Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a …

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Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. ✨ Alan W. Watts, Daniel Pinchbeck (2013). The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness, p.112, New World Library
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