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Ep. 14 – Aesthetics and Mystical Vision

Alan Watts Being in the Way

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The Mechanisms of Nature and the Mechanisms of the Mind

Werl: In the west, god is seen as a big boss who orders all things. He says people stopped believing in god around the eighteenth century and were left with memechanical consequence of commander in chief's operations. Werl: Now we all tend to regard ourselves and each other as machinery. And we want to make that machinery as predictable as possible.

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