terence mckenna on james joyce's finnegan's wake, exploring its psychedelic and apocalyptic dimensions as a hermetic text where all boundaries dissolve.

a 1973 philadelphia radio talk in which alan watts examines how the grammar of noun and verb, form and stuff, shapes our sense of reality.

the opening of a 1973 philadelphia lecture, "symbols and meaning," in which watts sets out to examine the unexamined assumptions built into language and common sense.

a brief reading of the closing propositions of ludwig wittgenstein's tractatus logico philosophicus, ending with the line whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

a lecture by alan watts arguing that the ego and things are linguistic fictions produced by subject, verb, predicate grammar and reification, in a universe that is actually a singl