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Ep. 13 – Psychology of Mystical Experience

Alan Watts Being in the Way

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The Secret of Mysticism

There is a total blank same kind of total, blank nothingness as that out of which i came into this world. And then i look around me at night into the universe. I see these vivid, real, energetic points of fire scattered all over the sky,. in the middle of black nothingness. Now, how would the stars look if there were no space? How would space lookif there were no stars? You see, the two go together. The buddhist sutra says, shiki so kuse ku ku sokuse shiki, which means, that which is form, that exactly is voidness, thatwhich isvoidness, that exactly are form

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