Ep. 40 – Nature of Consciousness

Help us celebrate 10 years of Be Here Now Network and support the next chapter of Ram Dass Here and Now. Gifts are matched dollar for dollar through June 30. Learn more and give at https://beherenownetwork.com/10years. Dismantling the illusion of separation, Alan Watts shares how recognizing our fundamental unity with the universe transforms the way we live, perceive, and prepare for death. This week on Being in the Way, Alan Watts lectures on: - Playing hide and seek with our true selves - How your body knows that you are one with the universe - Seeing things versus noticing things - The yoga of preparing for death - The partial view that the ego keeps us trapped in - The continuous energy of our bodies - Dissolving the distinction between voluntary and involuntary behavior - The transaction between the individual and the world This series is brought to you by the Alan Watts Organization and Ram Dass’ Love Serve Remember Foundation. “Doesn’t it really astonish you that you are this fantastically complex thing and that you’re doing all of this and you never had any education in how to do it? You never learned, but you’re this miracle. From a strictly physical, scientific standpoint, this organism is a continuous energy with everything else that’s going on. If I am my foot, I am the sun. Only, we’ve got this little partial view. We’ve got the idea that ‘I’m just something in this body’, the ego, that’s a joke.” –Alan Watts