Our difficulty is that human consciousness has not adjusted… - Alan Watts

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Our difficulty is that human consciousness has not adjusted itself to a relational and integrated view of nature. We must see that consciousness is neither an isolated soul nor the mere function of a single nervous system, but of that totality of interrelated stars and galaxies which makes a nervous system possible.

Alan Watts

Nature, Man and Woman · February 27, 1991 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was an English philosopher, writer, speaker, and expert in comparative religion.

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