[Script Info] Title: [Events] Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.06,0:00:10.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[music plays] Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.60,0:00:15.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Alan Watts:] If you awaken from this illusion Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.82,0:00:20.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you understand that black implies white Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.50,0:00:22.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,self implies other Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.62,0:00:27.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,life implies death Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.14,0:00:30.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or shall I say death implies life Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.46,0:00:38.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can feel yourself. Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.78,0:00:41.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not as a stranger in the world. Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.54,0:00:44.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not as something here on probation. Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.86,0:00:49.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not as something that has arrived here by fluke. Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.86,0:00:52.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you can begin to feel your own existence Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.86,0:00:55.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as absolutely fundamental. Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.60,0:00:57.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[music plays] Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.94,0:01:00.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not trying to sell you on this idea Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.22,0:01:02.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the sense of converting you to it. Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.67,0:01:04.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want you to play with it. Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.69,0:01:06.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want you to think of its possiblities. Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.38,0:01:08.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not trying to prove it Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.06,0:01:13.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm just putting it forward as a possibility of life to think about Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.46,0:01:14.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So then... Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.94,0:01:17.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's suppose that you were able every night, Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.38,0:01:20.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to dream any dream you wanted to dream. Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.73,0:01:25.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that you could for example have the power Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.61,0:01:30.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,within one night to dream seventy five years of time. Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.28,0:01:34.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or any length of time you wanted to have. Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.36,0:01:37.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you would naturally, as you began on this adventure of dreams, Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.45,0:01:40.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you would fulfill all your wishes. Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.53,0:01:46.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You would have every kind of pleasure. Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.65,0:01:50.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And after several nights Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.50,0:01:53.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of seventy five years of total pleasure each, Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.56,0:01:56.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you would say "Well that was pretty great!" Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.25,0:01:59.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"But now let's - let's have a surprise". Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.42,0:02:03.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Let's have a dream which isn't under control". Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.50,0:02:06.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Where something is going to happen to me Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.04,0:02:08.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I don't what it's going to be." Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.21,0:02:10.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[music plays] Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.08,0:02:12.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you would dig that Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.78,0:02:14.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And come out of that you'd say Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.24,0:02:18.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Wow that was a close shave wasn't it?" Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.34,0:02:21.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then you would get more and more adventurous Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.30,0:02:24.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you would make further and further gambles Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.10,0:02:25.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to what you would dream. Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.86,0:02:30.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Finally you would dream where you are now. Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.82,0:02:33.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You would dream the dream of living the life Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.33,0:02:36.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you are actually living today. Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.73,0:02:40.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That would be within the infinite multiplicity Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.19,0:02:42.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of choices that you would have. Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.17,0:02:47.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of playing that you weren't God. Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.05,0:02:51.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because the whole nature of the God in you Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.26,0:02:54.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,according to this idea, is to play that he's not. Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.38,0:02:58.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So in this idea then, everybody is fundamentally Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.10,0:03:03.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the ultimate reality, not God in a politically kingly sense, Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.90,0:03:08.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but God in the sense of being the self. Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.34,0:03:11.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The deep down basics, whatever there is. Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.65,0:03:14.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you're all that. Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.07,0:03:17.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Only your pretending your not. Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.06,0:03:22.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[music plays]