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H-E-L-P.com slash Allen. Welcome to Being in the way with Alan Watts, and I'm your host, Mark Watts.

And today and in the following weeks, together we're going to take a deep

dive into 400 hours of spoken recordings by my father, the late Alan Watts. We're also going to

learn a little of the history behind how these recordings were made. And in future episodes,

we'll meet some of the people being influenced by his works today.

We're going to see how his words are resonating with current events and how they're changing

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