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The Psychology of Mystical Experience

Alan Watts
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Jonathan
Feb 3, 20255 March 1972San Jose, CA

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The speaker explores the psychology of mystical experience, emphasizing the unity behind diverse religious visions and the essential contrasts in human experience such as life and death, form and void. He highlights humanity's existential anxieties about survival amid global crises and critiques technological and military excesses. The talk advocates for embracing opposites, reducing anxiety, and finding calm through simple communal practices like humming.

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