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Ep. 13 – Psychology of Mystical Experience

Alan Watts Being in the Way

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The Something and the Nothing Are Two Sides of the Same Coin

Something and nothing are two sides of the same coin. We know life in comparison with death. We know pleasure in comparison t pain, up in comparison with down. But you will notice that they must come into being together. You don't have first something and then nothing, or first nothing and then something. In this sense, the positive and the negative, the something and the nothing, are inseparable. They go together.

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