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Insight and Ecstacy by Alan Watts

Alan Watts Lectures

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Ecstasy Is a Byproduct of the Intuition of Living in a Physical World Free of Most of the Thought Problems

Alan Watts: We identify ourselves to so large an extent with our thinking process we naturally come to feel that we to stand apart from life. It's not a kind of fatalistic situation because the feeling of fatalism is that one is the agent but one is being pushed around, he says. This disappearance and this loss of the sense of separation between the subject and the object could be called ecstasy according to Alan Watts. He says it involves release from the problem of oneself the lifting of a colossal burden from one's shoulders there may ensue ecstasy.

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