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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.
The mural was conceived by the project's founder, Perry Rod, and designed by graphic designer Peter Moriarty. The painting covers an entire wall [2] of the organization's headquarters and depicts sixteen people: [3] Albert Einstein, Alan Watts, Baruch Spinoza, Terence McKenna, Carl Jung, Carl Sagan, Emily Dickinson, Nikola Tesla, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ralph Waldo Emerson, W.E.B. Du Bois, Henry ...
It was later purchased by a group led by artist Jean Varda, and repurposed as a houseboat, where a number of parties and salons were hosted. The vessel was sold to the Society for Comparative Philosophy ("SCP") which was created by Alan Watts and Elsa Gidlow to be a charitable and teaching organization in 1962.
The Way of Zen is a 1957 non-fiction book on Zen Buddhism and Eastern philosophy by philosopher and religious scholar Alan Watts. It was a bestseller and played a major role in introducing Buddhism to a mostly young, Western audience. [1] [2]
Alan Watts was an orator and philosopher of the 20th century. He spent time reflecting on personal identity and higher consciousness.According to the critic Erik Davis, his "writings and recorded talks still shimmer with a profound and galvanising lucidity."
The Alan Watts Library. Accessible by a dirt road connected to Muir Woods Road, the two properties occupied a now split five-acre ranch formerly known as the Haapa Property. On his portion, Somers, a free spirited and hard working craftsman, was influenced by Japanese architecture and American architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
Tao: The Watercourse Way is a 1975 non-fiction book on Taoism and philosophy, and is Alan Watts' last book. [1] [2] It was published posthumously in 1975 with the collaboration of Al Chung-liang Huang, who also contributed a preface and afterword, and with additional calligraphy by Lee Chih-chang.
Gary Shead (born 1942): artist and filmmaker who won the Archibald Prize in 1992–1993; Ben Shearer (born 1941): artist who specialises in watercolour painting of the Outback; Shen Jiawei (born 1948): Chinese Australian painter and winner of the 2006 Sir John Sulman Prize; Kathleen Shillam AM (1916–2002): English-born sculptor