Tag: Alan Watts
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Oath taken by members of Young Italy, 1831 | Giuseppi Mazzini
Introduction In the visions of nationhood and association professed by Italian revolutionary, Guiseppi Mazzini, I find inspiration, and freedom from limitations in the U.S. American perspective within the larger historical contexts of Republicanism. After the failures of the Carbonari, Mazzini founds Young Italy in his hopes for Italy’s unification. Mazzini saw the American Republic as…
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Alan Watts: Be Absolutely Willing to Die
A lecture that helped me years ago. Don’t put the question of death off til later. It is the most important thing to consider now. “‘Memento mori.’ ‘Be mindful of death.’ Gurdjieff says in one of his books, that the most important thing for anyone to realize, is that you and all you, every person…
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Alan Watts on Dying and the Ego: How We Define Ourselves
Alan Watts on dying and the ego and the harmony in the chaos of life. “So, I would never invoke spooky knowledge, that is to say that I’ve had a private revelation or that I have sensory vibrations on a plane which you don’t have. Everything is standing right out in the open. It’s just…
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Alan Watts – Man in Nature: The Mechanical Theory of Nature in Western Tradition
ALAN WATTS ON THREE THEORIES OF NATURE AND THE MECHANICAL THEORY OF NATURE IN WESTERN TRADITION
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Alan Watts: “Ecology and Religion”
Alan Watts on the limited symbolic ideas about God affecting human behavior, the problem of the paternalistic concept of God, the feminine property in Eastern metaphysics, and the self-contradiction of the idea that real power is force. Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British-born philosopher, writer, and speaker, best…
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Trump and Conservatives defend Shithole Remark on Haiti, Africa, and El Salvador
The American Right and GOP will suffer for defending it in the end. The Trump administration, political base, and Identitarian Nationalists are in agreement. The issue largely is with President Trump’s alleged comments, defended by his base, who did not stand beside Americans—Latinos, Haitians, and immigrants who found the comments highly ignorant, divisive, and deeply…
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Alan Watts on American Spiritual Settler Movements: ‘Why America is a Republic and not a Monarchy’
“So, the point is that the ruach is the divine, in the creature, by virtue of which you are sons of, (or of) the nature of God (manifestations of the divine). This discovery is the Gospel, is the good news; but this has been perpetually repressed throughout the history of Western religion; because all Western…
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