YOU CAN’T Control Your Mind

One of the principal idols Alan Watts was eager to smash was the idea of free will. The intrinsic human drive to control things and to claim authorship of one’s thoughts and deeds is just too holy a shrine to approach. But Alan Watts wouldn’t be Alan Watts if he wouldn’t challenge even the most untouchable paradigms. In this speech, he explains in an unmistakable manner how the individual ”I” as the actual power behind all that ”happens” is but an illusion.