5 ASMR - Mini Bean Bag Triggers and a Whispered Reading of Alan Watts

Mini bean bags are just juggling balls actually! Below is the passage read from Alan Watts:

Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:58 - Mini Bean Bags
4:18 - Whispered Reading
7:32 - Outro

"The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety" by Alan W. Watts

II. Pain and Time

Unquestionably the sensitive human brain adds immeasurably to the richness of life. Yet for this we pay dearly, because the increase in over-all sensitivity makes us peculiarly vulnerable. One can be less vulnerable by becoming less sensitive - more of a stone and less of a man - and so less capable of enjoyment. Sensitivity requires a high degree of softness and fragility - eyeballs, eardrums, taste buds, and nerve ends culminating in the highly delicate organism of the brain. These are not only soft and fragile, but also perishable. There seems to be no effective way of decreasing the delicacy and perishability of living tissue without also decreasing vitality and sensitivity.

If we are to have intense pleasures, we must also be liable to intense pains. The pleasure we love, and the pain we hate, but it seems impossible to have the former without the latter. Indeed, it looks as if the two must in some way alternate, for continuous pleasure is a stimulus that must either pall or be increased. And the increase will either harden the sense buds with its friction, or turn into pain. A consistent diet of rich food either destroys the appetite or makes one sick.