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Ep. 22 - Out of the Trap Pt. 1

Alan Watts Being in the Way

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The Myth of the King

Western man has felt that he is in this universe on probation on sufferance. He doesn't quite belong here because there's this great big giant spirit who say to him, you're just a miserable little worm and I evoked you here out of nothing. So then this model of the world based on the idea that we are all subjects of the divine king was very important for us. It lies at the roots of many of our best ideas of justice but it really bugged us because you were never never free from the penetrating glance of an all-seeing eye that watched everything you do.

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