Chapter Eight Alan Watts on Nature, Gender, and Sexuality: A Contemporary View

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Illustrations ix
5. Introduction: A New Look at Alan Watts 1
6. Alan Watts’ Anticipation of Four Major Debates in the Psychology of Religion 25
7. Alan Watts: The Immediate Magic of God 43
8. Phenomenological Exegeses of Alan Watts: Transcendental and Hermeneutic Strategies 59
9. The Psychedelic Adventures of Alan Watts 83
10. From the Joyous Cosmology to the Watercourse Way: An Appreciation of Alan Watts 103
11. Alan Watts and the Neuroscience of Transcendence 123
12. Listening to the Rain: Embodied Awareness in Watts 149
13. Alan Watts on Nature, Gender, and Sexuality: A Contemporary View 163
14. Contributions and Conundrums in the Psychospiritual Transformation of Alan Watts 183
15. Buddhist Wisdom in the West: A Fifty-Year Perspective on the Contributions of Alan Watts 203
16. Watercourse Way: Still Flowing with Alan Watts 219
17. Contributors 233
18. Index 237