Head Of Nature (Alan Watts) Video (MV)

See, this idea is unfamiliar.
That's the difficulty of understanding.
That's all.
It's a very simple idea,
But it's an unfamiliar one
And it's an unfashionable one
Although, as I say,
This sort of thinking is coming back to us at this time
One gets the perfectly uncanny feeling
Of the world and oneself as simply
Two phases of the simple process
But when you get this kind of thinking
You want to go back and ask,
Why do people want to believe that man is irrelevant

When you hear today
People's comments on that old myth of man as the head of nature
They come back in a
Very funny way
They say
Oh, that's the most conceited point of view
Man is part of nature
Yes, but why is it that the naturalists
Who think that man is part of nature are always fighting nature
Because they don't understand
What it means to be the head of nature
Every creature is the head of nature in its turn
And we all take turns because it's taking turns
That makes the world go round

Every creature in its turn is the head of nature
Because each creature creates the world in its own image
Because all existence is a relationship
It's like the skin of the drum
If it's not there it will know no amount of hitting a non-existent skin will produce
So you see energy
Is we can see this energy is relationship
We can see the falling fist and the skin of the drum boing like tha
And If there isn't both the falling fist
And the skin, no noise, no existence.
But existence is not only the impact of rocks upon each other
It existence requires always as its third you can get the rocks knocking
The sun and the moisture
The Tree Crashing to the ground
The sun pouring out electrical energy
But none of these things constitute existence until related with the neurological complex
Then you have to look backwards and say, at the same time
The neurological complex belongs to the same world as the sun
It's a physical pattern, physical behavior, physical energy
But it takes this complexity of pattern to evoke the world and