Ep. 24 – Myth of Myself

Alan Watts Being in the Way

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Zen, Eastern Philosophy, Dao, Spirituality, Tao, Education, Society & Culture, Buddhism, Alan Watts, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Self-improvement, Taoism, Being In The Way

4.9 • 748 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This time on the Being in the Way Podcast, Alan Watts delves into questions of identity, purpose and buying into the ‘Myth of Myself’.

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In this episode, Alan Watts explores:

The question of our own identity and our place in the world
Myths of the self handed down through history
Viewing ourselves and the world with a “floodlight consciousness” – rather than the narrow “spotlight consciousness” we are taught to see the world through
How we are not born into this world, but grow out of it – “In the same way an apple tree apples, the Earth peoples.”

“The most fascinating problem in the world is who am I? What do you feel when you say the word I? I myself?

This problem has fascinated me for many years. Most Western people locate their ego inside their heads. This is the ordinary average conception of what is oneself.” – Alan Watts

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1:30.3	What do you think you are?
1:39.3	Supposing this world is a tree.
1:43.3	Are you leaves on its branches or are supposing this world is a tree.
1:51.1	Are you leaves on its branches, or are you a bunch of birds that settled on a dead old tree from somewhere else?
1:59.0	Welcome to Being in the Way, the Alan Watts podcast. I'm your host Mark Watts. And today we're going to be listening to a talk that was recorded in 1965 at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. This was a very amazing weekend. And we have heard the second talk from that weekend earlier in the podcast as man in nature. But this is
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