Why We Don’t Know What We’re Doing (And That’s OK!)

“The general title of these talks that I’m giving here is ‘Mind Over Mind.’  And I’m going into all the various problems which have to do with the control of the mind.  And so I might introduce what I’m going to say by saying it from different points of view.  For example, if you’re interested in Communications, it will be the problem of feedback.  Or if I may put it in theological terms, how does man follow the will of God if the will of man is perverse?…” – Alan Watts.

 

Alan Wilson Watts was a British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and populariser of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. Born in England in 1915, Alan was an Episcopalian priest who became the spokesperson for Eastern religions during the late 1950s and tumultuous 60s. His first book, The Spirit of Zen, however, was written in the 30s when Watts was just 20 years old. He went on to write more than twenty other books. He died in 1973.