Why ‘Life is Like Music’ and You Need to Dance Your Way Through It
Alan Watts, the psychonaut and philosopher from the 1950s, on what life is about.
What if I told you that life is like music and we are meant to play our way through it, not work?
It’s almost like we’ve created a construct that life in itself is one big journey geared towards a final purpose, through which the only way to get there is to work until your stress hospitalizes you.
According to Alan Watts, a philosopher, and explorer of consciousness, life is indeed like music, and we’ve missed the whole point of it. Alan Watts can simply be described as a lover of life and a great spiritual and philosophical teacher of the 1950s and 60s.
Born in South-East London in 1915, Watts turned down a scholarship from Oxford to study and went on to become an Episcopal Priest. He then migrated to California where he lived the rest of his years. He ditched Christianity and when asked by his students what he actually was, he settled for “spiritual entertainer.”
In recent years, Alan Watts has been going through a digital resurrection. His work was forgotten and buried under the carpet for decades, but with the emergence of Youtube and social media, this all changed. Watts thankfully recorded…
