The Bizarre Life of Alan Watts (Documentary)
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Alan Watts, born in England and living most of his life in the United States was a writer, speaker and philosopher Watts was best known for making Japanese Chinese and Indian spiritual traditions in the form of Buddhism, Taoism and Hinduism, entertainingly accessible to wide and popular audience throughout the world. Alan Watts also played a pivotal and central role in the spiritual revolution that shook the religious status quo of the United States. During the 1960s. This change in the religious consciousness of the US brought to the American public ancient teachings from Hinduism Buddhism Sufism, esoteric Christianity and other mystical religious traditions. This spiritual revolution changed the United States in ways that are still felt today. Yoga, meditation, vegetarian diets, chanting non violent protests, therapies of all kinds, feminism, equal rights, herbal and alternative medicines and treatments and much, much more were all first introduced to Americans in the 1960s and were products of the spiritual revolution.