Head Of Nature (Alan Watts) Lyrics

See, this idea is unfamiliar.

That's the difficulty of understanding.

That's all.

It's a very simple idea,

But it's an unfamiliar one

And it's an unfashionable one

Although, as I say,

This sort of thinking is coming back to us at this time

One gets the perfectly uncanny feeling

Of the world and oneself as simply

Two phases of the simple process

But when you get this kind of thinking

You want to go back and ask,

Why do people want to believe that man is irrelevant

When you hear today

People's comments on that old myth of man as the head of nature

They come back in a

Very funny way

They say

Oh, that's the most conceited point of view

Man is part of nature

Yes, but why is it that the naturalists

Who think that man is part of nature are always fighting nature

Because they don't understand

What it means to be the head of nature

Every creature is the head of nature in its turn

And we all take turns because it's taking turns

That makes the world go round

Every creature in its turn is the head of nature

Because each creature creates the world in its own image

Because all existence is a relationship

It's like the skin of the drum

If it's not there it will know no amount of hitting a non-existent skin will produce

So you see energy

Is we can see this energy is relationship

We can see the falling fist and the skin of the drum boing like tha

And If there isn't both the falling fist

And the skin, no noise, no existence.

But existence is not only the impact of rocks upon each other

It existence requires always as its third you can get the rocks knocking

The sun and the moisture

The Tree Crashing to the ground

The sun pouring out electrical energy

But none of these things constitute existence until related with the neurological complex

Then you have to look backwards and say, at the same time

The neurological complex belongs to the same world as the sun

It's a physical pattern, physical behavior, physical energy

But it takes this complexity of pattern to evoke the world and