Ep. 13 – Psychology of Mystical Experience
Alan Watts Being in the Way
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Is There a Conflict Between Pleasure and Pain?
Some people will describe a pain as a cold sting, and others will describe it as a hot pang. Svery, very cold is pain, and very, very hot is pain. And then when you get into other weird extremes of human experience, ecstasy, think of absolute pleasure, so that there is a domain where pleasure and pain reach each other. So therefore, i am very, very suspicious about these accounts of religious experience. That experience and the experience of the upanishads, tat vamasi urit whether there are not two different forms of the same thing described in different kinds of language.
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