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    Alan Watts was born in London in 1915 and became fascinated with Eastern philosophies from a young age. He moved to the United States in 1938 where he served as an Episcopal priest for six years before leaving the church. In the 1950s, he taught at the Academy of Asian Studies in San Francisco and began giving radio talks, publishing his bestselling book The Way of Zen in 1957. By the late 1960s, Watts had become a celebrity of the counter culture movement, traveling widely to speak at universities. He developed an extensive audio library of talks and wrote over 25 books during his lifetime, passing away in 1973 after returning from an international lecture tour.

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    Alan Watts was born in London in 1915 and became fascinated with Eastern philosophies from a young age. He moved to the United States in 1938 where he served as an Episcopal priest for six years before leaving the church. In the 1950s, he taught at the Academy of Asian Studies in San Francisco and began giving radio talks, publishing his bestselling book The Way of Zen in 1957. By the late 1960s, Watts had become a celebrity of the counter culture movement, traveling widely to speak at universities. He developed an extensive audio library of talks and wrote over 25 books during his lifetime, passing away in 1973 after returning from an international lecture tour.

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    Alan Watts was born in London in 1915 and became fascinated with Eastern philosophies from a young age. He moved to the United States in 1938 where he served as an Episcopal priest for six years before leaving the church. In the 1950s, he taught at the Academy of Asian Studies in San Francisco and began giving radio talks, publishing his bestselling book The Way of Zen in 1957. By the late 1960s, Watts had become a celebrity of the counter culture movement, traveling widely to speak at universities. He developed an extensive audio library of talks and wrote over 25 books during his lifetime, passing away in 1973 after returning from an international lecture tour.

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    Alan Watts was born in London in 1915 and became fascinated with Eastern philosophies from a young age. He moved to the United States in 1938 where he served as an Episcopal priest for six years before leaving the church. In the 1950s, he taught at the Academy of Asian Studies in San Francisco and began giving radio talks, publishing his bestselling book The Way of Zen in 1957. By the late 1960s, Watts had become a celebrity of the counter culture movement, traveling widely to speak at universities. He developed an extensive audio library of talks and wrote over 25 books during his lifetime, passing away in 1973 after returning from an international lecture tour.

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    Alan Watts was born in London in January of 1915 at the start of the first World War.

    At a young age he became fascinated with the arts of the Far East, and by the
    time he was ten or eleven he began to read thriller
    stories by Sax Rohmer about about mysterious Oriental
    villains. This interest led him in turn to the works of
    Lafcadio Hern, Christmas Humphreys, and DT Suzuki, and
    by fourteen was writing on Eastern themes, and was
    published in the Journal of the London Buddhist Lodge
    before producing his first booklet on Zen in 1932. He
    moved to New York in 1938 and then to Chicago where
    he served as an Episcopal priest for six years before
    leaving the Church. In 1950 he moved to upstate New
    York, and in late 1950 visited with Joseph Campbell and,
    composer John Cage, and Luisa Commaraswamy at his
    Millbrook farmhouse. Then in 1951 at the invitation of
    Frederic Spiegelberg he moved to San Francisco to
    teach at the Academy of Asian Studies.
    Alan Watts was profoundly influenced by the East Indian philosophies of Vedanta
    and Buddhism, and by Taoist thought, which is reflected in Zen poetry and the arts
    of China and Japan. After leaving the Church he never became a member of
    another organized religion, although he wrote and spoke extensively about Zen
    Buddhism, Hinduism, and Taoisim. Some American Buddhists criticized him for not
    sitting regularly in zazen, even though he recorded several guided meditations
    teaching a variety of mediation techniques. Alan Watts responded simply by
    saying: A cat sits until it is done sitting, and then gets up, stretches, and walks
    away.
    After teaching at the Academy of Asian Studies in San Francisco he became Dean,
    and began to give regular radio talks on KPFA, the Berkeley free radio station. In
    1957 he published his bestselling Way of Zen, and in 1958 returned to Europe where
    he met with CG Jung. He was an early subject in pioneering psychedelic trials, and
    after recording two seasons of the public television series Eastern Wisdom and
    Modern Life traveled to Japan several times in the early sixties. By the late sixties he
    had become a counter culture celebrity, and traveled widely to speak at
    universities and growth centers across the US and Europe.
    By the early seventies Alan Watts had become a foremost interpreter of Eastern
    thought for the West, and was widely published in periodicals including Earth, Elle,
    Playboy, and Redbook. He appeared on CBS televisions Camera Three in 1969,
    and in 1971 he recorded a pilot for a new show titled A Conversation with Myself
    for NET, the precursor to PBS. When the series was not produced he recorded the
    shows in 1972 with his son Mark and his longtime audio archivist Henry Jacobs.
    Overall Alan Watts developed an extensive audio library of nearly 400 talks and
    wrote more than 25 books during his lifetime, including his final volume, Tao the
    Watercourse Way. Alan died in his sleep in November of 1973 after returning from
    an intensive international lecture tour. A film on his life and works is currently in
    production.

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