{"title":"Psychotherapy East and West","authors":"P. Columbus","doi":"10.4324/9781003121879-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003121879-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":418424,"journal":{"name":"The Relevance of Alan Watts in Contemporary Culture","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126121137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Alan Watts and Secular Competence in Religious Praxis","authors":"G. Ostdiek","doi":"10.1080/03060497.2017.1356088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03060497.2017.1356088","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTAlan Watts’ philosophy of religion makes a claim for secular competence in religious praxis. The argument appears as paradoxical as a Zen koan: religion is a secular affair, for both the value and actuality of faith are lost when held faithfully, but reborn in the necessity of acting on insecure foundations that life demands. The premise is that believing can either assist a believer in dealing with facts of living, or hide them from the believer’s attention. In the latter the believer is less likely to prosper. I posit that religion, as Watts uses the term, represents the binding of interpretation within and as living being, put to work as a furthering of the coordination of organism and environment. As such, religion is a process of biosemiotic ontology, an entailment of the function of sign use. As persons, religion is that process by which what we believe becomes what we do and thus who we are. Watts warns us not to bind-perception-into-action speciously, that is, not to do religion merely as ...","PeriodicalId":418424,"journal":{"name":"The Relevance of Alan Watts in Contemporary Culture","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125941605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Alan Watts and the Re-Visioning of Psychotherapy","authors":"C. Sanders","doi":"10.1080/03060497.2017.1356087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03060497.2017.1356087","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTAlan Watts’ seminal text Psychotherapy East and West was authored near Humanistic Psychology’s beginnings, also a transformational time for psychotherapy theory and practice. Watts fostered appreciation for Eastern philosophical traditions, particularly in relation to self, identity, and counterculture. In this article, contributions of innovative thinkers cited by Watts, including Gregory Bateson, Erich Fromm, Jay Haley, George Herbert Mead, Rollo May, and Carl Rogers, are highlighted and historically situated toward tracking threads of contemporary influence vis-a-vis social construction, brief therapy, and therapeutic simplicity. The article begins with a brief note on Watts’ countercultural positioning.","PeriodicalId":418424,"journal":{"name":"The Relevance of Alan Watts in Contemporary Culture","volume":"29 11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123582309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Alan Watts and Neurophenomenology","authors":"S. Gordon","doi":"10.1080/03060497.2016.1142263","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03060497.2016.1142263","url":null,"abstract":"Alan Watts (1915–1973) was a religious philosopher and interpreter of Zen Buddhism and Indian and Chinese philosophy to the West. Francisco Varela (1946–2001) was a biologist, a neuroscientist, and practitioner-scholar of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. Watts and Varela share common interest in Buddhist and phenomenological approaches to human experience. In this article, I explore intersections of Watts and Varela regarding their phenomenologically grounded radical empiricisms, particularly: (1) embodied cognition; and (2) the specious present. This exploration is prefaced by establishing Watts’ phenomenological place in Humanistic Psychology, and delineating Varela's neurophenomenological research agenda.","PeriodicalId":418424,"journal":{"name":"The Relevance of Alan Watts in Contemporary Culture","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132582985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Alan Watts’ “Dramatic Model” and the Pursuit of Peace","authors":"J. Bennett","doi":"10.4324/9781003121879-12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003121879-12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":418424,"journal":{"name":"The Relevance of Alan Watts in Contemporary Culture","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124612997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jung Watts","authors":"Ellen F. Franklin, P. Columbus","doi":"10.4324/9781003121879-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003121879-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":418424,"journal":{"name":"The Relevance of Alan Watts in Contemporary Culture","volume":"166 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116596641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}