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Lädt ... Zen Effects: The Life of Alan Watts (SkyLight Lives)von Monica Furlong
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Fills in a lot of the blanks from his autobiography. Ironic, his autobiography is ' In My Own Way ' , which is exacty was this guy was, in his own way. He couldn't get out of his own way and that's what destroyed him. ( ) Alan Watts published a few essays (including "This is It") compiled in 1958, many "radio" broadcasts of his lectures, and a book "In my Own Way" in 1972. He died in 1973. The author has written this Biography after a decade of research, interviews, and deft indulgence in the techniques of psychobiology. Ms Furlong draws from Watt's own autobiography ("In my own Way")[206], but also freshly reconstructs the family heritage and childhood of Alan, an only child of attentive parents raised in a happy garden in Chislehurst during WWI. His mother was Fundamentalist and convicted that God was planning great things for Alan. [11] The page on Watts' late experiences with sex while it tugged him hard is particularly acute but almost global in its compass. [60] Watts was one of the first Christian clergy to put the Manichaean heritage in perspective, and seek to accept the body. "Behold the Spirit". [105] His parties at the vicarage in Canterbury House were a mix of perpetual fun and discussion. And singing and dancing [107]. So many Zen concepts are original with Watts: "the Home behind the home", the "secret is in the seeker" [187], and of course, "breathing the Tao stream" [207]. Of course, Watts remained a "glamorous priest" who had been admired but was suddenly disgraced, in a loveless marriage, without a job or home. [126] His friend Gary Snyder described him as "one who sowed problems wherever he went" [149], and his 2d marriage adding 4 children to the previous 2, was failing, at the very time he was increasingly in demand as a speaker all over the country.[150] Watts met Jano and left his family. [151] He discovered and re-infused the "counterculture" of the 1960's. But the worst was the drinking.[199]. The touching account of his death at age 58 in bed--it was not the samadhi tank.[213] He told his daughter he would come back as her child, a red-haired girl. Joan conceived such a child. When Laura was still young she went to a cupboard, pushed some bottles aside, and removed a bottle of vodka. [216] Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
The first and only full-length biography of one of the most charismatic spiritual innovators of the twentieth century. Through his widely popular books and lectures, Alan Watts (1915-1973) did more to introduce Eastern philosophy and religion to Western minds than any figure before or since. Watts touched the lives of many. He was a renegade Zen teacher, an Anglican priest, a lecturer, an academic, an entertainer, a leader of the San Francisco renaissance, and the author of more than thirty books, including The Way of Zen, Psychotherapy East and West and The Spirit of Zen. Monica Furlong followed Watts's travels from his birthplace in England to the San Francisco Bay Area where he ultimately settled, conducting in-depth interviews with his family, colleagues, and intimate friends, to provide an analysis of the intellectual, cultural, and deeply personal influences behind this truly extraordinary life. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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