The core problem, demonstrable for its results in history (and in every effort to solve our problems) is PROFIT. It's our core equation and it's irrational (does not add up). You cannot "take more than you give" and expect real well-being for it. So? We have to reclaim the last real power we have left---our daily work, which Profit must have (and by which we become slaves). See WOOP: We the Workers of the World Walk Out On Profit, at jackdempseywriter.wordpress dot c-o-m
We have been living on "borrowed" time. Take a look at the amount of debt accruing now. We have learned to think we can trick the universe into supporting out un-natural concepts of government and economy. Give another year or two before declaring success.
@ArbitraryLifestyle hmmm, you may be right there. personally I think we need to reduce world population to about 1 billion max. But that's gonna be difficult!
@IlRezzonico our ideas of running things are at the dead end. we are still in the slow motion car crash of smashing into that dead in and know we take part in the ending.
You are doing the easiest possible thing you could be doing right now in regards to your Multi-Layered Goal System and how it coexists with all the other Multi-Layered Goal Systems.
Welcome to The Path of Least Resistance (A.K.A. "Life")
While watching this I couldn't help but think "Are we more like nature than we realize" in that we also tend to "repeat" behaviors, situations, history. Nature is mostly made up of mathematical equations, repeating themselves, maybe being lazy and taking the easier path. We too often tend to do similar things. We may change the way we think though different cultures, geographical locations, religions, etc but even in those elements, behaviors, societies repeat themselves throughout history.
evil men will never cease to fight for their power over others, and they will never cease the brainwashing and conditioning of the masses...not until god makes the change, if he ever makes the change...i can only hope he sets us free
Hmm, 1971 and he thought we were at a dead end. I am in 2011 wanting to say the samething, however I feel like I might not be the only one. I feel like idealistics are slowly changing. Bottomline, I feel like our ways are needing to be changed. And to see Alan Watts talking about this, makes me feel like this might just be a phase. A phase that consists of looking around you and seeing how stupid everything is and watching people forcefully trying to make themselves happy by working and spendin
thanks for posting that......i struggle not to see it that the world has gone mad because it cant see wots right there in front of it.....and i do find it hard to cope with seeing them do wot they do.....so it was just nice to hear a friendly voice making sense....
As a indigenous person who has studied the ancient ways for the whole of my life I am stunned at what I have just heard! My heart is filled with hope & joy that this white man has gained understanding to this level. This is something we the ancient ones have tried to teach them for 3,000 yrs even though their ancestors knew this they were murdered by the roman church. But now though they are so very young it seems they are coming into their own! maybe the prophecy is true after all?
Scientists cause the imbalances in the world and then try to balance them out with new technologies because they are not humble enough to realise that nature (or God) is superior and will naturally restore balance. Simply be human and humble enough to let nature (or God) make things happen. Scientists can only observe and play with the lego bricks of the world, they can never create divinity or the lego bricks with which they play with
@Palfy18 But playing with legos is fun. So fun, in fact, that you could end up building things you didn't previously imagine or think possible. That is your brain at work, so to say: playing with nature. It's a very vital way of understanding nature and the universe. That we encode it all in the narrow realm of lines and symbols seems to be the only criticism Watts had for the science and mathematics of his time, despite it effectively saving it for posterity.
Usually I come away feeling so enlightened from these Alan Watts way of thinking, but rather I started asking more questions and put myself more in a slump. You can really sense his libertarian ideals which isn't always a good thing especially concerning today. You can also hear in his tone and expression that he had a very daunting vision of the world at that time. 1971. Which I can understand considering it was the 70's,
There's nothing to "get" intellectually. There's nothing to question, because we all know the answers from birth. We just need to feel and realize it, because the daily lives of most people confuses them to no end when they have these questions.
If you try his lifestyle you will feel what he feels and understand why he feels that way.
And still were asking ourselves how do we change things? Will this problem ever be solved, im so sick of sitting around watching the world fall apart around me, how do we do something about it?
@DubTokess Well, I can only give you my way. Personally, I have stopped eating so much, and lost weight (6 Kilos), I eat dates all day, just snacking on them, picking. Then eat a good meal at evening. I feel so much better. I have begun to write a 'gratitude list' and at the end of the day literally write down the things that I am grateful for within that day. I read that list (scan over it) in the morning. I also try to resist the TV and seek inspirational videos like these on YT. Good luck.
It's seeing what there is, then you will know what to do.
Only when you know your true nature will you see the answer. No one can tell you the answer; it is useless just to know the answer. You have to feel it. Then you'll be the change you want to see in your world.
What we do right now is doing without really seeing.
can we build up a worldwide society, that exists beside nature? that does not interfere with earth processes and always adjusts its structure according to geological change with the highest possible attention to the surrounding? Can we build a community of men that lives upon nature like a 3/4 filled pott of water swimming on a lake?
Our destructive nature is precisely the reason we create most technologies. Not all technologies come from war or the threat or fear of an army coming to kill you and your people. But, most technology is conceived this way. Now, since the whole reason Alan was able to talk to us, after his death, was because of this technology. So, just like ying and yang, technology is the result of creativity at the same time destruction. We all live in a paradox. Don't worry. FIGHT to keep the Internet.
The next time someone says to me "What do you mean you don't watch tv? Why not?" I'll simply refer them to this Alan Watts clip and it's complete awesomeness. It's so great that I can come here and CHOOSE to watch him, vs. television "programming".
@greenfruitface I totally agree with you and am in the same situation. It's just sad to me that I still couldn't find a way to let people realize this, like my friends, family and etc. I'd love to show them how free this feels to at least be able to choose what kind of information I want to have to myself, and not letting others try to decide for me and even worse to brainwash me with media, propaganda and hypnotic crap on TV. If you find a way to help ppl realize this let me know.
@greenfruitface It's really funny but ... I haven't watched tv for over 3 years. I made that conscious decision exactly the way Alan explained it. And now I see this man, 40 years ago say this.
@Avelqual < At one point I didn't watch TV for 6 yrs but it created backlogs of X-files and outer limit episodes; went thru' intense tranformation. Treat AW as a guide map for your journey.
the human race as it is now is kaput, if we dont change we will be gone, the earth will be like a dog shaking a flea of its back and mankind will be the flea
Its been over 30 years since this interview, yet it seems as if he were living in our time.We are so single minded that it could be centuries before we realize that this is the way to live respect for mother earth, if thats what you decide to call it and respect for our fellow living beeings.
we have to stop. everything we put in our bodies or minds makes us slow and stupid cause it's already filled up with everything is already there. turn off the computer, turn off death culture, turn off what doesn't work, turn on you by being with it without judgement only unconditional love, since it's the only frequency that actually works on all levels forever. ..consumer cult-ure is death cult-ure. food/drug same thing. stop eating or die. we are living in the dark ages. "slow and stupid"
haha if he thought humanity was at a dead end in 71, he'd hsit himself to what is going on in 2010... Its like the art of conversation is dead. All people do is stay distant and never touch, and now all they do is text too much.
WHAT DO I DO NOW?! Try and graft myself onto a tree? WHAT?! All of this thinking lacks practicality. It is as if Alan Watts tries whole-heartedly to exist only as a thinking entity, but no-one can do that. If we are to accept all of these premises, which through the natural passage of thought, I, and I assume many others do, how then are we to conduct ourselves? One can only assume we live practically, but then in doing this we are brought right back to the original argument. This is CIRCULAR!
@robert000ooo Haha, your correct. After fully disconnecting, you come right back. You play with that ego of yours. This is the difference. Before, you may have felt your ego as everything, and you really took it very seriously as if it were very final. Now you don't have that problem. You sense the underlying is that remains the same no matter you personal predicament. Go back to work, keep your friends, be as way out practical as you want, because you know its perfectly ok to do so.
@Coola34234 So realistically this is all just a thinking exercise and should have no real practical implications? On one hand though this train of thought might lead someone to the point that living off the land seems the only way to go. I suppose it's all about being inquisitive and curious. This is just where I want to quote my favourite philosophical work ever, A Treatise of Human Nature by Hume. So fit for this occasion.
@robert000ooo Not so much a thinking exercise, there is a very real transformation in consciousness that he is pointing. You could summarize Alan's talks in just a few words. The summery would be something along the lines of "Allow yourself to be completely in tune with the passing of time." Add ego, go out and socialize, but always be aware of yourself locked in time's passing. It drastically improves the quality of your experience. Enlightenment implies experiencing yourself as you are.
This is a reminder that our wonderful technology will always bring us to a dead end. Because we must always manipulate nature and cannot leave well enough alone, we have such crises as the Gulf oil spill.
@ElShadaiLives I read that the evening before, he was playing with a balloon and saying how light it was and such things ..... sometimes I think people die when they are feel deep down that it is The Time to do so. It`s odd that me being 38 years old think about dying and I wonder what its like. I think most people are nervous and sad when they are told they will die soon. I hope I will attain a level where I can actually retain my wonder about life even during that process.
"In October 1973, Watts returned from an exhausting European lecture tour. He died of heart failure in his sleep at his home on Mt. Tamalpais the following month, at the age of 58." src: wikipedia dawt org
@ElShadaiLives I read that the evening before, he was playing with a balloon and saying how light it was and such things ..... sometimes I think people die when they are feel deep down that it is The Time to do so. It`s odd that me being 38 years old think about dying and I wonder what its like. I think most people are nervous and sad when they are told they will die soon. I hope I will attain a level where I can actually retain my wonder about life even during that process.
@zetetic0void I am almost twice as old as you. I'll be in the grave as Yeshua said until the resurection. About that I am positive. All this religious bs about being w/ the El when one dies isn't what the Messiah said. I think I'll go w/ His teachings. Shalom, ESL
@ElShadaiLives Depends on what you consider are the unaltered teachings ... and even then whether teachings are literal or symbolisms pointing to things that can not be directly described in human language. I have read and investigated how even the deeper Jewish mystical teachings speak of reincarnation as continual attempts at learning and refining what is needed and how everything is an extension from the All. I see teachings in Buddhism , Zen, Sufism, Taoism, Kabbalah, Chakras as similar.
part 2 ... and so even with numbers in the Bible and other texts, we must realize that it can be the case that some things can represent symbolic aspects. Even the dimensions given in the Noahs Ark (and even with the older Sumerian Epic of the Epic of Gilgamesh) appear to be geometrically symbolic of deeper meanings in Reality. There are segments in the Bible (which I forget at present) representing the number of the Golden Spiral and other *Sacred Geometry*.
part 3 ... I like how Watts said in other lectures how language biases out thoughts (like the Tao Te Ching says)and we bust be careful of what thoughts and images we cling to in out minds. I feel that deep down in the cores of religions, people there feel that labeling the Ultimate even with any name is a bias and distortion. Any definition, name or attachment you stick to that which you are trying to refer to is a Mental Idol!! Much more misleading than idols made kiof gold, stone or wood!
part 4 ... I also think it is likely very important at a refined deep symbolic way why such things as the symbols of the Four Evangelists are the symbols of the four quandrantary Zodiacal constellations on the Ecliptic associated with the Four Royal Stars of the ancient Persians. Matthew = Winged man = Aquarius : Mark - Lion = Leo : Luke = Ox, Bull = Taurus : John = Eagle = Scorpio (Scorpio is Scorpion, Eagle and Phoenix and Hermetic symbolism is the symbol from which ascension begins)
part 5 ... from my research, symbolically , the ascension from being trapped in a dualistic realm into a higher realization is symbolized within the constellations (as far back as *Atlantean times*) as rising from Scorpius, through Ophiuchus (the hidden 13th zodiacal constellation which could be Christ surrounded by 12 apostles), to Hercules defeating Draco the serpent Ladon guarding the tree of the blissful Apples of Hesperides - the crown chakra symbolized by the North Ecliptic Pole!
part 6 ..But if you research the Greeks story of the 11th Labour of Heracles, he freed Prometheus who had stolen fire from the gods to give to man (so like the serpent in the Garden who promted humans to partake of the Tree of Knowledge) and was chained to the mountains as punishment. Related to this is the story of Pandoras Box which when opened, released all ills upon the Earth but *hope* remained clinging to the box! Heracles frees Prometheus as Christ cancels out original so-called *sin*
part 7... so what are we really talking about. I feel it is the humans ability for thinking that has created a social system where we have become detached from a more grounded living in Reality. Through our cleverness, we invent supposedly useful inventions which also carry with them complex alterations of society which makes us need and crave more complex cures. But what if we could live in the moment , could we re-enter the Garden of Eden in our minds and not care about the past or future.
@zetetic0void Yes, even the priests of Judaism were corrupted. I'll go w/ the greatest teacher of all t ime as recognized by many religions. Immanuel's teachings are good enough for me. Following in his foot steps is my goal. Shalom
@ElShadaiLives greetings - I feel that human language distorts and biases all conceptions of the Ultimate Reality or what some label with the word *God* (perhaps the term *Ultimate Reality* is as biasing as th word *God* as it seems to imply a barren abstract concept whereas *God* implies some grey-bearded idol in the clouds! I want to be extremely careful not to bias any concept of the Absolute with distorted and limited human words - ultimately forgetting all definitions of so-called *God*)
@zetetic0void "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible Universe, forms my idea of God." Albert Einstein (Quoted in the New York Times obituary April 19, 1955)
@zetetic0void People have related experiences of infinite being back into the common cultural pool in fragmented language because you cannot encapsulate infinity with the context of language. Illustrations or representative avatars have come to be out of this inherent ignorance we are all victim to and owe our existence to. I would not say human language curtains the truth, I would say it's a fragment of the whole, which cannot be seen through eyes or understood with the rational mind.
I really enjoy the words of Alan Watts. I personally do take drugs or alcohol even though its endemic in our society. I am not judging Alan Watts I remarking on one element of his life that was detrimental to his existence.
I have experimented myself with alcohol and drugs as a boy, but find it stops me making any progress in my spiritual quest.
@LabRat6619 Your more then welcome to your opinion. Yet I would have to disagree, first of all there's no real point seperating alcohol from drugs, one in the same. I actually sorta disagree, I agree there are drugs out there that are no good on spiritual matters. However I find LSD/Mushrooms/DMT and a few others to be really fantastic ways of moving forward spiritually
@LabRat6619 Nevertheless, you have got to remember that Watts was a human as well as us, like dubconor said, "meaningless" exactly... it was just the end of his life. Maybe, just maybe, he decided to drink himself to death because like a human, he just gave up on humanity. I believe that if he had lived in our times he probably would have done exactly the same thing at a much younger age due to what has become of humanity.
@tristramshandy3 NOTHING GOOD! we're destroying the planet, if you see a little past your nose you'll see the shit-hole humans have created of their surrounding...
@tristramshandy3 oh dont get me wrong mate, i admire the creation much more than you think. Thats exactly why i see what i see. Because humans are destroying the wonderful world we live in.
Buddhist ideology is quite nice and you see the beauty in everything and blah blah, but i see it as a way to blindfolding yourself from the problems that other people cause. We need to be defenders of our planet even if it means to defend it from ourselves.
@vansskaterd Here is my point- you aren't going to save the world. You were born into a dysfunctional world full of idiots, and if you are lucky, you will die in one too. Why spend your life upset and freaking out? I think it's a BIG waste of time.
However, I am glad people like MLK and Gandhi didn't take my bad advice :)
@tristramshandy3 Well point in case. if you "THINK" ( the almighty thing us "humans" do ) that you are not going to save the world. Then in fact you "WONT". Its all a game and tug of war with the body and the mind. Good thing are thoughts become things and are words can be actions not yet commited.
@vansskaterd true but pointing fingers and placing blame is endless and destructive just as much as the actual destruction that is taking place on this here earth. Buddhism is not to blind anyone...quite the opposite..its about awaking ...realization, which is where you have to start. then you can create change....yes just like that.
"And our fundamental self is not something just inside the skin. It's everything around us with which we connect. When you look out of your eyes at nature out happening out there, you're looking at you...that before we think of doing anything in this critical situation, we realize the completely illusory nature of the beings that we think we are, and get back again to the beings that we really are, which includes...all this outside world, no longer left outside." Veritas!
so much clarity in his words based on real questions,observations .. hits u on the soul level .. absolutely loved it but i'm afraid it's kind a difficult to plant these ideas in real life . peace to everyone and God bless
Just watched the whole program. There was a moment in part 1 or 2 in which he speaks of the person as an aperture for the universe to see through, or something to that effect. It made me think of Carl Sagan's quote "We're made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself". When I heard Carl say those words I thought they were completely original, but now I hear Watts say pretty much the same thing, almost a decade earlier. Maybe Carl knew and studied Watts...?
It is a real shame that most western people do not realise how everything is inter-related. What happens to one happens to all.
There IS something drastically wrong with us, the rulership of earth NEEDS to change to one whose ability it is to rule perfectly. WE are not fit to rule ourselves, all we have ever done is kill and desttroy. And yet we are a part of the earth as well.
'It does not belong to man who is walking even to direct his step.'
Well, Nature is what is on top, we are a product of it's imagination. It created us and therefore it is now trying to correct us. For if we aren't going to think about the whole, The whole automaticly tries to correct us by killing us off slowly.
Btw We are fit to rule ourselves but not fit to rule the world. We don't really think of anything but ourselves. Nature isn't something we really think of. We do though think alot of ourselves. But that isn't enough if we are to be as powerfull as we want to be. We can't think of the I if we get into stage two or three in the galactic civilization stages then we ought to change drastically before we even dare open a dialog with any other races that might be out there.
Ego death seems like such a dreadful thing to happen. But I can speak from experience that when it occurs, It is bliss. It is psychological weightlessness. Unfortunately for me, the sensation was fleeting.
It seems that the ego tends to grow back after being shed. I wonder if it is society that stirs it back to life, or whether it's something about being human that does it.
In any case, I think the only conceivable way for it to remain dead would be for it to occur to everyone at once on earth
this is weird. ive never been regarded as smart. or even so myself. but the brilliant thing this man did was explain it in such a simple way anyone can get. this vid is AMAZING
I have translated this videos to spanish. I think his wisdom has to be extended to diferent cultures. Alan change my point of view. Teh way I see life today is different. We build our life in the same way we see de world. We are de world and the universe itself. Looking at me, i'm looking at universe.
i really love how he says (0:42) with a little break: "we are NOW in nighteen seventy ... ONE" :-))) thanx for enabling to SEE alan, as i am often sad about not meeting soul fellows in right time... we founded a little research group in berlin+cologne (prof. peter rech, the art-therapist, and me) and i post infos about watts in a special myspace group. would be glad to know about your support in general, mark!
But essencially this does not matter. We exist in a little bubble that is our lifetime, we only need the planet for this very short time as a person. Before we were born we needed nothing and after nothing!
As for our children (of which I have), there is no problem. As I am still not totally convinced that every sense I feel is all of what could be termed an illusion.
Parasites and symbionts, life and death, pleasure and pain, you dont have one without the other as watts said. Humans just have the ability to DECIDE whether we will continue to operate parasitically or cohesively with our host, earth.
woops! meant to say think of humans (not as JUST parasites) but as *bacteria* (for instance in the human digetsive tract). They are mutually symbiotic in balanced proportion, and left unchecked, parastic in excess. Humans manipulate nature just as other creatures do, but we do it in extreme excess. Due to government agendas, we have become macro parasites.However, parasites are nature just as symbionts are. You dont have the "up" without the "down" as watts said.We just NEED to change the agenda
Alan is able to "see" without his eyes, through his soul. Humanity has moved on, downwards and the end is getting to be a more visual concept.
The human race will die, but the beauty and natural balance of nature will then rule the earth. What a beautiful place it will be with no geometry, no machines, just "wiggly lines".
humans and everything we build IS nature, just as birds building their nests, beavers building their damns, insects building their colonies are nature. We all take nature, and manipulate it into the shapes that our species can see. Humans are just SO good at manipulating that they can manipulate almost ALL of nature to the point where nature is not left, only manipulations of it everywhere you look.
Think of organisms (animals) as cells in a body going through a pre-ordained process everyday until their demise. Each cell lived and did not destroy its host.
The human race is malignant. Most things it does has a bad impact on other animals. Eventually it will have so much impact on itself it WILL destroy itself.
When greed and power became the religion of the masses our future became unsustainable.
Think of humans as the bacteria living within (on) a body called earth. It is an undeniable part of what lives within the larger whole -an essential, mutally symbiotic organism when balanced- or a parasite in unbalanced excess.This is exactly what humans are doing to earth. However, parasitic or mutualistically symbiotic, both are nature, and both are inseperable parts of the whole whether we subjectively like it or not.
Lets remember he's in 1971 the world has gotten alot worse an so many ways but his conclusions couldnt be more true we can see them unfolding before our very eyes we have lost touch with ourselfes and this world and the universe and will soon all pay the price because humanity is on the brink of self destruct mode which seems irreversable.hmm i wonder what ill be in my next life since we are infinite and so is knowledge.
Happy New year. Inspirational thoughts now for the Praxis of being
stampingdragon 1 month ago
there is no ego!!!! wow
FreeBeDrug 1 month ago
The core problem, demonstrable for its results in history (and in every effort to solve our problems) is PROFIT. It's our core equation and it's irrational (does not add up). You cannot "take more than you give" and expect real well-being for it. So? We have to reclaim the last real power we have left---our daily work, which Profit must have (and by which we become slaves). See WOOP: We the Workers of the World Walk Out On Profit, at jackdempseywriter.wordpress dot c-o-m
37Dionysos 1 month ago
Thank god for capitalism.
drtreg 3 months ago
@MrWillyMrJulian agreed brotha
mo1689 4 months ago
40 years ago we were at a dead end. So where are we now?
IlRezzonico 5 months ago 2
@IlRezzonico Dying
rodrigojoseunb 4 months ago
@IlRezzonico
We have been living on "borrowed" time. Take a look at the amount of debt accruing now. We have learned to think we can trick the universe into supporting out un-natural concepts of government and economy. Give another year or two before declaring success.
Teakwood11 4 months ago
@IlRezzonico We're at that dead-end watching the number of people reaching the dead-end pile up on top of the others.
ArbitraryLifestyle 4 months ago
@ArbitraryLifestyle hmmm, you may be right there. personally I think we need to reduce world population to about 1 billion max. But that's gonna be difficult!
IlRezzonico 4 months ago
@IlRezzonico in the shit
freddiedread 4 months ago
@IlRezzonico our ideas of running things are at the dead end. we are still in the slow motion car crash of smashing into that dead in and know we take part in the ending.
TheSleepyFeeling 3 months ago
There is only one path yet it spreads infinity.
There is only one time and that time is now.
You are doing the easiest possible thing you could be doing right now in regards to your Multi-Layered Goal System and how it coexists with all the other Multi-Layered Goal Systems.
Welcome to The Path of Least Resistance (A.K.A. "Life")
RhinoStompin 5 months ago
HA! Alan thinks in 1971 they were at a dead end.. imagine if he were alive today what he'd be saying
Nuthane 5 months ago
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rodrigojoseunb 4 months ago
While watching this I couldn't help but think "Are we more like nature than we realize" in that we also tend to "repeat" behaviors, situations, history. Nature is mostly made up of mathematical equations, repeating themselves, maybe being lazy and taking the easier path. We too often tend to do similar things. We may change the way we think though different cultures, geographical locations, religions, etc but even in those elements, behaviors, societies repeat themselves throughout history.
2661960 5 months ago
@MrWillyMrJulian -Try his his book "This is It"....it features a collection of very wonderful essays.
menstruatingorchid 5 months ago
No one has said it better.
tabletalk33 6 months ago
just watched 1-4 and i didn't understand any of it... :(
TheMightyLu 6 months ago
@TheMightyLu Watch it again. Don't get distracted.
cybersteel8 6 months ago
you will need to listen to more of his talks, you might then be able to grasp what he's saying.
biocybernaut 5 months ago
evil men will never cease to fight for their power over others, and they will never cease the brainwashing and conditioning of the masses...not until god makes the change, if he ever makes the change...i can only hope he sets us free
longfootbuddy 6 months ago
i wanna hang out with him... looks like the biggest chiller
pumitaproductions 6 months ago 2
Hmm, 1971 and he thought we were at a dead end. I am in 2011 wanting to say the samething, however I feel like I might not be the only one. I feel like idealistics are slowly changing. Bottomline, I feel like our ways are needing to be changed. And to see Alan Watts talking about this, makes me feel like this might just be a phase. A phase that consists of looking around you and seeing how stupid everything is and watching people forcefully trying to make themselves happy by working and spendin
2nice79 6 months ago 3
HE KNEW!
FrancineHuygen 7 months ago 9
@ChuckNorrisKratosLOL < I know we all wish that but not always possible - poor physical body. But its a treat for the mind to listen to AW.
Zeno1999 7 months ago
@ChuckNorrisKratosLOL < perhaps you were just not consciously aware. We are beings beyond our skin.
Zeno1999 7 months ago
Let it be.
coffunism 7 months ago
This is fucking deep........................
WayofLiving1 7 months ago
thanks for posting that......i struggle not to see it that the world has gone mad because it cant see wots right there in front of it.....and i do find it hard to cope with seeing them do wot they do.....so it was just nice to hear a friendly voice making sense....
MobiusRoom 9 months ago
As a indigenous person who has studied the ancient ways for the whole of my life I am stunned at what I have just heard! My heart is filled with hope & joy that this white man has gained understanding to this level. This is something we the ancient ones have tried to teach them for 3,000 yrs even though their ancestors knew this they were murdered by the roman church. But now though they are so very young it seems they are coming into their own! maybe the prophecy is true after all?
yahshuah29 9 months ago
@yahshuah29 Maybe there is no such thing as a prophecy, maybe you must arrive to where he is in your own time through your own experience.
JayDee98765 7 months ago
@JayDee98765 Thats a lot of maybe's! By the way he studied under Taoist masters he did not ARRIVE through his own experiences alone!
yahshuah29 7 months ago
@yahshuah29 Maybe's are healthy, answers could always be wrong :P lol ...
What defines a taoist master? Who hands out the credentials...
JayDee98765 7 months ago
@JayDee98765 Disregard I thought you were intelligent my bad! Lol
yahshuah29 7 months ago
@yahshuah29 I did too.
JayDee98765 7 months ago
A mystical traveler who graced the earth for a short period before moving on to another incarnation on another planet in turmoil.
IASOU2005 9 months ago
TRUTH
rcwrider 10 months ago
It's impossible to put it into words, but Watts manages to convey the feeling of the one-ness, because he really connects with your mind.
Be who you really are!
soccom8341576 10 months ago 3
Scientists cause the imbalances in the world and then try to balance them out with new technologies because they are not humble enough to realise that nature (or God) is superior and will naturally restore balance. Simply be human and humble enough to let nature (or God) make things happen. Scientists can only observe and play with the lego bricks of the world, they can never create divinity or the lego bricks with which they play with
Palfy18 10 months ago
@Palfy18 But playing with legos is fun. So fun, in fact, that you could end up building things you didn't previously imagine or think possible. That is your brain at work, so to say: playing with nature. It's a very vital way of understanding nature and the universe. That we encode it all in the narrow realm of lines and symbols seems to be the only criticism Watts had for the science and mathematics of his time, despite it effectively saving it for posterity.
Raveheart90 8 months ago
You've been Watts'd.
ARURTOREYES 10 months ago 2
This video disappointed me -_-
Usually I come away feeling so enlightened from these Alan Watts way of thinking, but rather I started asking more questions and put myself more in a slump. You can really sense his libertarian ideals which isn't always a good thing especially concerning today. You can also hear in his tone and expression that he had a very daunting vision of the world at that time. 1971. Which I can understand considering it was the 70's,
Idk. I still <3 Alan Watts though. . .
RpGJuNki3 10 months ago
@RpGJuNki3
There's nothing to "get" intellectually. There's nothing to question, because we all know the answers from birth. We just need to feel and realize it, because the daily lives of most people confuses them to no end when they have these questions.
If you try his lifestyle you will feel what he feels and understand why he feels that way.
soccom8341576 10 months ago 3
This needs to be shown in schools. It should be one of the most viewed videos on Youtube.
DemonHermit 10 months ago
And still were asking ourselves how do we change things? Will this problem ever be solved, im so sick of sitting around watching the world fall apart around me, how do we do something about it?
DubTokess 1 year ago
@DubTokess Well, I can only give you my way. Personally, I have stopped eating so much, and lost weight (6 Kilos), I eat dates all day, just snacking on them, picking. Then eat a good meal at evening. I feel so much better. I have begun to write a 'gratitude list' and at the end of the day literally write down the things that I am grateful for within that day. I read that list (scan over it) in the morning. I also try to resist the TV and seek inspirational videos like these on YT. Good luck.
CelticReject 1 year ago
@DubTokess Let it fall apart. What happens then?
mazza558 1 year ago
@DubTokess
Watch the video again... again and again.
It's seeing what there is, then you will know what to do.
Only when you know your true nature will you see the answer. No one can tell you the answer; it is useless just to know the answer. You have to feel it. Then you'll be the change you want to see in your world.
What we do right now is doing without really seeing.
soccom8341576 10 months ago
40 years later this message is even more relevant. We are hoist upon our own petard.
7sevo7 1 year ago 15
Nature Tech baby! Marriage of technology with nature. Here we can realize Alan's vision.
freeadplanet 1 year ago
wata on to it dude, what Alan says feels so true
guitarlegend1221 1 year ago
Thanks Mark, if we only had world leaders with even 5% of Alan's knowledge, this world would be much better off.
InfowarsCanada 1 year ago
epic
jystyle 1 year ago
My only regret in life is that I didn't get a dude who sounds like Watts to follow me around and repeat all this stuff when I forget. :)
shishimore 1 year ago 4
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"The outside world no longer left outside" Wonderfull.
CarstenDam 1 year ago
"The outside world no longer left outside" Wonderfull.
CarstenDam 1 year ago
myself has died of enlightenment....
imgonnadiesoon 1 year ago
watching this one "you"tube..... - .-
imgonnadiesoon 1 year ago
Prescient much? A.W.Watts brilliant as ever.
bbagginz 1 year ago
can we build up a worldwide society, that exists beside nature? that does not interfere with earth processes and always adjusts its structure according to geological change with the highest possible attention to the surrounding? Can we build a community of men that lives upon nature like a 3/4 filled pott of water swimming on a lake?
chockfish 1 year ago
@chockfish Injuns did pretty okay about non-interference.
Break out the peace pipes and let's watch a sunset.
bobbygnosis 1 year ago
Our destructive nature is precisely the reason we create most technologies. Not all technologies come from war or the threat or fear of an army coming to kill you and your people. But, most technology is conceived this way. Now, since the whole reason Alan was able to talk to us, after his death, was because of this technology. So, just like ying and yang, technology is the result of creativity at the same time destruction. We all live in a paradox. Don't worry. FIGHT to keep the Internet.
freeadplanet 1 year ago
excellent
aalevan 1 year ago
The next time someone says to me "What do you mean you don't watch tv? Why not?" I'll simply refer them to this Alan Watts clip and it's complete awesomeness. It's so great that I can come here and CHOOSE to watch him, vs. television "programming".
greenfruitface 1 year ago 67
@greenfruitface I totally agree with you and am in the same situation. It's just sad to me that I still couldn't find a way to let people realize this, like my friends, family and etc. I'd love to show them how free this feels to at least be able to choose what kind of information I want to have to myself, and not letting others try to decide for me and even worse to brainwash me with media, propaganda and hypnotic crap on TV. If you find a way to help ppl realize this let me know.
grf0 1 year ago
@grf0 Will do. I too have been unable to find a way. Still trying! Good luck.
greenfruitface 1 year ago
@greenfruitface U 2 =)
grf0 1 year ago
@greenfruitface Bill Hicks said it best: "Watching TV is like taking black spray paint to your third eye."
mindstormsabrewin 11 months ago 3
@greenfruitface
i agree, keep on watching..... do you know guy finley? a modern day mystic
pmartin51 10 months ago
@greenfruitface It's really funny but ... I haven't watched tv for over 3 years. I made that conscious decision exactly the way Alan explained it. And now I see this man, 40 years ago say this.
My mind is blown.
Avelqual 8 months ago
@Avelqual < At one point I didn't watch TV for 6 yrs but it created backlogs of X-files and outer limit episodes; went thru' intense tranformation. Treat AW as a guide map for your journey.
Zeno1999 7 months ago
@greenfruitface I totally agree with you!
2661960 5 months ago
@greenfruitface nobody watches tv these days, because everyone watches videos and favourite shows all on the internet, tv is getting old
Zee96969696 4 months ago in playlist Alan Watts: A Conversation with Myself
@greenfruitface a co worker from a past job tried to persuade me that tv has more freedom of content than the internet. I didn't bother.
MonkeySpecs301 3 months ago
Great stuff...AW is a great thinking man
JoeyPencils 1 year ago
the human race as it is now is kaput, if we dont change we will be gone, the earth will be like a dog shaking a flea of its back and mankind will be the flea
panzermort 1 year ago
Its been over 30 years since this interview, yet it seems as if he were living in our time.We are so single minded that it could be centuries before we realize that this is the way to live respect for mother earth, if thats what you decide to call it and respect for our fellow living beeings.
alamasag 1 year ago
we have to stop. everything we put in our bodies or minds makes us slow and stupid cause it's already filled up with everything is already there. turn off the computer, turn off death culture, turn off what doesn't work, turn on you by being with it without judgement only unconditional love, since it's the only frequency that actually works on all levels forever. ..consumer cult-ure is death cult-ure. food/drug same thing. stop eating or die. we are living in the dark ages. "slow and stupid"
takepills 1 year ago
a profound and important message at the end there, wonderful. Cheers for the vid!
jdncoke2 1 year ago 22
Alan Watts owns.....hands down.....
verisimilitudino 1 year ago
haha if he thought humanity was at a dead end in 71, he'd hsit himself to what is going on in 2010... Its like the art of conversation is dead. All people do is stay distant and never touch, and now all they do is text too much.
Stifledsubmission 1 year ago
i have the a divine level of joy when i listen to him, his message and philisophy just blows open windows in my spirt and lets the light shine in
TylerThrashPeace 1 year ago 2
WHAT DO I DO NOW?! Try and graft myself onto a tree? WHAT?! All of this thinking lacks practicality. It is as if Alan Watts tries whole-heartedly to exist only as a thinking entity, but no-one can do that. If we are to accept all of these premises, which through the natural passage of thought, I, and I assume many others do, how then are we to conduct ourselves? One can only assume we live practically, but then in doing this we are brought right back to the original argument. This is CIRCULAR!
robert000ooo 1 year ago
@robert000ooo and it drives me insane
robert000ooo 1 year ago
@robert000ooo Haha, your correct. After fully disconnecting, you come right back. You play with that ego of yours. This is the difference. Before, you may have felt your ego as everything, and you really took it very seriously as if it were very final. Now you don't have that problem. You sense the underlying is that remains the same no matter you personal predicament. Go back to work, keep your friends, be as way out practical as you want, because you know its perfectly ok to do so.
Coola34234 1 year ago
@Coola34234 So realistically this is all just a thinking exercise and should have no real practical implications? On one hand though this train of thought might lead someone to the point that living off the land seems the only way to go. I suppose it's all about being inquisitive and curious. This is just where I want to quote my favourite philosophical work ever, A Treatise of Human Nature by Hume. So fit for this occasion.
robert000ooo 1 year ago
@robert000ooo Not so much a thinking exercise, there is a very real transformation in consciousness that he is pointing. You could summarize Alan's talks in just a few words. The summery would be something along the lines of "Allow yourself to be completely in tune with the passing of time." Add ego, go out and socialize, but always be aware of yourself locked in time's passing. It drastically improves the quality of your experience. Enlightenment implies experiencing yourself as you are.
Coola34234 1 year ago
@Coola34234 favorite comment of all of youtube.
AnguzBeef 1 year ago
This is a reminder that our wonderful technology will always bring us to a dead end. Because we must always manipulate nature and cannot leave well enough alone, we have such crises as the Gulf oil spill.
haav03 1 year ago
Society is controlled, but you don't need to participate. Nothing needs to be changed besides what's inside your own mind.
Mattprole 1 year ago
I am so grateful that alan exists
BIGFOOTjamz 1 year ago
wow amazing
tuckerbond 1 year ago
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@ElShadaiLives I read that the evening before, he was playing with a balloon and saying how light it was and such things ..... sometimes I think people die when they are feel deep down that it is The Time to do so. It`s odd that me being 38 years old think about dying and I wonder what its like. I think most people are nervous and sad when they are told they will die soon. I hope I will attain a level where I can actually retain my wonder about life even during that process.
zetetic0void 1 year ago
"In October 1973, Watts returned from an exhausting European lecture tour. He died of heart failure in his sleep at his home on Mt. Tamalpais the following month, at the age of 58." src: wikipedia dawt org
ElShadaiLives 1 year ago
@ElShadaiLives I read that the evening before, he was playing with a balloon and saying how light it was and such things ..... sometimes I think people die when they are feel deep down that it is The Time to do so. It`s odd that me being 38 years old think about dying and I wonder what its like. I think most people are nervous and sad when they are told they will die soon. I hope I will attain a level where I can actually retain my wonder about life even during that process.
zetetic0void 1 year ago
@zetetic0void I am almost twice as old as you. I'll be in the grave as Yeshua said until the resurection. About that I am positive. All this religious bs about being w/ the El when one dies isn't what the Messiah said. I think I'll go w/ His teachings. Shalom, ESL
ElShadaiLives 1 year ago
@ElShadaiLives Depends on what you consider are the unaltered teachings ... and even then whether teachings are literal or symbolisms pointing to things that can not be directly described in human language. I have read and investigated how even the deeper Jewish mystical teachings speak of reincarnation as continual attempts at learning and refining what is needed and how everything is an extension from the All. I see teachings in Buddhism , Zen, Sufism, Taoism, Kabbalah, Chakras as similar.
zetetic0void 1 year ago
part 2 ... and so even with numbers in the Bible and other texts, we must realize that it can be the case that some things can represent symbolic aspects. Even the dimensions given in the Noahs Ark (and even with the older Sumerian Epic of the Epic of Gilgamesh) appear to be geometrically symbolic of deeper meanings in Reality. There are segments in the Bible (which I forget at present) representing the number of the Golden Spiral and other *Sacred Geometry*.
zetetic0void 1 year ago
part 3 ... I like how Watts said in other lectures how language biases out thoughts (like the Tao Te Ching says)and we bust be careful of what thoughts and images we cling to in out minds. I feel that deep down in the cores of religions, people there feel that labeling the Ultimate even with any name is a bias and distortion. Any definition, name or attachment you stick to that which you are trying to refer to is a Mental Idol!! Much more misleading than idols made kiof gold, stone or wood!
zetetic0void 1 year ago
part 4 ... I also think it is likely very important at a refined deep symbolic way why such things as the symbols of the Four Evangelists are the symbols of the four quandrantary Zodiacal constellations on the Ecliptic associated with the Four Royal Stars of the ancient Persians. Matthew = Winged man = Aquarius : Mark - Lion = Leo : Luke = Ox, Bull = Taurus : John = Eagle = Scorpio (Scorpio is Scorpion, Eagle and Phoenix and Hermetic symbolism is the symbol from which ascension begins)
zetetic0void 1 year ago
part 5 ... from my research, symbolically , the ascension from being trapped in a dualistic realm into a higher realization is symbolized within the constellations (as far back as *Atlantean times*) as rising from Scorpius, through Ophiuchus (the hidden 13th zodiacal constellation which could be Christ surrounded by 12 apostles), to Hercules defeating Draco the serpent Ladon guarding the tree of the blissful Apples of Hesperides - the crown chakra symbolized by the North Ecliptic Pole!
zetetic0void 1 year ago
part 6 ..But if you research the Greeks story of the 11th Labour of Heracles, he freed Prometheus who had stolen fire from the gods to give to man (so like the serpent in the Garden who promted humans to partake of the Tree of Knowledge) and was chained to the mountains as punishment. Related to this is the story of Pandoras Box which when opened, released all ills upon the Earth but *hope* remained clinging to the box! Heracles frees Prometheus as Christ cancels out original so-called *sin*
zetetic0void 1 year ago
part 7... so what are we really talking about. I feel it is the humans ability for thinking that has created a social system where we have become detached from a more grounded living in Reality. Through our cleverness, we invent supposedly useful inventions which also carry with them complex alterations of society which makes us need and crave more complex cures. But what if we could live in the moment , could we re-enter the Garden of Eden in our minds and not care about the past or future.
zetetic0void 1 year ago
@zetetic0void Yes, even the priests of Judaism were corrupted. I'll go w/ the greatest teacher of all t ime as recognized by many religions. Immanuel's teachings are good enough for me. Following in his foot steps is my goal. Shalom
ElShadaiLives 1 year ago
@ElShadaiLives greetings - I feel that human language distorts and biases all conceptions of the Ultimate Reality or what some label with the word *God* (perhaps the term *Ultimate Reality* is as biasing as th word *God* as it seems to imply a barren abstract concept whereas *God* implies some grey-bearded idol in the clouds! I want to be extremely careful not to bias any concept of the Absolute with distorted and limited human words - ultimately forgetting all definitions of so-called *God*)
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@zetetic0void "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible Universe, forms my idea of God." Albert Einstein (Quoted in the New York Times obituary April 19, 1955)
ElShadaiLives 1 year ago
@zetetic0void People have related experiences of infinite being back into the common cultural pool in fragmented language because you cannot encapsulate infinity with the context of language. Illustrations or representative avatars have come to be out of this inherent ignorance we are all victim to and owe our existence to. I would not say human language curtains the truth, I would say it's a fragment of the whole, which cannot be seen through eyes or understood with the rational mind.
TheSilverFlyingCigar 1 year ago
Sagan said, "We are star stuff" and "a way for the cosmos to know itself."
All the atoms on earth and in our bodies came from supernova that blew up over 5 billion years ago.
Aren't we all just walking, talking stardust -- this cosmos become AWAKE and looking back at itself? -- and aren't we intimately connected to it all?
We are this wonder called life become AWAKE
Please enjoy the dance.
And ultimately there's nothing that separates us from others in this grand mystery. Please be kind.
goog2k 1 year ago 3
"The egoism of mankind makes him unwilling to accept the meaninglessness of life"- Somerset Maugham.
tristramshandy3 1 year ago
@tristramshandy3 yes yes- there you go
peach1187 1 year ago
Alcohol Poisoning. Not a bad way to go, really. I'm sure he planned it thouroughly.
Listn2me2 1 year ago
Even tony parsons parrots this man, a true original genius
rageagainstcheese 1 year ago
@ ambientgreg
AGREED!
namfoodler 1 year ago
When I found out he died of alcohol poisoning I was REALLY disappointed. As this goes against spiritual practice and obtaining the clarity of mind.
I have always found the teaching of Alan Watts brilliant, but this distracts me from the beauty of his writing.
Its like finding out Lord Buddha was a junkie!
LabRat6619 1 year ago
@LabRat6619 Meaningless... Look hard at yourself before you try judge somone like alan watts
dubconor 1 year ago
@dubconor
I really enjoy the words of Alan Watts. I personally do take drugs or alcohol even though its endemic in our society. I am not judging Alan Watts I remarking on one element of his life that was detrimental to his existence.
I have experimented myself with alcohol and drugs as a boy, but find it stops me making any progress in my spiritual quest.
LabRat6619 1 year ago
@LabRat6619 Your more then welcome to your opinion. Yet I would have to disagree, first of all there's no real point seperating alcohol from drugs, one in the same. I actually sorta disagree, I agree there are drugs out there that are no good on spiritual matters. However I find LSD/Mushrooms/DMT and a few others to be really fantastic ways of moving forward spiritually
dubconor 1 year ago
@LabRat6619 Nevertheless, you have got to remember that Watts was a human as well as us, like dubconor said, "meaningless" exactly... it was just the end of his life. Maybe, just maybe, he decided to drink himself to death because like a human, he just gave up on humanity. I believe that if he had lived in our times he probably would have done exactly the same thing at a much younger age due to what has become of humanity.
vansskaterd 1 year ago
@vansskaterd . Yes look what has happened to all of us.
LabRat6619 1 year ago
@vansskaterd and what has become of humanity?
tristramshandy3 1 year ago
@tristramshandy3 NOTHING GOOD! we're destroying the planet, if you see a little past your nose you'll see the shit-hole humans have created of their surrounding...
vansskaterd 1 year ago
@vansskaterd I see trees of green, red roses too; I see 'em bloom, for me and you; and I think to myself- WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD.
You have a very negative perspective of your surroundings. Try Buddhism my friend.
Adios.
tristramshandy3 1 year ago
@tristramshandy3 oh dont get me wrong mate, i admire the creation much more than you think. Thats exactly why i see what i see. Because humans are destroying the wonderful world we live in.
Buddhist ideology is quite nice and you see the beauty in everything and blah blah, but i see it as a way to blindfolding yourself from the problems that other people cause. We need to be defenders of our planet even if it means to defend it from ourselves.
vansskaterd 1 year ago
@vansskaterd Here is my point- you aren't going to save the world. You were born into a dysfunctional world full of idiots, and if you are lucky, you will die in one too. Why spend your life upset and freaking out? I think it's a BIG waste of time.
However, I am glad people like MLK and Gandhi didn't take my bad advice :)
Adios amigo.
tristramshandy3 1 year ago
@tristramshandy3 well... can't argue that :)
vansskaterd 1 year ago
@tristramshandy3 Well point in case. if you "THINK" ( the almighty thing us "humans" do ) that you are not going to save the world. Then in fact you "WONT". Its all a game and tug of war with the body and the mind. Good thing are thoughts become things and are words can be actions not yet commited.
peach1187 1 year ago
@vansskaterd true but pointing fingers and placing blame is endless and destructive just as much as the actual destruction that is taking place on this here earth. Buddhism is not to blind anyone...quite the opposite..its about awaking ...realization, which is where you have to start. then you can create change....yes just like that.
peach1187 1 year ago
@vansskaterd plus you asked before "what has become of HUMANITY?" not of the plants and well everything else man. :P
vansskaterd 1 year ago
"And our fundamental self is not something just inside the skin. It's everything around us with which we connect. When you look out of your eyes at nature out happening out there, you're looking at you...that before we think of doing anything in this critical situation, we realize the completely illusory nature of the beings that we think we are, and get back again to the beings that we really are, which includes...all this outside world, no longer left outside." Veritas!
Alejandroenfuego 1 year ago
YES!
dordogne24 1 year ago
so much clarity in his words based on real questions,observations .. hits u on the soul level .. absolutely loved it but i'm afraid it's kind a difficult to plant these ideas in real life . peace to everyone and God bless
SuperHammer2008 1 year ago
thanks for posting this.
eclipso201 1 year ago
This is Suppliant.
AnonymousWhitePerson 1 year ago
such an epic dude
simon7687 1 year ago
why are lots of his clips missing?
02shieldsy 1 year ago
thanks for sharing this !
wonksaggin1 1 year ago
Well, Mr. Watts has just baked my noodle, in the best way possible. 5 stars.
Swordsquire 1 year ago
fantastic thankyou
oliviamulgrew 1 year ago
Just watched the whole program. There was a moment in part 1 or 2 in which he speaks of the person as an aperture for the universe to see through, or something to that effect. It made me think of Carl Sagan's quote "We're made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself". When I heard Carl say those words I thought they were completely original, but now I hear Watts say pretty much the same thing, almost a decade earlier. Maybe Carl knew and studied Watts...?
stylovore 1 year ago 2
What a brilliant teacher. Let's all learn from him and quite simply to take things too seriously. It will all work out somehow.
kalbertine 1 year ago
Alan Watts speaks some real sense.
It is a real shame that most western people do not realise how everything is inter-related. What happens to one happens to all.
There IS something drastically wrong with us, the rulership of earth NEEDS to change to one whose ability it is to rule perfectly. WE are not fit to rule ourselves, all we have ever done is kill and desttroy. And yet we are a part of the earth as well.
'It does not belong to man who is walking even to direct his step.'
zacfromorchardpark 1 year ago
Well, Nature is what is on top, we are a product of it's imagination. It created us and therefore it is now trying to correct us. For if we aren't going to think about the whole, The whole automaticly tries to correct us by killing us off slowly.
Wacram 1 year ago
Btw We are fit to rule ourselves but not fit to rule the world. We don't really think of anything but ourselves. Nature isn't something we really think of. We do though think alot of ourselves. But that isn't enough if we are to be as powerfull as we want to be. We can't think of the I if we get into stage two or three in the galactic civilization stages then we ought to change drastically before we even dare open a dialog with any other races that might be out there.
Wacram 1 year ago
Can anyone tell me what the music is during the credits?
equinoxflower 1 year ago
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click thumbs up if you are a girl who so would have sucked alan watts dick if they had the chance around the time this video was made.
his sperm would be like what red bull does to the body, but to the infinite soul
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numchaps20 1 year ago
Ego death seems like such a dreadful thing to happen. But I can speak from experience that when it occurs, It is bliss. It is psychological weightlessness. Unfortunately for me, the sensation was fleeting.
It seems that the ego tends to grow back after being shed. I wonder if it is society that stirs it back to life, or whether it's something about being human that does it.
In any case, I think the only conceivable way for it to remain dead would be for it to occur to everyone at once on earth
PapaWilk 1 year ago
life!
maxxximuss1 1 year ago
marvellous!
JO911B 1 year ago
Absolutely Brilliant!
Reaper139139 2 years ago 3
this is weird. ive never been regarded as smart. or even so myself. but the brilliant thing this man did was explain it in such a simple way anyone can get. this vid is AMAZING
bigt0530 2 years ago 3
This is seriously one of the best things Ive seen on youtube since I began watching youtube.
ambientgreg 2 years ago 96
yes i agree,totally. its a change from the 'cats on a threadmill' or 'bike fails' type stuff. finally something with a bit of value
savagecabage 2 years ago
Sucks that this man isn't alive today. Great stuff.
striker1224 2 years ago 3
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blame alcohol
claymanlucas 2 years ago
I have translated this videos to spanish. I think his wisdom has to be extended to diferent cultures. Alan change my point of view. Teh way I see life today is different. We build our life in the same way we see de world. We are de world and the universe itself. Looking at me, i'm looking at universe.
secanov 2 years ago 3
i really love how he says (0:42) with a little break: "we are NOW in nighteen seventy ... ONE" :-))) thanx for enabling to SEE alan, as i am often sad about not meeting soul fellows in right time... we founded a little research group in berlin+cologne (prof. peter rech, the art-therapist, and me) and i post infos about watts in a special myspace group. would be glad to know about your support in general, mark!
TomDeToys 2 years ago 8
markwatts02,
thanks so much for uploading these videos.They may have saved my life..
glenemma1 2 years ago 3
one of the most brilliant philosophers and his message is all the more relevant today...
kaltenbach16 2 years ago 50
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This guy is just a time-traveler, ignore him.
G3org3Master 2 years ago
This video instead of Johans Brothers should have millions of views. Thank you Mr. Watts
Rikimaru999 2 years ago 9
I hope the whole world will see and understand this.
The cosmos is alive !
etiennemarcus 2 years ago
But essencially this does not matter. We exist in a little bubble that is our lifetime, we only need the planet for this very short time as a person. Before we were born we needed nothing and after nothing!
As for our children (of which I have), there is no problem. As I am still not totally convinced that every sense I feel is all of what could be termed an illusion.
LabRat6619 2 years ago
Parasites and symbionts, life and death, pleasure and pain, you dont have one without the other as watts said. Humans just have the ability to DECIDE whether we will continue to operate parasitically or cohesively with our host, earth.
anthonya13 2 years ago
woops! meant to say think of humans (not as JUST parasites) but as *bacteria* (for instance in the human digetsive tract). They are mutually symbiotic in balanced proportion, and left unchecked, parastic in excess. Humans manipulate nature just as other creatures do, but we do it in extreme excess. Due to government agendas, we have become macro parasites.However, parasites are nature just as symbionts are. You dont have the "up" without the "down" as watts said.We just NEED to change the agenda
anthonya13 2 years ago
Alan is able to "see" without his eyes, through his soul. Humanity has moved on, downwards and the end is getting to be a more visual concept.
The human race will die, but the beauty and natural balance of nature will then rule the earth. What a beautiful place it will be with no geometry, no machines, just "wiggly lines".
LabRat6619 2 years ago
humans and everything we build IS nature, just as birds building their nests, beavers building their damns, insects building their colonies are nature. We all take nature, and manipulate it into the shapes that our species can see. Humans are just SO good at manipulating that they can manipulate almost ALL of nature to the point where nature is not left, only manipulations of it everywhere you look.
anthonya13 2 years ago 2
Think of organisms (animals) as cells in a body going through a pre-ordained process everyday until their demise. Each cell lived and did not destroy its host.
The human race is malignant. Most things it does has a bad impact on other animals. Eventually it will have so much impact on itself it WILL destroy itself.
When greed and power became the religion of the masses our future became unsustainable.
LabRat6619 2 years ago
Think of humans as the bacteria living within (on) a body called earth. It is an undeniable part of what lives within the larger whole -an essential, mutally symbiotic organism when balanced- or a parasite in unbalanced excess.This is exactly what humans are doing to earth. However, parasitic or mutualistically symbiotic, both are nature, and both are inseperable parts of the whole whether we subjectively like it or not.
anthonya13 2 years ago
IE so we should ither let it pass or destroy society. terrorism anyone i hear there taking volunteers.
doggets 2 years ago
Lets remember he's in 1971 the world has gotten alot worse an so many ways but his conclusions couldnt be more true we can see them unfolding before our very eyes we have lost touch with ourselfes and this world and the universe and will soon all pay the price because humanity is on the brink of self destruct mode which seems irreversable.hmm i wonder what ill be in my next life since we are infinite and so is knowledge.
jandnay 2 years ago
that was infinitely beautiful. an amazing, moving mind.
tracksuitjim 2 years ago 2