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Alan Watts Lectures

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The Best Tricks of the World

When you get it, you think, Oh for heaven's sakes, why didn't I say it? And so that's very much like being enlightened. So therefore we are most of us in a state of hypnosis. Induced by the incantation of language, the enchantment, the spellbinding. But if somebody explains it to you, you don't get the same laugh as if you saw it right off. You get a throat laugh instead of a belly laugh. That's why people are reluctant to explain too much about it. Rather use the method whereby you will see it for yourself and then laugh. What is the cosmic equivalent?

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