/lit/ - Literature

>>23330151
>How am I supposed to take any of his writing to heart?
By thinking about it and synthesizing the parts which make sense to you while discarding the parts that don't... same way anyone who isn't an intellectual sloth interacts with any other ideas from any other source. I haven't even read Watts and have no strong feelings about him one way or the other. I'm just asking you to be more curious and rigorous in your thought instead of simply trying to find a thinker whose thoughts you can slurp up in their entirety from the spigot.

>>23330151
By accepting people's flawed nature and recognizing that a flawed man can still comprehend and articulate worthwhile ideas
Usually this is done by taking the dick out of your ass and recognizing that you're flawed too

I don’t even think he want you to take him all that seriously. He said over and over again he was an entertainer and introducer of spiritual concepts not a legitimate guru. He’s a good jumping off point for further study not an end in himself.

>>23330164
I'm happy to accept people's flawed nature
I'm happy to admit I'm flawed too
I like a lot of Alan Watts work and don't think his alcoholism invalidated any of that
Addiction doesn't inherently take away from the rest of someone's like accomplishments

But I will NOT take the dick out of my ass. Good day sir!

>>23330151
You really want to access this kind of knowledge? The watch this: https://youtu.be/on6jlil495o

All of them had a past.

All these spiritual hucksters, swami's, guru's, etc. tend to be druggies or sexual deviants. Anyone of them famous enough to have a Wikipedia article, have a "controversy" section on their page.
Always found it funny how these people make a career out of giving life advice, but in the end they're no better than anybody else.

>>23330392
>he's a god jumping off point for further study
the whole point is that study is not necessary. you will find nothing by searching.

>>23331071
"controversy" would imply that some people said some thing and others said another thing... but Watts drank himself to death, nothing controversial about that
>>23330392
so he was like "ha-ha I keep slapping people with my dick and they keep coming back and bring their friends too!"?
very enlightened

>Alcohol is….LE BAD!

>>23331078
Maybe kind of. I think searching can have value in helping clear your mind of concepts by seeing through them if that makes sense. Kinda of like the Buddhist life raft analogy.

>>23330151
Yeah I also don't care about that raging autist Kant

>>23331071
based.
dudes like Watts, McLeary, Terrence McKenna, etc are just drug-addicts who manage to write a few shitty books for new-agers and college-age stoners who think that doing drugs is an intellectual activity.
anyone who takes this shit seriously is an enormous faggot

>>23330451
Step into eternity, sir.

>>23331027
That documentary is terrible. Get the fuck out of here streetshitter

>>23330151
He was grifter and a charlatan. Listen to Seraphim Rose talk about him (he was a former student or his).