#13 in Meditation books
Use arrows to jump to the previous/next product

Reddit mentions of Out of Your Mind: Essential Listening from the Alan Watts Audio Archives

Sentiment score: 8
Reddit mentions: 12

We found 12 Reddit mentions of Out of Your Mind: Essential Listening from the Alan Watts Audio Archives. Here are the top ones.

Out of Your Mind: Essential Listening from the Alan Watts Audio Archives
Buying options
View on Amazon.com
or
    Features:
  • 12 CDs, 14.25 hours
  • six complete seminars
  • selected from hundreds of recordings that capture the true scope of this brilliant teacher
Specs:
Height7.3299066 Inches
Length6.26 Inches
Number of items1
Release dateApril 2004
Weight0.82 Pounds
Width1.01 Inches

idea-bulb Interested in what Redditors like? Check out our Shuffle feature

Shuffle: random products popular on Reddit

Found 12 comments on Out of Your Mind: Essential Listening from the Alan Watts Audio Archives:

u/[deleted] · 4 pointsr/Meditation

i don't read him, i listen to his lectures.
https://www.amazon.com/Out-Your-Mind-Essential-Listening/dp/1591791650
is my recommendation, you can torrent it

u/smegma420 · 3 pointsr/exjw

I love listening to Alan Watts. His Out of Your Mind lectures were very eye-opening for me, and gave me a foundation upon which to start questioning my own beliefs and self.

I will check this book out and report back :)

u/OpportunityBox · 3 pointsr/Psychonaut

There are tons of free single lectures available on YouTube. This is one of my favorites .

HOWEVER, I strongly suggest you splurge on the Out Of Your Mind lecture series audiobook. It ties many thing together in ways that the individual snippets on YouTube can’t come close to.

u/Locke005 · 2 pointsr/Buddhism

I became interested in Zen not through books but through audio clips. I listened to Alan Watts "Out of Your Mind" and this had a huge impact on me. Dharma talks by Gil Fronsdal at AudioDharma.org have also been incredibly influential. I'd also recommend Free Buddhist Audio for some great, free talks. Give your friend some audio to listen to on their ipod during long car drives. Great to see you and others spreading the Dharma.

u/will42 · 2 pointsr/philosophy

I know Watts isn't as rigorous as some people would like, but I still feel that he does a good job explaining many fundamental concepts. I really like Watts' lectures--I can't recommend him enough. He speaks with a certain clarity, humor, and lucidity that's difficult to find when looking for lectures on similar topics.

This is one of my favorites from YouTube. I'm sure you already know that Trey Parker and Matt Stone made a few videos using some of his recordings. A few of the animations in that video were done by them.

Out of Your Mind is, by far, one of the best collections of his lectures. I've given copies to friends to serve as an introduction to human religious and social practices, Eastern/Western religious philosophical concepts, etc.. The lectures start with providing a good background for the nature of consciousness, how humans tend to perceive the world, and how past religious and political practices have shaped modern society.

They're also good to share with religious/Christian individuals, as he introduces many ideas using traditional Judeo-Christian mythological figures, and doesn't come off as being unabashedly Atheist--something that tends to be a turn-off when trying to introduce philosophy with religious folks.

u/vilennon · 2 pointsr/Ayahuasca

Like Terence McKenna, I prefer Alan Watts' speaking to his writing. His lecture series Out of Your Mind had an extremely powerful impact on me (transcript available in book form).

u/shmkys · 2 pointsr/Psychonaut

Alan Watts: Out of Your Mind

http://www.amazon.ca/Out-Your-Mind-Alan-Watts/dp/1591791650

^^^^youcanfinditonpiratebay

The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle is a wonderful book that is heavily involved in mind and consciousness. I recommend it to so many people, and have heard so many stories of how impactful it has been from other friends.

If you're more inclined to the literary, Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre and Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky are both literary examinations of mind and self. Both are written in the first person as a stream of consciousness, the former as a series of diary entries, and the latter as the unbroken rambling notes of the narrator. Dostoevsky's other work, though I personally have not read it yet (though it is high on my list), is definitely worth looking into for those interested in literature. From the wiki article for The Brothers Karamazov:

>The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel set in 19th century Russia, that enters deeply into the ethical debates of God, free will, and morality. It is a spiritual drama of moral struggles concerning faith, doubt, and reason, set against a modernizing Russia

Crime and Punishment also touches on moral issues, but I don't know if it's particularly in the same vein as BK and NFU.

Personally, I find literature to be the most effective path of exploration. Blogs and webpages tend to be highly unprofessional, raw, unedited, unreviewed, and unclear. Science is limited in its examination of the subjective experience, and can tell you how something works, but nothing higher. It is concerned purely with the physical, not the metaphysical or philosophical. Literature carries refinement and clarity, while maintaining the artistry required to examine the subjective and philosophical.

That said, I do sometimes enjoy Russell Brand's Trews series on YouTube.

u/IAMAnuttysquirrel · 1 pointr/zen

You're correct, it's from one of his sessions. I listened to it just yesterday on Alan Watts - Out of your mind

u/BrainsAreCool · 1 pointr/videos

> You don't seem to know much about Alan Watts to begin with and that's fine that just means you don't know much about Alan Watts.

On the contrary, in addition to listening to over 24 hours worth of audio lectures I've also read several of his books, including "The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are", "The Wisdom of Insecurity", and "Still the Mind". It's not uncommon for Watts to preface his musings with a disclaimer that what he's saying is merely entertainment. That's all it really is to him. It's merely entertaining to project your consciousness onto the universe. After all, we're the only animal on the planet that can do that, it's an amusing exercise. But, in the end, saying that the universe is God or conscious is meaningless. Saying so carries no additional meaning; it's still more accurate to say that the universe is simply the universe. Why project our consciousness onto the universe? Isn't our consciousness, in fact, the chemically induced hypnotic suggestion of consciousness? Something necessary to keep life going? They say that life on Earth began about 4 billion years ago and that our sun has 4 billion years left in it. We already know humanity isn't powerful enough to survive the death of our star. Already man knows that he is obsolete. For man did not fly to the moon.. a machine did. Man will not remain on the forefront layer of life for long. The face. The forefront layer that will gaze at its ruined sun and home planet is not the face of man. Not a face comprised of cells. It is a face comprised of men and machine. Man will cross over and become this thing and it will scour the galaxy. Drink your ecstasy and let it take you under as Alan Watts did. Or see the point in overcoming man and overcoming life's obstacles.

u/zanzibarmangosteen · 1 pointr/AlanWatts
u/zigzagzig · 1 pointr/hiphopheads

I love Alan Watts. I have this on CD! I'm only on Disc 4 right now, but he's a great speaker.

So you meditate while listening to the videos? I've been doing it in silence.