In a lecture on symbolic reality versus real reality, Alan Watts explains the importance of total sensory awareness and looking at our motivations.
"Symbolic Reality vs. Real Reality" is part of Flow, a three-part session in the TAO for NOW series of talks that you can listen to in full over at the Alan Watts Streaming Channel
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This time on Being in the Way, Alan Watts discusses:
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“The point is to be wide, wide awake and aware of your total sensory input without confusing it with the symbolic world of words and concepts so that you experience life naked and directly. Experience YOU naked and directly, without having in your head the concept of who you are a a role player, as a personality, as an ego.” – Alan Watts
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Ep. 29 – Philosophy of the Tao
Ep. 28 – Limits of Language
Ep. 27 – Love Of Waters
Ep. 26 – Relevance of Eastern Philosophy
Ep. 25 – Religion and Sexuality
Ep. 24 – Myth of Myself
Ep. 23 – Out of the Trap Pt. 2
Ep. 22 - Out of the Trap Pt. 1
Ep. 21 – Joyous Cosmology
Ep. 20 – Man is a Hoax
Ep. 19 – Improbable and Magical: A Tribute To G.K. Chesterton
Ep. 18 – The Unpreachable Religion
Ep. 17 – Learning the Human Game
Ep. 16 – A Coincidence of Opposites
Ep. 15 – Changes: The Houseboat Summit with Alan Watts, Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Synder, & Allen Cohen
Ep. 14 – Aesthetics and Mystical Vision
Ep. 13 – Psychology of Mystical Experience
Ep. 12 – Cosmic Drama
Ep. 11 – Essential Teachings from the Gita w/ Ram Dass & Alan Watts
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