Introduction:

A Weekly Serialisation of 'Shaman - The Life And Mind Of Alan Watts,Trickster Guru'.

Ten years ago, I tried to write a novel about my intellectual hero, the English-born mystic and theologian Alan Watts. I couldn’t make it work, so I wrote a biography of Watts instead, a 120,000 word monster that occupied me obsessively.

The publishers hated it.

So that went into the back of the drawer and I tried again with the novel. This time it work…