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Alan Watts, Iain McGilchrist, and Awakening, Part 4, Equating Attentions

Greetings, Friendlies. Shall we play a little What If? Hypothetically. We could then say that Watts’ mystic, an awakened being, is one who has become fully aware of, who dwells in, McGilchrist’s Right Hemisphere “context”, Right Hemisphere “view”. I mean… what if??? With friendliness!

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Alan Watts, Iain McGilchrist, and Awakening, Part 3, Watts’ “Mystic”

Greetings, Friendlies! In The Tao of Philosophy [1] Watts says, “People, who by various methods become fully aware of their floodlight consciousness, have what is called ‘a mystical experience,’ or what the Buddhists call bodhi, an awakening. …they discover that the real deep, deep self, that which you really are fundamentally and forever, is the […]