alanbwt on Nostr: “Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. ...
“Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit—to the ‘conquest’ of nature instead of intelligent cooperation with nature.”
— Alan Watts, Does It Matter?
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