In The Way with Alan Watts is a film about the charismatic author and speaker that brought Eastern thought into popular culture in the Sixties. He challenged the Western worldview with innovative ways of looking at religion, psychology, and humankind’s place in nature. Through recently discovered interview footage from his mountain library near Muir Woods, this documentary is designed to reintroduce Alan Watts at the height of his career. In The Way also draws upon his autobiography (In My Own Way) as well as his son’s selections from a vast archive of film and audio recordings to recreate his life and explore his works. Nearly 38 years after his death, the writings and recordings of Alan Watts continue to attract new audiences, and reach millions through talks on the radio, the Alan Watts Podcast, and creative video posts on YouTube. An English-born academic, speaker, and writer, Alan Watts was a pioneer in making Eastern philosophies accessible to the counter cultures of the 50′s and 60′s. Yet In The Way is not just another Sixties nostalgia film. It is the story of an author who became a mentor and sage for several generations in an era of profound cultural awakening, but unlike the East-West guru figures of his time, he embraced life without the denial of “wine, woman, and song”, and never wavered from his view of the individual as the ultimate source of spiritual authority. As he was often heard to say: “The individual is an aperture through which the universe …

From Wikipedia: “Alan Wilson Watts (January 6, 1915 — November 16, 1973) was a British philosopher, writer, speaker, and student of comparative religion. He was best known as an interpreter and popularizer of Asian philosophies for a Western audience. He wrote more than twenty-five books and numerous articles on subjects such as personal identity, the true nature of reality, higher consciousness, meaning of life, concepts and images of God and the pursuit of happiness, relating his experience to scientific knowledge and to the teachings of Eastern and Western religions or philosophies (Zen Buddhism, Taoism, Christianity, Hinduism, etc.)”

From Wikipedia: “Alan Wilson Watts (January 6, 1915 — November 16, 1973) was a British philosopher, writer, speaker, and student of comparative religion. He was best known as an interpreter and popularizer of Asian philosophies for a Western audience. He wrote more than twenty-five books and numerous articles on subjects such as personal identity, the true nature of reality, higher consciousness, meaning of life, concepts and images of God and the pursuit of happiness, relating his experience to scientific knowledge and to the teachings of Eastern and Western religions or philosophies (Zen Buddhism, Taoism, Christianity, Hinduism, etc.)”

Alan Watts interviews Bertrand Russell on the topic of philosophy and religion.

Alan Watts interviews Bertrand Russell on the topic of philosophy and religion.