Rare First Pressing ALAN WATTS Record "Haiku" Spoken Word LP "Way of Zen" Author
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Description
- First Trade Pressing -
"Haiku"
By ALAN WATTS
A first trade pressing (there's also a signed limited edition) of Alan Watts' record "Haiku". Record is in excellent condition with only one or two superficial paper scuffs, record jacket is a bit soiled and spotted with both top and bottom seams starting.
Artist: Alan Watts ?
Title: Haiku
Label: Musical Engineering Associates, MEA-LP1001
Genre: Non-Music
Style: Religious, Spoken Word, Monolog
Year: 1959
Tracklist: A Discussion Of Haiku And Its Relation To Zen Buddhism 22:57 Spring Haiku 3:58 Summer Haiku 5:09 Autumn Haiku 4:27 Winter Haiku 4:58
Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British philosopher, writer and speaker known for interpreting and popularising Buddhism, Taoism, and Hinduism for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, England, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York. He received a master's degree in theology from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary and became an Episcopal priest in 1945. He left the ministry in 1950 and moved to California, where he joined the faculty of the American Academy of Asian Studies.
Watts gained a following while working as a volunteer programmer at the KPFA radio station in Berkeley. He wrote more than 25 books and articles on religion and philosophy, introducing the emerging hippie counterculture to The Way of Zen (1957), one of the first bestselling books on Buddhism. In Psychotherapy East and West (1961), he argued that Buddhism could be thought of as a form of psychotherapy. He considered Nature, Man and Woman (1958) to be, "from a literary point of view—the best book I have ever written". He also explored human consciousness and psychedelics in works such as "The New Alchemy" (1958) and The Joyous Cosmology (1962).
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