Alan Watts Being in the Way Podcast
Take a deep dive into the collected recordings of Alan Watts with Alan’s son, Mark Watts.

Being in the Way is the official Alan Watts podcast series and will take you through a tour of the Alan Watts Archive’s 100-hour tape collection – including recordings not heard in 40 years. We will meet some of the people being influenced by the works of Alan Watts today and learn a little of the history behind how these remarkable recordings were made.

Mark and his guests offer reflections on Alan’s ideas— ideas that were radically innovative and groundbreaking in the sixties and seventies, and yet seem to have come of age today.

Being in the Way is brought to you by the Alan Watts Organization, in partnership with Ram Dass’ Be Here Now Network.

Check out all of the Alan Watts Organization’s offerings at alanwatts.org.

Alan Watts - Being in the Way Podcast

In the premiere episode of Being in the Way – an Alan Watts podcast – Mark Watts and Raghu introduce a dharma talk on Taoism, the interdependence of nature, and dropping out of karma.

This series is brought to you by the Alan Watts Organization and Ram Dass’ Love Serve Remember Foundation. Visit https://Alanwatts.org for full talks from Alan Watts.

Discussion with Mark Watts & Raghu Markus (0:00)
Eastern Philosophy: Taoism & Confucianism (10:40)
Mutual Arising: Polarity, Nature, & Interdependence  (24:32)
Dropping Out From Karma: The Way Through Now (33:16)

"The world is a system of interrelated components, none of which can survive without each other. Just as in the case of bees and flowers, you will never find bees around in place where there aren't flowers, and you will never find flowers around in a place where there aren't bees. What that tells us secretly, is that although bees and flowers look different from each other, they're inseparable. To use an important Taoist expression: they arise mutually." – Alan Watts

Alan Watts – Being in the Way – Ep. 1 – Following the Taoist Way: https://beherenownetwork.com/alan-watts-being-in-the-way-ep-1-following-the-taoist-way/

Alan Watts: Following the Taoist Way – Being in the Way Podcast Ep. 1 – Hosted by Mark Watts

Uncovering how we arise mutually with all things, Alan Watts examines our place in the universe and how very natural it is to be human.

This series is brought to you by the Alan Watts Organization and Ram Dass’ Love Serve Remember Foundation. Visit https://Alanwatts.org for full talks from Alan Watts.

Patterns of Energy: Being in the Way Pt. II (0:00)
It Takes Two: You Arise Mutually with the Universe (16:30)
Our Place In The Universe: Each One Contains Everything (28:35)

“The world that you see outside you is a state of your own nervous system. In other words, it is because you have senses and a nervous organization of a certain particular structure, that the sky is blue, the sun is light, and vibrations in the air are sound. You turn them into color, light, sound, etc.” – Alan Watts

Alan Watts – Being in the Way – Ep. 4 – Our Place In The Universe: https://beherenownetwork.com/alan-watts-being-in-the-way-ep-4-our-place-in-the-universe/

Alan Watts: Our Place In The Universe – Being in the Way Podcast Ep. 4 – Hosted by Mark Watts

Can you get mysticism in a bottle? Alan Watts explores the drug question, in this psychedelically infused episode of Being in the Way.

This series is brought to you by the Alan Watts Organization and Ram Dass’ Love Serve Remember Foundation. Visit https://Alanwatts.org for full talks from Alan Watts.

Mysticism in a Bottle // The Smell of Burnt Almonds (0:00)
Psychedelics, Mystical Experiences, & Western Culture (28:18)
Psychedelics as Instruments // Set & Setting (45:35)
Morality & Legislation // Policing, Preaching, & Hypocrisy (49:25)

“Lo and behold, I had what I simply could not deny being an experience of cosmic consciousness, the sense of complete fundamental total unity forever-and-ever with the whole universe. And not only that, but that what this thing was fundamentally—despite every thing and every kind of appearance in ordinary life to the contrary—that the energy behind the world was ecstatic bliss and love.” – Alan Watts

Alan Watts – Being in the Way – Ep. 7 – Drugs: Turning the Head or Turning On: https://beherenownetwork.com/alan-watts-being-in-the-way-ep-7-drugs-turning-the-head-or-turning-on/

Alan Watts: Drugs: Turning the Head or Turning On – Being in the Way Ep. 7 – Hosted by Mark Watts

In the second episode of Being in the Way – an Alan Watts podcast exclusively on the Be Here Now Network – Alan’s son, Mark Watts, shares background on Alan’s early life, before introducing two of his father’s specially curated dharma talks: Taoist Way of Dropping Out From Karma (Part III), and Wisdom of the Ridiculous.

This series is brought to you by the Alan Watts Organization and Ram Dass’ Love Serve Remember Foundation. Visit https://Alanwatts.org for full talks from Alan Watts.

Beginners Mind, Zen Mind (0:00)
Taoist Way of Dropping Out From Karma (7:40)
Wisdom of the Ridiculous (34:45)

“The whole conception of nature is as a self-regulating, self-governing, democratic organism. But it has a totality; it all goes together. This totality is the Tao.” – Alan Watts

Alan Watts – Being in the Way – Ep. 2 – Dropping Out From Karma: https://beherenownetwork.com/alan-watts-being-in-the-way-ep-2-dropping-out-from-karma/

Alan Watts: Dropping Out From Karma – Being in the Way Podcast Ep. 2 – Hosted by Mark Watts

Alan Watts illuminates the connections between Taoism and relativity, technology and human evolution, culture and seperation, Saints and rascals, you and not-you, as well as difference and unity.

This series is brought to you by the Alan Watts Organization and Ram Dass’ Love Serve Remember Foundation. Visit https://Alanwatts.org for full talks from Alan Watts.

Taoism & Relativity, Technology & Human Evolution (0:00)
Seperation & Culture, Saints & Rascals (15:25)
You & Not-You, Difference & Unity (28:10)

“The principle of relativity is absolutely fundamental to an understanding of Taoist philosophy. That is to say, that wherever you are, whoever you are, and whatever you are: you’re in the middle.” – Alan Watts

Alan Watts – Being in the Way – Ep. 3 – In Your Own Way: https://beherenownetwork.com/alan-watts-being-in-the-way-ep-3-in-your-own-way/

Alan Watts: In Your Own Way – Being in the Way Podcast Ep. 3 – Hosted by Mark Watts

Alan Watts illuminates the nuances of Zen and the Unspeakable World in this dynamic ‘Zen Bones’ talk adorned with Buddhist chanting, chimes, and gongs.

This series is brought to you by the Alan Watts Organization and Ram Dass’ Love Serve Remember Foundation. Visit https://Alanwatts.org for full talks from Alan Watts.

Zen Bones (0:00)
10,000 Things, One Suchness (10:08)
The Unspeakable World (22:22)

“Zen is a way of life, a state of being that is not possible to embrace in any concept whatsoever. So that any concepts, any ideas, any words that I shall put across to you this evening will have as their object showing you the limitations of words and of thinking.” – Alan Watts

Alan Watts – Being in the Way – Ep. 5 – Zen Bones: https://beherenownetwork.com/alan-watts-being-in-the-way-ep-5-zen-bones/

Alan Watts: Zen Bones – Being in the Way Podcast Ep. 5 – Hosted by Mark Watts

In ‘On Being God,’ Alan shares on therapy, religion, mystical experiences, & Jesus, before playing the hilarious and light-shedding role of a clinical patient who realizes they’re God.

This series is brought to you by the Alan Watts Organization and Ram Dass’ Love Serve Remember Foundation. Visit https://Alanwatts.org for full talks from Alan Watts.

Mystical Experiences // Humanity & Nature // Psychiatry & Religion (0:00)
Jesus & The Great Heresy // Democracy in the Kingdom of Heaven // Karma & Responsibility (23:23)
On Being God: Alan Watts Clinical Experience (38:38)

“To know that you are God is another way of saying that you feel completely with this universe, you feel profoundly rooted in it and connected with it, you feel that the whole energy which expresses itself in the galaxies, is intimate. It is not something to which you are a stranger, but it is that with which you are intimately bound up, that in your seeing, your hearing, your talking, your thinking, your moving, you express that which it is that moves the sun and other stars.” – Alan Watts

Alan Watts – Being in the Way – Ep. 6 – On Being God: https://beherenownetwork.com/alan-watts-being-in-the-way-ep-6-on-being-god/

Alan Watts: On Being God – Being in the Way Podcast Ep. 6 – Hosted by Mark Watts

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