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Ep. 21 – Joyous Cosmology

Alan Watts Being in the Way

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Is There a Reality in the World?

It was not a conviction that I would have eternal life, but a consciousness that I possessed eternal life then. So you see that the version of the world which I could construct or imagine out of fantasy is also very akin to things which people have experienced. No matter how deep we go, it's all an adventure. It's all scaring ourselves. You know, just children love to scare themselves. Hide themselves in a dark room with a door shut and experience the fight. Or I remember, you know, the nasty sensation you get with a plaster wall on a cold day, running your fingernails up it. The vision lasted a few seconds and was gone. But the memory of

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