Ep. 40 – Nature of Consciousness
6/24/202629 min
Dismantling the illusion of separation, Alan Watts shares how recognizing our fundamental unity with the universe transforms the way we live, perceive, and prepare for death.
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This week on Being in the Way, Alan Watts lectures on:
- Playing hide and seek with our true selves
- How your body knows that you are one with the universe
- Seeing things versus noticing things
- The yoga of preparing for death
- The partial view that the ego keeps us trapped in
- The continuous energy of our bodies
- Dissolving the distinction between voluntary and involuntary behavior
- The transaction between the individual and the world
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“Doesn’t it really astonish you that you are this fantastically complex thing and that you’re doing all of this and you never had any education in how to do it? You never learned, but you’re this miracle. From a strictly physical, scientific standpoint, this organism is a continuous energy with everything else that’s going on. If I am my foot, I am the sun. Only, we’ve got this little partial view. We’ve got the idea that ‘I’m just something in this body’, the ego, that’s a joke.” –Alan Watts
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