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Ep. 24 – Myth of Myself

Alan Watts Being in the Way

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The Complexity of Consciousness

Our normal sensation of ourselves, as isolated egos inside a bag of skin, is a hallucination. It's absolutely nutty. And you must be aware of these things. They are fashions in the intellectual world. On the other hand, if you feel warm-hearted towards the universe, you put it up instead of putting it down and you say about rocks. They're really conscious, but a very primitive form of consciousness. But both are equally conscious, but conscious in different degrees.

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