Ep. 3 – In Your Own Way

Ep. 3 – In Your Own Way

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• Author: Alan Watts Being in the Way
• Full_Title: Ep. 3 – In Your Own Way
• Category: podcasts
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• Last Highlighted Date: 2024-01-09 00:31:33.541146+00:00

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• Episode AI notes
  1. Alan Watts returned to California in 1971 and began assembling his father’s essential lectures.
  2. A series of videos called ‘The Essentials’ was produced in 1972.
  3. Electronic college courses were created from seminar recordings in 1973.
  4. The speaker’s father expressed a desire to continue his work without his body.
  5. This podcast is made possible by a grant from the Rozuto Foundation.
  6. The podcast is produced with the help of the Ramdas Be Here Now Podcast Network.
  7. Arthem music is by Sackir Hussein, and the rhythm experience is courtesy of Moment Records.
  8. To learn more about the legacy of Allan Watts, visit allanwatts.org on the internet.
  9. Every creature regards itself as a human being and is aware of a hierarchy of beings above and below it.
  10. Even tiny creatures like fruit flies are aware of objects and animals that we don’t notice.
  11. Human beings are beyond the comprehension of small creatures.
  12. We have only a vague idea of distant objects in the heavens.
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• The Legacy of Alan Watts Summary: Alan Watts returned to California in 1971 and began assembling a collection of his essential lectures at his father’s suggestion. In 1972, a series of videos titled ’the essentials’ was produced, covering specific subjects like God, time, ego, death, nothingness, and meditation. By 1973, electronic college courses from recordings were also being assembled. After his father’s passing in 1973, his final wish was to continue his work without his body, which seems to have come true. The podcast was made possible by a grant from the Rozuto Foundation and is being produced with the help of the Ramdas Be Here Now podcast network. The music is by Sackir Hussein and the rhythm experience courtesy of Moment Records. To learn more about the legacy of Alan Watts, visit allanwatts.org. The podcast includes a talk by Alan Watts on ‘being in the way’, part one. Transcript: Speaker 2 In 19 71, i returned to california and, at my father’s suggestion, began to assemble what he bed as a collection of his essential lectures, which were released in 19 72. This time we also produced a series of vidios that we called the essentials, half our talks on specific subjects like god, time, ego, death, nothingness, meditation. And by 19 73, looking at the vast collection of seminars, i began to assemble what became electronic college coursesom recordings. When my father passed on in 19 73, his final words were, i wish i could figure out how to do all this without my body. And i think that he has. This podcast was made possible by a grant from the rozuto foundation, and is being produced with the help of the ramdas be here now podcast network. Arthem music is by sackir hussein, and the rhythm experience courtesy of moment records. And to find out more about the legacy of allan wats, please visit allan watts dot org on the innernet. And now, here’s my father with being in the way. Part one,
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• Hierarchy of consciousness in the universe Summary: Every conscious creature in the universe perceives itself as a human being with a sense of hierarchy above and below. Even tiny creatures like fruit flies have their own awareness and judgments about beings around them, while they perceive human beings as beyond their comprehension. This illustrates a hierarchy of consciousness and awareness present throughout the universe. Transcript: Speaker 1 Part one, one of the first things which everybody should understand is that every creature in the universe that is in any way sensitive and in any manner of speaking conscious, regards Itself as a human being. That is to say, it knows and is aware of a hierarchy of beings above it and a hierarchy of beings below it. If you take such a tiny creature as a fruit fly, which lives only a few days, it is aware of all sorts of weird little animals and objects and spores floating in the atmosphere, which we Don’t even notice unless we’ve got a microscope around, and very few people have. And it criticises them as being inferior animals ander all that sort of thing. Whereas human beings are things that it doesn’t comprehend, they are as much outside its er intellect as a quesa is outside ours. And we see these far off objects floating in the heavens, and we have only the vaguest idea of what may be.
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