Alan Watts was a former Anglican priest turned scholar of Japanese Zen.
An icon of the 1960s counter-culture, Watts used to go around giving spontaneous and magical lectures at American college campuses, turning-on students to Eastern forms of reflection and meditation.
Here’s a short clip of Alan Watts being rather playful, talking about the yin-yang of “gooey prickles” and “prickly goo”—which was his way of also talking about “straights” and “hippies”—or conservatives and liberals:
Prometheus Unbound 