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Ep. 9 – Inevitable Ecstasy

Alan Watts Being in the Way

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The Consciousness of Things

i went on to show that this contrast between the two views of the world has another marked characteristic, that in the case of the baby who hasn't been trained or told, doesn't distinguish between voluntary behaviour and involuntary occurrence. And of course, we think this is a very fundamental defect. But if we go back, you see, to a principle that underlies the whole universe with a kind of mathematical exactitude, we see that if we reduce things to the situation of primal simplicity,. there is absolutely no way of telling which one of them is moving or which one is still. They mustnecessarily appear to move mutually.

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