Shaman - The Life and Mind of Alan Watts

Introduction to My Book on the Great Spiritual Teacher - Serialised Here.

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Ten years ago, I tried to write a novel about my intellectual hero, the English-born mystic and theolgian Alan Watts. I couldn’t make it work, so I wrote a biography of Watts instead, a 100,000 word monster that occupied me obsessively.

The publishers hated it.

So that went into the back o…