Alan Watts was an English-born pop philosopher who is widely attributed to the backwards law. But Watts didn’t invent the phenomenon; neither was he the first to recognize it. In fact ...

Alan Watts English writer ... One of Watts’s most notable observations is the “backwards law.” Although the backwards law comes directly from Tao Te Ching or Zen Buddhism, Watt takes ...

When you hold your breath, you lose it,” observed Alan Watts. In what have become known as the ‘backwards law’ the paradox is that if you start at the end, you will have everything you need ...