Alan Watts
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Alan Wilson Watts was a British and American writer, speaker, and self-styled "philosophical entertainer", known for interpreting and popularising Buddhist, Taoist, and Hindu philosophy for a Western
Alan Watts delivering his address "Faith Beyond Belief" at the University of Vermont on 15 June 1958, just after receiving his honorary Doctor of Divinity
The Alan Watts Library in Druid Heights, where some of Watts' ashes were buried
Mind–body dualism
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In the philosophy of mind, mind–body dualism denotes either that mental phenomena are non-physical, or that the mind and body are distinct and separable. Thus, it encompasses a set of views about the
Alan Watts
…books on Buddhism. In Psychotherapy East and West (1961), he argued that psychotherapy could become the West's way of liberation if it discarded dualism. He considered Nature, Man and Woman (1958) to be his best work. He also explored human consciousness and psychedelics in works such as The New Alchemy…
Dominican friar and philosopher Thomas Aquinas depicted in an altarpiece panel
Another one of Descartes' illustrations. The fire displaces the skin, which pulls a tiny thread, which opens a pore in the ventricle (F) allowing the "animal spirit" to flow through a hollow tube, which inflates the muscle of the leg, causing the foot to withdraw.