We have tried, scientifically, to understand the world and explain its mysteries by analyzing
 the smallest, smallest particles of things that exist, inquiring down, down, down, what
 is this thing we call flesh or call steel or stone, what is it made of? Go down into
 the midst of it. And that's given us a certain understanding. But only half of the understanding.
 Equally important is not what is the tiniest particle, but in what context is the tiniest
 particle. You see? In relation to what is it? Just as the word bark, as I showed you,
 has different meanings in different sentences. So, cells, molecules, atoms, have different
 properties in different contexts. So what the scientist equally needs to study is not
 simply what is anything when very, very minutely analyzed, but where is it? When is it? That
 makes all the difference. So do you see that a lot of people who get anxious when they
 hear that everything is relative have no need to get that anxious. Relativity isn't some
 kind of slippery morass in which all standards and all directions get lost. Relativity is
 really the soundest situation that there is. See, it's the one supporting the other. It's
 this thing. Do you know this? This is wonderful. X marks the spot. Imagine this going on and
 on. Supposing my finger were indefinitely long, both fingers, and they were doing this.
 See, they're just crossing each other. Now, on one side of it, it's a pair of scissors
 and it cuts. What is it on the other side? Why, it's opening female legs, saying, "Please
 come in." This utter softness, utter receptiveness. On the other side, it's "quack," but on this
 side it's "Please, please, please, please, yes, welcome." And everything's based on that.
 See, it's "quack" this way. Sharpness, teeth, biting, spines, crab shells, all that kind
 of thing. On the other side, it's the melting softness of life. See, they go together just
 like that. And goodness knows what it is on these outer two sides. I haven't thought about
 that yet. So, if you see that, if you get that principle, you can feel yourself not
 sort of just rattling around in the world as a kind of, you know, somebody who's been
 stuck down there. But you can feel yourself going on in absolutely exact relationship
 with everything around you. And this is very beautiful. It isn't just that you are here
 looking at what's out there, like you might be photographing it with your eyes. It's that
 if that there wasn't there, you wouldn't be here. The outside thing that you see and the
 inside thing that you are, are poles of the same magnet, or back and front of the same
 coin, and without one there isn't the other. That means, of course, then, that we are living
 in the midst of a world of animals, vegetables, minerals, atmospheres, astronomical bodies,
 that's highly intelligent. It's intelligence concentrated, crystallized in our brains.
 That's where it comes out, you see. In any field, let's say, let's take any field of
 forces, we take a chemical solution, and at certain critical points in this chemical solution,
 the crystals start to form. And so, in the same way, the total intelligence of this whole
 universe crystallizes in human brains. Also in other kinds of brains. But that's where
 it really comes out. But it's the total intelligence of the whole field that does this. So we go
 with the whole thing, interdepend with it. We don't live in an environment which is just
 rock, just air, just atmosphere and so on. The environment's only like that when we think
 about it analytically and try to explain it. But when we think of, it isn't just rock and
 air, see, but those things go together. When you see the interconnectedness, when you see
 in the simplest way how flowers go with bees and other insects, they don't live without
 them. Humans go with cattle, they don't exist without them. Plants, etc., etc., etc. When
 you see the intervals, the significance of the relationships between these things, it's
 only then, when you see that, that you are aware of the melody. Go back to the illustration
 I gave of the person who can't hear melody, who's tone deaf, he hears only a succession
 of sounds because he's not aware of the intervals. Now most people are brought up to be tone
 deaf in respect to their own existence and the rest of the universe. They don't see the
 relationships. They're not aware of the unity. And so, once you spot that, you spot how everything
 goes with the thing, that you are one end and that out there is the other end, and they
 really go together, then you may be said to be living a harmonious life.
 This concludes Session Three of Out of Your Mind, Essential Listening, from the Alan Watts
 Audio Archives. Our program continues with Session Four.
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