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Ep. 13 – Psychology of Mystical Experience

Alan Watts Being in the Way

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Is There a Cigar in My Right Hand?

I would say, not ex nihilo nihifit out of nothing comes nothingbut i would say, you can't have something without nothing. For how do we basically begin to think about the difference between something and nothing? I can say, there is a cigar in my right hand, and there is no cigar in my left hand. And so we get the idea of is here and isn't, or empty here. But behind that, of course, lies the farmore obvious contrast of solid and space. Now we tend to think of space as nothing. When we talk about the conquest of space, there's a little element notice of hostility in that phrase. But actually we

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