The California Institute of Integral Studies is a private graduate school in San Francisco. Founded in 1968 as the California Institute of Asian Studies, the school adopted its current name in 1980. C
The main campus building of CIIS (2020)
Sri aurobindo
Divine mother
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Alan Wilson Watts was a British and American writer, speaker, and self-styled "philosophical entertainer", known for interpreting and popularising Buddhist, Taoist, and Hindu philosophy for a Western
California Institute of Integral Studies
…Asian Studies, was inspired by the school's origins in the American Academy of Asian Studies (AAAS), founded 1951 by businessman Louis Gainsborough with Alan Watts an early participant. AAAS director Frederic Spiegelberg, a Stanford University professor and Aurobindo devotee, invited Indian philosophy professor…
Alan Watts delivering his address "Faith Beyond Belief" at the University of Vermont on 15 June 1958, just after receiving his honorary Doctor of Divinity
The Alan Watts Library in Druid Heights, where some of Watts' ashes were buried