The Mind In Allen Watts's The World Is Your Body

The meaning is just what it states, our minds are social; the way in which our minds function is based on the aspect of being social. The way that we think and process the world around us is dependent upon the way in which we have been influenced by others. From our birth and throughout our life people have colonized our mind; our mind in colonized based on certain people and without certain people our mind will break down. In some ways we are aware of this colonization and how people impact our minds; we are aware of this because we carefully select who we listen to and who we don’t. This idea is expressed in Reading Good Books as it states, “People’s basic attitude about books and reading change as a result of what they do and do not read” (Anton, 11). This is why “who …show more content…
He basically states that the world, “…is a social activity – a mutual inter-change of messages and idea based on such social institutions as language, sciences, libraries, universities, and museums” (Watts, 90). By this, he is talking about a similar point discussed previously, that the world is built around language, which is learned naturally but also through others. The way in which we have come to understand everything around us is through others, being social, and interacting with others. We interact through a system in which nearly everything is related; there is no sharp line between “me,” “them,” and “nature,” it is a type of coherence. The relations that come into the world and these things are not independent of people – they are interconnected, as one influences the other, even in the slightest way. This connection ties into his main point, that we are never independent of a situation. We have an idea that we are individuals who are separate from everything and this expectation leads to a certain way of viewing and engaging in