Alan Watts is God for 10 Minutes

In this excerpt from a lecture, Alan Watts plays the role of a "delusional patient" who thinks he's God. He gets his students to ask him any question they please. The results are fascinating.

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• alan
• watts
• god
• spirituality
• lecture
• zen
• pretend
• play
• question
• answer
• students
• teacher
• patient
• ego
• self
• consciousness

[trainofaaron]

Wow look at all the views glad to see that more people are listening.

[neapolitan500]

@trainofaaron Agreed!

[salty103]

Always gotta be a flame war when i go to read comments....sigh

[neapolitan500]

@salty103 I know, eh? What a waste of time.

[TheNolandunn321]

Wow, Alan Watts really stirs that spiritual fire in all humans. His lectures make you think about the deepest questions of existence

[MoralisticAthiest]

And you notice theres a button labeled surprise, so you hit it, and here we are! :)

[Hanahleia]

@GodisMythology Well, eastern religion thought of the divine in a very different way than that of western traditions. You could describe it as a panentheism, but they believed it was a nameless eternal something or other, an "eternal mystery," if you will. A way to think about it, imagine that consciousness draws from an infinite set of possibilities, this could be defined as "free will," however the caveat is that despite the spontaneity, it is predetermined.

A suggestion:

/watch?v=JGo3nZGJOKE

[GodisMythology]

@Hanahleia Well thank you for you mere opinion. I still stand by my statement that there is no such thing as god given free will. Then of course there is that pesky matter of whether gods exist at all.

[Hanahleia]

@GodisMythology Watts was a proponent of eastern religion, and if you understood anything about eastern religion, you'd think about this in terms of the insight of the yin-yang. You're thinking too dualistically, you see, that it's either predetermined or you're free. The yin-yang implies that these two aspects compliment each other. In other words, what exist could be described more accurately through a soft determinism or what Daniel Dennett calls "compatibilism". So, your conclusion is false.

[indrabhaskara]

@maximusTLP you are genius too, the difference is we haven't realised our true selves yet..