the opening part of a talk in which alan watts defines mythological language and introduces the hindu idea of brahma as the one self playing hide and seek through every form.

a talk given to the tahoe institute in which watts argues the anxious "quaking mess" we find on self examination cannot be transformed away, only watched.

a talk arguing that the western habit of separating the self from the world is an illusion of narrow attention, illustrated through a candle flame, a whirlpool, and a spinning gyro

a lecture in which alan watts argues that the ordinary sense of "i" is a hallucination and that the real self includes its whole environment, so genuine change comes not by effort