For Watts, the ideas he shared were not easy and did not resolve all the challenges of being human. Those who knew him did not find him without struggle, inner conflict or vice.

Yet, his attempts at understanding the spiritual essence are not without value. Perhaps it is not the exact accur...

British American philosopher Alan Watts was born in 1915.

He is known for translating and imparting Eastern philosophy to the Western world. He popularised Buddhist and Zen principles in the West and inspired the beat and hippie movements in the United States during the 60s and 70s, causing...

Watts found that the Western world was often obsessed with status, wealth, consumption and success. Yet, even when they achieved success, they still appeared to remain lost and disconnected from themselves, their fellow humans and nature.

Watts thought that the Western religious idea of an ...

Self-identification is mainly regarded as ego. As a result of our ego, we tend to feel as if we are detached from what we are observing. Therefore, if there is an I or Me observing, then my internal must be separate from my external. 

Watts refers to this as the sense that we are an ego in ...

Watts defined the term organism-environment not as an organism in an environment, but as an organism and an environment simultaneously.

We are also a feature of the whole, therefore we are the whole.

Watts was drawn further into Buddhism because there is a universal consciousness in Buddhism, where everything is interconnected and interdependent of a singular essence to life that follows its own nature with no boss.

Every object and person is just an expression of this universal nature...