I enjoy your podcast each week very much. But the Alan Watts Podcast was the best.

Thank you for your contribution in wellness for body and soul!!

Klaus from Germany

This show was awesome. Can I please have the play list ? I want to purchase some music!

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“If I may start by insulting your intelligence with what is called the most elementary lesson, the thing that we should have learned before we learned 123 and A-B-C but was somehow overlooked. This lesson is quite simply this:
Any experience that we have through our senses, whether of sound, or of light, or of touch, is a vibration and a vibration has two aspects, one called on and the other called off. Vibration seems to be propagated in waves. And every wave system has crests and it has troughs and so life is a system of now you see it now you don’t. And these two aspects always go together, for example sound is not pure sound, it is a rapid alternation of sound and silence, and that’s simply the way things are. Only, you must remember, that the crest and the trough of a wave are inseparable. Nobody ever saw crests without troughs or troughs without crests, just as you don’t encounter in life people with fronts but no backs; just as you don’t encounter a coin that has a heads but no tails. And although the heads and the tails, the fronts and the backs, the positives and the negatives, are different, they are at the same time one, and one has to get used, fundamentally, to the notion that different things can be inseparable. That what is explicitly 2 can at the same time be implicitly 1.”

His analogy to a physical system is poor unfortunately. Crests and troughs of waves are separable.. mathematically and physically. Sound is not a rapid alternation of on and off.. its a variation of high and low pressure which is to say your ear is constantly vibrating.

I completely agree with his end point, but it requires a little more thought to make his point solid to everyone as opposed to just those that don’t study mathematics or physics (most everyone.)

“That what is explicitly 2 can at the same time by implicitly 1″ — wow! profound in an austere physical and mathematical veritas.. something that I believe transcends my subjects of studies and embodies our life as well.

Cheers Dave, thanks for the great show.