Alan Watts – The Power of Space (Part 3)

“But, you know, you may call it all sorts of bad names, you may call it the egocentric predicament, but that’s the way it is. And it’s much less egocentric to accept it than to say well I’ll go off and play my own eccentric game as an objective observer, who is a sort of controller outside the world in that qualitative sense in which the monotheistic God is said to be outside the world. The boss….” ~ Alan Watts. (Click here for Part 1)

 

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.