Alan Watts and Terrence McKenna

Alan Watts is not without his faults, but he seems to have a lot of integrity and empathy and understanding that he can express intelligibly without being annoying


I like Terrence McKenna a lot also, but they cover different territory. Alan Watts is more about explaining philosophical concepts to illustrate our position in the universe and how we relate to that knowledge based on historical religions and philosophical texts. In many way, Alan Watts is singularly responsible for the interest in Buddhism and Taoism and Eastern Philosophy in the USA and the west. Terrence McKenna is more about speculative realities inspired by the psychedelic experience of Mescaline or LSD or Psilocybin Mushrooms. These are amazing talks also, but almost entirely centered around "the psychedelic experience" and not as universally interesting or significant as the Alan Watts talks. This is my opinion.

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William Schaeffer