People with a negative and judgmental impression of mankind are usually under that impression because they are in fact reflecting their own personality into whatever the mass is like to me. The same can go with the optimistic and positive impression. Only an understanding of balance and dignity can awaken deeper. Reflect not. Say Love Gratitude and One Self.
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Anyone out there know of anyone who's writings are similar to Alan Watts'(same philosophy different way of putting it)...I love reading Alan's books but have read everything he has ever done including listening to all his lectures. I've already read all of J. Krishnamurti and Ram Dass too. I'd appreciate it.
"A"lan has such a captivating voice; so mesmerizing. Yes no rules....no wait "I"m crazy. Ah what the hell ...no wait, Heaven!!!! ''I" don't know.....who knows!? Tell me...........
What I think watts doesn't understand about Judeo-Christian thought is that our behavior is important because it must reflect the source. The commandments, if obeyed, build and maintain relationship among man, and thereby bring about unity. Ultimately, reality is all unified-all is one. So while conscious transformation is good, behavior that reflects that complements that endeavor.
@tatsumakisempyukaku "That the violator (of an unbetrothed virgin) shall marry her (Deut. 22:28-29)" "That one who has raped a damsel and has then (in accordance with the law) married her, may not divorce her (Deut. 22:29)" Rapists must marry the victim! How do these two commandments 'build and maintain relationship among man'?
He understands it very clearly: if you follow the ten commandments to the letter then life would be dull. How would we know if we were doing good if nobody did something wrong?
Ever played monopoly? Everyone will be trying to suck the money out of everyone for their own advantage. Offcourse! What an awful game must it be to play monopoly with people looking out for eachother and sharing...
While I admire this man greatly. For man or a group of men no matter how large to try to understand the universe is as futile as an ant carrying a bmw.
@HandyMan101 trying to understand the universe as you put it is like trying to bite your own teeth. Because you are looking for something separate from yourself - you will never find it because the universe is you.
I cannot possible believe the world ignores this wisdom now as much as they did two thousand years ago, under roman rule. Perhaps in a few years more... Meanwhile, I hope the stories of Buddha and others will still be told for those willing to hear them.
I sure wish you'd re-upload this without the new age crystal gazing music. It tries to color my mind with a bunch of emotions that have nothing to do with either me or the lecture being given.
@reddyandre i concur!!! every other alan watts and terence mckenna video is like this. background music is supposed to help facilitate narrative. being that this is a loose-knit talk that is more tantamount to improv (as was watts' typical style) there is no forward moving narrative to push. not to mention, acoustically it de-emphasizes alan's prolific voice. and why would you leave it on for the entire duration of the lecture? less is more. watts' words are fine on their own.
@reddyandre The music isn't meant to give a crystal gazing feel. Its just meditative music. A lot of gongs and dings. It gives a crystal gazing feel because when you are in that point you are focused and in a meditative state.
@reddyandre If you don't like it, pay no mind.... it's better than most of the mixes I've seen where you can hardly make out his words. If you don't like it, you could go buy the lecture series. Just a suggestion ;)
@reddyandre I think those emotions have everything to do with you and the lecture. I agree that music can be incredibly annoying when you really want to deeply understand what is being said, instead of getting some kind of high out of the video (assuming the music doesn't suck), but to me this one seems to be an exception. Also, when you listen to this music without putting it into the category of "new age crystal gazing music" it's actually quite beautiful. Labeling it destroys it..
@reddyandre ... ...Also, wasn't it Alan Watts himself who said that the cosmos is inherently playful and that life is like a dance... If not for beautiful music and absolutely gorgeous footage, what's the point of being here?
@ScottsGoldClub It might be an artistic tactic that'll keep the vid from being taken down by Mark Watts or other Nazi-types that attempt to keep this wisdom off YT. Those a--holes want to sell it...not realizing the GREATER GOOD of just getting his message to the masses. Alan Watts & his message WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE! Watts, along with George Carlin & Robert Anton Wilson, are the three MOST underrated philosophers of the 20th Century.
The term 'god' is too bogged down in soo many contrasting and conflicting ideology that serve little other than to capture wonder, this perhaps could have been better served using another metaphor .. too many will not see beyond their idiotic belief systems and impose the constrictions of their conditioning.. Hence the 'God' complex has soo many versions of imposed self projected nonsense that shade the underlying truth of unadulterated unity, expand your awareness, let it all go.. and be happy.
@dratsabreviews I would further like to say that I don't believe we, ourselves, are God or can become God rather that we realize we are ONE with God or that we share what God is or has. There is a vast distance of difference between the two beliefs and where one breeds contempt for fellow men (the belief that I am God and I know that I am and you don't) the othere breeds acceptance for fellow men (I am one with God, I share in God, and you share too).
@dratsabreviews It is said by most spiritual beliefs that the middle path is the best road, maybe this is because it allows one to see both sides unbiasedly. We tend toward extremes as humans and very rarely allow for reconcilliation but when applied being the line between Yin and Yang may prove far better than being completely "either-or." The middle road is very hard to walk because of our emotional tendencies to embrace on opposite end of the table over another.
@dratsabreviews I think I might understand your question and perspective that brought it about. It might be better to view that which is not God as an undulation or break in the realization of being God. Everything may be God but do we remember that we are one with God? The same may be applied to the creativity complex. Boredom may not be then enemy of Creativity but simply a break or a dis-continuity in creativity, which allows us the opportunity to appreciate both.
before saying about something ( about God for example) you must know determination of that notion ! What is God ? Do you believe in Chucka-Bucka ? No ? How can you believe in it or not if you don`t know what it is ?
only the socially acceptable appearance of reality is acceptable. I love it. 17:21 every child is sick? amazing that the legal drug companies have a name and a pill for every type of 'sickness' (normal behaviour) that you can imagine today. Overachievers, Underachievers, kids with too much energy, ADHD, ADD... sounds like a bunch of BS to me.
imTOUGHonline: A chemical substance is not the same thing as a mystical experience. Just like meditation is not the same thing. They are "Upayas" or tools.
As for the "why", the question implies an underlying reason or a grand scheme. We ask this question because in Western languages there cannot be an effect without a cause, a verb without a subject. But these are laws of grammar, not physics.
@InDunadan Have you ever tried DMT (aka the spirit molecule)?.I am pretty sure you haven't or you would know the following. Many believe DMT is released during death causing nde's and it is also thought to be responsible for dreaming in particular the REM state, by Dr. Rick Strassman. I understand what you mean, but I assure you it is a profoundly mystical experience. None like you have ever known I promise you. If we figure out this molecule we will have some big WHYS answered.
24:35 "we don't know how these mystical experiences happen" Mr Watts I suggest you explore dimethyltryptamine, there is your how. But as for the why or what a few of us are still trying to figure out those questions.
@imTOUGHonline A glimpse nothing more. Short cut's as simple as ingesting a drug is just enough to give you an idea you'll have to get rid of. lol And believe me... I've had my glimpse.
@Abasiaj All glimpses are not the same. Mine felt like I ingested 1000 years of information in a few minutes...DMT is thought to be the chemical released when all these barley know phenomena happens. When taken you know you have stepped outside....and when you return to your chemically balanced state you don't feel as human as you did before you went in. The scary thing is when you go out on these trips you know you have done this millions of times before without drugs, but don't know when.
@imTOUGHonline I've dosed, completely de-solved into nothing, and everything.... and have a very sharp recall of what I can only describe as shards of my own ego falling back into place as I remembered who and where I was on the come down. A breakthrough is a breakthrough, some breakthroughs involve alien entities, that's not really the true meaning of enlightenment. A powerful glimpse, yes.... but insofar as real satori... negative.
@Abasiaj You your totally right, I have had the ego death where I felt as if I had been living a different life for eternity old to fade back into this existence....been show I could be erased from existence, not just killed but erased all I have done. Another ego death I was shown I am everything and it wasn't a great feeling it was as if we are all travelling back to one source, but the feeling was of emptiness I am the only thing that ever will exist nothing above,below or beside me I am it
Alan Watts is the essence of authenticity...so tuned-in, so clever, yet humble enough to realize the puzzle is too big to totally comprehend. And as a HUGE believer in the idea of Perennial Philosophy, I really appreciate what he said from 34:04 - 36:00...it's pure philosophical gold, 24 karats of truth! Magnificent upload...many thanks!
Here is the question I have, Watts says that everything has a Yin and a Yang, and that you can't understand what is dark if there is only light. Then, seemingly contradictory, he says that nothing is NOT god. So, what exactly does being god mean? That it simply exists? If god is a form of creativity, then shouldn't boredom ("the enemy of creativity") be an example of NOT god?
@dratsabREVIEWS If god were to be a form of creativity then it might be correct. Things is, god isn't a form of anything - everything is a form, or pattern if you will, of god; That's why nothing is NOT god.
Creativity, just as any definition can be understood only in terms of its opposite, in this case its Boredom; which has nothing and everything to do with god; to me its just the other side of creativity, 2 poles of the same magnet.
how good to talk about far away and unknown subject.
wouldn`t you consider constipation or not able to create as opposite of creativity, instead of boredom? i think boredom is one of the opposites of peace, which is a higher realm than creativity.
@plague613 we’ve always had a God that we know even if we did not ever formily meet him…
So just wait. When you get to the end and you just realize. You are God and you shall have reached your true enlightenment. You’re a story tell. You are perfect and creative in your imperfections and therefor you are always trying to change and correct your mistakes for good. You God for infinity always strives to be perfect and improve on his design no matte how random that may me. That is how we evolve.
@daudmc But then, how do you define what is god? The definition for god becomes "that which simply exists". Pantheism, as far as I remember, was basically invented (by Baruch Spinoza) to express atheism using the word God in place of mother nature, so that there would be less controversy. Calling everything that exists god doesn't make sense from an Occam's Razor point of view.
@dratsabREVIEWS I would like to talk with you more about this but am neither educated nor knowledgeble on the subject I only know what I feel. Please respond if you can enlighten me
@dratsabREVIEWS I think such a deist god would be understod deity-wise as Apollo or Lucifer, rather than THE God (ie Yahweh or Odin). After all, god is the Word and is supposed to have a magical quality.
@dratsabREVIEWS It would help to think "Tao" when you hear Watts say "God". That Creativity/Yang and Boredom/Yin together are the Tao. Then you could ask what is the opposite of the Tao... I'm not even sure Watts know this.
@LordShivasServant he said plainly, 'nothing is not god'. : ) so the opposite of Tao is 0 Tao=1 and 1*0=0 so Tao=nothing at all so we exist by implication as a result of fundamental absolute uncertainty/certainty/nothingness 3 in1 or was alan wrong in his statement? (note how i'm referring authority upwards to Watts...!)
@dratsabREVIEWS yin and yang positive n negative etc, its all based on polarity. Only undeveloped minds believe that duality is a necessity for experience. When you progress you will understand there is no need for evilbefore you can enjoy good.
@TheVariableConstant That is a philosophical stance, which I shan't argue for, or against. But, we are talking semantics here, for the English language to have function, words need clear definitions and contrast.
@dratsabREVIEWS I get your point on semantics, but semantics is created by intelligence. It evolves with the development of the understanding of the said group. So whether you prefer to look at the semantic necessity of contrast or not, it all boils down to the level of progress. It's a bell curve of sorts, It starts with ignorance where polarity/definition/contrast is the highest point the graph peaks at, ends with understanding of the redundancy of polarity and acceptance of harmony and unity.
@dratsabREVIEWS god is the expression of every single thing period. Everything you can think of, and your capacity to think in it itself. Everything you can experience. There is only god. This is oneness.
@dratsabREVIEWS in this version of reality there are fragmented parts of Tao (God). Not a guy but Universal energy. Whether we are mainly Yin (female) / Yang (male) energy we are pieces of Tao. taken in totality all of the energies in the universe are in perfect harmony but from our limited perspective we see duality - Yin/Yang. there is no good or bad simply differences in energy and changes in states of being or God-consciousness. when we realize we are Tao we realize duality is illusion.
Alan does mistakenly say that boredom is the Yin opposite of Yang creativity but this is a mis-statement. Boredom is a choice like anything else. The Yin opposite of creativity if you look at any I Ching is Receptivity. You can be in a state of Receptivity & not be bored. Boredom is a feeling. Receptivity is the opposite of Creativity. He does later state if you want to make "hell of it, or heaven of it." so it is with boredom.
@dratsabREVIEWS ... why only define "God" (I prefer "All" but any word is an idol) as 'creativity'? You can't have "all creativity" without some "more boring" background for comparison. If every moment were spent experiencing only amazingly creativity, this whole situation would itself become a "field of boredom" - and a really "dull moment" would be a very interesting thing ;-). 'All' contains the interplay of static fertile background and active detailed focal points of "interesting things"
part 2 ... it's like in space, we name and define various objects. We consider space as 'just nothing' (you can call it "boredom"). Without space for "interesting focal points" or "creations" to be found in, you couldn't have objects. So the space is just as important as the "creations". Usually we ignore "nothing" or "no thing" as unimportant - like the paper of a book is 'merely' the surface and the words are the only important thing but you can't have the words without a surface.
God is a metaphor for what is beyond these opposites. It can't be made into a concept itself. But, what happens to you when you reach the end of your rational analytical thinking about the world. If you become utterly frustrated by trying to "get it", what happens? You'll have to find that out for yourself. You're right, god is essentially a meaningless concept, but that's the whole point. It's a tool used to coax you out of trying to find the meaning of life, so you can finally live it.
@dratsabREVIEWS The term God is accepted by almost all people ( some dont call it God but its the same thing) as the creator of the universe.. Birds create nests, Beavers build damns, and im sure you can think of countless other examples.. We are all part of that creation.. which is what he is attempting to explain.. even when you are bored.. you are creating that feeling....
@dratsabREVIEWS The forces of the yin/yang are apparent in the world of illusion, but ultimately are conjoined and complement one-another in unity. Alan talks of God as being everyone and everything, and could therefore be interpreted as not either yin/yang, but these forces united. Therefore God isn't just yang and therefore has an opposing yin, God is the unity of the Yin and the Yang.
I don't know if that's correct or how Alan would respond, that's just my interpretation :)
Thank you, the background to Alan at his best was just right Mr plague! how many times do we find some really interesting Alan Watts text's and we are bombarded with some sort of new age cacophony that only makes understanding in various contexts very difficult. This 'light' background give a nice and subtle ambience!
@PrRican973 i suppose you need to have a little backround knowlege on the subjects involved ( psychology, philosophy, theology etc... ) for it to make sense, although Alan Watts tends to simplify these ideas considerably.
wow spectacular the teaching was great and he took the time to answer every question there, no matter how ridiculous it seemed. truly remarkable. his way of thinking is just so complicated yet so simplistic at the same time. Great video!! Thx for posting.
@doctorHOUSE Chopra is such a fucking charlatan. Even as an atheist, I'm a huge fan of Watts but a huge disliker of Chopra. The fraud. If you're going to be involved in spirituality, it has always seemed to me that Watts is superior to anyone else I've ever known to learn it from.
@StAndAl0neCompl3x I agree with your views of Watts, as a fellow atheist. I don't get anything from Chopra at all. I haven't listened to enough Chopra to go where you go but I from everything that i have heard from him, I''d agree. Stick with Watts.
Sheer genius married to youtube perfection - thank you for creating such an elegant and superbly beautiful piece - the music and the visuals were up to the message which, as always from this most beautiful mind - was profound and sublime. Love it!
Alan Watts' discussion on the Book of John is what woke me up!! This particular version is the best I've heard yet, thank you so much for posting it! I'll show all my loved ones!
Thank you very much for sharing Alan Watts with us. More of us should have listened to him while he was alive. You are helping to keep his message going: think for yourself.
great footage!
jzilla666999 1 week ago
Despite the music, this is so good. Fascinating!
LoutheFinger 1 week ago
@ReaINewsFeed You seem to embody a nice compassion and love for others. Where do you learn that virtue of life?
nowbellhere 2 weeks ago
@ReaINewsFeed "I will put him against a wall and shoot him in the face."
good luck dipshit. the man's been dead for almost 40 years.
imalsoknownas 2 weeks ago 2
@ReaINewsFeed
I surely hope you don't profess yourself to be a christian..
zmjohnston 2 weeks ago
People with a negative and judgmental impression of mankind are usually under that impression because they are in fact reflecting their own personality into whatever the mass is like to me. The same can go with the optimistic and positive impression. Only an understanding of balance and dignity can awaken deeper. Reflect not. Say Love Gratitude and One Self.
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phvalue323 3 weeks ago
@ReaINewsFeed u are asleep, blind, brainwashed, scared, guilty, controlled....
bestufosvideos 3 weeks ago
Thanks for the upload. Very enjoyable!
WallyWize 3 weeks ago
What's the name of the song in the background? It's so calming :)
MrEddieBTV 3 weeks ago
the audience is so humbled
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Anyone out there know of anyone who's writings are similar to Alan Watts'(same philosophy different way of putting it)...I love reading Alan's books but have read everything he has ever done including listening to all his lectures. I've already read all of J. Krishnamurti and Ram Dass too. I'd appreciate it.
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0wsleysacid 1 month ago
"A"lan has such a captivating voice; so mesmerizing. Yes no rules....no wait "I"m crazy. Ah what the hell ...no wait, Heaven!!!! ''I" don't know.....who knows!? Tell me...........
0wsleysacid 1 month ago
What I think watts doesn't understand about Judeo-Christian thought is that our behavior is important because it must reflect the source. The commandments, if obeyed, build and maintain relationship among man, and thereby bring about unity. Ultimately, reality is all unified-all is one. So while conscious transformation is good, behavior that reflects that complements that endeavor.
tatsumakisempyukaku 2 months ago
@tatsumakisempyukaku "That the violator (of an unbetrothed virgin) shall marry her (Deut. 22:28-29)" "That one who has raped a damsel and has then (in accordance with the law) married her, may not divorce her (Deut. 22:29)" Rapists must marry the victim! How do these two commandments 'build and maintain relationship among man'?
MortimerKahn 1 month ago
@tatsumakisempyukaku
He understands it very clearly: if you follow the ten commandments to the letter then life would be dull. How would we know if we were doing good if nobody did something wrong?
Ever played monopoly? Everyone will be trying to suck the money out of everyone for their own advantage. Offcourse! What an awful game must it be to play monopoly with people looking out for eachother and sharing...
In this game we play we need our antagonists.
psicho007 1 month ago
While I admire this man greatly. For man or a group of men no matter how large to try to understand the universe is as futile as an ant carrying a bmw.
HandyMan101 2 months ago
@HandyMan101 trying to understand the universe as you put it is like trying to bite your own teeth. Because you are looking for something separate from yourself - you will never find it because the universe is you.
Dave9309 2 months ago 2
I cannot possible believe the world ignores this wisdom now as much as they did two thousand years ago, under roman rule. Perhaps in a few years more... Meanwhile, I hope the stories of Buddha and others will still be told for those willing to hear them.
francemaster 3 months ago
Alan Watts has to be the most intelligent person in the world.
Level5hacker 3 months ago 4
@Level5hacker Intelligent? The Taoist masters he admired were extremely stupid. And that's really important. ;)
Tengent 2 months ago 2
@Level5hacker I would say wisdom over intellect... but i see what your getting at. ;)
Abasiaj 2 months ago
I sure wish you'd re-upload this without the new age crystal gazing music. It tries to color my mind with a bunch of emotions that have nothing to do with either me or the lecture being given.
reddyandre 3 months ago 32
@reddyandre absolutely!
luitek 1 month ago
@reddyandre hmm..well u could also turn off the screen. the music isnt even loud..
gonzojon 1 month ago
@reddyandre yeah and its kinda gay to.
firstfamilyoffahrts 1 month ago
@reddyandre i concur!!! every other alan watts and terence mckenna video is like this. background music is supposed to help facilitate narrative. being that this is a loose-knit talk that is more tantamount to improv (as was watts' typical style) there is no forward moving narrative to push. not to mention, acoustically it de-emphasizes alan's prolific voice. and why would you leave it on for the entire duration of the lecture? less is more. watts' words are fine on their own.
imalsoknownas 2 weeks ago
@reddyandre The music isn't meant to give a crystal gazing feel. Its just meditative music. A lot of gongs and dings. It gives a crystal gazing feel because when you are in that point you are focused and in a meditative state.
AnguzBeef 2 weeks ago
@reddyandre If you don't like it, pay no mind.... it's better than most of the mixes I've seen where you can hardly make out his words. If you don't like it, you could go buy the lecture series. Just a suggestion ;)
Abasiaj 1 week ago
@reddyandre I think those emotions have everything to do with you and the lecture. I agree that music can be incredibly annoying when you really want to deeply understand what is being said, instead of getting some kind of high out of the video (assuming the music doesn't suck), but to me this one seems to be an exception. Also, when you listen to this music without putting it into the category of "new age crystal gazing music" it's actually quite beautiful. Labeling it destroys it..
TukenNuken 6 hours ago
@reddyandre ... ...Also, wasn't it Alan Watts himself who said that the cosmos is inherently playful and that life is like a dance... If not for beautiful music and absolutely gorgeous footage, what's the point of being here?
TukenNuken 6 hours ago
Thank you for putting up this video
zosoispage22 4 months ago
I suppose that we all here pushed the button labeled "surprise!"... and here we are...
Skinzlivez 4 months ago in playlist Skinzlivez's favorites 2
Interesting speech, the background music is a bit distracting...
ScottsGoldClub 4 months ago
@ScottsGoldClub It might be an artistic tactic that'll keep the vid from being taken down by Mark Watts or other Nazi-types that attempt to keep this wisdom off YT. Those a--holes want to sell it...not realizing the GREATER GOOD of just getting his message to the masses. Alan Watts & his message WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE! Watts, along with George Carlin & Robert Anton Wilson, are the three MOST underrated philosophers of the 20th Century.
TruthJockey 4 months ago
30:50 is a beautiful moment
Skinzlivez 4 months ago
The term 'god' is too bogged down in soo many contrasting and conflicting ideology that serve little other than to capture wonder, this perhaps could have been better served using another metaphor .. too many will not see beyond their idiotic belief systems and impose the constrictions of their conditioning.. Hence the 'God' complex has soo many versions of imposed self projected nonsense that shade the underlying truth of unadulterated unity, expand your awareness, let it all go.. and be happy.
TimberWolfmanV6 4 months ago
@dratsabreviews I would further like to say that I don't believe we, ourselves, are God or can become God rather that we realize we are ONE with God or that we share what God is or has. There is a vast distance of difference between the two beliefs and where one breeds contempt for fellow men (the belief that I am God and I know that I am and you don't) the othere breeds acceptance for fellow men (I am one with God, I share in God, and you share too).
MetatronThaMartian 4 months ago
@dratsabreviews It is said by most spiritual beliefs that the middle path is the best road, maybe this is because it allows one to see both sides unbiasedly. We tend toward extremes as humans and very rarely allow for reconcilliation but when applied being the line between Yin and Yang may prove far better than being completely "either-or." The middle road is very hard to walk because of our emotional tendencies to embrace on opposite end of the table over another.
MetatronThaMartian 4 months ago
@dratsabreviews I think I might understand your question and perspective that brought it about. It might be better to view that which is not God as an undulation or break in the realization of being God. Everything may be God but do we remember that we are one with God? The same may be applied to the creativity complex. Boredom may not be then enemy of Creativity but simply a break or a dis-continuity in creativity, which allows us the opportunity to appreciate both.
MetatronThaMartian 4 months ago
Climb a mountain, tell no one.
UberCuber101 4 months ago 2
No comment
micfiend409 5 months ago
before saying about something ( about God for example) you must know determination of that notion ! What is God ? Do you believe in Chucka-Bucka ? No ? How can you believe in it or not if you don`t know what it is ?
igoga2 5 months ago
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666 ftw?
ohanno400ex 5 months ago
666 ftw?
ohanno400ex 5 months ago
3 dislikes? Holy fuck
somedanceforjoy 5 months ago
"When we die - it is not that the world remains and we depart from it.
It is ourselves that remains and the illusion that is the world departs from us"
-Manly P. Hall
TheDiceMan6 5 months ago 3
only the socially acceptable appearance of reality is acceptable. I love it. 17:21 every child is sick? amazing that the legal drug companies have a name and a pill for every type of 'sickness' (normal behaviour) that you can imagine today. Overachievers, Underachievers, kids with too much energy, ADHD, ADD... sounds like a bunch of BS to me.
vastawake 5 months ago 2
30:45 Listen... as a man in the audience experiences satori. Hahahaha...
ChaseManhattan516 5 months ago 16
@ChaseManhattan516 Not that it matters, but that's a female voice :)
HiAdrian 1 month ago
@ChaseManhattan516 : thought the same thing. Such a beautiful moment.
selvmordspilot 3 weeks ago
@ChaseManhattan516 gave me the chills hearing him.
toocoolotool218 3 weeks ago
@ChaseManhattan516 A man? That sounds like a woman to me...
TukenNuken 4 days ago in playlist Liked videos
Alan watts teachings should be manditory in schools.
EDLFC 6 months ago 2
Wow
Bucjones 6 months ago
God wins. Science fails. Deal wif it
kgsolaman5000 6 months ago
imTOUGHonline: A chemical substance is not the same thing as a mystical experience. Just like meditation is not the same thing. They are "Upayas" or tools.
As for the "why", the question implies an underlying reason or a grand scheme. We ask this question because in Western languages there cannot be an effect without a cause, a verb without a subject. But these are laws of grammar, not physics.
InDunadan 6 months ago
@InDunadan Have you ever tried DMT (aka the spirit molecule)?.I am pretty sure you haven't or you would know the following. Many believe DMT is released during death causing nde's and it is also thought to be responsible for dreaming in particular the REM state, by Dr. Rick Strassman. I understand what you mean, but I assure you it is a profoundly mystical experience. None like you have ever known I promise you. If we figure out this molecule we will have some big WHYS answered.
imTOUGHonline 6 months ago 3
Alan watts I love him!
SuperHappyCakesHehe 6 months ago
24:35 "we don't know how these mystical experiences happen" Mr Watts I suggest you explore dimethyltryptamine, there is your how. But as for the why or what a few of us are still trying to figure out those questions.
imTOUGHonline 6 months ago
@imTOUGHonline A glimpse nothing more. Short cut's as simple as ingesting a drug is just enough to give you an idea you'll have to get rid of. lol And believe me... I've had my glimpse.
Abasiaj 2 months ago
@Abasiaj All glimpses are not the same. Mine felt like I ingested 1000 years of information in a few minutes...DMT is thought to be the chemical released when all these barley know phenomena happens. When taken you know you have stepped outside....and when you return to your chemically balanced state you don't feel as human as you did before you went in. The scary thing is when you go out on these trips you know you have done this millions of times before without drugs, but don't know when.
imTOUGHonline 2 months ago
@imTOUGHonline I've dosed, completely de-solved into nothing, and everything.... and have a very sharp recall of what I can only describe as shards of my own ego falling back into place as I remembered who and where I was on the come down. A breakthrough is a breakthrough, some breakthroughs involve alien entities, that's not really the true meaning of enlightenment. A powerful glimpse, yes.... but insofar as real satori... negative.
Abasiaj 2 months ago
@Abasiaj You your totally right, I have had the ego death where I felt as if I had been living a different life for eternity old to fade back into this existence....been show I could be erased from existence, not just killed but erased all I have done. Another ego death I was shown I am everything and it wasn't a great feeling it was as if we are all travelling back to one source, but the feeling was of emptiness I am the only thing that ever will exist nothing above,below or beside me I am it
imTOUGHonline 2 months ago
I wish Alan watts was still alive to ring up the Atheist Experience and OWN them.
topbluffa1 6 months ago 2
Veeeery good. The music was not distractively on top like in many Alan Watts videos. Thank you for this - I feel reshreshed.
voltagetoe 6 months ago
Feels good man
Chemicallobodomy 6 months ago 2
thank you for sharing...i learned a lot in an hour more than i learned at school for a year...
Chriz9ine 6 months ago
Alan Watts is the essence of authenticity...so tuned-in, so clever, yet humble enough to realize the puzzle is too big to totally comprehend. And as a HUGE believer in the idea of Perennial Philosophy, I really appreciate what he said from 34:04 - 36:00...it's pure philosophical gold, 24 karats of truth! Magnificent upload...many thanks!
TruthJockey 6 months ago 2
lmao @ 39:31 What a tripper!
LordShivasServant 7 months ago
Here is the question I have, Watts says that everything has a Yin and a Yang, and that you can't understand what is dark if there is only light. Then, seemingly contradictory, he says that nothing is NOT god. So, what exactly does being god mean? That it simply exists? If god is a form of creativity, then shouldn't boredom ("the enemy of creativity") be an example of NOT god?
dratsabREVIEWS 7 months ago 6
@dratsabREVIEWS If god were to be a form of creativity then it might be correct. Things is, god isn't a form of anything - everything is a form, or pattern if you will, of god; That's why nothing is NOT god.
Creativity, just as any definition can be understood only in terms of its opposite, in this case its Boredom; which has nothing and everything to do with god; to me its just the other side of creativity, 2 poles of the same magnet.
plague613 7 months ago 13
@plague613
how good to talk about far away and unknown subject.
wouldn`t you consider constipation or not able to create as opposite of creativity, instead of boredom? i think boredom is one of the opposites of peace, which is a higher realm than creativity.
Arlichsson 4 months ago
@plague613 we’ve always had a God that we know even if we did not ever formily meet him…
So just wait. When you get to the end and you just realize. You are God and you shall have reached your true enlightenment. You’re a story tell. You are perfect and creative in your imperfections and therefor you are always trying to change and correct your mistakes for good. You God for infinity always strives to be perfect and improve on his design no matte how random that may me. That is how we evolve.
AStyleProductions 4 months ago
@dratsabREVIEWS isnt everthing that exists God? good bad and indifferent?
daudmc 7 months ago
@daudmc But then, how do you define what is god? The definition for god becomes "that which simply exists". Pantheism, as far as I remember, was basically invented (by Baruch Spinoza) to express atheism using the word God in place of mother nature, so that there would be less controversy. Calling everything that exists god doesn't make sense from an Occam's Razor point of view.
dratsabREVIEWS 7 months ago
@dratsabREVIEWS I would like to talk with you more about this but am neither educated nor knowledgeble on the subject I only know what I feel. Please respond if you can enlighten me
daudmc 6 months ago
@dratsabREVIEWS I think such a deist god would be understod deity-wise as Apollo or Lucifer, rather than THE God (ie Yahweh or Odin). After all, god is the Word and is supposed to have a magical quality.
natmanprime 6 months ago
@dratsabREVIEWS It would help to think "Tao" when you hear Watts say "God". That Creativity/Yang and Boredom/Yin together are the Tao. Then you could ask what is the opposite of the Tao... I'm not even sure Watts know this.
LordShivasServant 7 months ago
natmanprime 6 months ago
@dratsabREVIEWS yin and yang positive n negative etc, its all based on polarity. Only undeveloped minds believe that duality is a necessity for experience. When you progress you will understand there is no need for evilbefore you can enjoy good.
TheVariableConstant 6 months ago
@TheVariableConstant That is a philosophical stance, which I shan't argue for, or against. But, we are talking semantics here, for the English language to have function, words need clear definitions and contrast.
dratsabREVIEWS 6 months ago
@dratsabREVIEWS I get your point on semantics, but semantics is created by intelligence. It evolves with the development of the understanding of the said group. So whether you prefer to look at the semantic necessity of contrast or not, it all boils down to the level of progress. It's a bell curve of sorts, It starts with ignorance where polarity/definition/contrast is the highest point the graph peaks at, ends with understanding of the redundancy of polarity and acceptance of harmony and unity.
TheVariableConstant 6 months ago
@dratsabREVIEWS god is the expression of every single thing period. Everything you can think of, and your capacity to think in it itself. Everything you can experience. There is only god. This is oneness.
lgarvey 6 months ago
@lgarvey proof of god
zingerdinger113 5 months ago
@dratsabREVIEWS in this version of reality there are fragmented parts of Tao (God). Not a guy but Universal energy. Whether we are mainly Yin (female) / Yang (male) energy we are pieces of Tao. taken in totality all of the energies in the universe are in perfect harmony but from our limited perspective we see duality - Yin/Yang. there is no good or bad simply differences in energy and changes in states of being or God-consciousness. when we realize we are Tao we realize duality is illusion.
vastawake 5 months ago
Alan does mistakenly say that boredom is the Yin opposite of Yang creativity but this is a mis-statement. Boredom is a choice like anything else. The Yin opposite of creativity if you look at any I Ching is Receptivity. You can be in a state of Receptivity & not be bored. Boredom is a feeling. Receptivity is the opposite of Creativity. He does later state if you want to make "hell of it, or heaven of it." so it is with boredom.
vastawake 5 months ago
@dratsabREVIEWS ... why only define "God" (I prefer "All" but any word is an idol) as 'creativity'? You can't have "all creativity" without some "more boring" background for comparison. If every moment were spent experiencing only amazingly creativity, this whole situation would itself become a "field of boredom" - and a really "dull moment" would be a very interesting thing ;-). 'All' contains the interplay of static fertile background and active detailed focal points of "interesting things"
pugcasso 5 months ago in playlist Alan Watts
part 2 ... it's like in space, we name and define various objects. We consider space as 'just nothing' (you can call it "boredom"). Without space for "interesting focal points" or "creations" to be found in, you couldn't have objects. So the space is just as important as the "creations". Usually we ignore "nothing" or "no thing" as unimportant - like the paper of a book is 'merely' the surface and the words are the only important thing but you can't have the words without a surface.
pugcasso 5 months ago in playlist Alan Watts
@dratsabREVIEWS God is whole
seigneurvoland666 5 months ago
@dratsabREVIEWS I think you should see god as the background/space/foundation of everything, including but not limited to boredom and creativity.
Djanti0204 4 months ago
@dratsabREVIEWS if god didnt include everything, then it wouldnt be god
paculand 4 months ago
God is a metaphor for what is beyond these opposites. It can't be made into a concept itself. But, what happens to you when you reach the end of your rational analytical thinking about the world. If you become utterly frustrated by trying to "get it", what happens? You'll have to find that out for yourself. You're right, god is essentially a meaningless concept, but that's the whole point. It's a tool used to coax you out of trying to find the meaning of life, so you can finally live it.
egiordano 3 months ago
@dratsabREVIEWS you are attempting to use semantics to verify your own belief system, but this is just a game.
Dave9309 2 months ago
@dratsabREVIEWS I can't speak for everyone, bot boredom is usually a spark for my creativity, not an enemy of it...
IronChuck 1 month ago
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TheIgnoramus 1 month ago
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@dratsabREVIEWS The term God is accepted by almost all people ( some dont call it God but its the same thing) as the creator of the universe.. Birds create nests, Beavers build damns, and im sure you can think of countless other examples.. We are all part of that creation.. which is what he is attempting to explain.. even when you are bored.. you are creating that feeling....
TheIgnoramus 1 month ago
@dratsabREVIEWS The forces of the yin/yang are apparent in the world of illusion, but ultimately are conjoined and complement one-another in unity. Alan talks of God as being everyone and everything, and could therefore be interpreted as not either yin/yang, but these forces united. Therefore God isn't just yang and therefore has an opposing yin, God is the unity of the Yin and the Yang.
I don't know if that's correct or how Alan would respond, that's just my interpretation :)
vilxan 1 month ago
im only 16 n im sure i mite not be able to comprehend what he saying compared to most of u but wow this is amazing it really got me thinking
zingerdinger113 7 months ago 2
want simple , robert anton wilson
rehabib2 7 months ago
perfect !
collector619 7 months ago
makes a lot of sense, thx
blueskyrider008 8 months ago
Thank you, the background to Alan at his best was just right Mr plague! how many times do we find some really interesting Alan Watts text's and we are bombarded with some sort of new age cacophony that only makes understanding in various contexts very difficult. This 'light' background give a nice and subtle ambience!
DavidHarber 8 months ago
Thank you
DavidHarber 8 months ago
Thank you
DavidHarber 8 months ago
What is the song used?
TheTCProductions 8 months ago
makes no sense
PrRican973 8 months ago
@PrRican973 i suppose you need to have a little backround knowlege on the subjects involved ( psychology, philosophy, theology etc... ) for it to make sense, although Alan Watts tends to simplify these ideas considerably.
MrAudiovideodisco 8 months ago
@PrRican973 u just dont understand
zingerdinger113 7 months ago
wow spectacular the teaching was great and he took the time to answer every question there, no matter how ridiculous it seemed. truly remarkable. his way of thinking is just so complicated yet so simplistic at the same time. Great video!! Thx for posting.
dak00lestnerd 9 months ago 2
Thank you for this. Well done.
meXXXicon 9 months ago
Thank you.
AUQUA123 9 months ago
alan watts>>>>>>deepockets chopra
doctorHOUSE 9 months ago
@doctorHOUSE Chopra is such a fucking charlatan. Even as an atheist, I'm a huge fan of Watts but a huge disliker of Chopra. The fraud. If you're going to be involved in spirituality, it has always seemed to me that Watts is superior to anyone else I've ever known to learn it from.
StAndAl0neCompl3x 8 months ago 12
@StAndAl0neCompl3x i like anyone who makes me think
rehabib2 7 months ago
@StAndAl0neCompl3x I agree with your views of Watts, as a fellow atheist. I don't get anything from Chopra at all. I haven't listened to enough Chopra to go where you go but I from everything that i have heard from him, I''d agree. Stick with Watts.
DNAblues 4 months ago
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In the Name of Allâh, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
قل هو الله احد (1)
Say (O Muhammad (Peace be upon him)): "He is Allâh, (the) One
الله الصمد (2)
Allâh-us-Samad (The Self-Sufficient Master, Whom all creatures need, He neither eats nor drinks)
لم يلد ولم يولد(3)
He begets not, nor was He begotten. (3
ولم يكن له كفوا احد(4)
And there is none co-equal or comparable unto Him."(4
May Peace Be With You All
StillLibya4Libyans 9 months ago
Thank you, so much! Alan Watts is unbelievably wise, I'm so thankful for being able to listen to these conversations.
confusedseth 10 months ago 3
alan motherfuckin watts
diogeneslaertius666 11 months ago 78
@diogeneslaertius666 This is what I hear in my head everytime I hear or say his name. Glad I'm not the only one.
Futant55 4 months ago
HAPPINESS!
And by what name may the song be found?
Comcouveflor 11 months ago
Sheer genius married to youtube perfection - thank you for creating such an elegant and superbly beautiful piece - the music and the visuals were up to the message which, as always from this most beautiful mind - was profound and sublime. Love it!
Thanks again...
MarcVbytheSea 1 year ago 9
@MarcVbytheSea - yes thank you so much this video is wonderful
ngonea 9 months ago
The best!
Jayoung1000 1 year ago 5
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shinkusoto 1 year ago
That was truly amazing.....that really brought many things together for me
KTMONEY100 1 year ago
Alan Watts' discussion on the Book of John is what woke me up!! This particular version is the best I've heard yet, thank you so much for posting it! I'll show all my loved ones!
achozenshaman 1 year ago
then end of the video *sparkles* with wisdom haha thanks again
Samadhiization 1 year ago
Thanks for this video highly appreciate this. God bless!!!!!
storminator1 1 year ago
Thank you for this post, and thank Alan Watts for digging talking enough to leave behind so much pure wisdom for us westerners to be with.
3AtomicJabez8 1 year ago
A perfect sharing!
cathyginter 1 year ago
Your creations are appreciated, and make a difference. Good job my friend.
64amped 1 year ago 2
this is very deep, the edge of philosophy..
PsychedelicznySzaman 1 year ago
wow
o0oNaturalOneo0o 1 year ago 2
beautiful
advaita333 1 year ago 26
Thank you for sharing this
RP08FootSoldier 1 year ago 2
Thank you very much for sharing Alan Watts with us. More of us should have listened to him while he was alive. You are helping to keep his message going: think for yourself.
Dragon33304 1 year ago 2
sweet upload...
alonealotta 1 year ago 3