Go to Alan Watts talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTTvr_2_Z1k
Btw., my fav. of his books is "The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety" (1951). A classic text that really makes you think about your relationship with fear/anxiety. I began studying that book in 1980, a my ripe age of 28 years old. Wow... how time and anxiety flies by...
-have a nice day,
-Michael
This video(30 min. lecture) by the nondual E-W philosopher Alan Watts (c. 1970s), is intriguing in its depiction of the "artist" in the most generic sense of the term, not just the artist as someone who makes art objects for entertainment, or expression, or profit on the marketplace. But the archetype of the "Fool" and "Trickster" is embedded in The Artist, as I and Watts argue, is where "they actually teach us how to live" (to quote Watts from the lecture. If one takes the interpretation further, this fool-trickster-artist modality of being is truly a good one to study and practice as an indicator (though not always) of someone following the path of fearlessness. And that's a larger discussion we ought to engage here on the FM ning.
