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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.
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."
Alan Watts, 58, English- born American philosopher, author and educator, died of a cardiac arrest [63] ... who had passed out from drugs and alcohol.
Behold the Spirit: A Study in the Necessity of Mystical Religion, a book by Alan Watts (1915–1973), was first published in 1947 [1] by John Murray Publishers (London).This book is a reworking of Watts' Episcopal divinity degree thesis.
Pages in category "Books by Alan Watts" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Behold the Spirit; T.
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The Journal of the American Medical Association defines alcoholism, or alcohol use disorder, as "a primary, chronic disease characterized by impaired control over drinking, preoccupation with the drug alcohol, use of alcohol despite adverse consequences, and distortions in thinking, most notably denial."
Alan Watts likened psychedelic experiencing to the transformations of consciousness that are undertaken in Taoism and Zen, which he says is, "more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease… not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong ...