Intersticial, Intermission, Inter-Mission, Intermezzo, Dreams… The Dream

… by Alan Watts

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*If you awaken from this illusion, And you understand that Black Implies White Self Implies Other Life Implies Death Or shall I say Death Implies Life

You can FEEL yourself, Not as a Stranger in the world, Not as something here on probation, Not as something that has arrived here by fluke…

But you can begin to feel your own existence… As absolutely fundamental.

What you are basically Deep deep down Far far in

Is simply THE FABRIC AND STRUCTURE OF EXISTENCE ITSELF

So, say, In Hindu Mythology They say that The World Is The Drama Of God

God is not something In Hindu Mythology With a white beard That sits on the throne and has royal perrogatives

God in Indian mythology Is the Self Satcitananda Which means Sat that which is Cit that which is consciousness That which is Ananda Which is Bliss

Which means that what exists Reality itself Is GORGEOUS It is the plenum, the fullness Of total joy

Woweee And all those stars If you look out in the sky Is a fireworks display like you see on the Fourth Of July Which is a great occasion for celebration The Universe is a Celebration It is a fireworks show To celebrate that Existence Is

And then they say But however, There is no point just in sustaining bliss

Let's suppose that you were able, every night, to dream any dream that you wanted to dream.

And that you could, for example, have the power, within one night, to dream 75 years of time. Or any length of time you wanted to have.

And you would, naturally as you began on this adventure of dreams, you would fulfill all your wishes.

You would have every kind of pleasure you could conceive. And after several nights of 75 years of total pleasure each, you would say "Well, that was pretty great."

But now let's have a surprise. Let's have a dream which isn't under control. Where something is going to happen to me but I don't know what it's going to be.

And you would dig that and come out of that and say "Wow, that was a close shave, wasn't it?" ****And then you would get more and more adventurous, and you would make further and further out gambles as to what you would dream.

And finally, you would dream ... where you are now. You would dream the dream of living the life that you are actually living today.”

That would be within the infinite multiplicity of the choices you would have. Of playing that you weren't God. Because the whole nature of the godhead, according to this idea, is to play that he's not. The first thing that he says to himself is ‘Man, get lost,’ because he gives himself away. The nature of love is self-abandonment, not clinging to oneself. Throwing yourself out, for instance as in basketball; you're always getting rid of the ball. You say to the other fellow ‘Have a ball.’ See? And that keeps things moving. That's the nature of life.

So in this idea, then, everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality. Not God in a politically kingly sense, but God **in the sense of being the self, the deep-down basic whatever there is.

And you're all that**, only you're pretending you're not.*

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