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Jan 2024
23m 5s

Ep. 27 – Love Of Waters

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In celebration of the waters that bring life to all things, Alan Watts reflects on the separation between human civilization and the natural world.

This series is brought to you by the Alan Watts Organization and Ram Dass’ Love Serve Remember Foundation. Visit play.alanwatts.org for full talks from Alan Watts.

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In this unique and experimental recording, Alan Watts discusses:

  • The beauty of life on the waters in Sausalito, California
  • The rhythms of nature
  • Time and timelessness
  • The transformation of one form into another
  • The separation of man from the natural world
  • Objecting and Objectifying the world
  • Identity and being able to know knowing
  • The spacious environment of the ocean

“Although the rhythm of the waves beats a kind of time, it’s not clock or calendar time, it has no urgency. It’s timeless time, because I know I am listening to a rhythm which has been just the same for millions of years.” – Alan Watts



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