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Ep. 2 – Dropping Out From Karma

Alan Watts Being in the Way

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I've a Total Block to Reading Music

i had a pestiferous teacher who was a mistress in this private hool i went to in england. And she used to sit beside you and hitch your fingers with a pencil every time you made a wrong note. I gregory bateson, i think, was taught piano as a child in such a way, and he has a total block on reading musice. He's got a brilliant mind. You know, he's a mathematician and great anthropologist, ethnologes and so on, but he has atotal block to reading music. It is the same thing involved in making a very complex trill. Just dropped his hand on the piano, and at the

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