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

This series is brought to you by the Alan Watts Organization and Ram Dass’ Love Serve Remember Foundation. Visit Alanwatts.org for full talks from Alan Watts.

“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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Moving beyond the imagined boundary of form, Alan Watts explores the idea that humanity is a microcosm of the universe and that the two are inseparable.

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This time on Being in the Way, Alan Watts discusses:

• Considering whether being part of a whole means that we are the whole
• The radial structure of humanity, Earth, and all beings
• Recognizing that skin is not the boundary of man
• How foreign the inner workings of the human body seem to humanness
• The nature of the mind, likened to the nature of space
• The illusion of an individual operating from himself
• Blending together materialism and mysticism, not getting too stuck in one or the other

This series is brought to you by the Alan Watts Organization and Ram Dass’ Love Serve Remember Foundation. Visit Alanwatts.org for full talks from Alan Watts.

“Any other way of looking at things is kind of schizoid. It looks at human beings as if they arrived in this world like a bunch of birds on the branches of a barren tree. They just got settled there, they don’t belong, a sense of being strangers and pilgrims from another domain altogether. Well, where is this other domain, and how does it relate to this one?” –Alan Watts

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Alan Watts explores the inseparable dance between structure and formlessness, revealing why the universe can never be fully captured by words alone.

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This time on Being in the Way, Alan Watts outlines:

• Two distinct schools of thought: those who focus on structure, and those who focus on what Watts calls ‘goo’
• How fixating on practicality is like knowing all the words to a song without ever truly hearing the music
• The difference between a scientific perspective and a spiritual perspective
• Why structure and formlessness are inseparable aspects of the same cosmic process
• Understanding that the universe cannot be explained with words alone

This series is brought to you by the Alan Watts Organization and Ram Dass’ Love Serve Remember Foundation. Visit Alanwatts.org for full talks from Alan Watts.

"What is it? What is this universe? What is an atom? What is energy? The only answer that would really please me wouldn't be an ordinary answer, because it wouldn't be in words." –Alan Watts

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