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Alan Watts
Imagine growing up at a time when the ground beneath your feet is shifting, and every old certainty is suddenly up for debate. Alan Watts emerged from this world—a world that was searching, restless, and ready to question everything. The story of how he would become the West’s most influential interpreter of Zen and Daoism begins here, in the shadow of lost confidence.Britain, nineteen fifteen. Alan Watts was born into a society that no longer fully trusted its traditions. The old nineteenth-century faith in progress had been battered by war, shaken by the rise of psychology, and unsettled by…
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