- First Pressing -

"WHY NOT NOW"

By ALAN WATTS 




A first pressing of Alan Watts' record "Why Not Now". Records in excellent condition with only one or two superficial paper scuffs, gatefold jacket is a bit soiled with "ring-wear' to front and back covers and top seam starting.
Artist: Alan Watts ‎
Title: Why Not Now - Dhyana, The Art Of Meditation
Label: Together Records ST-T2R-1025
Genre: Non-Music
Style: Monolog, Education, Religious, Spoken Word
Year: 1969
Tracklist:
The Beginning Of The Ending Of Thoughts The Silence Of Sounds You Two Can Be One Why Not Now
Note: Printed statement on front cover calls for 'a four-page brochure "Dhyana, the Art of Meditation," written by Alan Watts' but is not included.

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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