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[Alan Watts:] If you awaken from this illusion

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and you understand that black implies white

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self implies other

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life implies death

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or shall I say death implies life

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you can feel yourself.

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Not as a stranger in the world.

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Not as something here on probation.

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Not as something that has arrived here by fluke.

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But you can begin to feel your own existence

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as absolutely fundamental.

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I'm not trying to sell you on this idea

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in the sense of converting you to it.

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I want you to play with it.

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I want you to think of its possiblities.

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I'm not trying to prove it

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I'm just putting it forward as a possibility of life to think about

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So then...

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Let's suppose that you were able every night,

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to dream any dream you wanted to dream.

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And that you could for example have the power

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within one night to dream seventy five years of time.

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Or any length of time you wanted to have.

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And you would naturally, as you began on this adventure of dreams,

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you would fulfill all your wishes.

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You would have every kind of pleasure.

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And after several nights

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of seventy five years of total pleasure each,

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you would say "Well that was pretty great!"

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"But now let's - let's have a surprise".

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"Let's have a dream which isn't under control".

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"Where something is going to happen to me

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but I don't what it's going to be."

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And you would dig that

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And come out of that you'd say

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"Wow that was a close shave wasn't it?"

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Then you would get more and more adventurous

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and you would make further and further gambles

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to what you would dream.

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Finally you would dream where you are now.

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You would dream the dream of living the life

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that you are actually living today.

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That would be within the infinite multiplicity

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of choices that you would have.

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Of playing that you weren't God.

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Because the whole nature of the God in you

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according to this idea, is to play that he's not.

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So in this idea then, everybody is fundamentally

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the ultimate reality, not God in a politically kingly sense,

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but God in the sense of being the self.

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The deep down basics, whatever there is.

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And you're all that.

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Only your pretending your not.

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