
Alan Watts Philosophy Lecture
Alan Watts Lectures
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The Push Pull Between Organism and Environment
When we are not aware of ourselves except in a symbolic way, we are not related to ourselves at all. Your real self is the universe as centered on your organism. What you do is also a doing of your environment. Your behavior is its behavior as much as its behavior is your behavior. It is mutual. We could say it is transactional. You are not a puppet which your environment pushes around nor is the environment a puppet which you push around. They act together in the same way for example. When you handle the steering wheel of a car, are you pulling it or are you pushing it? No, you are doing both, aren't you? when you pull it down this
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