The Archive
The Official Alan Watts Archive
Fifty years of a single voice.
The living archive of Alan Watts. His recorded talks, seminars, radio, film, and writing, gathered into one place, restored, and given back to anyone who wants to listen.
Browse the archive
A first cut of the collections. We will shape these around the structure Mark sends.
Lectures & Talks
The core of the archive. Decades of recorded lectures on the self, time, nature, and the cosmos.
Browse → AudioSeminars
Long-form gatherings and weekend intensives, recorded live with the room.
Browse → RadioClassic Broadcasts
The KPFA years. Eastern wisdom carried over the airwaves to anyone with a dial.
Browse → FilmFilm & Video
Filmed conversations, television, and animation, from the black-and-white years onward.
Browse → TextWritings & Essays
Books, essays, and the calligraphic hand behind them.
Browse → PracticeMeditations
Guided sittings and contemplative audio for daily practice.
Browse →Walk his life as a scroll through time.
A journey through the story of Alan Watts, from 1915 to now. Every talk, film, and photograph placed where it belongs in the arc of a life.
Enter the experienceKeeping the work alive
About the archive
For fifty years the recordings have lived on shelves and reels. This is the effort to bring them into one place, restored and searchable, and to keep the work moving for the people it was always meant for.
The Society for Comparative Philosophy
Founded by Alan Watts in 1962, the Society continues the work of setting the world's ways of knowing side by side. It stewards the archive today.