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| comment | | "parent_author":"",<br>"parent_permlink":"steemit",<br>"author":"imagendevoz",<br>"permlink":"alanwatts-who-he-was-and-why-he-has-inspired-so-many-people-videos",<br>"title":"#AlanWatts: Who he was and why he has inspired so many people (Videos)",<br>"body":"SUMMING up a man\u2019s life in a few short words is next to impossible and,<br> especially even more impossible being that he continues to inspire people to this very day \u2013 nearly 45 years after his death on November 16,<br> 1973.\n\n![DQmXEprNt9p4xG5K9s2hjMCogC2eMpiL8SVSDtSD3n8Kk1o.jpg (https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmXEprNt9p4xG5K9s2hjMCogC2eMpiL8SVSDtSD3n8Kk1o\/DQmXEprNt9p4xG5K9s2hjMCogC2eMpiL8SVSDtSD3n8Kk1o.jpg)\nImage Credit (Courtesy): CSU Archives \/ Everett Collection\n\nBorn on January 6,<br> 1915,<br> British philosopher,<br> writer and speaker Alan Wilson Watts is best known today as an interpreter who popularised Eastern philosophy for a Western audience.\n\nWatts,<br> who relocated to the United States in 1938 was born in Chislehurst,<br> England and began his Zen training in New York,<br> pursued a career in theology and received a master degree therein while studying at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary.\n\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/emHAoQGoQic\n\nHe went on to become a Episcopal priest in 1945 only to leave the ministry in 1950 and move to California to join up with the American Academy of Asian Studies.\n\nWatts soon became famous in the San Francisco Bay area while working as a volunteer programmer at a Pacific Radio station based in Berkeley.\n\nHe went on to write more than 25 books and articles important to both Eastern and Western religion,<br> introducing the youth to \u2018The Way of Zen\u2019 \u2013 first published in 1957 \u2013 one of his books which in the end became one of his bestsellers on Buddhism.\n\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/mMRrCYPxD0I\n\nWatts proposed that Buddhism could be introduced as a means of psychotherapy and not religion \u2013 in fact,<br> most of his recorded talks are based off the principle of Buddhism.\n\nWatts is quoted as saying \u2013 with regard to one of his books \u2013 Nature,<br> Man and Woman,<br> 1958 \u2013 \u2018From a literary point of view \u2013 the best book I have ever written\u2019.\n\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/6Qb5sx65kRE\n\nAccording to the critic Erik Davis,<br> Watts\u2019 \u2018writings and recorded talks still shimmer with a profound and galvanizing lucidity\u2019.\n\nHe spent much of his time towards the end of his life divided between a houseboat in Sausalito and a cabin on Mount Tamalpais.\n\n[Many of his books are still available today (https:\/\/www.google.co.za\/search?q=alan+watts+books&oq=alan+watts+books&aqs=chrome..69i57l2j69i60l2j69i59j69i60.2695j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8) in digital format \u2013 as are some of his recordings,<br> which can easily be found on YouTube.\n\n[Have a look at some of his videos here (https:\/\/www.google.co.za\/search?q=alan+watts+videos&oq=alan+watts+v&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l5.4391j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8)\n\nIf you found this article useful,<br> remember to up-vote it. Follow me at @imagendevoz\n![DQmWpisRXDF56mV3DgzzPUxb3R2ozseR48YVr2YKtwtrBcV.gif (https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmWpisRXDF56mV3DgzzPUxb3R2ozseR48YVr2YKtwtrBcV\/DQmWpisRXDF56mV3DgzzPUxb3R2ozseR48YVr2YKtwtrBcV.gif)",<br>"json_metadata":" \"tags\":[\"steemit\",<br>\"history\",<br>\"buddhism\",<br>\"motivation\",<br>\"philosophy\" ,<br>\"users\":[\"imagendevoz\" ,<br>\"image\":[\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmXEprNt9p4xG5K9s2hjMCogC2eMpiL8SVSDtSD3n8Kk1o\/DQmXEprNt9p4xG5K9s2hjMCogC2eMpiL8SVSDtSD3n8Kk1o.jpg\",<br>\"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/emHAoQGoQic\/0.jpg\",<br>\"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/mMRrCYPxD0I\/0.jpg\",<br>\"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/6Qb5sx65kRE\/0.jpg\",<br>\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmWpisRXDF56mV3DgzzPUxb3R2ozseR48YVr2YKtwtrBcV\/DQmWpisRXDF56mV3DgzzPUxb3R2ozseR48YVr2YKtwtrBcV.gif\" ,<br>\"links\":[\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/emHAoQGoQic\",<br>\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/mMRrCYPxD0I\",<br>\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/6Qb5sx65kRE\",<br>\"https:\/\/www.google.co.za\/search?q=alan+watts+books&oq=alan+watts+books&aqs=chrome..69i57l2j69i60l2j69i59j69i60.2695j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8\",<br>\"https:\/\/www.google.co.za\/search?q=alan+watts+videos&oq=alan+watts+v&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l5.4391j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8\" ,<br>\"app\":\"steemit\/0.1\",<br>\"format\":\"markdown\" " | | vote | "voter":"imagendevoz",
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