just finished this one and, not surprisingly, it was amazing.
The chapter titled 'What are we doing?' Is by itself worthy of 5 stars. Talk about hitting the nail on the head! In about ten pages or so he effectively lays bare the entire root system of Western thought and, more importantly, details the problems and social ills that it brings about.Watts makes you feel so comfortable with the subject matter.
Although this book was no more than a collection of some scattered essays and journal entri Just finished this one and, not surprisingly, it was amazing. The chapter titled 'What are we doing?' Is by itself worthy of 5 stars. Talk about hitting the nail on the head! In about ten pages or so he effectively lays bare the entire root system of Western thought and, more importantly, details the problems and social ills that it brings about.Watts makes you feel so comfortable with the subject matter. Although this book was no more than a collection of some scattered essays and journal entries it was still amazingly consistent and well written.
Watts truly has a gift. He is by far one of my favorite writers.His ability to so eloquently and simply explain Eastern thought is astounding. A series of essays by the eastern philosopher, Alan Watts. It's a kind of journal of miscellaneous thoughts. He writes about nature, ecstasy, reincarnation, karma, dualism, environmentalism, tantra, meditation, Christianity, Buddhism, Taoism, and Sufism. Some of it is silly and cute, like the futuristic, utopian vision of The Future of Ecstacy, where he really shows his true hippie colors, and is amusing to read in retrospect.
Some of it is harsh and critical, like What Shall We Do with the Chur A series of essays by the eastern philosopher, Alan Watts. It's a kind of journal of miscellaneous thoughts. He writes about nature, ecstasy, reincarnation, karma, dualism, environmentalism, tantra, meditation, Christianity, Buddhism, Taoism, and Sufism.
Some of it is silly and cute, like the futuristic, utopian vision of The Future of Ecstacy, where he really shows his true hippie colors, and is amusing to read in retrospect. Some of it is harsh and critical, like What Shall We Do with the Church? Watts is even more noticeably sexist in this book than in his other books that I've read, but a lot of that was the era he was living in. My favorites were On the Tantra and The Art of Contemplation, which are both toward the end, a great example of why it's always good to read a book till the end.
This book is interesting in that it was his last book before his sad and untimely death. It serves as a kind of 'parting thoughts of a great thinker.' After having read almost half of Watts' books, this offers little new in terms of material or stance.
But probably my favorite thing about Watts is his gift of being able to say the same thing in various ways, and he definitely does that here. Additionally, he offers some harsh critiques of religion and the Church in general.He loses me a little on some of his fantasizing about the way things could be, which he does once in a dream alternate universe and later on with suggestions on how Christia After having read almost half of Watts' books, this offers little new in terms of material or stance. But probably my favorite thing about Watts is his gift of being able to say the same thing in various ways, and he definitely does that here. Additionally, he offers some harsh critiques of religion and the Church in general.He loses me a little on some of his fantasizing about the way things could be, which he does once in a dream alternate universe and later on with suggestions on how Christianity/Catholicism might attract more followers. While his proposed changes come across as earnest, many are extremely naive and a little flaky, which is the first occasion I've ever had to use those adjectives with respect to Mr. Watts.If you're new to Watts I don't think I'd start with this one.
I myself started withand I can't imagine a better way to do it. Since then, my favorite is followed. Way back in the old days, when the hallucinogens flowed like wine and hipness not quite so leaning on its laurels, friends & I used to find ourselves, often, late in the night, tuned in to FM radio and listening to the ever-wise seeming voice of the sage Rev. Watts seeping into our tripping heads.
A lot of the time, he'd be posing some sort of intellectual idea you had just begun to get a clue or a bead on, often as not, his incisive insights about the burdens of social paradigms gave you so Way back in the old days, when the hallucinogens flowed like wine and hipness not quite so leaning on its laurels, friends & I used to find ourselves, often, late in the night, tuned in to FM radio and listening to the ever-wise seeming voice of the sage Rev. Watts seeping into our tripping heads. A lot of the time, he'd be posing some sort of intellectual idea you had just begun to get a clue or a bead on, often as not, his incisive insights about the burdens of social paradigms gave you something to think about as you readjusted focus to deal with 'real life' on the other side of the trip-equation.
Cloud Hidden is his life story, foreshortened to some extent, but primarily dealing with the world he helped to create once settled in the US, on the slopes of his favorite Marin mountain (conveniently depicted on the cover!) Essential reading for those who have read the bulk of his oeuvre, something of a fine introduction to it if you have not. The man was himself essentially the essence of cool, without even (really!) being a beatnik. Joe Campbell took up where he left off.
This book introduces me to two Alan Watts': Uncle Tao and Papa Patchouli. The former finds and reveals transcendence in the harmonies of nature; the latter rants (deservedly, but it is such a contrast to the serene wisdom of the Tao-based essays) against the church and imagines a rather unappetising Hippie utopia. The more Watts lets the modern world and western attempts to find better philosophical paths to inform his essays, the more he seems like a dated relic, complete with all the naive dru This book introduces me to two Alan Watts': Uncle Tao and Papa Patchouli. The former finds and reveals transcendence in the harmonies of nature; the latter rants (deservedly, but it is such a contrast to the serene wisdom of the Tao-based essays) against the church and imagines a rather unappetising Hippie utopia.
The more Watts lets the modern world and western attempts to find better philosophical paths to inform his essays, the more he seems like a dated relic, complete with all the naive drug culture and recessive sexism that apparently went with so much of the 60s and 70s western counterculture. When he focusses on the natural world and Taoist concepts, his writings seem timeless and even wise.
Interesting, and I am not at all sure why I've suddenly been drawn to read Watts, but I might try at least one more work by him because I've recently started finding more to chew on in certain streams of thought than I previously did. This is a collection of some of Alan Watts' essays on a variety of subject matter. Mostly dealing with religion, sex, drugs, Western thought, and all containing Watts' disciplined and playful buddhist perspective. Ranging from bizarre to profound, repetitious to amusing, this book sent me in a lot of directions thought wise. There were moments where I thought Watts must clearly have been a genius, and others where I was borderline bored with some of his duller musings. I think this book is impor This is a collection of some of Alan Watts' essays on a variety of subject matter. Mostly dealing with religion, sex, drugs, Western thought, and all containing Watts' disciplined and playful buddhist perspective.
Ranging from bizarre to profound, repetitious to amusing, this book sent me in a lot of directions thought wise. There were moments where I thought Watts must clearly have been a genius, and others where I was borderline bored with some of his duller musings. I think this book is important, and should be read, or at least some of Watts' work, or if nothing else a Buddhist book every so often. It cleared the air for me, just going with the flow, as I always have, as I have never had any other choice but to do.:).
In my quest for knowledge and insight, philosophy has been one area of growing interest and authors like Alan Watts are the reason I keep coming back for more. He is so laid back and down-to-Earth in his approach to explaining the cosmic and daily questions like 'What Are We Doing?'
And 'What Shall We Do With The Church?' The fact that he wrote it and published it over forty years ago simply adds to the beauty of his writing and the prophetic voice he seemed to have. His idealized future seems s In my quest for knowledge and insight, philosophy has been one area of growing interest and authors like Alan Watts are the reason I keep coming back for more. He is so laid back and down-to-Earth in his approach to explaining the cosmic and daily questions like 'What Are We Doing?' And 'What Shall We Do With The Church?'
The fact that he wrote it and published it over forty years ago simply adds to the beauty of his writing and the prophetic voice he seemed to have. His idealized future seems so much better than what has happened, perhaps it would have come to being if we would have all been as enlightened as Dr. Watts.There were some minor typos and slightly eccentric ideas but no more than you might expect from a philosophy essay. Or series of essays. Regardless, I will be adding this book to my personal library, it is a good one to re read. Cloud-Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown: a delightful and unsettling, charming and provoking collection of essays written by Alan Watts in his cabin at Mt.
Tamalpais, California, a little north of San Fransisco. Life, death, nature, humanity, experience, religion, and mystical metaphysics are among the topics covered in this little 'mountain journal', each discussed in a poetic and sincere manner.I've personally listened to hundreds of hours worth of Watts' lectures, many of which are revisitations o Cloud-Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown: a delightful and unsettling, charming and provoking collection of essays written by Alan Watts in his cabin at Mt. Tamalpais, California, a little north of San Fransisco. Life, death, nature, humanity, experience, religion, and mystical metaphysics are among the topics covered in this little 'mountain journal', each discussed in a poetic and sincere manner.I've personally listened to hundreds of hours worth of Watts' lectures, many of which are revisitations of material already traversed.
It's impossible to be bored listening to him, his manner and quality of voice are far too compelling. It's no surprise then that his written work is every bit as absorbing as his spoken material (being able to give his own voice the words on the page helps).A book written in the mountains should ideally be read in the mountains.
I fully intend to one day do so, but a small garden with a view of native bush was a fitting enough setting for the first time around.Escape for a while and read this book. This book has laid on my shelf for years, 1st published 1968, I was 27 years old, not into reading much yet. Alan Watts, an insightful thinker for the 60's & 70's, journals, this book an accumulation of essays, does not read easy with me at 77. His thoughts have meaning, appropriate insight into life, but we language his thoughts differently today. So I rate it two star.
I dis not finish but passed on to grandkids Mobius Strip which if their parents will be fun & enlightening for them.L This book has laid on my shelf for years, 1st published 1968, I was 27 years old, not into reading much yet. Alan Watts, an insightful thinker for the 60's & 70's, journals, this book an accumulation of essays, does not read easy with me at 77. His thoughts have meaning, appropriate insight into life, but we language his thoughts differently today. So I rate it two star. I dis not finish but passed on to grandkids Mobius Strip which if their parents will be fun & enlightening for them.LeeTried one more time. Taking to the Singletree book exchange fo someone else to attempt. Alan Watts looses me in his wordy venture into explaining, say Karma.
There are good points, but I need to read, reread, then ponder, and maybe I get a glimpse of what he's saying.May 1, 2019. Time to say good.
Cloud Hidden has been laying around my attempt to read pile long enough. Oh my dear, how very dated this is. It is something of a memoir and something of a work of philosophy, written in the late 1960s about some time Watts spent in a cabin on Mount Tamalpais, just north of San Francisco. I was a young woman at the time this book came out, very much a hippie.
Watts was widely revered - and not just by hippies. My own parents, perhaps, I now think, influenced by my bluestocking (and rich) great-aunt, considered him a leading intellectual. I'm sure I've read essays and Oh my dear, how very dated this is.
It is something of a memoir and something of a work of philosophy, written in the late 1960s about some time Watts spent in a cabin on Mount Tamalpais, just north of San Francisco. I was a young woman at the time this book came out, very much a hippie. Watts was widely revered - and not just by hippies. My own parents, perhaps, I now think, influenced by my bluestocking (and rich) great-aunt, considered him a leading intellectual. I'm sure I've read essays and commentary by him that were neither facile nor foolish, but to my surprise and disappointment, I found this book to be both. His remarks on the joys of free love sound smug and entitled.Discardable. Alan Watts, himself introduced to me by Mom; Allen Ginsberg; Kelly Fox, my World Civilizations teacher; and a couple of friends introduced me to Eastern religions and philosophies in high school.
I went from there to taking a couple of courses on the subject, read many of the primary texts and even became acquainted with some real Buddhist monks of several persuasions, but still I'd return to Watts for old times' sake and because he'd always addressed me familiarly and clearly.This book, a colle Alan Watts, himself introduced to me by Mom; Allen Ginsberg; Kelly Fox, my World Civilizations teacher; and a couple of friends introduced me to Eastern religions and philosophies in high school. I went from there to taking a couple of courses on the subject, read many of the primary texts and even became acquainted with some real Buddhist monks of several persuasions, but still I'd return to Watts for old times' sake and because he'd always addressed me familiarly and clearly.This book, a collection, has some essays which delighted and others which rather bored me-thus the middling rating. As ever, the perspective is Watts' own fusion of Zen and Taoism.
This is the book that gave my constant screen name and e-mail address. The essays contained within were the first I read from the great philosopher, Alan Watts.He does a great job translating spiritually Eastern philosophies for the American mind. He is the major proponent that brought Zen to America. Whenever I get a chance I like to get out his huge collection of essays and read one or two, just to gain focus and curiosity about our spiritual world.I highly recommend getting the audio recordi This is the book that gave my constant screen name and e-mail address. The essays contained within were the first I read from the great philosopher, Alan Watts.He does a great job translating spiritually Eastern philosophies for the American mind. He is the major proponent that brought Zen to America.
Whenever I get a chance I like to get out his huge collection of essays and read one or two, just to gain focus and curiosity about our spiritual world.I highly recommend getting the audio recordings of his weekly philosophy hour from the 60's when he was a professor at Berkeley. The guy is good!!! Written 40 years ago, at times this book shows it's age (referencing the transitioning hippie community, for instance), but much of it remains relevant and strong.
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Watts does a great job talking through some of Man's big questions on karma, what comes next, and our place in the world. I found his discussion on (and 'proof' of) reincarnation to be particularly enlightening. While not an overly difficult read, it does require some concentration to follow his line of thinking on different ideas. Bu Written 40 years ago, at times this book shows it's age (referencing the transitioning hippie community, for instance), but much of it remains relevant and strong. Watts does a great job talking through some of Man's big questions on karma, what comes next, and our place in the world. I found his discussion on (and 'proof' of) reincarnation to be particularly enlightening. While not an overly difficult read, it does require some concentration to follow his line of thinking on different ideas.
But it definitely opened my eyes and left me with something to mull over when I was finished. Alan Wilson Watts was a British philosopher, writer and speaker, who held both a Master's in Theology and a Doctorate of Divinity. Famous for his research on comparative religion, he was best known as an interpreter and popularizer of Asian philosophies for a Western audience.
He wrote over 25 books and numerous articles on subjects such as personal identity, the true nature of reality, higher con Alan Wilson Watts was a British philosopher, writer and speaker, who held both a Master's in Theology and a Doctorate of Divinity. Famous for his research on comparative religion, he was best known as an interpreter and popularizer of Asian philosophies for a Western audience. He wrote over 25 books and numerous articles on subjects such as personal identity, the true nature of reality, higher consciousness, the meaning of life, concepts and images of God and the non-material pursuit of happiness. In his books he relates his experience to scientific knowledge and to the teachings of Eastern and Western religion and philosophy.
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