so as you become aware of this you'll
see the same thing that you notice in
music namely that it is only as a result
of hearing the interval between tones
that you hear any melody if you don't
hear the interval you're tone-deaf and
all notes are the same noise all you
hear is rhythm you don't hear any melody
you've got to hear the interval so then
watch the intervals between people the
things that aren't said the things that
are tacit the things that are implicit
rather than explicit in all life and
then you begin to get connected now it's
very important to have a connection in
life and to be in the know and this is
the way it it fundamentally comes out of
seeing the thing you forgot you know you
can always bug people in a beautiful way
in a very helpful way by just saying to
them what did you forget
well I don't know how was I supposed to
remember oh I'm really not trying to put
you on I mean it's not difficult this is
something completely obvious that you
forgot you'd easily remember it because
it's so obvious well that's the hardest
thing in the world to think of what's
the most obvious thing I forgot her
what's that twelve who do you think you
are four how do you answer that question
who are you when you give a name you say
I'm Joe Doakes I'm Alan Watts that's not
true
that's what people told you you were
they put that name on you and they
taught you to identify with it and to
behave as it was expected to behave but
that's not who you are
you know very well go back in your
memory go back into your infancy before
they started telling you all this stuff
who are you
and if you get with that you know very
well who you are the Jolly Old Ancient
of Days only there's a conspiracy that
you mustn't let on about that because
everybody is and if one person realizes
it the others a little bit offended and
they say well how come you're so great
we worked it in Christianity by very
clever thing of allowing just one
individual to be recognized as the God
incarnate and nobody else therefore
could be and since he had been safely
crucified and whisked up to heaven he
wouldn't bother us anymore
so everybody therefore who gets an
intimation of who they really are and
ever comes out with it in Christian
civilization people say who the hell do
you think you are you Jesus Christ wait
and say Jesus Christ said he was Jesus
Christ and everybody put him down for it
and that's what you're doing to me ah
let's say forget that one because it's
like somebody comes out and composes
some perfectly terrible music the
critics say this man is a cacophonous he
was completely incompetent and he said
did you ravit read the reviews of
Beethoven's first symphony when it was
performed at Vienna now the thing we
allowed one person you see one human
individual to be the Incarnate God
because we have all been living in a
theory of the universe in which the
individual is simply involved in
something that happens to him and we
feel that this thing that happens to us
is reality it is fact that we have to
face and accept and cope with see it's
always something other than you you
don't recognize it as an integral part
of your own being without which you
cannot know what you mean by the word I
but in the truth of the matter is though
that if you will face it out every
single one of us knows that that isn't
true there is a and as it were a recess
of the soul of the psyche where
everybody knows perfectly well that you
are not just this irresponsible little
mouse that's been shut down into this
world but that you are really doing this
work you're running it only you can't
admit it just in the same way as you
can't admit that you're responsible for
the way your own heart beats you say oh
that's not my doing I've no control over
my heart
