Alan Watts
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 Alan Watts facts

• Born in Chislehurst, England, 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 Episcopal priest in 1945, then left the ministry in 1950 and moved to California, where he joined the faculty of the American Academy of Asian Studies
• 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 to The Way of Zen (1957), one of the first bestselling books on Buddhism
• In Psychotherapy East and West (1961), Watts proposed that Buddhism could be thought of as a form of psychotherapy and not a religion
• He considered Nature, Man and Woman (1958) to be, "from a literary point of view — the best book I have ever written
• " He also 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
• Many of his books are now available in digital format and many of his recorded talks and lectures are available on the Internet