Who was Alan Watts?

I was so taken with that Alan Watts thing the other day, that I have been doing a little more research into who he was and what he was all about. I’m reading an essay called The Cross of Cards, which so far isnt that noteworthy, except for this quote that he says: “the living meaning of a symbol is what it means for each man personally. Therefore my interpretation of this particular symbol is not the result of research but my own intuition and has no claim to be the interpretation.” I really like the way he approaches stuff like this. Where he says, I don’t necessarily need to restrain myself to what traditional wisdom says, because I can find my own wisdom by applying myself to whatever it is I am looking at. That’s more or less what I’m after


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