Food Sex Power - Akira the Don, Alan Watts

So in the same way, we find that the watching self, or the observing self,

behind all our thoughts and feelings, is itself a thought

That is to say, when the police enter a house in which there are thieves

The thieves go up from the ground floor, the first floor

When the police arrive on the first floor, the thieves have gone up to the

second

And so to the third, and finally, out to the roof

And so when the go is about to be unmasked, it immediatly identifies with the

higher self

It goes up a level

Because the religious game is simply a refined and highbrow version of the

ordinary game

How can I outwit me?

How can I one-up me?

So, if I find, for example, that in the quest for pleasure

The ordinary pleasures of the world, food, sex, power, food, sex, power

All this becomes a drag, and I think, «No, it isn’t there.»

So I go in for the arts, and literature, poetry, music, and I absorb myself in

those pleasures

Food, sex, power

I absorb myself in literature, poetry, music

Those pleasures

Food, sex, power

I absorb myself in literature, poetry, music

Food, sex, power

Literature, poetry, music

Food, sex, power

And after a while

They aren’t the answer

So I go to psychoanalysis

And then I found out that’s not the answer

I go to religion

I’m still seeking what I was seeking when I wanted candy bars

I wanna get that goody

Only, I see now that, of course, not gonna be a material goody

All material goodies fall apart, but maybe there’s a spiritual goody that’s not

gonna fall apart

But in that quest

The quest is not different from the quest for the candy bar

Same old story, only you’ve refined the candy bar, made it abstract and holy

and blessed, and so on

So it is with the higher self, the higher self’s your old ego

And you sure hope it is eternal

Food, sex, power

I absorb myself in literature, poetry, music

Those pleasures

Food, sex, power

I absorb myself in literature, poetry, music

Those pleasures

Food, sex power

I absorb myself in literature, poetry, music

Those pleasures

Food, sex, power