Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and popularizer of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York. Pursuing a career, he attended Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, where he received a master's degree in theology. Watts became an Episcopalpriest but left the ministry in 1950 and moved to California where he joined the faculty of the American Academy of Asian Studies.Living on the West Coast, Watts gained a large following in the San Francisco Bay Area while working as a volunteer programmer at KPFA, a Pacifica Radio station in Berkeley. Watts wrote more than 25 books and articles on subjects important to Eastern and Western religion, introducing the then-burgeoning youth culture toThe Way of Zen (1957), one of the first bestselling books on Buddhism. In Psychotherapy East and West (1961), Watts proposed that Buddhism could be best thought of as a form of psychotherapy, not just a religion. LikeAldous Huxley before him, he explored human consciousness in the essay, "The New Alchemy" (1958), and in the book, The Joyous Cosmology (1962).Towards the end of his life, he divided his time between a houseboat in Sausalito and a cabin on Mount Tamalpais. His legacy has been kept alive with the help of his son, Mark Watts, and many of his recorded talks and lectures have found new life on the Internet. Critic Erik Davis notes the freshness, longevity, and continuing relevance of Watts's work today, observing that his "writings and recorded talks still shimmer with a profound and galvanizing lucidity."
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Friday, 29 July 2011
Alan Watts
Friday, 15 July 2011
Videos on UK Spirituality
I have just created two new categories in the Resources section - videos and captioned videos.
You can submit your own videos for inclusion on our pages. If you have captions on your video, please add them to the captioned videos section.
Captioned videos are more accessible, because the Deaf and hard of hearing can access them too.
I wondered if I should also create a category for videos with sign language, but most videos on YouTube are in ASL rather than BSL, and as UK Spirituality is mainly aimed at British audiences, maybe ASL won't be much use. I'd welcome feedback on this.
You can submit your own videos for inclusion on our pages. If you have captions on your video, please add them to the captioned videos section.
Captioned videos are more accessible, because the Deaf and hard of hearing can access them too.
I wondered if I should also create a category for videos with sign language, but most videos on YouTube are in ASL rather than BSL, and as UK Spirituality is mainly aimed at British audiences, maybe ASL won't be much use. I'd welcome feedback on this.
Saturday, 14 May 2011
New resources area
We're very excited because we have just created a new resources area for the UKSpirituality site. It includes resources from several different traditions, and you can suggest a resource as well. We hope to build up a database of resources for people to use in their rituals and services.
Resources are organised into the following categories:
Resources are organised into the following categories:
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