The thing I really enjoy about Watts, and what seems this article seem moot, is that lazy mysticism is half the point. He is offering a counterweight to social pressure and an 'age of anxiety' by suggesting new points of view in which desperate clawing and ladder climbing are absurd. He says very clearly not to take him too seriously, because he's not offering a new totalizing point where you should be anxious about nothing - just showing that there is an alternative, and you are poorer for not having considered it.
And if that doesn't work for you, no worries, he's a lazy mystic not a preacher.
Heh, well said. It's zen meets scotch.
And if anybody should start getting Giddy over any great Pearls of Wisdom he delivered, he said that it would be like a Thief returning a Pocket Watch they had just taken from you - Humans are already equipped to exist in Nature, and whatever Watts says doesn't change that
He's not delivering Weather Forecasts or Road Conditions (Facts upon which to Deliberate) - He's populating Silence with the Word of Alan Watts, and if tomorrow you don't remember all of the words then so what? There will be more words.