Alan Watts on Human Consciousness

You cannot have negative without positive, nor positive without negative.
You cannot have dark without light, it's the absense of light that gives dark its meaning.
You cannot have the peak of a wave, without the trough of a wave.
You cannot have some thing without no thing
One extremity gives the other extremity it's existence.

I'm gonna vlog on the law of attraction at some point... (we've decided it will probably be a Wednesday, but not decided which Wednesday ;-)
But positive and negative energies co-exist.
And it's my thinking, that both positive and negative co-exist in every human being, regardless of what labels and descriptive nouns they have attached to themselves in the form of an "ego", a "personality type", a caricature of what it means to be "them", as a seperate entity.
No human is a fixed entity, though they often like to think that they are, in the way that they like to categorise themselves.
They like to exist in a box. A bubble. A definition. And most of the time they like to believe the best about themselves... but... I would argue that all creatures have a light and a dark side and to deny the existence of one or the other is to be deluding oneself, pretending.... as everyone does, in some way or another.

Here's Alan Watts confronting the truth of what you are.... infinite

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[AIexKidd]

I don't know whether to feel big or small.

[TheSpartacat]

Oooh, well if you feel either big or small, then it's only the ego's perception or it's method of reinforcing itself... If you feel the cosmos or infinity inside then "big and small become inconsequential", because even 'big' is miniscule to that which is infinite!!! LOL

[TheSpartacat]

Alan Watts is awesome, he makes me smile so much, I kinda consider him a friend I'll never meet, but a friend none the same! :-)

[Olio89]

@sloppymess2 You're discounting the idea that the Universe is simply an infinite math equation of immeasurable complexity.

[Aijuswannawatch]

You are everything and everyone. There is no "outside world", there is simply your one perception. This is to say that truly even I do not actually exist other than being a figment of your own consciousness... Pretty deep stuff

[Aijuswannawatch]

@pinpoint45. Not exactly. What he is getting at essentially is that 'human consciousness' (which only includes YOUR own conscious awareness) is a tool used to simulate individuality.

[pinpoint45]

so human consciousness is individuality? the separation from the whole. and the dissolving of the human conscious is to become whole with everything? is that what he was getting across?

[jeeaaman]

@sloppymess2

I dunno why mathemathics would be perfect language. The shit we have made up or thought has nothing to do with the point

[tryptaminddd]

@inaworldwithinaworld infinite is what is happening right now, in this present moment. the future consists of our anticipations and the past consists of our memories. They are merely a creation of our mind, all that really is, is right now. Time is the flow of thought, it is not linear, although it seems to be because of our illusions of past and future. The moment you are conscious in is infinite. its a hard concept to understand until you use meditation, psychedelics or other methods to learn

[inaworldwithinaworld]

@TheSpartacat Infinite?!?!?!...God what the hell is infinite!!!Im going cray trying to understand the concept it's just mind blowing!!!!!

[BBZZZZZ]

@sloppymess2 And thus as a chain every link is needed for the whole process to be maintained. To talk about infinite is to talk about a tendency we have to repeat one single process. There is only one thing going on here which is the cause and the end result of itself. But we tend to, ''hide'' our uncertainties, to forget that for every thing we label ''certain'' we need a background of uncertainty.

[sbdon71]

6:30 mark wowww

[sloppymess2]

Infinite anything is impossible in reality. The only thing in our universe capable of utilizing infinite anything or or making it practical is mathematics, that is why it is considered the perfect language, but all aspects mathematics aren't applicable to our universe and must always remain theoretical because nothing infinite is possible in our universe. That is why time must have had a beginning. If life is the result of the last event affecting the next event then it can be viewed as a chain