Alan Watts: podcast appearances and interviews

Alan Watts was a British and American writer, speaker, and self-styled philosophical entertainer known for interpreting and popularising Buddhist, Taoist, and Hindu philosophy for a Western audience. He gained recognition while working as a volunteer programmer at the KPFA radio station in Berkeley, California. Watts authored more than 25 books and articles on religion and philosophy, notably introducing the Beat Generation and the emerging counterculture to his book The Way of Zen, published in 1957. This book was among the first bestsellers on Buddhism. In his work Psychotherapy East and West, published in 1961, Watts argued that psychotherapy could serve as the West's path to liberation if it moved beyond dualism. He considered his book Nature, Man and Woman, published in 1958, to be his best work. Watts also explored themes relating to human consciousness and psychedelics in publications such as The New Alchemy and The Joyous Cosmology. His lectures continued to be popular after his death, especially through broadcasts on public radio in California and New York, and they gained new audiences following the rise of the internet.