How old was alan watts when he died
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LIFE: As a prolific writer and speaker during the 1960’s, Alan Watts was one of the first to interpret Eastern wisdoms for Western audiences. After gaining recognition as an author in the mid-50’s, he lectured widely in the 60’s and early 70’s, offering a fresh perspective of the human predicament based on the philosophy and psychology of Eastern religion. His worldview took into account the revelations of modern sciences including ecology, contemporary explorations in mysticism, and the classic ways of liberation practiced in Asia, including Zen, Taoism, Hinduism and Buddhism at large.
Before he was adopted as a spiritual figurehead by the counterculture, he became a priest 1940’s, and a professor and later Dean at the Academy of Asian Studies in the early 1950’s. By the mid 50’s he was gained recognition as a leading voice of the Zen-Boom, largely due to his popular Bay Area radio show, Way Beyond the West, His 1957 bestseller, The Way of Zen brought national recognition, and in 1959 the first season of the public television show, Eastern Wisdom and Modern L
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Alan Watts
Writer and lecturer (1915–1973)
Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British and American writer, speaker, and self-styled "philosophical entertainer",[2] known for interpreting and popularising Buddhist, Taoist, and Hindu philosophy for a Western audience.[3]
Watts gained a following while working as a volunteer programmer at the KPFA radio station in Berkeley, California. He wrote more than 25 books and articles on religion and philosophy, introducing the Beat Generation and the emerging counterculture to The Way of Zen (1957), one of the first best selling books on Buddhism. In Psychotherapy East and West (1961), he argued that psychotherapy could become the West's way of liberation if it discarded dualism, as the Eastern ways do. He considered Nature, Man and Woman (1958) to be, "from a literary point of view—the best book I have ever written".[4] He also explored human consciousness and psychedelics in works such as "The New Alchemy" (1958) and The Joyous Cosmology (1962).
His lectures found post
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In this new edition of his acclaimed autobiography long out of print and rare until now Alan Watts tracks his spiritual and philosophical evolution from a child of religious conservatives in rural England to a freewheeling spiritual teacher who challenged Westerners to defy convention and think for themselves. From early in this intellectual life, Watts shows himself to be a philosophical renegade and wide-ranging autodidact who came to Buddhism through the teachings of Christmas Humphreys and D. T. Suzuki. Told in a nonlinear style, In My Own Way wonderfully combines Watts own brand of unconventional philosophy and often hilarious accounts of gurus, celebrities, psychedelic drug experiences, and wry observations of Western culture. A charming foreword written by Watts father sets the tone of this warm, funny, and beautifully written story of a compelling figure who encouraged readers to follow your own weird something he always did himself, as his remarkable account of his life shows."
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