We suffer from a hallucination, from a false and distorted sensation of our own existence as living organisms. Most of us have the sensation that "I myself" is a seperate center of feeling and action, living inside and bounded by the physical body-a center which "confronts" an "external" world of people and things, making contact through the senses with a universe both alien and strange.


The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (ed. Vintage, 2011) - ISBN: 9780307807878

Alan Watts Quotes

We suffer from a hallucination, from a false and distorted sensation of our own existence as living organisms. Most of us have the sensation that I...

We suffer from a hallucination, from a false and distorted sensation of our own existence as living organisms. Most of us have the sensation that I...

We suffer from a hallucination, from a false and distorted sensation of our own existence as living organisms. Most of us have the sensation that I...

We suffer from a hallucination, from a false and distorted sensation of our own existence as living organisms. Most of us have the sensation that I...