Stories from Alan Watts’s students

He asked fiercely, kicking the door wide open, charging through, over the threshold, and into room after room of unknown, bringing back uncovered gem after gem... He helped show us that there is no ultimate point to get hung up about, and that this is simply why everything is amazing... My heart beats fuller, my lungs breathe easier, my smile grins wider, and my own light shines brighter from having experienced the blinding ray of stardust that called itself Alan Watts.

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He had this instant magnetism that was so eloquent having the ability to pull you in with whatever he was communicating... He had the power to provoke thought and stretch the curtains of your mind even when you weren't looking. It's hard to believe after more than four decades, his wisdom rings true in our lives more than any other time in human history.

The first time I heard his words I literally felt lighter on my feet. I have nothing but love for this man.

He simply articulates the different spiritual lineages with a level of mastery that is unparalleled with no agenda of getting you to change your mind about any of them. His teachings have inspired so many of my own and challenged me to refine my world view again and again and again.

We need people like Watts and others to remind us that we don't have to settle. We don't have to live someone else's idea of a good life. We can live our own.

Alan Watts had the rare gift of 'writing beautifully the un-writable'. Watts begins with scholarship and intellect and proceeds with art and eloquence to the frontiers of the spirit.

The course itself is actually five real world case studies, as each of the speakers embodies and talks about their own unique experience in that way... It's like Reality Alan Watts in a way, and the team has great charisma individually and collectively.

Alan Watts was perhaps the single greatest influence on my own intellectual development that I can think of. He also taught me how to write-I literally copied out, by hand, entire books of his, watching to see how he put words together.