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Alan Watts Lectures
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What's the Difference Between Prickly and Gooey?
In medieval times, on the side of goo, we had people who were then called realists. And mystics and idealists in the Berkeley and Zenz are examples of gooey people. When you examine any substance closely, you find structure; when your lens gets out of focus, you find substance or goo. So it is all homogeneous, like a modernized milk. Depending on the level of magnification with which you look at life, you see prickles, or structure, and goo, or stuff. But don't get taken in by being too prickly. People who ought not to be so prickly, because they're dealing with things in which there
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