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Alan Watts

Personal information
NameAlan Wilson Watts
Birth date6 January 1915
Birth placeChislehurst, Kent, England
Death date16 November 1973(age 58)
Death placeMt. Tamalpais, California, USA
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionEastern Philosophy
SchoolZen Buddhism  Hinduism  Pantheism  Religious naturalism  Taoism
Main interestsPersonal identity  Higher consciousness Aesthetics  Public Ethics

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Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 � 16 November 1973) was a British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and popularizer of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York. Pursuing a career, he attended Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, where he received a master's degree in theology. Watts became an Episcopal priest but left the ministry in 1950 and moved to California where he joined the faculty of the American Academy of Asian Studies.

Living on the West Coast, Watts gained a large following in the San Francisco Bay Area while working as a volunteer programmer at KPFA, a Pacifica Radio station in Berkeley. Watts wrote more than 25 books and articles on subjects important to Eastern and Western religion, introducing the then-burgeoning youth culture to The Way of Zen (1957), one of the first bestselling books on Buddhism. In Psychotherapy East and West (1961), Watts proposed that Buddhism could be best thought of as a form of psychotherapy, not just a religion. Like Aldous Huxley before him, he explored human consciousness in the essay, "The New Alchemy" (1958), and in the book, The Joyous Cosmology (1962).

Towards the end of his life, he divided his time between a houseboat in Sausalito and a cabin on Mount Tamalpais. His legacy has been kept alive with the help of his son, Mark Watts, and many of his recorded talks and lectures have found new life on the Internet. Critic Erik Davis notes the freshness, longevity, and continuing relevance of Watts's work today, observing that his "writings and recorded talks still shimmer with a profound and galvanizing lucidity."

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Huffington Post--I grew up in the Lutheran Church, but as a teenager I began reading books by non-Christian thinkers like Paramahansa Yogananda or unorthodox Christians like -Alan Watts-. Later I became an Episcopalian, while studying Neopagan authors lik - Date : Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:14:07 GMT
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