everything you wished for, you got. now what?

Alan Watts… Well anyway this is therefore to say transformation of human consciousness through meditation is frustrated

So long as we think of it in terms of something that I, myself, can bring about This is therefore to say by some kind of wangle, by some sort of gimmick because, you see, that leads to endless games of spiritual one-upmanship and of guru competitions of my guru is more effective than your guru my yogas are faster than your yogas I am more aware of myself than you are I’m humbler than you are I am sorrier for my sins than you are I love you more than you love me

And these interminable goings on about about which people fight and wonder wether they’re a little bit more evolved than somebody else, and so on All that can just fall away

And then

we get this strange feeling that we have never had previously in our lives except occasionally by accident some people get a glimpse

That we are no longer this poor little stranger and afraid in a world it never made

But that you ARE this universe And you are creating it, at every moment

Because, you see, it starts now It didn’t begin in the past There was no past If the universe began in the past when that happened it was now, see? But it’s still now, and the universe is still beginning now and it’s trailing off, like the wake of a ship from now and as the wake of the ship fades out so does the past.

You can look back there to explain things but the explanation disappears You’ll never find it there, things are not explained by the past They’re explained by what happens now

Cheer up You can’t blame anyone else for the kind of world you’re in And if you know you see that I, in the sense of the person the front, the ego it doesn’t really exist Then it won’t go to your head too badly if you wake up and discover that you are God.