Alan Watts

 Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 16 January 1915 - 16 November 1973) was an English speaker, writer and self-described "philosophical entertainer",known for his interpretation of and popularizing Japanese, Chinese and Indian traditions of Buddhist, Taoist, and Hindu philosophy to the Western public. Watts was born in Chislehurst in England and relocated to New York in 1938 to start his Zen training. He graduated with a master's degree in theology at Seabury Western Theological Seminary. He was ordained as an Episcopal priest in the year 45. In 1950, he resigned from the ministry and moved to California and joined the American Academy of Asian Studies faculty. He also worked as a program manager for a group of volunteers at KPFA Radio Station in Berkeley. He wrote more than 25 books, articles and books on the subject of religion and philosophy. He introduced the hippie counterculture to The Way of Zen (1957) and later was a best-selling work on Buddhism. He made the argument in Psychotherapy East and West (1961) that Buddhism can be considered to be the basis of psychotherapy. He regarded Nature, Man and Woman (1958) to be "from a literary point of view--the best book I've ever written". He also explored the human condition.