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Ep. 9 – Inevitable Ecstasy
Alan Watts Being in the Way
What Is an Ego?
An ego is not the same thing as a particular living organism. For my philosophy, the particular living organism which is inseparable from a particular environment is something real. I call it a feature of the universe but what we call our ego is something abstract. It has the same order and kind of reality as an hour or an inch, or a pound, or a line of longitude. In other words, it is a social convention that we have what is called an ego. But the fallacy that all of us make is that we treat it as if it were a physical organ,. As if it were real in that sense, when in fact, it is posed on the one hand of our
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