Heart of Mind Radio - 08/22/14

On today’s program host Kathryn Davis asks the question: “What does it mean to be Sovereign within one’s own life? Is it a legal, financial or spiritual issue? And can one be sovereign in the absence of either? And offers a commentary on her experiences over the last year in coming to an understanding of what the personal evolution of self really is like.

In the 2nd segment we feature a recording of Alan Watts giving a talk called “Insight & Ecstasy”

Alan Watts was born in London in 1915, at the start of the first World War. At a young age he became fascinated with the Far East, and at fourteen he began to write and was published in the Journal of the London Buddhist Lodge before writing his first booklet on Zen in 1932. He moved to New York in 1938 and then to Chicago, where he served as an Episcopal priest for six years before leaving the Church. In 1950, he moved to upstate New York before going on to San Francisco to teach at the Academy of Asian Studies.

After teaching at the Academy of Asian Studies in San Francisco, he became Dean and began to give regular radio talks on KFA, the Berkeley Pacifica radio station. In  1957, he published his bestselling Way of Zen, and in 1958 returned to Europe where he met with C.G. Young. He was an early subject in pioneering psychedelic trials, and, after recording two seasons of the public television series Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life, traveled to Japan several times in the early sixties. By the late sixties, he had become a counterculture celebrity, and traveled widely to speak at universities and growth centers across the US and Europe.

Alan Watts died in his sleep in November of 1973, after returning from an intensive international lecture tour.

Website: http://www.alanwatts.org/

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Contact host: Kathryn@HeartOfMind.org