Alan Watts ~ Who Are You?

So what I think we could aim for in the way of human civilization and culture would be a system in which we are all highly aware of our existing interconnection and unity with the whole domain of nature, and therefore do not have to go to all sorts of wild extremes to find that union. In other words, look at the number of people we know who are terrified of silence, and who have to have something going all the time, some noise streaming into their ears. They're doing that because of their intense sense of loneliness. And so when they feel silent, they feel lonely and they want to escape from it. Or people who just want to get together. As we say, they want to escape from themselves. More people spend more time running away from themselves. Isn't that wretched? What a definition. What an experience of self if it's something you've always got to be running away from and forgetting. Say you read a mystery story. Why? So you forget yourself. You join a religion. Why? To forget yourself. You get absorbed in a political movement. Why? To forget yourself. Well it must be a pretty miserable kind of self if you have to forget it like that. Now for a person who doesn't have an isolated sense of self, he has no need to run away from it, because he knows.
Alan Watts

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[MrGreco2100]

The video distracts me from listening to Alan Watts.

[SewerCorn]

I can't stop laughing looking at those damn animations. How the hell does someone come up with shit like that? That someone I suspect is much crazier, and thus much smarter than I am.

[nainamor]

/watch?v=eSsG2sDL1Gg

the video + terrence mckenna+ music + dmt story

[nainamor]

@SewerCorn

DMT is the inspiration

try it

[KingCobra874]

@SewerCorn Its from a Tool video so you know.

[YITZHAQ1]

@12louys I second the motion

[KvalnirFox]

@SewerCorn Psychedelics my friend.

[MrMentalflossed]

in my system of belief the higher self xists as the heroic self,.. in life all options are presented and all choices made in all ways,.. a multiverse,.. upon completion of all probability lines and outcomes that ego "me" dies and the heroic self or higher self emerges as the best of all possible outcomes ,.. as a being in a universe you only see one outcome and one direction of travel,in a multiverse it all hapens at once in all directions,..perhaps this is just my wish, but a nice wish it is.

[hampstershat123]

@SewerCorn I understood what the animation was "telling". You need to find yourself.

[ashriaable]

Alan Watts lives!