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Ep. 12 – Cosmic Drama

Alan Watts Being in the Way

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The Ultimate Development of Tool Making

We want to over specialize in the individual point of identity at the expense of our relationship with the environment, our relationship with others. And so ihave meditated about this for a long time. I think this, in reflective self, is basically a stress adaptation to something we do as tool makers and a sort of the ultimate psychological tool that we have developed as human beings enables us to do amazing things. No deer would ever build a submarine, much less get into it or wage warfare from it. It's just something that no other species would even contemplate.

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