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Lyall Watson

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born

April 12, 1939 in South Africa

died

June 25, 2008

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Lyall Watson was a South African botanist, zoologist, biologist, anthropologist, ethologist, and author of many new age books, among the most popular of which is the best seller Supernature. Lyall Watson tried to make sense of natural and supernatural phenomena in biological terms. He is credited with the first published use of the term "hundredth monkey" in his 1979 book, Lifetide. It is a hypothesis that aroused both interest and ire in the scientific community and continues to be a topic of discussion over a quarter century later.

He was born in Johannesburg as Malcolm Lyall-Watson. He had an early fascination for nature in the surrounding bush, learning from Zulu and !Kung bushmen. Watson attended boarding school at Rondebosch Boys' High...more

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Average rating: 3.93 · 593 ratings · 87 reviews · 24 distinct works

	Supernature 3.85 avg rating — 115 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	Gifts of Unknown Things: A True Story of Nature, Healing, and Initiation from Indonesia's Dancing Island 4.18 avg rating — 72 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	Dark Nature: A Natural History of Evil 3.89 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 1995 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Elephantoms: Tracking the Elephant 4.02 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Romeo Error: A matter of life and death 3.94 avg rating — 34 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Nature of Things: The Secret Life of Inanimate Objects 3.67 avg rating — 33 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Beyond Supernature: A New Natural History of the Supernatural 3.81 avg rating — 36 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Dreams of Dragons: An Exploration and Celebration of the Mysteries of Nature 3.90 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1987 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Jacobson's Organ: And the Remarkable Nature of Smell 3.72 avg rating — 39 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Whole Hog: Exploring the Extraordinary Potential of Pigs 4.24 avg rating — 25 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:

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“If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.”
― Lyall Watson

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“Dancing is surely the most basic and relevant of all forms of expression. Nothing else can so effectively give outward form to an inner experience. Poetry and music exist in time. Painting and architecture are a part of space. But only the dance lives at once in both space and time. In it the creator and the thing created, the artist and the expression, are one. Each participates completely in the other. There could be no better metaphor for an understanding of the mechanics of the cosmos.”
― Lyall Watson, Gifts of Unknown Things: A True Story of Nature, Healing, and Initiation from Indonesia's Dancing Island

tags: art , dance , expression

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“We try to abolish intervals by our manic insistence on keeping busy, on doing something. And as a result, all we succeed in doing is destroying all hope of tranquility.

... . You have to learn to immerse yourself in the silences between.”
― Lyall Watson, Gifts of Unknown Things: A True Story of Nature, Healing, and Initiation from Indonesia's Dancing Island

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