00:00:00 Intro and Welcome
00:02:35 Early Life and Spiritual Curiosity
00:14:53 Zen Training, Marriage, and Ministry
00:28:19 California and the Zen Boom
00:44:33 “Philosophical Entertainer”
01:01:05 Later Years, Death, and Legacy
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Sources and Further Reading:
Watts, Alan (1947). Behold the Spirit: A Study in the Necessity of Mystical Religion.
Watts, Alan (1957). The Way of Zen.
Watts, Alan (1958). Nature, Man and Woman.
Watts, Alan (1962). The Joyous Cosmology.
Watts, Alan (1966). The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are.
Watts, Alan (1972). In My Own Way: An Autobiography 1915–1965.
Watts, Alan (1975). Tao: The Watercourse Way (completed by Chungliang Al Huang).
Watts, Alan (2017). The Collected Letters of Alan Watts (Joan Watts & Anne Watts, eds.).
Furlong, Monica (1986). Zen Effects: The Life of Alan Watts.
Chadwick, David (1999). Crooked Cucumber: The Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki.
Information sourced from Wiki, Gutenburg, JSTOR, primary and secondary sources. All information is congruent with archaeological and history evidence at the time of recording.
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