Alan Watts: Tao of Philosophy- Man and Nature

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This is an excerpt pulled from a 5 Cd set of Alan Watts Audio Collection.
1 Slices of Wisdom/ Images of God
2 Coincidence of Opposites/ Seeing thru the Net
3 Who am I?/ Myth of Myself
4 Man and Nature
5 Limits of Language

Alan Watts: Tao of Philosophy- Man and NatureIn my talk last night,I was discussing the disparity between the way in which most human beings experience their own existence. And the way mans being and nature is described in the sciences . I was finding out that in sub sciences as ecology and biology ecology for an example is describes and studies the relationship between all organisms and their environment .the way in which they described human , animal and insect behavior is in flat contradiction with the way in which most of us experience our thinking and our action and our existence. we have been brought up to experience ourselves as isolated centers of awareness and action, placed in a world that is not us,that is foreign, alien other ,which we confront .where as in fact the way an ecologist describes human behavior is as an action what you do is what the whole universe is doing,at the place you call here and now. You are something the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing. This is not what you might call a fatalistic or deterministic idea,you see you might be a fatalist if you think that you are a sort of puppet which life pushes around. Your separate from life but life dominates you.Thats fatalist. But in the point of view I 'm expressing,the real you is not a puppet which life pushes around,the real deep down you is the whole universe !http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xALE3v_6Kts

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