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Ep. 24 – Myth of Myself
Alan Watts Being in the Way
The Strange Feeling of Being an Isolated Self
In our whole way of thinking the idea that we are a soul, a spiritual essence of some kind, imprisoned inside a body. This sets up a fundamental sensation of hostility and estrangement between ourselves and the so-called external world. And therefore we go on to talk about the conquest of nature, the conquest of space, and view ourselves in a kind of battle array towards the world outside us. I shall have much more to say about that in the second lecture. But in the first now I want to examine the strange feeling of being an isolated self.
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