ALAN WATTS MEANINGLESS LIFE

ALAN WATTS SPEAKS.

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[92451721921892113]

The atoms that compose your skin, and indeed your entire body, are always being exchanged with the outside universe as you breath, eat, drink, excrete, secrete, grow, and heal. Looking at it from this perspective, you cannot really say where you begin and where you end, and therefore any contrast that you draw between yourself and the external world will always seem fuzzy and arbitrary.

[apocalypkidstv]

This speech reminds me of Huxley's Doors of Perception. Its interesting to note that in Huxley's work he states that our brain's function is to keep the body working, therefore you can say it at least began and developed as a survival tool for humans. The brain rejects most information, and limits itself to the most basic needs for survival. To interfere with this filtering (which we definitely can do) is to open the doors of perception. But by doing so, to some extend we lower our guard.

[bradley1107]

@wks1978 He may be overrated. Thats not really the point is it? thats an ego game. The point is that "notions" are simply that..yet we can KNOW that the reality of the universe is not dependent upon our notions or our thoughts about it..while you are talking about individual intellectual understanding, there is a vast universe out there which you are a part of. The latter eclipses the former. Also, It just occurred to me that youtube is not the best forum for these mediatitions. Sorry:)

[bradley1107]

@FubarHS Science did not help humans achieve this realization. That idea has existed for thousands of years

[bradley1107]

@92451721921892113 That is true, but I also think you can go beyond thinking of yourself in material terms. You seem to be of the mind that primarily, "I am my body" (physical being) and since this body is obviously always changing and composed of things that yesterday were not a part of us and tomorrow will cease to be. But is there perhaps something constant behind our physical natural, our sensual nature, and even our thoughts, memories, intellects? hard to articulate

[flyersphan111]

You know, I could listen to him all day. He answers every question I have about life.

He's offically been added to my list of most inspirational people on Facebook.

[Aluminata]

Personal reality is a tune we cannot get out of our heads. 

[ButteryAssAbel]

@FreeBeDrug i feel you.

[ButteryAssAbel]

@FubarHS thats not just science...

[Viperatti]

@MrSlapmeister Feminazicised? That gave me a laugh.

[FubarHS]

@wks1978 The notion that we are all connected and nothing more than atoms going through stages of existence can indeed not exist unless science is at a level to comprehend it. However, one can have the awareness that we are all part of a bigger system and not above or below anything, based on observation (like the indians.) I think that realizing we are just as much part of the universe as a planet, is simply the next step in consciousness, that science helped us achieve.