Ep. 8 – Man and Nature
Alan Watts Being in the Way
The Real You Is Not a Puppet Which Life Pushes Around
i was discussing the disparity between the way in which most human beings experience their own existence and the way man's being and nature is described in the sciences. We have been brought up to experience ourselves as isolated centres of awareness and action, placed in a world that is not us. What you do is what the whole universe is doing at the place you call here. And now you are something the entire universe is doing - like a wave or an ocean. This is not what you might call a fatalistic or deterministic idea. You see, you may be a fatalist if you think that you are a sort of puppet which life pushes around. That's fatalism. But i am expressing
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