Alan Watts–Here and Now: Contributions to Psychology, Philosophy, and Religion

Contents

Acknowledgments viii List of Illustrations ix Introduction: A New Look at Alan Watts 1 Peter J. Columbus and Donadrian L. Rice chapter one Alan Watts’ Anticipation of Four Major Debates in the Psychology of Religion 25 Ralph W. Hood Jr. chapter two Alan Watts: The Immediate Magic of God 43 Alan Keightley chapter three Phenomenological Exegeses of Alan Watts: Transcendental and Hermeneutic Strategies 59 Peter J. Columbus chapter four The Psychedelic Adventures of Alan Watts 83 Stanley Krippner Contents VI ALAN WATTS—HERE AND NOW chapter five From the Joyous Cosmology to the Watercourse Way: An Appreciation of Alan Watts 103 Ralph Metzner chapter six Alan Watts and the Neuroscience of Transcendence 123 Donadrian L. Rice chapter seven Listening to the Rain: Embodied Awareness in Watts 149 Michael C. Brannigan chapter eight Alan Watts on Nature, Gender, and Sexuality: A Contemporary View 163 Miriam L. Levering chapter nine Contributions and Conundrums in the Psychospiritual Transformation of Alan Watts 183 Alan Pope chapter ten Buddhist Wisdom in the West: A FIfty-Year Perspective on the Contributions of Alan Watts 203 Kaisa Puhakka chapter eleven Watercourse Way: Still Flowing with Alan Watts 219 Chungliang Al Huang List of Contributors 233 Index 237 ...