What I think, you know, awakening really involves is a re-examination of our common sense.
 We've got all sorts of ideas built into us which seem unquestioned, obvious, and our
 speech reflects them.
 Communist phrases.
 Face the facts as if they were outside you.
 As if life was something you simply encountered as a foreigner.
 Face the facts.
 Our common sense has been rigged, you see, so that we feel strangers and aliens in this
 world, and this is terribly plausible.
 Simply because it's what we're used to.
 That's the only reason.
 But when you really start questioning this, say, "Is that the way I have to assume life
 is?
 I know everybody does, but does that make it true?"
 It doesn't necessarily.
 It ain't necessarily so.
 And so then, as you question this basic assumption that underlies our culture, you find you get
 a new kind of common sense.
 It becomes absolutely obvious to you that you are continuous with the universe.
 For example, people used to believe that the people who lived in the Antipodes would fall
 off.
 And that was scary.
 But then when somebody sailed around the world, and we all got used to it, and now we travel
 around in jet planes and everything, we have no problem about feeling that the Earth is
 globular.
 None whatever.
 We got used to it.
 So in the same way, Einstein's relativity theories, the curvature of the propagation
 of light, that began to bother people when Einstein started talking like that.
 But now we're all used to it.
 Well in a few years, it will be a matter of common sense to very many people that they
 are one with the universe.
 It'll be so simple.
 And then maybe, if that happens, we shall be in a position to handle our technology
 with more sense.
 With love instead of with hate for our environment.
 This concludes session two of Out of Your Mind, essential listening from the Alan Watts
 Audio Archives.
 Our program continues with session three.
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