The Alan Watts Organization · est. 1962
Courses to take, recordings to collect, films to watch, and a life you can walk, from 1915 to now. Everything he made, and everything we are still making, in one place.
A foremost interpreter of Eastern thought for the West, and the organization that keeps his voice alive.
A British philosopher who gave the ideas of the East a Western language, on the radio, in print, and in a voice that has never stopped travelling. One of the first to reach a wide Western audience, through his radio talks of the 1950s and The Way of Zen in 1957, he wrote more than twenty books and gave thousands of talks before his death in 1973.
The Alan Watts Organization keeps that voice alive: it publishes the courses, safeguards the recordings, tells the story, and restores the films. This page is the door to it all.
Guided seminars produced with Sounds True. One current course, and the archive behind it.
The newest seminar, mastered and delivered with Sounds True: new talks, guided sittings, and the reading that surrounds them.
The store. Remastered audio collections, direct from alanwatts.com.
An interactive life from 1915 to the present. His voice never stopped, and the story is still being written. An experience, not a page.
Restored reels with runtimes, and the members' archival cloud.
28 minWatch →
R058 · 1971
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R002 · 1958
31 minWatch →
R071 · 1973
19 minWatch →
R039 · 1967
26 minWatch →
Every soundtrack, every master, held in one place. A web-enabled visualiser and search, with transcripts drifting around the spirals as the audio plays in real time.
