The Alan Watts Film enters its Finishing Phase - April 21

The "Why Not Now?" film about the life and works of Alan Watts is in its finishing phase, and we are in the process of getting the Final Cut just right. We expect to complete the visual edit by June 15 and send it off to Matt Wood for sound track enhancements by the first of July. Meanwhile Eddie Rosas is working tirelessly on three different animated segments, including one set entirely within the woodblock prints of Tom Killion!
We will also submit the film to several of the fall film festivals, and expect to release the DVD in early September.

Thank you all for your help, encouragement, patience, and continuing support.

Film Patrons:

Edward Rosas & Jasmin Thomson
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Matthew Wood
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The New Alan Watts Public Radio Series - April 23

The updated Alan Watts radio series has been released, and is on the way to Pacifica stations in Washington DC, New York, Houston, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Olympia and Springfield, Oregon. For those of you who might not be familiar with his works, Alan Watts was one of the most influential and entertaining philosophers of the twentieth century, and continues to have a profound influence on both his original audiences and up-and-coming generations that have discovered his works online, in his books, and through ongoing public radio programs.

In the sixties and early seventies Alan Watts toured across the US and Europe, speaking at major Universities, colleges, growth centers and lecture halls, and the resulting audio recordings have been broadcast on Pacifica radio ever since. His shows were aired initially at Berkeley's KPFA, and after fifty years on the air in Los Angeles at KPFK the talks continue to receive strong listener support.

Alan Watts had a very personal and enriching way of discussing Eastern ideas, concepts of reality, life and death, and exploring what this universe is all about. And although his works were considered radical by sixties mainstream standards, today his thoughts are timely and highly relevant to the cultural dialog unfolding around core social issues.

He was a pioneer in the budding ecology movement starting in the sixties, and forty years ago noted that ecological awareness and mystical experience were in essence the same experience, and would simply adapt his terms depending on his audience.

The new Alan Watts radio series features his popular 60's lectures and 70's seminars, and was produced by his son Mark Watts and Outreach Director Tia Watts for alanwatts.org.

The 60's programs include:

Myself: A Case of Mistaken Identity
What is Reality? 1
What is Reality? 2
Veil of Thoughts
We As Organism 1
Not What Should Be, Not What Might Be, But What Is! 1
Not What Should Be, Not What Might Be, But What Is! 2
Ecozen 1
Ecozen 2
Intellectual Yoga
Taoist Way of Dropping Our From Karma 1
Taoist Way of Dropping Our From Karma 2
Taoist Way of Dropping Our From Karma 3