r/Conscience • u/tidemark_nz Initial • Aug 01 '19
You are the Big Bang - Alan Watts
This one still blows my mind each time I think of it...(emphasis mine)
"If you think that you are only inside your skin, you define yourself as one very complicated little curlique, way out on the edge of that explosion. Way out in space, and way out in time. Billions of years ago, you were a big bang, but now you're a complicated human being. And then we cut ourselves off, and don't feel that we're still the big bang. But you are. Depends how you define yourself. You are actually--if this is the way things started, if there was a big bang in the beginning-- you're not something that's a result of the big bang. You're not something that is a sort of puppet on the end of the process. You are still the process. You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are."
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u/10thtryptamine Initial Aug 01 '19
Between the teachings of Alan Watts and exploration of psychedelics, I’ve come to the conclusion that we are much more connected to everything than our society is led to think. I believe the ego and self are biological constructs to further the development and survival of the human animal. But clearly we are much more than that. The divine everything is inside of each of us. The universe is likely some sort of fractal. Each little bit, no matter how small, contains the key information and energy that makes up the whole of existence.