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Ep. 23 – Out of the Trap Pt. 2

Alan Watts Being in the Way

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The Complexity of Intelligence

We live in a highly intelligent environment. Intelligence you see is really a kind of complex behavior. Man is something nature is doing, and is not a stranger as these two great myths have made us believe. So it's the physical facts of the matter are not that we are confronted with. With a world that cares nothing for us and that has nothing in common with our kind and style of intelligence. It is rather the very opposite that the fact that we are intelligent is symptomatic of the intelligence of the world as a whole. But when under certain circumstances our consciousness becomes expanded as in mystical vision, you begin to become aware of things that you don't notice.

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