REVIEW: “Just So: Money, Materialism, and the Ineffable, Intelligent Universe” (Alan Watts)

“It shouldn’t be about me anyway; it’s about you. And you are like a dewdrop suspended on a multidimensional spider’s web in the light of early morning. But if you look at that dewdrop closely, you’ll see that it reflects every other dewdrop there is. And the way that one drop looks goes with the way that all the others appear, see? They each have their particular glimmer, depending on their peculiar position in the cosmos, and the reflection of the whole web in each drop of dew is slightly different. Nevertheless, the whole network — that is, all of the drops together — depends on each individual dewdrop, just as each individual dewdrop depends on all of the others.”

— Alan Watts

Interconnected in the Cosmos:

At the Newtonian level, we are made up of matter. The universe that we live in is governed by cause and effect. Our bodies are subject to physical laws, all operating on a macroscopic scale (“Newton’s Laws of Motion”). We interact with external forces like gravity and friction, as well as internal forces generated by our bodily processes. The molecules within us are continually transforming, converting one kind of energy into another, to keep us alive (“Physics: Newtonian Physics”).