Akira The Don, Alan Watts - Ordinary Everyday Consciousness (WATTSWAVE V: WEB OF LIFE) lyrics

The web of life let me try, from the first
To indicate the point that we’re aiming at
The point is this
That human consciousness is at
The same time as
Being a form of awareness, and sensitivity
And understanding
It’s also a form of ignorance

The ordinary everyday consciousness
That we have leaves out – more
Than it takes in
The ordinary everyday consciousness
That we have leaves out – more
Than it takes in

And because of this
It leaves out things that
Are terribly important
It leaves out things that would, if we did
Know them, allay our anxieties, and fears
And horrors and if we could extend
Our awareness, you see
To include those things that we leave out
We would have a deep interior peace
Because we would all know the one
Thing that you mustn’t know

The ordinary everyday consciousness
That we have leaves out – more
Than it takes in
The ordinary everyday consciousness
That we have leaves out – more
Than it takes in

You know, according to the rules of
Our particular social game
The one thing you mustn’t know
That’s really not allowed
That is the lowdown on life and that
The lowdown, on the one hand
Means the real dirt on things
But the lowdown is also what
Is profound, what is mysterious
What is in the depths
And the something left out
And our everyday consciousness
Screens this out in the same way that
When you say you have weaving
You have say, on this rug here in front
Of us, when the black finishes here
The black threads will go
Underneath, and then appear again over here
Then they’ll go
Underneath the white and they’ll
Appear again over here, you know?
So that the back will be the
Obverse pattern of the front
Now the world is like that

The ordinary everyday consciousness
That we have leaves out – more
Than it takes in
The ordinary everyday consciousness
That we have leaves out – more
Than it takes in

Our sense organs are selective
They pick out certain things
They are receptive
For example, we have a small
Small band of what you might call
A spectrum of light, of sound, of
Tactile sensation, and so on
To which the human organism is sensitive
But we know that outside that small
Band there is a huge range
Of vibrations to which we have
Built instruments that are sensitive
Things like cosmic rays, ultraviolet rays
Gamma rays, hard x rays, and so on
They’re all outside the band of our spectrum
And obviously
There are things that are outside
The range of our instruments
We may build new instruments someday
Which will evoke
Bring into our consciousness, other orders of
Vibration altogether, that, as yet
We don’t know about them
So you could imagine, you see
The universe as a vast
Vast system of vibrations
And has infinite possibilities

The ordinary everyday consciousness
That we have leaves out – more
Than it takes in
The ordinary everyday consciousness
That we have leaves out – more
Than it takes in

The ordinary everyday consciousness
That we have leaves out – more
Than it takes in
The ordinary everyday consciousness
That we have leaves out – more
Than it takes in