Alan Watts

 Alan Wilson Watts (06 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was an English writer, speaker, and philosopher who popularized Hindu, Chinese, and Japanese traditions of Buddhist, Taoist and Hindu philosophy to the Western public. He was born in Chislehurst in England and relocated to New York in 1938 to begin Zen training. He graduated with a master's in theology at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, and was ordained an Episcopal priest in 1945. In 1950, he resigned from the ministry and relocated to California and joined the American Academy of Asian Studies faculty. He also worked as a volunteer programer for KPFA Radio Station in Berkeley. He wrote more than 25 articles, books and books about religion and philosophy. He introduced hippie counterculture to The Way of Zen (1957), which was one of the most popular books on Buddhism. In Psychotherapy East and West (1961) the author argued that Buddhism could be seen as a type of psychotherapy. He considered Nature, Man and Woman (1958) to be "from the literary perspective--the most important book I have ever written He also explored the human mind and psychedelics in works like "The New Alchemy" (1958) and The Joyous Cosmology (1962).After Watts's death, his lectures found an audience through his regular broadcasts on radio stations of the public, especially in California and New York, and more recently on the internet via apps and sites like YouTube[5] or Spotify. The bulk of his recorded audio talks were recorded during the 1960s and 1970s.