Alan Watts

 Alan Wilson Watts (06 January 1915 - 16 November 1973) was an English writer, speaker and "philosophical entertainer". He is famous for his translations and promoting the Indian, Chinese, and Japanese traditions of Buddhist, Taoist and Hindu philosophy to a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, England, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York. He earned a master's degree in theology from Seabury Western Theological Seminary. He was an Episcopal priest in 1945. He left the ministry in 1950 and moved to California and joined the faculty of the American Academy for Asian Studies.Watts gained a following during his time as a programmer volunteer for the KPFA radio station in Berkeley. He wrote over 25 books and essays on religion and philosophy, introducing the emerging hippie counterculture to The Way of Zen (1957), one of the first bestselling books on Buddhism. In Psychotherapy East and West (1961), he asserted that Buddhism could be thought of as a psychotherapy method. He believed Nature, Man and Woman (1958) to be "from the literary perspective, the most important book I've ever written". He also explored human consciousness