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Ep. 7 – Drugs: Turning the Head or Turning On

Alan Watts Being in the Way

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Is There a Hallucination?

If i experience that my own individual existence is completely continuous with the existence of everything else, that iam a part of nature, not merely a part, but an expression of the whole activity of the universe. Is that a hallucination? How am i to judge? The criteria by which we judge to day are the ideas of our scientists. And if i go to the iologist, the physicist, the chemist, i find out that his description of me as a human being fits better with this so called hallucination than does my normal state of consciousness. A biologist describes me as an organism environment, not an organism in an environment, but an organism hipen environment. You'll describe the

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