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Ep. 17 – Learning the Human Game

Alan Watts Being in the Way

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The Streuing of the Stars

In the 18th century there was a fashion for formal gardens where all the tulips formed falls. Trees were clipped in the art of topiary to resemble peacocks and sundials. All gardens were arranged on a symmetrical plan, but don't we recognize today from our aesthetic point of view that the scatter of stars is lovely? What would you think of the heavens where the stars were all arranged at even intervals in concentric circles?

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