I can't really comment on the pull towards a name change, it's not something I ever considered... or will ever, I don't think.
As for a symbol, I read Alan Watts' biography over the weekend, and he apparently always signed his correspondence with a circle, done with a single brush stroke, which kind of became his signature - his symbol.
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The circle represented sunyata or ku, roughly translated as "emptiness.”, which was a focal point in several of his talks. I was actually in tears in the end of the book when I read this.
It was such a contagious laughter...
As for a symbol, I read Alan Watts' biography over the weekend, and he apparently always signed his correspondence with a circle, done with a single brush stroke, which kind of became his signature - his symbol.
The circle represented sunyata or ku, roughly translated as "emptiness.”, which was a focal point in several of his talks. I was actually in tears in the end of the book when I read this.
Quote:As the news of Watts’s death was announced, messages poured into Druid Heights, and Jano and the Druid Heights community sent out a letter of reply with a circle drawn on it in Watts’s calligraphy and tamped with his Chinese seal. "Alan joins us,” it read, "in thanking you for your farewell message. Listen, and rejoice, as his laughter circles the universe.”
It was such a contagious laughter...
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