Akira The Don, Alan Watts - Spheres Of Crystal lyrics

To get into the unitive
World underneath, underlying
And supporting the everyday practical world
There have to be certain alterations in
One’s common sense
There are certain ideas and
Beyond these ideas
Certain feelings that are difficult to
Get across not because
They’re intellectually complicated not at
All because of that
But because they’re unfamiliar
They’re strange we haven’t been brought up
To accommodate them
In exactly the same way that, in past times
People knew that the planets were
Supported in the sky
Because they were embedded in
Spheres of crystal
And if they weren’t embedded
In spheres of crystal
And, of course, you could see them
Because you could see through them they
Would fall down on the Earth and now
When astronomers finally suggested that there
Were no crystal spheres
People felt unbelievably insecure see?
They had a terrible time
Assimilating this idea
Now, do you see what it involves
To assimilate a really new idea?
You have to do quite a flip for example
There are some people whose number systems
Only account four quantities:
One, two, three, many
So they don’t have any concept of four
Corners to a table – see
A table has many corners
And a pile of pebbles is, in that sense
Equivalent in many-ness to the four
Corners of the table
Now, they have difficulty, you see
In beginning
To assimilate the idea of counting through
And numbering all those corners
Or all those pebbles but we’ve done that
And so to us that is perfectly simple
But imagine the kind of mentality
The kind of person
To whom that is not simple at all
Now, in exactly the same way, there is
Here what I’m trying
To explain, a new idea that
Most people don’t assimilate
And that is the idea of the total
Interdependence of everything in the world