Alan Watts (1915-1973) is one of the most amazing and controversial figures of thought called counterculture. Of great influence on the convulses United States of the sixties, Alan Watts was also an eminent specialist in East Philosophy. He was one of the first to translate the oriental wisdom into the language of our time, through a critique of everyday life that charges more and more present.
Mystic, poet and fervent ecologist, Alan Watts was a philosopher for whom the existence and sense of humor could never separate. Proof of the ability of him to take humor The most important issues was his response when asked why he was vegetarian: "Because cows shout more than carrots."