Zen Effects
eBook - ePub

Zen Effects

The Life of Alan Watts

  1. 264 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Zen Effects

The Life of Alan Watts

About this book

The first and only full-length biography of one of
the most charismatic spiritual innovators of the twentieth century.

Through his widely popular books and lectures, Alan Watts (1915-1973) did more to introduce Eastern philosophy and religion to Western minds than any figure before or since. Watts touched the lives of many. He was a renegade Zen teacher, an Anglican priest, a lecturer, an academic, an entertainer, a leader of the San Francisco renaissance, and the author of more than thirty books, including The Way of Zen, Psychotherapy East and West and The Spirit of Zen.

Monica Furlong followed Watts's travels from his birthplace in England to the San Francisco Bay Area where he ultimately settled, conducting in-depth interviews with his family, colleagues, and intimate friends, to provide an analysis of the intellectual, cultural, and deeply personal influences behind this truly extraordinary life.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Contents
  4. Foreword to the SkyLight Lives Edition
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction
  7. 1. The Paradise Garden, 1915–1920
  8. 2. The Education of a Brahmin, 1920–1932
  9. 3. Christmas Zen, 1932–1938
  10. 4. The Towers of Manhattan, 1938–1941
  11. 5. Colored Christian, 1941–1947
  12. 6. Correspondence, 1947–1950
  13. 7. A Priest Inhibited, 1950–1951
  14. 8. The Wisdom of Insecurity, 1951–1960
  15. 9. Counterculture, 1960–1968
  16. 10. The Home Behind Home, 1969–1973
  17. Notes
  18. Books by Alan Watts
  19. Index
  20. About the Author
  21. Copyright
  22. Also Available
  23. About SkyLight Paths
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