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  • Thank you, I will watch this many times.

  • what??

    

  • I AGREE WITH YOU TOTALLY !!!!!!!....A NEW FASHIONABLE WAY TO MAKE YOU SUFFER TO GET THE HEAVEN... LOSE YOUR SOUL !!!!!!!!!!.... very stupid

  • This is all exactly what I have come up with. I have neve runderstood superficial theists, they have made no sense, but it does not automatically lead to total abandonment of wisdom etc, like more than a few atheists are willing to do without question. I have always wanted to know more, and I have had to do it myself, sicne noone has ever taught me realisstically. It is good to have osmeone reinforce my thoughts so I can feel more at ease with them.

  • Each person needs to look to their own spiritual health instead of finding fault with the way others choose to deal with theirs.

  • 'Gnosis'

    Freaky.

  • Beautiful ending.. appreciate the upload.. many thanks :)

  • I found Robert anton Wilson, Timothy leary and now watts. what other reading is there?

  • @thymegadeth

    Try Manly P Hall

  • @thymegadeth : Nietzsche

  • Bravo!!!!!!!

  • Alan Watts was a modern Jesus.

  • ...love that moves the sun and other stars... Nice ending. Great upload!

  • Christ never came to make us all one.

    "He will put the righteous people on his right and the others on his left. Then the King will say to the people on his right, "Come you that are blessed by my Father! Come and possess the kingdom which has been prepared for you ever since the creation of the world." Mat. 25.33-34

    Righteous simply means being right.

    For the definition of Love read: 1 Corinthians 13.

    You have one lifetime to find the truth and we are here to help.

  • @SubtleShapeShifter John 17:20"My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: 23I in them and you in me.

  • What I find interesting is that his usage of the term 'love', as well as the hindu usage of the formulation of atman=brahman, parallels the Gnostic idea of man being filled with a spark of Pleroma, as well as Thelema.

  • Great video; I don't think I have ever heard an Alan Watts recording with such top notch sound quality. Thanks a lot for the post

  • God bless you for posting this video. Thank you.

  • thank you for posting this , i came o cross Alan watts wile looking up Alan watt .... still vary interesting thanks :)

  • this lecture actually contributed to me returning to catholicism a few years ago, thanks for posting.

  • Please explain how because I was thinking Mr. Watts basically conveys that Catholicism greatly "contributed" in the distortion of the true meaning of Christ.

  • Check out his book called behold the spirit, which pretty much shows that christianity is all about losing the ego and how lots of mystical writers like st. thomas aquinas and st. paul thought so too.

    Also, religious orders like the franciscans and trappists would pretty much agree with watts. The problem is that most catholic laity have a very different opinion about christ and there the ones with the big mouths. You have to wade through a lot of bs to really find the beauty of catholicism

  • @cdphatty

    Its the way it has been interpreted in my opinion, thats why I did'nt return to the church after my "cosmic" experience.

    I was blind to it, i didnt understand it, now I can see. I see the church as blind people leading the blind.

    No offence meant.

  • i agree, but the system of symbols and mythology in place is actually very effective in delivering spiritual realization. the problem is the people in charge don't know how to read and look past the symbols. however, i did (with a lot of help from watts, buddhists, and doctors of the church), and even though it has its flaws, i've chosen it as my spiritual path, because it fits me best.

    there are many ways up the mountain, but only one summit.

  • @cdphatty

    St James version:

    Matthew 13:

    3-13

    (Emphasis on 13!)

  • before you discuss religion with anyone tell them to listen to all six og these videos

  • "Every extreme attitude is a fight from the self." ~Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983~

  • @StevenVisible "every extreme attitude is a *flight* from the self" --eric hoffer

    don't mean to nitpick but it's an important mistake

    makes more sense now

    : )

  • These videos are out of order. They should be heard in this order: part 1, part 2, part 5, part 4, part 3, part 6. This series of videos is a great "sermon" all need to hear. Thank you for posting.

  • no they are not the last sentence is repeated in the beginning of the next

  • To add to it is to complicate and mask it

    To subtract from it is to simplify and deduce it

    Disguised, it reveals itself

    Exposed, it conceals itself

    To mask it is to complicate it

    To presume it is to simplify it

    Not adding, it remains consistent

    Not subtracting, it remains consistent

  • Thank You.

  • To uncover the construction is to discover it

    To discover the destruction is to uncover it

    In the ecstasy of ignorance, it is discovered

    In the bondage of knowledge, it forever remains undiscovered

    No description can encapsulate or describe it

    I know it for I am a manifestation of it

    By naming or describing it, I deceive myself of it

  • Thank You.

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  • Alan watts is the man!!

  • Never have I heard it put so clearly and succinctly the reservations that I share about this belief system that I was bought up in. The exclusivity question has always been a sticking point for me. A loving, virtuous person is going to be tortured forever just for being born into a region where their indoctrination from birth isn't christian? Pure Arrogance! Sorry, Ramohog just started pushing my buttons there. I for one amhereto learn from mistakes, not pay for sins. Otherwise,what's the point?

  • Thanks much appreciated!

  • Anything you believe in will always be true for you.

    be careful not to fall into viral traps of self-perpetuating systems that are deleterious to your health while in Reality. today.

  • The Nag Hammadi texts are the Gnostic texts including most of the books excluded from the canonical bible at the council of Nicaea where Roman Emperor Constantine and a load of Bishops declared cherry picked their version of Christianity which is mostly Pauline, original Christianity is entirely Gnostic and Gaia Sophia...Sophia literally meaning Wisdom, was essentially that in Gnostic parable 'WISDOM'! Early Christianity was all analogy, the laughing Jesus story was poking fun at literalists...

  • ...as early as the 1st Century!

  • Jesus said continue in my word and the truth will set you free. His Words are spirit and life, since he is the light of life. We only become one with the divine through impartation of the Holy Spirit. That's what was prophecied and taught and fulfilled by Jesus. This whole talk is truth with a twist which only comes from one source. Sad to see people fall for this foolishness. Probably because they have not investigated things for themselves.

  • 'Sad to see people fall for this foolishness. Probably because they have not investigated things for themselves.' - At least you advocate self-exploration, sounds a little Gnostic to me, However upon this principle perhaps you should subscribe and you can explore 'for yourself' my other videos and lectures, and enlighten yourself furthermore, perhaps we can even agree on certain principles, since agreement is a manifestation of altruism which is the opposite of the root of all sin: egoism ??

  • Well blind faith does not please God. He send His Son and His Spirit, to reveal His infinate wisdom. God's Word is the only way to test the spirits. If you don't filter the truth through God's Word you will be deceived. It is just the foundation and has stood the test of time. It is also extremely relevant to current events. Jesus gave His life so we might live. Rejecting what He has done is not good.

    Selfishness is indeed the worst sin. It's about pleasing God and others reflecting back to u

  • Selfishness is not the Worst Sin, it IS the ROOT of ALL SIN, think about it, all sin derives from selfishness, from egoism, from the rejection of the Kingdom of God, which is within, which is the rejection of your infinite nature, the Divine Light with which we are all imbued. The Universal truth doesn't exist within a single paradigm, it must be multi-paradigmatic, thus to be privy to it requires a multi-paradigmatic approach, none is 'right' or 'wrong' but all possess pieces of the puzzle.

  • Indeed the kingdom of darkness is based in selfishness and operates by fear. Perfect love casts out fear.

    The upcoming new age evolving consciousness movement is ancient eastern mysticism in a new coat. Abraham had to leave this in order to get in covenant with God. Spiritism is forbidden in the Bible, since it is opening yourself up to the spirit realm, where Satan will present himself as an angel of light. Saying Jesus was a liar and implying that his death was meaningless is not wise.

  • Indeed the kingdom of darkness is based in selfishness and operates by fear, I agree. Perfect love casts out fear, thus Perfect Love is the opposite of selfishness/egoism. Therefore Love operates by altruism, and the realisation that individuality is illusory, that all human consciousness is unitary; the same thing. This is the Divine Light, which in its nature is unindividuated, it only becomes individuated when it is imbued within a physical animalistic vesel; the Human Being.

  • Jesus represents God in physical form. He saves on the Father's behalf. We need to abide in His agape love and keep His commandments. We need to die to our selfish lustful nature, and need to be cleansed from sin in order for the Holy Spirit to move in. This is the only way to get born again and to see the Kingdom of God.

    There is a way that seems right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. Jesus is the way the truth and the life. Confirmed by the Holy Spirit of promise.

  • No He's not, and if you paid any attention to what this man said, you would have heard that even the actual Gospels say otherwise.

  • This man takes Scripture out of context to fit his own beliefs. That's one of the oldest tricks in the book.

  • What is the right context of scripture? Why would a text to be read for divine inspiration/instructions have any specific context at all, well other than the readers own? Observations may be similar but not identical so quoting scriptures within a right context is next to impossible.

  • False teaching is taking one verse and building your own doctrine on it. Scripture is clear and consistent. It always explains itself and not open for any private interpretation. Everything is backed up by prophecy and the law of first mention. Alan Watts is just one of many deceivers being deceived himself. Jesus warned us to take heed that no one deceives you.

    Jer 17:5 Thus said the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from the LORD.

  • Then false teaching is more or less the only teaching. Words are encoded thoughts and ideas. They need to be decoded and understood by a consciousness in order to be true and that decoding is subjective and so the truth.

    You would need to read scripture in its original language. Not only that, you'd need to understand it in the same way as the person writing it at the time.

    If the lord is in you, you don't need to worry about context you'll get it when you see/hear/experience or even need it.

  • Words are spiritual containers with either constructive or destructive force. That's why we need to test the spirits whether they are from God or not.

    God says what He means and He means what he says, the general guidelines are easy to understand. When it comes down to the nitty gritty then it is good to study the original language.

    The physical senses can be deceiving. That's why God has given us His Word, so we will not be emotionally ruled away from His perfect will for your life.

  • Words don't contain anything until they're observed by someone. They're meaning is generated by the reader not the other way around. This is cause and effect, whether you grasp what the author meant at the time depends on you frame of reference.

  • The Words of Jesus are spirit and life. To reject them will have spiritual and eternal consequences. There is no mistake on why He came and what He meant. It is all being backed up by prophecy, and not open for any private interpretation.

  • OH GOD DAMMIT NOT YOU AGAIN!!!!

  • This is no coincedence. Jesus really does love you. The Holy Spirit is the highest form of spirituality. Seek and you shall find.

  • That may be entirely true but then we're not talking about the same kind of words here. By your reasoning and my understanding of it you could then read scripture on piece of paper in a language you don't normally speak or even understand and have the words induce your being and inspiration to the holy spirit? If that is not what you mean than we're talking about words as understanding, which specifically happens in your consciousness and is subject to you, and you feel blessed and thus you are.

  • The Bible is the foundation of spiritual truth, so we can test the spirits whether they are from God. Everything going away from it is not from God.

    There is however a Word behind God's Word revealed by the Holy Spirit, which makes it personal for you. It will never change the foundation and it will always line up with it, otherwise it is not from the Holy Spirit.

    Breakthrough comes by hearing from God through revelation knowledge followed by corresponding action.

  • What works for You or those like You is not always going to work for someone else or others. Give it a fucking rest already. Please. The way You carry on, you may as well go ahead and a$k people for their money to Support your cau$e.

  • you seem to know so much about others. can you kindly tell us who you are?

  • Layz:] I'm a born again child of the most High God. Filled with His love, wisdom and comfort through impartation of His Holy Spirit by faith in Jesus Christ.

  • Well, You may not like it, but not everyone agrees that that is the only way to get to "Heaven" or whatever may or may not lay beyond this place. I don't care what this or that book says. Jesus is not the only Spiritual Path out there.

  • There is a way that seems right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. Jesus is the way, the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father then through Him. If you think otherwise then go ahead. Knowing that you call Jesus a liar, Bible prophecy insignificant and miss your eternal destiny. The Holy Spirit is the only true spirit quide, all other spirits are lying deceiving spirits to keep you away from true enlightment, so you never be able to come to the full knowledge of truth

  • @Ramohog

    Truth and knowledge differ in nature. Truth is self evident. All the rant you make is not necessary. Knowledge on the other hand is anchored by ego, which is what you portray. This also is self evident. You are crumbling under your own weight by all the jesus and holy spirit rant. Truth relates to truth. Truth has no authority over good and evil but saints like you do. You read but dont understand. You hear but you dont listen.

  • Wisdom shines light on knowledge and brings understanding, but without spiritual discernment you can still be deceived. The Holy Spirit leads and guides into all truth, so God gets all the glory, because with Him I would still be in darkness and susceptable for mind control based on wordly philosophy and vain deceit. Alan Watts is a deceiver being deceived himself. He makes all kind of wrong assumption based on lack of understanding or falsefied facts. He that has an ear, let him hear!

  • Still seems You are under mind control of a different sort. You are allowing a book to tell You, essentially, "Believe this, or else!" Also, if it is, indeed, all true that if, because I don't subscribe to the bible teachings, and because of that CHOICE I am indeed going to suffer forever, then that has nothing to do with You or anyone else who wants to try to "save" me. It's between Myself and that which all Being stems from.

  • We are all under mind control and we all believe something. My brian in cleansed and renewed by the truth, causing a well ballanced sound mind, so you can't easily be deceived by the subliminal subconscious. We indeed need to investigate what we believe in, and let the real facts convince you of the truth. God gave us a head to think a heart to love and hand to work. When you use them right they will lead you to the God of the Bible, backed up by prophecy.

  • There is no solid evidence about The Bible or Jesus being "The Way" outside of the bible. You've no other reference points outside the bible. Those that follow the bible say everything else is wrong. Those that follow The Koran say the same about those that do not subscribe. Same with Mormons. Same with Jehova's Witnesses. I never said Jesus was a liar. You assume too much. I merely pointed out that the bible and Jesus are not the only ways to "truth". It's merely my opinion.

  • Since the Bible is a more sure Word of prophecy, and God declares the end from the beginning, we do have solid evidence that the Bible is getting it right all the time. History is God's answer to our question. When you study Bible prophecy and history and current events then the Bible is 100% accurate on everything. But if you never study it and let the evidence convince you, then you will never know. The Bible exposes every false religion and ideology, including Christianity.

  • "to keep the people poor and dumb and easy to control." That's what your religion has been doing for centuries. And when people disagree with it, they either get killed or told they'll suffer forever. Yep. Sure is "Godly". lol. "let the evidence convince you.." The bible is not the first book to prophecy certain events. Even "occult" books have done that, and still do. Neither you, me, nor anyone else KNOWS if a "God" even exists. Prove what You are saying is true WITHOUT ANY BIBLE REFERENCES.

  • I don't have a religion. I have a relationship with the most High God. The Holy Spirit gives instant enlightment and leads and guides you into all truth. I have studied comparative religion, the cults and the occult in relation to history. I know what I'm talking about. The dark side and their history and agenda is actually more proof then Bible prophecy. The main goal is to keep you in spiritual darkness, so you will never reach your ultimate destiny. Do your research, and wake up.

  • Again, You are no different than any other dogmatist. Christianity IS a cult. I am awake. I've done my research. I don't need You, or any other "savers", as mediators. If everything is a part of "God", & if we are "made in His image" already, then there is no need to "be saved", and what You are saying is moot. If "God" Loves all equally, then I need not "be saved", because "God" Loves Me already the way I am. Nice try. Try again. And again. As it is in trying that You fail already.

  • You have bought the mind controlled new age gnostic lie. You will be proven right by the alien gospel, to lose your soul for eternity. Alan Watts is a deceiver, because he twists the facts, so gullible fools will by the lies, because they have not done their research. You need to be cleansed from sin, so the Holy Spirit can move in, without God's Holy Spirit you will always be blinded for the real truth, so you will miss your eternal destiny. That's why Jesus came and that's what he preached!

  • Again, Jesus is not the only way to "God". God is all around. I, amongst many, don't need to "go to" the bible (which, more than any other "holy book", has been altered throughout the centuries) to See & Feel it. You've nothing to back up what You are saying other than a book that has been altered and reconstructed with footnotes to explain to peoplke who are too dull to See that God is already all around us. I never said Buddha was "the way". You avoided my inquiry, also, about Buddha as evil.

  • It has not been altered. The dead sea scrolls are proof of that. Another wrong assumption on your part. I have history, science, archaeology and the highest moral standards to back up what I'm saying. Buddha was a mystic using the technique of emptying your mind so demonic forces can come in and mislead you to hell. It is derived from Babylonian mysticism, like the new age and is a deception taking you to the wrong destination.

  • No? Why so many "versions" of the bible, then? So, you ARE saying the Buddha is, essentially, "evil"? lol. Oh please. The things You refer to as "New Age" have been around for centuries. Long before Your Bible was ever constructed. I suppose You will say Taoism is also a deception, because it doesn't fit into Your Xtian Dogmatic standard. ANYTHING that doesn't stem from the realm of Xtianity is, in your view, evil and wrong. What a fucking crock. Wanna' see true evil? Look to The Pope.

  • Everything derived from ancient eastern Babylonian mysticism. New age is just old beliefs in a new coat. This is just another Jesuit/ illuminati deception brought back to life. The Bible calls this mystery Babylon, which is prophecized to deceive the world at the end of this age. There is only one true Bible version (1611 KJV) based on the textus receptus backed up by 5556 ancient manuscripts. The new age Bible alexandrian Bible versions, are altered by the occulties Wesctott and Hort.

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  • Illuminati? You actually believe that conspiracy? You are allowing Yourself to appear paranoid. Oh, and do tell Me what Egyptian Trinity/Triad Myth came BEFORE the Christ Trinity Myth Legend, or have You forgotten in your homework and digging? Do tell us all what came before Christ. Oh, and do prove that what You say about Jesus being the "only path" as true without resorting back to referencing ANYTHING having to do with The Bible. Yeah, I said I was done, but this is too much fun. That rhymes!

  • The history and plan of the illuminati is very well documented. Look at the back of the dollar bill, look at the UN logo. It is a definate luciferian Jesuit freemason conspiracy, that is systematically planned out. You are right about the unholy trinity. It is a deception of father, mother and son. That's why the Catholics worship Mary. Satan has laid down a minefield of deception cloacked into Christianity by the gnostics. If you study the enemy, then you will know Jesus is the only way.

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  • And do tell us all, who is "the enemy"? Anything that is not Jesus? lol.

  • 2:Just as it is the opinion of thousands of Christians that their system is the "true way".Ever looked into the history of Christianity?Ever read and studied just how brutal it has been to those that disagreed with it?If you disagree so much with what Alan Watts has to say,or what myself and others are saying,then why even bother responding around here at all,if for no other reason than to try and "save",or convert,people to the way of thinking to which You,and many,have so chosen to subscribe.

  • You wil never understand anything if you don't know that the Catholic church is a conjured up gnostic Babylonian deception, and that every false ideology is set up by the gnostics, to keep the people poor and dumb and easy to control. Jesus said: Love your enemies, overcome evil with good. My kingdom is not of this world, the kingdom of God is within, when the eternal becomes internal so it can be manifested external.

    I can't stand deception, that's why I'm posting comments to wake people up!

  • Again, you are still referring back to the bible. As I have stated, you have no reference point(s), ABSOLUTELY NONE, outside of that. Seems you are the one that doesn't wish to "wake up", considering you follow a book that has been altered more times than pretty much any other. You can't stand deception, and yet, here you are.. continuing to preach on and on about what You agree with, with the hopes others will agree as well.

  • exactly.

  • Anything opposed to God's revealed Word is from the adversary. First making you doubt God's Word followed by the contradiction. Old trick which still works, especially in this apostate day and age.

  • Revealed Word? Oh, more Bible references. See? You can't prove anything without referring back to that. lol. Keep trying.

  • That's because God's Word has stood the test of time, since it is a more sure word of prophecy. Jesus is God in the flesh. Everything against His Words is doomed and has been proven to fail. You will always be clueless if you don't filter the truth through the foundation of truth. Look at the world nothing really works or prospers without honoring the God of the Bible. To think otherwise just proves you have bought some kind of mind controlled lie, to your own destruction.

  • You are still refering to the bible, which proves nothing, save for your ability to refer to an ages-old religious view that is the only one that makes the threat of eternal suffering, unless You follow what it, and NOTHING ELSE, has to say; but it's "All-Loving". If that's not (attempted, yet very successful) mind control, then I pity Your mental position.

  • If you study false worship, the cults and the occult in relation to history and judge the tree by it's fruit then you will come to the same conclusion. You are just in denial, stuffing your face in the sand thinking ignorance is bliss, not knowing that it will kill you. I follow, love, peace, purity, righteousness and the highest moral standards. If that is a poor mental condition to you, than it says more about you then it does about me.

  • Sane people don't make this many comments on one video.

  • @dewsplash I'm just responding on false allgations and wrong assumptions, because I can't stand deception because I know where it will lead to.

  • OK convert me...

  • Seek God earnestly through the words of Jesus, and ask Him for His Holy Spirit. You shall find and you will receive.

  • @Ramohog

    feeling sad for people lol. sad for the ones worshiping the finger that points to the moon. finger=religion sun= God. skip the finger asd look directly to the moon :)

  • Thank you so much for uploading this. Each new piece of Watts-wisdom helps. :)

  • I remember thinking like this even when I was a little kid going to Sunday school. I was being told to "fear God," the tyrant of the Old Testament, and it never sat right with me. One of my Sunday school teachers told us that God is so big that he uses the Earth as a footstool, and I remember laughing, only to discover that the teacher was serious. I just never could believe that people of other religions, including jews, were going to hell. That didn't jibe with what Christ was saying.

  • wow, these are words that all people from any "religion" can take to heart. This sounds a lot like the pre-Christian myth of Gaia/Sophia the Gnostic texts known as the Nag Hammadi. Which BTW the demented version of Christianity which Mr.Watts speaks of, tried to wipe off the face of the earth. If you like what Mr.Watts is saying, I recommend you listen to John Lash has to say about Gaia/Sophia & the Nag Hammadi texts. /watch?v=cUL6JOQ-PC8 is a good place to start.

  • The Gaia Sophia Nag Hammadi texts are a deception from the Vatican. Textual critisism has proven this. They are preconditioning us for the new age antichrist NWO. This will be backed up and confirmed by the exposure of ET life. If you buy into this deception you will loose your soul for eternity.

  • Christianity -- in the form you preach especially -- is the deception. You are a deceiver, an idolator, and a possible threat to humanity itself.

  • Thanks you xcite83 for with Wonderful edit.

    and Thanks to Alan Watts :)

  • Amazing! I'd show it to some Christian family members, but I'm afraid they'd view it as an attack.

  • I have the same problem. It's pretty tough.

  • absolutely delightful series! thank you so much! alan lives on!

  • Thank You so much I really enjoyed these. mystic experience comes in many forms,Only Watts could explain Christ,lol or fanitize, such utter nonsence.lol

    ..And who is to judge??

  • I like how I have find people who thinks, understands and probably have mystic experience of the infinite power field. =)

  • I REALLY enjoyed this.

    Thanks a ton for sharing!

    Where exactly did you get it?

  • Classic Watts, thanks for uploading. Where did you get this?

  • Sent you a personal message.

  • Could you tell me where you got this too?

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