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Alan Watts - Who is it who knows there is no ego

Alan Watts Lectures

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In the real universe, there are no things at all. A thing is a think - almost the same word as an inch or a pound. In German, you've got ding, thing, denken, to think, in Latin, raised, thing, rayor to think. So when we reify, that means to thingify. And A and Whitehead used to talk about the fallacy of misplaced concretion. But it's easy to understand this, although it's a little bit of a shock to our common sense.

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