Fall in Love with Your Intelligence (feat. Alan Watts)

So you see, all I'm trying to say is that the basic common sense
about the nature of the world that is
influencing to most people in the United States today.
A fully automatic model, is simply a myth.
If you wanted to say that the idea of God the Father with a white
beard on a golden throne is a myth in
a bad sense of the word myth so is this.
It's just as fully and as just as little as
important as being a true state of the facts.
Why?
Let's get this clear,
If there is any such thing at all as intelligence, and love, beauty,
well, you found it in other people,
in other words it exists in us as human beings.
And as I said, if it is there, in us,
it is symptomatic of the scheme of things We are a symptomatic of the
scheme of things as the apple is a symptomatic
of the apple tree or the rose of the rose bush.
The earth is not a big rock infested with living
organisms any more than your skeleton is bones infested with cells.
The earth is geologically us but this geological entity grows people
and our existence on the earth is a symptom of the solar system and
it balances as much as the solar system in turn is a symptom of our
galaxy and our galaxy in its turn is a
symptom of the whole company of galaxies.
Goodness only knows what that is.
But you see, when as a scientist,
you describe the behaviour of a living
organism you try to say what a person does.
It is the only way in which you can describe what the person is,
describe what they do, then you find out,
that in making this description,
you cannot confine yourself to what happens inside the skin.
Now as you can't talk about a person
walking unless you start describing the floor.
Because when I walk,
I don't just dangle my legs in empty
space, I move in relationship to a room.
And so, in order to describe what I'm doing
when I'm walking, I have to describe the room.
I have to describe the derigory.
So in describing my talking at the moment.
I can't describe this just as a thing
in itself, Because I'm talking to you.
And so what I'm doing at the moment.
Is not completely described unless your being here is described, also.
So if that is necessary,
in other words if that is necessary to describe my behavior,
I have to describe your behavior and the behavior of the environment.
It means that we've really got one system of
behavior, that what I am, involves what you are.
I don't know who I am unless I know who you are.
And you don't know you are unless you know who i am.
as a wise rabbi once said, if i am i, because your are you,
and you are you because i am i then i am not i and you are not you.
In other words we are not separate.
We define each other, we are all backs and fronts to each other.
You know, you can't for example have two sticks,
you lean two sticks against each other and
they stand up, because they support each other.
Take one away and the other falls.
They interdepend.
And so in exactly that way,
we and our environment and all of us
and each other are interdependent systems.
We know who we are, in terms of other people.
We're all up together, and this is again and again,
the serious scientific description of how things happen,
and any good scientist knows, therefore,
that what you call the external
world is as much you as your own body.