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Ep. 4 – Our Place In The Universe

Alan Watts Being in the Way

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Is There Something in the External World?

If air vibrates and pulses but doesn't encounter an ear drum, there is no sound. That's the answer to the old problem of a tree falling in a forest. In other what's outside may be described in terms of electrical vibrations or quanta. But ar the point is that you, as a pattern of energy, which we call this physical body, you evoke the external world,. At the same moment, you are something in the external world.

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