In this new, technological age, Alan Watts explains how seeing reality via only one perspective can lead to a fragmented view of the world; instead, he encourages listeners to adopt both the analytical and the organic. 

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In this episode, Alan Watts dives into:
- Living in an age of technology in a culture obsessed with rational control 
- How someone can easily be obstructed by their own cautiousness
- The problem of human ecology and how one should best relate to their environment
- Considering what our idea of heaven is and what desires we truly want 
- The western model of the universe (intellectual, architectural, mechanical) 
- Reductive thinking: seeing  the world through a net and making everything into a comprehensible, geometrical unit
- Alan’s personal definitions of prickly people versus gooey people 
- The science of medicine and how it can make one see things very narrowly 
- The fundamental difference between a mechanism and an organism 
- How understanding the world through only conscious attention can lead to seeing everything as parts rather than the whole picture
- Combining the academic, analytical mind with the organic, ‘gooey’ mind 

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“Go to the science of medicine. You get a specialist who really understands the function of the gall bladder. He studied gall bladders ad infinitum and he really thinks he knows all about it. But, whenever he looks at a human being, he sees them in terms of gall bladder.” – Alan Watts

Alan Watts: Seeing through The Net | Being in the Way Podcast Ep. 36

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