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