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🗓️ 21 July 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the reality revolution. I'm your host Brian Scott. |
0:11.2 | It's been a while since we read Alan Watts. Reesley on an episode, I played some Alan Watts. |
0:18.0 | And in most cases, Alan Watts is the best version of Ellen Watts, but he had some |
0:23.0 | amazing writings and some stuff I'd love to read to you that is relevant to our discussion |
0:28.5 | of spirituality and our relationship with who we are. In this particular episode, I'm going to read a lecture or teaching that he has called |
0:41.7 | It. The idea is you are it. An understanding of what it is is the key to everything. |
0:53.7 | It by Alan Watts |
0:55.6 | Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself. |
1:05.0 | Other creatures may laugh and love, talk and think, but it seems to be the special peculiarity of human beings that they |
1:14.9 | reflect. They think about thinking and know that they know. This, like other feedback systems, |
1:24.5 | may lead to vicious circles and confusions if improperly managed, but self-awareness |
1:30.2 | makes human experience resonant. It imparts that simultaneous echo to all that we think |
1:37.1 | and feel as the box of a violin reverberates with the sound of the strings. It gives depth and volume to what would otherwise be shallow and |
1:48.2 | flat. Self-knowledge leads to wonder and wonder to curiosity and investigation so that nothing |
1:55.3 | interests people more than people. Even if only one's own person, every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him |
2:06.7 | tick, and yet is it once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most |
2:13.0 | difficult of all things to know. |
2:16.1 | For the human organism is apparently the most complex of all organisms. |
2:21.6 | And while one has the advantage of knowing one's own organism so intimately from the inside, |
2:27.7 | there's also the disadvantage of being so close to it that one can never quite get at it. |
2:33.6 | Nothing so eludes conscious inspection as consciousness |
2:37.1 | itself. This is why the root of consciousness has been called paradoxically the unconscious. |
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