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Me and Alan Watts - From 'New Statesman' 1999

Alan Watts in 1966

I am about to confess a shameful secret. Despite being a fervent rationalist, I possess, and in fact treasure, a fair number of books that feature flying doves, setting suns and luminescent clouds on their covers, published by the new-age publisher Arkana.

The fact that all of these books are by the same author, the half-forgotten Alan …