Includes the six CDs below & the DVD “Conversation with Myself” with animated shorts and a conversation with Alan Watts.

• Autobiography at Matsue, Japan
• Ego & Nothingness
• Time & Death
• Mediation & God
• Poetry of Madness & OM
• Changes: The Houseboat Summit

Six half-hour programs from the classic sixties Alan Watts TV series.

• Buddha and Buddhism
• Tao in China
• The Rise of Zen
• Judo and Fencing
• Zen in Painting
• Zen in Gardens in Architecture

Essential Conversations with Alan Watts is a series of six color programs recorded by Mark Watts in 1972 featuring the philosopher at home aboard the ferryboat Vallejo and at his retreat above Muir Woods on Mt. Tamalpais. As archival video the images tend to be toward grainy. However the performances and contents are excellent, and include commentaries on social conventions and our most repressed sense not seen anywhere since the early seventies (Clothing and Do You Smell?). Titles include:

Ego/Clothing
Do You Smell/Man in Nature
Death/Work as Play