Ep. 13 – Psychology of Mystical Experience
Alan Watts Being in the Way
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The Ear Drum Is the Alteration of Existence and Non Existence
If you had this part alone, the up part, that would not excite your senses in any way, because there would be no contrast. So as to have anything standing out, there must be something standing down or standing back. In other words, when sound comes upon your ear, the ear drum vibrates. And so the same thing is true of all life together. We shouldn't really contrast existence with non existence. Because actually, existence is the alternation of to be and not to be, of positive and negative, of on and of.
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