Alan Watts

 Alan Wilson Watts (06 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was an English speaker, writer, and "philosophical entertainer". He is known for his ability communicate and promote Hindu, Taoist, Buddhist and Chinese traditions for an Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, England, he relocated 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, and was ordained an Episcopal priest in 1945. He was dismissed from the ministry in 1950 and relocated to California, where he joined the faculty of the American Academy of Asian Studies.Watts gained a following while working as a volunteer programer for KPFA. KPFA radio station in Berkeley. He wrote over 25 books and articles on the subject of philosophy and religion, and introduced the new hippie counterculture in The Way of Zen (1957) One of the first bestselling books on Buddhism. In Psychotherapy East and West (1961), he claimed that Buddhism could be seen as a type of psychotherapy. He called Nature, Man and Woman (1958), "from a literary perspective--the greatest book I've ever written." Watts was also interested in the topic of psychedelics and human consciousness through his works such as "The New Alchemy", (1958), and "The Joyous Cosmology" (1962). His lectures became popular after his death through regular broadcasts on public radio stations in California as well as New York as well as on the internet on websites and apps like YouTube[5] and Spotify. His recorded audio talks are mainly in the late 1960s and early 1970s.