The Playwright of Reality: How the Omnifactor Paradigm Deepens the Wisdom of Alan Watts
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Listen to “From Actor to Playwright: Alan Watts and the Omnifactor Paradigm's Game of Reality” on Spreaker.This post accompanies the audio for Chapter 4 of Dr. Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander’s “The Omnifactor Paradigm,” where we explore its profound resonances with Alan Watts and perennial philosophy. The post delves into the shared understanding of reality as a “game of hide-and-seek” where the illusion of separation is a feature, not a bug. We examine the powerful metaphor of life as a dramatic performance, but with a critical evolution: the Omnifactor Paradigm asserts you are not just the actor on the stage, but the playwright writing the script. This represents a synthesis of Watts’s non-dualistic insight with a potent philosophy of personal agency. Finally, we unpack the shared project of de-anthropomorphizing the divine, freeing spiritual understanding from personified concepts and aligning it with the logical nature of eternal existence.
