Alan Watts
Alan Watts was a British MI6 propaganda agent, used in the New Age Church, to popularise Buddhism and to move towards a world religion. He worked with Dimitrije Mitrinovic (Der Blaue Reiter with Wasily Kandinsky and Paul Klee, The New Age of Fabian Society). He attended the World Congress of Faiths at the University of London. |
He was a member of the Buddhist Society of Christmas Humpfreys of Theosophical Society, with Nicholas Roerich, Alice Bailey, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (2nd president of India), Daisetsu Suzuki (Columbia University).
In 1951 he moved to California (era of CIA mind control projects Bluebird, Artichoke, MK Ultra) and joined the American Academy of Asian Studies, which later became the California Institute for Intergral Studies (CIIS). The academy was founded with help from Frederic Spiegelberg (Stanford, classmate of Carl Jung) and Haridas Chaudhuri (pupil of Indian guru Sri Aurobindo, educated at Cambridge, ashram with the daughter of Woodrow Wilson).
The institute worked with Stanislav Grof (worked with Walter Pahnke who conducted CIA research on LSD with Timothy Leary), Dave Carter (transgender agenda), Chani Nicholas (gay agenda, astrology trend with Oprah Winfrey), Douglas Vakov (SETI Institute with Stephen Greer), Judith Tyberg (Theosophical Society)..
In 1957 he published the Way of Zen (the Dao or the Way= concept in Crowley's Thelema), with focus on Nobert Weiner's theory of cybernetics.
He was used in research on mescaline with Oscar Janiger, the cousin of Allen Ginsberg, who also gave LSD of Sandoz Laboratory to Aldous Huxley and Cary Grant. He also worked with LSD dealer Michael Hollingshead (like Watts affiliated with Harvard).
He worked for CIA front Esalen Institute with Gregory Bateson (MK Ultra) to create the fake hippie counterculture of the 60's. He was a friend of Robert Anton Wilson, who mentioned him in Cosmic Trigger: The Final Secret of the Illuminati.
He trained Werner Erhard (John Paul Rosenberg).
In 1967 he participated in Michael Bowen's Human Be-In in CIA controlled Haight-Ashbury with Timothy Leary, Lenore Kandel (The New School, Kenneth Anger movie with Anton LaVey), Jerry Rubin, Richard Alpert, Michael McClure, Dick Gregory (Civil Rights Movement, Playboy Club), Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder (Esalen, lived with Jack Kerouac), The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane,...
He spoke at events of Chet Helms (Summer of Love).
His last book Tao: The Watercourse Way was published posthumously with Al-Chung-liang Huang (mentored by John Blofeld who worked for the UN).
He was mentioned in movie Her with Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johannson as an A.I. program.
Astrological chart
born 1/6/15, date Rowan Atkinson, Syd Barrett, Eddie Redmayne.
Asc: Sagittarius (teaching, religion), mc: Libra. Dom: Capricorn (the Devil), Sagittarius, Aquarius - Jupiter (philosophy, higher learning), Saturn, Mars.
Houses 1, 2, 8. 1: Mars, Sun conj Mercury in Capricorn, 2: Jupiter and Uranus in Aquarius, 8: Pluto in Cancer. 6: Lilith in Gemini, 7: Saturn in Gemini, 8: Neptune in Cancer.
died 11/16/1973.
Works
1932 An Outline of Zen Buddhism
1936 The Spirit of Zen: A Way of Life, Work and Art in the Far East
1937 The Legacy of Asia and Western Man, University
of Chicago Press
1940 The Meaning of Happiness. (Harper & Row)
1944 Theologia Mystica: Being the Treatise of Saint Dionysius,
Pseudo-Areopagite, on Mystical Theology, Together with the First and
Fifth Epistles, West Park, New York: Holy Cross Press
1947 Behold the Spirit: A Study in the Necessity of Mystical Religion,
Pantheon Books
1948 Zen, James Ladd Delkin, Stanford, California
1950 Easter: Its Story and Meaning New York: Schuman
1950 The Supreme Identity: An Essay on Oriental Metaphysic and the
Christian Religion, Noonday Press/Farrar, Straus & Giroux
1951 The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety. Pantheon
Books.
1953 Myth and Ritual in Christianity, Thames and Hudson, including essay
"God and Satan"
1957 The Way of Zen, Pantheon Books
1958 Nature, Man and Woman, Pantheon Books
1959 Beat Zen Square Zen and Zen, San Francisco: City Lights Books
1960 This Is It and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience,
Pantheon Books
1961 Psychotherapy East and West
1962 The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness,
Pantheon Books
1963 The Two Hands of God: The Myths of Polarity, George Braziller
1964 Beyond Theology: The Art of Godmanship, Pantheon Books
1966 The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are. Pantheon Books
1967 Nonsense, illustrations by Greg Irons (a collection of literary
nonsense), San Francisco: Stolen Paper Editions
1968 Cloud-hidden, Whereabouts Unknown: A Mountain Journal, Pantheon
Books.
1970 Does It Matter?: Essays on Man's Relation to Materiality, Pantheon
Books
1971 The Temple of Konarak: Erotic Spirituality, with photographs by
Eliot Elisofon, London: Thames and Hudson. Also published as Erotic
Spirituality: The Vision of Konarak, New York: Macmillan
1972 The Art of Contemplation: A Facsimile Manuscript with Doodles,
Pantheon Books
1972 In My Own Way: An Autobiography 1915–1965. Pantheon Books.
1975 Tao: The Watercourse Way