{"id":1401,"date":"2012-08-02T17:52:42","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T00:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.thekube.me\/?p=1401"},"modified":"2020-05-19T11:32:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T18:32:14","slug":"alan-watts-existence-is-weird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thekube.me\/?p=1401","title":{"rendered":"Alan Watts &#8211; Existence Is Weird"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_34860\"  width=\"480\" height=\"270\"  data-origwidth=\"480\" data-origheight=\"270\"  data-relstop=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C9xQeejKSM0?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;controls=1&#038;color=red&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;rel=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odd &#8211; uncanny and highly improbable. G. K. Chesterton once said that it is one thing to be amazed at a gorgon or a griffin, creatures which do not exist; but it is quite another and much higher thing to be amazed at a rhinoceros or a giraffe, creatures which do exist and look as if they don&#8217;t. This feeling of universal oddity includes a basic and intense wondering about the sense of things. Why, of all possible worlds, this colossal and apparently unnecessary multitude of galaxies in a mysteriously curved space-time continuum, these myriads of differing tube-species playing frantic games of one-upmanship, these numberless ways of &#8220;doing it&#8221; from the elegant architecture of the snow crystal or the diatom to the startling magnificence of the lyrebird or the peacock?&#8221;<br \/>&#8211; <a title=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alan_Watts\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alan_Watts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alan Watts<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odd &#8211; uncanny and highly improbable. G. K. Chesterton once said that it is one thing to be amazed at a gorgon or a griffin, creatures which do not exist; but it is quite another &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.thekube.me\/?p=1401\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alan Watts &#8211; Existence Is Weird<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2062,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[40,35,34,24,41,15,12,26,22,5,32,11,31,42,20,10,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awareness","category-consciousness","category-energy","category-existence","category-experience","category-identity","category-linguistics","category-love","category-metaphysics","category-nature","category-perception","category-philosophy","category-power","category-reality","category-society","category-the-unknown","category-unity"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thekube.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thekube.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thekube.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thekube.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thekube.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thekube.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2853,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thekube.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions\/2853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thekube.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thekube.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thekube.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thekube.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}