This Will Give You Goosebumps - Alan Watts on Death

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  • @TrueMeaning
    @TrueMeaning  9 місяців тому +118

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    • @11mauck11
      @11mauck11 8 місяців тому +9

      Can you tell me what music this is in the background of Alan's talk in this video?

    • @111Benzie
      @111Benzie 8 місяців тому +4

      Don't bother. The site is bs.

    • @111Benzie
      @111Benzie 8 місяців тому +1

      ​​@@11mauck11It's Yanni.

    • @Jesusgonzalez-jd9kb
      @Jesusgonzalez-jd9kb 8 місяців тому +1

      Sure is...guy can talk lots of shit...if he believes it he's giving himself lots of self importance.

    • @Spartacus48
      @Spartacus48 8 місяців тому +3

      I did die 40 minutes after suffering a cardiac arrest and I had the most amazing experience,when I came round I told the paramedics I know I’ve just died ,it freaked them out

  • @leudwigvonshwartsenhelm3624
    @leudwigvonshwartsenhelm3624 5 місяців тому +368

    There is a sense of peace in this wisdom. For me, it is knowing that life continues after I am gone. Be kind to one another. Be kind to animals.

    • @denisem1080
      @denisem1080 5 місяців тому +24

      Especially to animals -- they are treated so badly. Thank God for good people ❤

    • @swayjaayy7631
      @swayjaayy7631 5 місяців тому +5

      indeed.

    • @TheGreatAlan75
      @TheGreatAlan75 5 місяців тому +6

      We ARE animals 😊

    • @TheGreatAlan75
      @TheGreatAlan75 5 місяців тому +3

      ​@@fireside9503no , you 😮

    • @danielc8672
      @danielc8672 4 місяці тому +4

      Why? Whats the point? If there is nothing beyond death, theres absolutely no reason for anyone to do anything that isnt self serving. Your whole schpiel about being kind is based on a premise that you apparently don't believe in.

  • @adrianunderwood8642
    @adrianunderwood8642 5 місяців тому +84

    I died for 4 minutes in 2006 from a massive Asthma attack, I felt no pain, I was not aware until I woke up in Intensive Care. I had no idea I had died, until medical staff and my mother informed me! Death is painless and their is nothing to fear at all! I hope this helps some people in some way! Don't be afraid, I now work for the NHS and see death everyday, having experienced it myself, it is a natural process, just like being born!

    • @Christopher_moltisanti123
      @Christopher_moltisanti123 5 місяців тому +10

      Every day I want to sleep forever or not exist

    • @sarisgames84
      @sarisgames84 3 місяці тому +6

      No. You die when the soul leaves your body

    • @mockingx4738
      @mockingx4738 23 дні тому +2

      ​@@sarisgames84Who says we have a soul? We could just be pleasure voids walking around

    • @richardlawson6787
      @richardlawson6787 18 днів тому +2

      ​@@sarisgames84sorry but no evidence at all for a soul..be glad because any existence is a big bother

    • @sarisgames84
      @sarisgames84 17 днів тому

      @@richardlawson6787 personaly the evidence came long time ago. Some people believed some not. I have thousands of personal reasons to believe :) But this is me.

  • @ajwinberg
    @ajwinberg 3 місяці тому +159

    My best friend of 38 years passed over the weekend (8-24-2024). I just hope that wherever she is, it is beautiful and that she isn't suffering from cancer anymore.

    • @SnifferRiffle
      @SnifferRiffle 3 місяці тому +6

      She is nowhere. She is dead.

    • @RedGreen-Blue
      @RedGreen-Blue 3 місяці тому +12

      Why did God become the man? So He can save those that died. How? By giving them life. In the book of JOHN chapter 5 verses 25-29 Jesus said not to marvel and question if it is real. It was the reason why he came down to earth, to make possible for the dead to live again.
      Allan Watts got lost in his own reasoning as he dug himself into a very deep and dark rabbit hole. But the real truth about death and life is explained by the Man Jesus Christ, who was brought back to life after he died by his father who is also our Father. I am the TRUTH, The way and The Life -JC.

    • @user-dl4zp4qc6p
      @user-dl4zp4qc6p 3 місяці тому

      My best friend of 30 years died last month. Brain tumour. I see no beauty in life and death at all. Just a malfunctioning organic machine, now putrefied in the ground.

    • @Builder808
      @Builder808 3 місяці тому +5

      @@SnifferRiffle She is in his heart.

    • @SnifferRiffle
      @SnifferRiffle 3 місяці тому +1

      @@Builder808 false blood and cholesterol is in your heart.

  • @DCI226
    @DCI226 8 місяців тому +1084

    If there is no life after death, then those who believed there would be life after death will never known they were wrong, and those who didn't believe there would be life after death will never know they were right.

    • @Sealust50
      @Sealust50 8 місяців тому +85

      I'm a deep thinker, but this poignant thought has never entered my head before. Absolutely true though.

    • @joeoliveira8558
      @joeoliveira8558 8 місяців тому +47

      Maybe when their lights went out they would have a glimpse of the truth.

    • @dottiegillespie8067
      @dottiegillespie8067 8 місяців тому +7

      Yep!!

    • @Bloozguy
      @Bloozguy 8 місяців тому +37

      Ha ha.... I've been saying something like this for decades now...with ONE caveat..... I _know_ what will happen when I exhale my last breath....I'll be in the same place I was before I was born.
      Complete, total eternal rest & bliss. I'll be sad though.... I wanna see what becomes of my daughter & her daughters..... I'll never know, that is the sad truth of death. Never to know what becomes of the future.
      I just can't fathom that Jebus will be there after saying.... _Ah ha Gotcha!_

    • @TheGreatest1974
      @TheGreatest1974 8 місяців тому +76

      There has to be something else after this. There’s too much unexplained stuff happens to lining people- seeing a ghost for example. I’ve seen one. Many people have. Poltergeists that move things etc. there’s SO much that we have no clue about.

  • @seriouslyyoujest1771
    @seriouslyyoujest1771 8 місяців тому +207

    Thank you, Mark Watts for following your father around and taping his lectures

  • @Tedakin
    @Tedakin 6 місяців тому +129

    My dad died after a long illness last year and it's been with me every day since. This was a very good video. And the narrator's voice is amazing.

    • @brianstokes6110
      @brianstokes6110 5 місяців тому +11

      Sorry for your loss friend. you will meet again.

    • @davido1953
      @davido1953 5 місяців тому +12

      the narrator is Alan Watts

    • @Awakened_warrior59
      @Awakened_warrior59 4 місяці тому +3

      Please accept my condolences 💐

    • @mmur9233
      @mmur9233 2 місяці тому

      im so sorry for your loss my friend.

    • @Chanesmyname
      @Chanesmyname 2 місяці тому

      We never ever stop missing our parents, I have found being an orphan truly saddening. Love people while you have them, we really don’t get enough time with those we love.

  • @AmericanRebel.Crusader
    @AmericanRebel.Crusader 8 місяців тому +409

    My uncle just passed today at 6:20 Apr 17 2024. Death is something that will come to us all so the best thing to do is to not fear it but embrace it. God bless

    • @veganvocalist4782
      @veganvocalist4782 8 місяців тому +5

      Yes

    • @patriciarowe6685
      @patriciarowe6685 8 місяців тому +9

      I am sorry for your loss.

    • @lindamclean8809
      @lindamclean8809 8 місяців тому +7

      Science is saying now that the universe is intelligent.......a collective consciousness that we return to after physical death.......🥰🥰🥰🥰

    • @gregfaber3417
      @gregfaber3417 8 місяців тому +5

      Deepest condolences for your loss

    • @gregfaber3417
      @gregfaber3417 8 місяців тому +2

      ​@lindamclean8809 love this. Truly fascinating

  • @janejohnstone5795
    @janejohnstone5795 8 місяців тому +594

    My brother died 5 years ago ..his memory is fading...what was important is that he experienced life..that was his meaning..

    • @gonzo22martinez
      @gonzo22martinez 8 місяців тому +31

      🥺 sorry to hear that. May he RIP 🙏

    • @sweetblue67
      @sweetblue67 8 місяців тому +7

      So true... life is nice feeling and wonderful.

    • @jasguy2715
      @jasguy2715 8 місяців тому +43

      My brother passed 19 years ago and his memory it's not fading one iota as a matter of fact, I'm remembering more and more about him

    • @Bloozguy
      @Bloozguy 8 місяців тому

      @@tim59ism _The brain doesn't produce consciousness_
      Gotta love the internet for the amazing & astounding lack of evidence containing commentaries.
      About 99.9% of all things that have ever lived on planet earth are extinct. That means, the .1% left, is everything we can see today...all plants, animals, see creatures...anything that utilizes the energy of the sun.
      That's as astounding & mind boggling amount of death planet earth has seen.
      Once you die, that's it. There's no seeing anyone or anything again.
      All the more reason to celebrate & enjoy the life we have before us....and to keep those dear to us deep in our memories....as fading as they may be.

    • @ΝικοςΤραχιλης
      @ΝικοςΤραχιλης 7 місяців тому +7

      I see your point and I agree with you.

  • @helsfury
    @helsfury 4 місяці тому +30

    Finally, someone who gets it. I have been saying this for years. Many many years and I thought I was the only one. Ask yourself, where were you before you were born to conscience. You have lived many lives before this one. And you have been many things before you were human. What will you be next? And then after that? And then after that.

    • @mirrorimage5423
      @mirrorimage5423 3 місяці тому

      No, you weren"t the only one. In anything. But you are the only one in the universe who weren"t.

    • @KingD-o8t
      @KingD-o8t Місяць тому +2

      God is real lad

    • @RevCeleste
      @RevCeleste Місяць тому +2

      We are all part of the universal energy

    • @simonwood2448
      @simonwood2448 18 годин тому +1

      There are 1000s of years of scripture across many major religions written on this. You are quite definitely not the only one

  • @willievanstraaten1960
    @willievanstraaten1960 8 місяців тому +97

    A prolific author and speaker, Alan Watts was one of the first to interpret Eastern wisdom for a Western audience. Born outside London in 1915, he discovered the nearby Buddhist Lodge at a young age. After moving to the United States in 1938, Alan became an Episcopal priest for a time, and then relocated to Millbrook, New York, where he wrote his pivotal book

    • @MaudeWhite-yc6ji
      @MaudeWhite-yc6ji 6 місяців тому

      Ur an atheist eh?

    • @HerbertDuckshort
      @HerbertDuckshort 5 місяців тому +1

      He was also an alcoholic. Not a good look for a "guru".

    • @RobertM55533
      @RobertM55533 5 місяців тому +8

      @@HerbertDuckshort So was Hemingway and Churchill and Grant, and God knows how many more... just saying

    • @schamimkatiya4439
      @schamimkatiya4439 3 місяці тому +3

      Yes, he speaks Eastern and looks Eastern too.
      Nice to hear these timeless masterpieces today.

    • @KingD-o8t
      @KingD-o8t Місяць тому

      @@RobertM55533So u do believe in God

  • @Otree859
    @Otree859 8 місяців тому +206

    I come back to this every time
    I have anxiety about passing, he explains it in such a calming way

    • @michaeladvs224
      @michaeladvs224 8 місяців тому +26

      I'm terrified

    • @wthomas5697
      @wthomas5697 8 місяців тому +27

      It's entirely natural to fear death. It's our survival instinct. Everyone is anxious about it.

    • @Otree859
      @Otree859 8 місяців тому +9

      @@michaeladvs224it is quite scary I just came back to the video today and it really does help, really think about everything he says about what we are and how we grow, it all makes sense and it sounds peaceful although I know that’s not gonna entirely help because I’ve been on this journey of fearing death but I know that eventually I will overcome it just like you will and everyone else going trough what we are and worrying isn’t gonna change the outcome so go out and smell the flowers and enjoy the sunshine :)

    • @Otree859
      @Otree859 8 місяців тому +5

      @@michaeladvs224the fact that so many people share this fear I feel like just reinforces the main message in this video as in we are all one sharing experiences and things

    • @carlosgil4248
      @carlosgil4248 8 місяців тому

      ​@Otree859 except the one's who commit suicide, light themselves on fire, suicide by cop. They don't seem to fear death.unless they were thinking they weren't going to die.

  • @SONICBOOM-117
    @SONICBOOM-117 4 місяці тому +17

    One morning I woke to the sound of a voice saying “I love you pa” that is what my grandmother used to call me. 10 minutes later my mother calls me from the hospice. I will forever remember this.

    • @brunodiaz1883
      @brunodiaz1883 3 місяці тому +2

      Consider yourself blessed, many of us had loved ones passed away after weeks or months of not exchanging any words, we would give the world to have had such an experience as your own, cherish it forever, I know I would.

    • @SONICBOOM-117
      @SONICBOOM-117 3 місяці тому

      @@brunodiaz1883 thank you. I certainly will.

  • @keithwalmsley1830
    @keithwalmsley1830 9 місяців тому +1473

    As the Roman philosopher Lucretius said, "the thought of not existing after my death gives me no more trepidation than the fact that I did not exist before I was born".

    • @MosDefnIT88
      @MosDefnIT88 9 місяців тому +189

      How does he know he didn't exist before he was born? Because he doesn't remember? I guess because he didn't remember a dream then he never dreamed right? Or even acknowledge that he's ever slept because he doesn't remember existing while sleeping. He could never have been 2 years old because he doesn't have a memory to prove it. Consciousness, is the entire point of the universe. Consciousness is why everything down to the smallest of chemical reactions happened perfectly for us to be here right now. One degree off and nothing would be here. The big bang banged into existence at the perfect rate of speed. Too fast and nothing would have came together, to slow and it all would have collapsed in on itself. Life would never emerge from lifeless rocks and gases if not for consciousness. If we were to all remember what tf life is, the universe is, then the point of now would be lost. A meteor hitting earth tomorrow doesnt make us or the universe meaningless. It makes the point of life more meaningful. If the big bang is indeed the beginning of this universe, and all matter, all atoms were contained in a singularity the size of a subatomic particle, that means, you and I, were there at the beginning of it all. Consciousness, and the bodies we inhabit were contained in a microscopic point. I don't remember that either. I don't remember dreaming last night although everyone dreams every night. I don't remember anything at 2 years old. I don't remember a past life even though countless kids in earth do. I'm not scared of death. Whether it's close to what I know to be the obvious truth or if it were "not existing." I wouldnt exist to contemplate not existing anymore. As ridiculous as that notion is. You were there in the beginning, you'll be there long after earth is gone. Were the universe experiencing itself. Ourself.

    • @agicorvus
      @agicorvus 9 місяців тому

      ​@@MosDefnIT88You totally get it wrong way around ^^
      Look up "anthropic principle", You've been proven wrong 67 years ago x)

    • @mobiustrip1400
      @mobiustrip1400 9 місяців тому +17

      Markus Twainius 😂

    • @davecromwell7001
      @davecromwell7001 9 місяців тому +23

      How will that pay my bills

    • @brianb.7022
      @brianb.7022 8 місяців тому +22

      ⁠@@MosDefnIT88for existing he has existed, he exists now, and will forever be existing. For the breath we still breathe in and out we are not breathing by ourselves but by existing we don’t control ourselves “our body’s” if we could then we would never fell pain or even die. But what ever has been created the breath of life brings everything into existence. So without the breath there no existing no consciousness of nothing.. it goes hand in hand by the saying “which came first.. time or thought? Whelp if you think it’s time no, it was never time.. what about thought? No.. because the “words” came second.. you have to come up with the words to produce any time or thought.. but before you can come up with words you have to be breathing before anything.

  • @CoilsDesign
    @CoilsDesign 5 місяців тому +147

    When I was 15 years old, I left my body thinking about this, our body dies, but the energy goes on.

    • @DavidWrayMusic
      @DavidWrayMusic 4 місяці тому +1

      I died at 16. That's exactly the point

    • @Doorsofperception420
      @Doorsofperception420 4 місяці тому +2

      So weird I saw your comment. I had the same experience at 15

    • @DavidWrayMusic
      @DavidWrayMusic 4 місяці тому +3

      Interested to hear both of your experiences

    • @10RBREEZY
      @10RBREEZY 4 місяці тому +14

      There is life after death. Vibrate high and you will be more than alright. After my Near Death Experience. The fear of death dwindled. It's peaceful in Heaven. Live life to the fullest in this present moment.

    • @LanaTear
      @LanaTear 4 місяці тому

      You're not dead until your brain is dead

  • @love7236
    @love7236 3 місяці тому +17

    I died 4/1/24.....went into cardiac arrest for nearly 25 minutes.....it seemed timeless...I sat with my best friend who died 5 years ago from a heart attack.....we just sat looking at each other....he was in super HD....I could see the pores in his face....he had changed appearance...had snow white long hair and long white beard....it was such a joyful time seeing him.....then the brightest hot pink flashes you have ever seen...and then nothing....unconscious waking up hours later on a ventilator...not knowing what had happened to me till later....I had a heart attack and went into Vfib for 25 minutes....getting 4 rounds of meds and shocked 4 times....the pink flashes I believe were the shocks, taking me away from the dimension I was in.....

    • @GeV7891
      @GeV7891 4 дні тому

      were you in the dimension the ENTIRE 25 minutes? cause apparently the brain still works 7 minutes after death

  • @lunitari74
    @lunitari74 7 місяців тому +41

    This is one of the most profound things I have ever listened to. I will be thinking about it all day. I feel a sadness and peace, and I can barely distinguish the two.

    • @nathalialorella3179
      @nathalialorella3179 7 місяців тому +9

      "I feel a sadness and a peace, and I barely can distinguish the two," - that line is damn POETIC! I hope you'll keep that line and write some sort of poetry with it, Whoever you Are!

    • @Chapman_101
      @Chapman_101 5 місяців тому +3

      Remarkably, I feel very much the same.

    • @dimitrideckers5200
      @dimitrideckers5200 4 місяці тому

      @@Chapman_101 me too

    • @TraceyBillsHomes
      @TraceyBillsHomes Місяць тому

      So why do we bother in THIS life ..to strive for good grades, work ourselves to death, over achieve if in the end it doesn't matter?

  • @renegadezen7841
    @renegadezen7841 8 місяців тому +227

    Does anyone else have a voice like this anymore? It's almost like our vocal chords have changed. He is like the wise sage grandpa who you gather around to listen to his stories for hours on end

    • @JUNGBODHISATTVA
      @JUNGBODHISATTVA 8 місяців тому +26

      I believe it's a combination of older microphones and what's known as a transatlantic accent. It was common back in the day, especially amoungst actors and media. Check it out youl hear his accent in it.

    • @renegadezen7841
      @renegadezen7841 8 місяців тому +1

      @@JUNGBODHISATTVA so then you would say this accent is disappearing ?

    • @StrangeScaryNewEngland
      @StrangeScaryNewEngland 8 місяців тому +7

      @@renegadezen7841 Yes. It was mainly created in the first place so the tone of a Human voice would be able to be picked up from old microphone technology, which would amplify a higher-pitched voice much better than a lower one. That's also why a lot of them sound like they're talking from the top of their throats. Microphones are so good now that we don't need to speak a certain way for our words to be heard. Hope that helped.

    • @nicksundstrom7341
      @nicksundstrom7341 8 місяців тому +11

      @@StrangeScaryNewEnglandhis accent is more Received Pronunciation. The trans Atlantic accent was created by Americans.

    • @StrangeScaryNewEngland
      @StrangeScaryNewEngland 8 місяців тому +6

      @@nicksundstrom7341 I know that about Alan Watts. I never thought he had that accent, I was telling the other commentor about what he had asked. Alan just sounds like an old school brit who was raised in a city.

  • @jacobhazlett8571
    @jacobhazlett8571 5 місяців тому +318

    I worked as a Hospital Corpsman in the Navy. I can tell you, without a shadow of a doubt, that death is not the end. I have FELT people die. Looked into their eyes as they’ve crossed over. There is an ancient saying, the eyes; are the window to the soul, and when a person dies, their eyes grey..as if, their soul has left. When I say I’ve felt people die, it’s hard to explain and understand what that means unless you’ve experienced it as well. I can tell you consciousness, a soul, whatever you wanna call it, is real. 💜

    • @mak23997
      @mak23997 4 місяці тому

      physician here. I have worked in hospitals now over 20 years. Have never felt any souls nor seen a single thing that made me feel there was something else. I have been at the birth of babies and at the death of others. It's sad to think but nothing in nature points to their being some ethereal plain we all go to to just continually exist. It makes no natural sense. Sorry to burst your bubble but mine is a different view point.

    • @BarmaBoysAndFamily
      @BarmaBoysAndFamily 4 місяці тому +25

      I woke in hospital at the exact time an old lady was about to die in the middle of the night. But it was all strange. I saw a blackness decend from the ceiling. It swallowed the light. There was no noise. I mean no noise. I got out of bed to examine the thick blackness decending. I noticed the clock was at 3.02am. Next thing I remember was waking up. I asked thw nurse where the old lady was and was informed she had dies at 3.04 and they were surprised i wasnt woken up with the commotion of trying to revive her. So I cannot tell you what happens after death. But I can 100 percent tell you a benign and non threatening blackness appears as you die. I saw it. True story.

    • @jacobhazlett8571
      @jacobhazlett8571 4 місяці тому +1

      @@BarmaBoysAndFamily what happened? Why were you in the hospital? I guess I’m confused by your story

    • @BarmaBoysAndFamily
      @BarmaBoysAndFamily 4 місяці тому +8

      ​@@jacobhazlett8571i was just there for something minor. I was on a mixed ward with 6 beds. The lady was clearly close to death and her immediate relatives were allowed to sleep around her bed in chairs and on the floor. So it was expected. But when i woke up and saw the darkness they were all asleep.

    • @BarmaBoysAndFamily
      @BarmaBoysAndFamily 4 місяці тому +9

      When I woke I somehow knew she was going but it was all so surreal. No sound, even when i tried to make it. And the darkness smothering the light bulbs as it descended down the wall. I assumed it was all a dream when i woke up, saw the empty bed and asked the nurse. I woke 2 minutes before she passed. And something came to collect her. I am not a nut job. I never believe in ghosts or any such thing. But i saw what i saw

  • @lindamclean8809
    @lindamclean8809 9 місяців тому +431

    There’s a consciousness that keeps going........my dad passed away about 10 years ago. ...... I talk to him every day.... and I get answers........so many things happen around me daily........there’s more to life after “ death. “ than he indicates. ❤❤❤❤

    • @davecromwell7001
      @davecromwell7001 9 місяців тому +14

      You you suffer from trauma? Or fine living in a universe devoid of your loved? Mmm at least he ain't got to be a slave here.

    • @BarryCreaney
      @BarryCreaney 8 місяців тому +4

      Totally

    • @g-tallfrmda6661
      @g-tallfrmda6661 8 місяців тому

      ​@@davecromwell7001your consciousness is leaking my friend

    • @wascopI
      @wascopI 8 місяців тому +33

      Great. My father has given no sign, I used to for years try to communicate somehow. Absolutely nothing.

    • @StrangeScaryNewEngland
      @StrangeScaryNewEngland 8 місяців тому +10

      @@wascopI Not even the slightest dream that felt potentially real?

  • @epf888
    @epf888 8 місяців тому +80

    Feel mentally better after listening to this. Thanks a million

    • @ronbusby3335
      @ronbusby3335 6 місяців тому +2

      It’s not true. Please read in Luke Ch16 of what The Lord Jesus Christ Himself, says happens to a person when they die.

    • @joefranklin1837
      @joefranklin1837 6 місяців тому +3

      @@ronbusby3335 i wish i could believe in god, but my heart keeps reminding me that its just faith and I may never see loved ones again. i cant expect the best of my future because then what if I'm wrong and I wasted my one life waiting for something that didn't exist

    • @ronbusby3335
      @ronbusby3335 6 місяців тому +1

      @@joefranklin1837 Dear friend, Scripture teaches that the devil has the ability to do to humans just what you described. “whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.”-(2 Corinthians 4:4) however please don’t lose heart, The Lord Jesus Christ, can absolutely open your eyes and He is able to save your very soul, “if” your willing to repent of your sins and place your faith in Him by trusting in His DEATH, BURIAL and RESURRECTION as the payment for your sins! “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”-(Romans 10:13) “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on Me hath everlasting life.” -(John 6:47)

    • @KingD-o8t
      @KingD-o8t Місяць тому

      ⁠​⁠@@joefranklin1837It might be just faith but I promise u brother that Jesus Christ is real and he did die for our sins. I might not be able to convince u but I know for sure that what I say is the truth because if u r wrong my brother I'm sorry but were u r going to go isn't going to be pleasant. So plz turn to him before it is too late

  • @redriver6541
    @redriver6541 5 місяців тому +55

    I can listen to Alan Watts for days. He was a fascinating man.

    • @gayrobinson7561
      @gayrobinson7561 4 місяці тому +2

      And listening to Watts isn't going to get you out of this hell realm. He knows squat!

  • @shovelhead81
    @shovelhead81 8 місяців тому +96

    I look at it this way;
    Everyday above ground is a holiday;
    Every meal is a banquet;
    Yesterday was a memory;
    And tomorrow is just a rumor.
    WE HAVE A SOUL .

    • @StalloneSRB
      @StalloneSRB 5 місяців тому

      Animals and insects also?

    • @BlackStar-yk7iz
      @BlackStar-yk7iz 4 місяці тому +4

      @@StalloneSRB Yes, we are all part of the One, so treat everything with respect because they are you also.

    • @Rustyknife1
      @Rustyknife1 4 місяці тому

      @@BlackStar-yk7izridiculous

    • @YamarajaDasaAlcyone
      @YamarajaDasaAlcyone 4 місяці тому +1

      We have a soul or we are the soul?

    • @brianb.7022
      @brianb.7022 4 місяці тому +4

      @@shovelhead81 we all are born with the breath of life and die without it. If anything is created it is brought to existence how does 1 bring it to exist as a living being?.. everything around us all things have the breath of life in it. So we give Thanks to God for the morning, Noon and night. Every meal and every beautiful thing we see. But 1 thing a lot of people miss.. what about thinking God for the breath of life that’s still in us… it’s free nobody owns it rich or poor we all share the same breath as the birds in the sky to the fish in the sea and to every thing that walks on land.

  • @jenniferdmartinez7500
    @jenniferdmartinez7500 5 місяців тому +54

    I’m dying of advanced colon cancer; I am able to live now, enjoy my coffee and do the dishes, still find joy and surprises & goals, even within these new cruel grips of pain, fear, grief…these truths - both are vividly true.
    It doesn’t matter but if u r curious-
    I’ve once embraced then grappled and ultimately, dramatically lost faith. & now closer to death my beliefs only settle deeper. But (maybe thanks to nature or evolution) I don’t fear a heaven less death; I only fear misfiring my efforts here, planting harm instead of luck for those ❤ behind me ☠️.
    But I’ve been thinking…yes I expect that I will die and then - nada. For me.
    But, maybe I can ‘haunt’ lived ones in good ways (hang on lemme explain), and in that way, I DO sort of believe I will have found a way to traverse the divide.
    For example: I arrange a specially curated playlist, to surprise my husband on Father’s Day. Have special books mailed to my daughter at key life stages.
    Make sense? I won’t be aware of those moments but I will have helped create them, in ways unique to my personality that surprise loved ones. That kind of sounds like a way to ‘exist’ beyond somehow

    • @argophagley5309
      @argophagley5309 5 місяців тому +8

      when your time comes to transition into spirit or whatever your belief.. may that transition be sweet and gentle.

    • @westcoast7662
      @westcoast7662 4 місяці тому +7

      May God Bless You Jennifer 🙏🙏

    • @spi_890
      @spi_890 3 місяці тому +2

      I hope your still with us,

    • @RedGreen-Blue
      @RedGreen-Blue 3 місяці тому +3

      Jesus Christ is the real solid hope for all, the living and the dead. He will come to you if you will let him in, to show you that death now is not the end. Death was brought to us not by God, yet he will destroy death sickness and pain forever. Human wisdom is born from imperfection. It has no true value because only the absolute truth has the absolute value. "I am the TRUTH, the WAY and the LIFE" said Jesus. He gives life to those who want life and it is a gift. Humans can never pay for that life it is that precious.

    • @staceyloeffler6795
      @staceyloeffler6795 2 місяці тому +3

      I have died several times, and looked down on my dying body. I am pure conscious energy and can see/hear everything in the room, but no one can see me until I am back in my body. Once our bodies cease to function, we go on! We just exist on a different level.

  • @robertbenefiel2781
    @robertbenefiel2781 Місяць тому +4

    I read philosophy in college and the two people who blew me away were Alan Watts and Bertrand Russell ! Still have their books on my shelf !!

  • @mitchellharris4040
    @mitchellharris4040 8 місяців тому +84

    People fear death as they feared birth. Here you are!!! And....with birth comes the concrete sentence of death. Stop fearing death and a long life!!. Live a memorable life and have fun. We all will die. Some choose the gamble of quantity of years versus the quality of years . Wanna see your grandkids with a colostomy bag, sitting in a wheelchair?? Not me!!!

    • @OliverWattsLLC
      @OliverWattsLLC 8 місяців тому +1

      Amen

    • @heelzrule-ln1jb
      @heelzrule-ln1jb 8 місяців тому +3

      Beautiful answer

    • @Filthy_Larry
      @Filthy_Larry 8 місяців тому

      I hate kids. I just live for me.

    • @Imhere4761
      @Imhere4761 7 місяців тому +5

      Clearly thoughts of a young man, Mitchell? Hang around a few years and see how you feel. Maybe life plays out that that is the only way you can see your granddkids - if you are lucky enough to have them. I wish I could post a photo of my Dad holding his Grandson for the first time. He was not disabled btw but the expression on his face speaks volumes! Who among us would you deny that pleasure?

    • @DavidHarvey-po9le
      @DavidHarvey-po9le 7 місяців тому +1

      I didn't fear birth - who does, I had no memory of it. I feared death as a child, as an adult it will happen when it happens, I hope it won't be in prolonged pain but I've experienced that in life and didn't know when it would end hoping one or the other. As I get older my death will be quicker and I won't fight it as well as my strength is less - that is how we all go - if we are lucky. What is is.

  • @SaosMythologicalWorld
    @SaosMythologicalWorld 7 місяців тому +25

    I just lost my grandpa, and thank you Allan watts for being a beacon of light in the darkest of times.

    • @clarkymann
      @clarkymann 7 місяців тому

      Lol I'm pretty sure Alan is dead

    • @SaosMythologicalWorld
      @SaosMythologicalWorld 6 місяців тому

      @@clarkymann yeah most likely lol

    • @ronbusby3335
      @ronbusby3335 6 місяців тому +1

      “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” -John 14:6

    • @SaosMythologicalWorld
      @SaosMythologicalWorld 6 місяців тому

      @@ronbusby3335 Thank you!

    • @adammasterx5854
      @adammasterx5854 26 днів тому

      I also lost my grandpa recently, actually most likely at around the same time as you. Hopefully yours and mine are now resting peacefully.

  • @dwoodard5717
    @dwoodard5717 2 місяці тому +4

    I remember when i was a lot younger (im 40) i used to get almost "stuck" thinking about time and how it will go on forever. Like, if theres is a heaven and we go there when we die, we'll just keep waking up every day there, it will never end. I used to try and get my head around that and i would just space wayyyyy out.

  • @davidclifford5393
    @davidclifford5393 8 місяців тому +30

    The impression I get from the video is the Buddhist concept that the ego is an illusion of our true being, so when the ego dies, the only thing lost is the illusion. I like his observation that if we formed out of nothing when we were born, it can happen again. Certainly thought provoking.

  • @andyderby150
    @andyderby150 8 місяців тому +18

    I have clinically died and had out of bod and told surgeon’s exactly what they were doing to me and I would float up through the ceiling and see all the pipes that were labeled oxygen, water, suction ect, but I think I was in limbo but it was the most calm ever like I had a car parked on my chest and someone removed it, then when I woke up in ICU with tubes hoses wires beeping noises ect, I was very mad to be pulled out of that peaceful bliss back to reality of the trauma and pain I was very angry and living in the hospital for a month going through multiple operations did not help.

    • @JeffMTX
      @JeffMTX 7 місяців тому

      Are you still here?

    • @youknow227
      @youknow227 4 місяці тому

      ​@@JeffMTXDoubt it

  • @laurarao603
    @laurarao603 3 місяці тому +6

    My adult son 30 passed away in the hospital before I could get to say goodbye. It feels like a sickness in my stomach that won't go away. I miss him so much. Thank you for this video. It's amazing. ❤

    • @staceyloeffler6795
      @staceyloeffler6795 2 місяці тому +2

      Your son is still with you, and he hears your words. He is pure conscious energy, and you will still feel his vibration around you, especially in your quietest moments. He will send you signs, butterflies and hummingbirds, sunsets and songs. That is the only way they are allowed to communicate. You will see him again.

    • @staceyloeffler6795
      @staceyloeffler6795 2 місяці тому

      Find a grief group and talk about his amazing life. It is healing.

    • @laurarao603
      @laurarao603 Місяць тому +2

      @@staceyloeffler6795 Thank you for that. I have noticed only 1 sign and I think it's a big one. His birthday is July 11th. So I notice often when I look at the time and it says 7:11 I know he's with me so that's when I talk to him. Thank you again your words are comforting. ☺️❤️

    • @TraceyBillsHomes
      @TraceyBillsHomes Місяць тому

      ​@@staceyloeffler6795sorry for your loss. I dunno..I already see hummingbirds, butterflies, etc..how am I going to see my son?

  • @debbresser4908
    @debbresser4908 7 місяців тому +111

    As a retired Hospice RN, I have been honored to see where my Pt's went, and it is a beautiful place, it smell's so clean, and it is bright,

    • @wootusmootus4770
      @wootusmootus4770 7 місяців тому +5

      🙏

    • @littlejourneysbigmemories208
      @littlejourneysbigmemories208 7 місяців тому +12

      May I ask how you saw where they went? Did you have a near death experience yourself?

    • @dylanmcdaniel2084
      @dylanmcdaniel2084 6 місяців тому +9

      When you are around enough dying people, they tend to tell you what they see right before they take their final breath. Don’t think about it too hard, you may hurt yourself.

    • @amiegee3134
      @amiegee3134 6 місяців тому +10

      As an RN it would be a contradiction in your education and practice as an RN to think otherwise beyond the clinical death in which the person ceases to exist, no magic just death, many want to believe in the feel good stuff but common sense of the end of life is that it is the end, no more for the one that has died, the reward for having lived is that we do not know anything after we die so nothing matters, we no longer have to struggle in the life we were in, don't know how you could have seen where your patient went, you didn't go there unless you are speaking of the mortuary which is in fact clean and bright.

    • @PresenceAwareness
      @PresenceAwareness 6 місяців тому +5

      Most people at the point of death have the realisation that they are not the body and mind. We were just a projection of the beloved. I hate to use words for the unnameable but, it is the only way to communicate it. Beyond this dream is reality. Individuality is the dream, oneness is the reality.

  • @Jesus-w3d8l
    @Jesus-w3d8l 6 місяців тому +42

    Death is like sleeping without dreaming....no more consciousness, no more awareness.

    • @AngelaMarie-777
      @AngelaMarie-777 6 місяців тому +4

      I bet you wish but Keep wishing...does not change reality that Jesus is The Way to life everlasting.

    • @maggiebarrett7300
      @maggiebarrett7300 5 місяців тому +14

      Or death could be waking up from the dream of this life.

    • @apachewraith
      @apachewraith 3 місяці тому +5

      If that were true then consciousness itself is entirely pointless.

    • @staceyloeffler6795
      @staceyloeffler6795 2 місяці тому +3

      I died three times, and left my body. I was pure conscious energy, with all my memories intact. I connected with unseen dimensions, and then would be yanked back into my body.

    • @waynehilbornTSS
      @waynehilbornTSS Місяць тому +3

      Or memory is forever stored as simultaneous block universe events you're not smart enough to grasp.. and dying is safely a waking process within our COMMON dream

  • @CoolCoyote
    @CoolCoyote 4 місяці тому +36

    death is easy, living is harder

    • @Becauseimme
      @Becauseimme 4 місяці тому +7

      Exactly I’m trying to find the least painful way to kill myself now.

    • @CoolCoyote
      @CoolCoyote 4 місяці тому +3

      @@Becauseimme perspectives, after my close sister has just died of cancer and sepsis. life is precious however the last 5 years of her life was a nightmare. she should of never had radiation 'therapy' lesson learnt too late. perspectives and trade offs you see.

    • @Jay-nq7fn
      @Jay-nq7fn 4 місяці тому +7

      I'm struggling daily to find a reason for my existence. I live alone no kids, never been married. I live alone, don't really have many friends, I work and go to a bar on the weekends and still alone. The way the world is now at age 46 I'm kinda glad I don't have any kids.

    • @CoolCoyote
      @CoolCoyote 4 місяці тому +3

      @@Jay-nq7fn any horrible moment at school at all? like being put under the desk by the teacher. I had this but I found out later she did to boys she didnt like , she loved girls you see. people remember these type of things and it effects them over time. one of the best videos iv seen is of charles manson. he had abuse as a child but he carried on he survived it. (no not th best of people) but its an example of character and not carrying things around like a sack on your back. love listening to alan watts , but also the other side of it. utube must have removed that video . ua-cam.com/video/3Edw-ftS2Jo/v-deo.html this is not the video. i cant find it.

    • @GregS-em8tn
      @GregS-em8tn 4 місяці тому

      ​@@Becauseimmeroad trip with the garage door closed...everybody knows that!❤ Id rather you get help tho..😢😮😊

  • @ArthurM1863
    @ArthurM1863 9 місяців тому +82

    Truly the most amazing mind in history. Alan Watts had the power to put into simple words extremely complex things.

    • @yankee2666
      @yankee2666 8 місяців тому +2

      You have him highly overrated.

    • @johnwilkes01
      @johnwilkes01 8 місяців тому

      @@yankee2666 watts only provides a lubricant if thats what you need. a banana peel will provide the same treatment.

    • @Otree859
      @Otree859 8 місяців тому +5

      @@yankee2666nah he’s right

    • @amjan
      @amjan 7 місяців тому

      I''ve never heard him talk about a single complex thing. Come on, it's all basic stuff about life.

    • @dylanmcdaniel2084
      @dylanmcdaniel2084 6 місяців тому

      Clown comment

  • @seriouslyyoujest1771
    @seriouslyyoujest1771 8 місяців тому +117

    We are the way the universe gets to look at itself. Take a good luck and enjoy it.

    • @mrdeathgaming1457
      @mrdeathgaming1457 7 місяців тому +5

      Just like Carl Sagan said. Conscienceness is the way of the Universe to know itself.....or something like that. Written in May 2024.

    • @jumpupdown2556
      @jumpupdown2556 7 місяців тому +3

      "Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world...."

    • @DavidHarvey-po9le
      @DavidHarvey-po9le 7 місяців тому +1

      I hope luck was a pun.

    • @petesaria-hf1xh
      @petesaria-hf1xh 6 місяців тому

      @@mrdeathgaming1457 'Just like'..........'or something like that'? That makes absolutely no sense.

    • @raywalsh9152
      @raywalsh9152 5 місяців тому

      The universe is certainly learning some very interesting things about itself right now. And aren't we "lucky" to be experiencing this part of its learning process. (Stuttered between ? and . and settled with . because it wasn't a question. More of an acceptance? That we are here. Now. Experiencing this stupidity. This global desire to just bow to the very lowest common denominator only because they are loud and obnoxious and loud. And watching them absolutely ruin every fucking thing on this planet because they are stupid and refuse to accept their ignorance and larn sumpthin.) I mean, come on ... get a brain morans.

  • @JeDee-s3x
    @JeDee-s3x 3 місяці тому +7

    Experiences are only for this life not an after life. So enjoy every moment before it all goes away forever

  • @kladinvermont3289
    @kladinvermont3289 9 місяців тому +299

    Instead of thinking of us as a "body with a soul" change your perspective and you'll see we are "spirits or souls with bodies". We're occupying our current form and when it wears out, onto another vessel. At least that's my hope.

    • @JoseLopez-tk4tq
      @JoseLopez-tk4tq 9 місяців тому +8

      Just remember to put your soul in the recycling bin when your done with life. ♻️

    • @daedum3177
      @daedum3177 8 місяців тому +8

      My God that sounds exhausting.

    • @kevinlee8732
      @kevinlee8732 8 місяців тому +22

      I think that scares me more than anything. Cause that would mean, we will HAVE to be here in the future, experiencing everything that happens, until the end of humankind. And then one? We transfer into AI robots scaling the universe for other life forms? Then what, drift until the universe expands to a point of not seeing another star, then watching all the stars die one by one, after that watching black holes die, til all the atoms fizzle out amd all that's left is radiation? What if the next vessel is in a third world country plagued by famine and more suffering? Then the next is worse yet? If we die and just go into another new vessel, it seems as if we will jist have to keep experiencing different levels of life, and there's an absolute certainty some will be WAY worse off and some will be way better off.. and it WILL end at some point.. I wouldn't want to be in the generation of mankind that has to find a way to get off world or be engulfed by the sun when it enters its red giant stage.. also if we are just a spiritual entity hopping to new vessels, maybe we are just ONE being, experiencing ALL of human life, one at a time, until ALL human life has been lived and extinguished, then at the end maybe we merge into the one Tru spirit form that we are. A god? A star? Mere energy without the ability to experience anymore? The idea of death, afterlife, nonexistence, reincarnation, or the like. All are terrifying. All are just as beautiful at the same time..

    • @cnault3244
      @cnault3244 8 місяців тому +4

      Define what you mean by "spirits or souls".

    • @justinplaysguitar
      @justinplaysguitar 8 місяців тому +6

      I think we just go to consciousness in a different reality where we didn’t die until we ascended

  • @margogreen8619
    @margogreen8619 6 місяців тому +12

    The thing is, nobody knows what happens to us after we die, we can have many beliefs and theories but no proof of anything! I'm not worried about ceasing to exist and there being nothing after death, no more worries, no more overthinking that is to me the meaning of Rest in Peace!

    • @MrRFAvery
      @MrRFAvery 10 днів тому

      You are 100 percent correct.

  • @DevouredBymyswarm
    @DevouredBymyswarm 5 місяців тому +2

    As i see here in the comment section, i didnt felt contented on how a lot of you interpret his wisdom on death.
    I am not an english man but
    I understood all the details he put in. A great piece❤️

  • @Barton.d
    @Barton.d 8 місяців тому +17

    Energy can not be created nor destroyed,, only our consciousness is temporary ❤

    • @DavidHarvey-po9le
      @DavidHarvey-po9le 7 місяців тому +1

      Our energy goes into bacteria unless we are burned - same to us either way. stop making yourself special.

    • @Barton.d
      @Barton.d 7 місяців тому +4

      The energy from us ,,gets distributed back to the world we were born of ,,,the energy doesn't die

    • @ronbusby3335
      @ronbusby3335 6 місяців тому +1

      No, you have an ETERNAL, IMMORTAL soul that will ABSOLUTELY still be alive trillions of years from now! The most important question EVER is where will your soul be? Forgiven by The Lord Jesus and FOREVER be with God, or unforgiven and in the lake of fire! 🔥

    • @Barton.d
      @Barton.d 6 місяців тому +4

      @@ronbusby3335 I respect your opinion,,but this post is scientific,,I work on facts that can proven,not make believe,,, maybe one day you will be enlightened

    • @kiwimike1405
      @kiwimike1405 2 місяці тому +1

      Consciousness is NOT temporary. Our use of it to live IS temporary, unless you directly experience it being what we, at core ARE. in truth we are each eternal

  • @NickandFreddie
    @NickandFreddie 8 місяців тому +42

    I could listen to him for hours!!! I’ll be honest, I couldn’t take all that in, and I’m pretty intelligent, but will watch it until I do! Fascinating!!!

    • @Budwords
      @Budwords 8 місяців тому +1

      Exactly that for me too ! He says too many simple things that I have never looked into but which make sense. He has a non-duality approach which I believe is the beginning of truth

    • @OrbitalTrails-x5s
      @OrbitalTrails-x5s 8 місяців тому

      What is your IQ?

    • @dylanmcdaniel2084
      @dylanmcdaniel2084 6 місяців тому

      Same clown, different comment.

  • @Gino_567
    @Gino_567 5 місяців тому +3

    he was such a wonderful person. He truly knows how to put such trivial things into perspective. i miss him dearly.
    RIP Alan.

  • @JamesZ-py1xl
    @JamesZ-py1xl 7 місяців тому +51

    If you knew there was an afterlife better than what your life is now why wouldn't more people be more accepting of death? Because once you're gone you're gone. My older passed away 6 months ago and besides dreaming of him here and there I can still feel his presence around me. He isnt gone hes just in spirit form and not physically here. I will see him again in the after life. And my Mom and cousins and uncles and grandparents.

    • @rogerfleuryjr2308
      @rogerfleuryjr2308 6 місяців тому +5

      There's nothing wrong with accepting death. It's just that believing an afterlife is better kinda takes away from the value of this one life we know we do have.
      There's no heaven to store my treasure in, so I store it up here on earth for those I leave behind.

    • @JamesZ-py1xl
      @JamesZ-py1xl 6 місяців тому +1

      @rogerfleuryjr2308 Amen I agree

    • @Pie86
      @Pie86 5 місяців тому

      I hope you're doing ok James, that must not be easy to deal with. Sending my love and best wishes to you brother, keep your chin up. All the best 🙏

    • @jeffreyanderson6740
      @jeffreyanderson6740 5 місяців тому

      ​@@rogerfleuryjr2308 No

    • @denisem1080
      @denisem1080 5 місяців тому

      No you won't

  • @TheLoneDrow22
    @TheLoneDrow22 7 місяців тому +43

    From death comes life, and we all go back to the eternal unity of universal consciousness.

  • @iwillnotgoquietly
    @iwillnotgoquietly 4 місяці тому +1

    I first heard Alan Watts on WFMU, a college radio station, in the late 1970s. Many of his talks have influenced the course of my life. He never asked you to believe anything - just put his own thoughts out there for your consideration - and from him I learned that spirituality can contain humor and that life is too serious to take seriously. No one talk by the man can contain him; his wit and insight is revealed through all the intriguing thoughts he shared and his 'element of irreducible rascality' - his term. It's so nice to visit with him through his talks from time to time.

  • @Larry-fo1qv
    @Larry-fo1qv 8 місяців тому +62

    As living humans I believe we no nothing about what really happens after we die but I do believe we go on somehow

    • @rogerbianchini2982
      @rogerbianchini2982 8 місяців тому +6

      But if we "no nothing about what really happens after we die" doesn't that mean we might end up "know-where" .....?

    • @Evil-Never-Dies
      @Evil-Never-Dies 7 місяців тому +2

      @@rogerbianchini2982Larry doesn’t “no” 😂the answer to that question 😂

    • @islamaboyy588
      @islamaboyy588 6 місяців тому

      Read Quran

    • @mikrosixtysix
      @mikrosixtysix 6 місяців тому +3

      ​@@islamaboyy588why quran? Bible is better

    • @islamaboyy588
      @islamaboyy588 6 місяців тому

      @@mikrosixtysix QUR'AN=REALITY!! BIBLE=CONTRADICTIONS!!

  • @RichardS-qh8mi
    @RichardS-qh8mi 2 місяці тому +1

    Anyone worrying about death should see this film. Magnificent and magical as everything is the universe. As my father once said to me, “We go back to being stardust again and are reborn elsewhere forever.”

  • @kerrydubord5273
    @kerrydubord5273 8 місяців тому +23

    All is a reflection of consciousness that never dies, when you look out and see this reflected consciousness, this is One and the same within everything.
    You are as much the universe as that is of you, pure reflected consciousness.

    • @cnault3244
      @cnault3244 8 місяців тому +1

      Meaningless word salad..

    • @kerrydubord5273
      @kerrydubord5273 8 місяців тому +3

      @@cnault3244 To each their own.....

    • @DavidHarvey-po9le
      @DavidHarvey-po9le 7 місяців тому

      So we can't leave this corrupt madhouse shithole - f**ck that.

  • @kodwanikennethmsosa
    @kodwanikennethmsosa 9 місяців тому +43

    There are alot of things that we need to explore about death. As humans we are covered in fear of death.

    • @Troy-q5k
      @Troy-q5k 9 місяців тому +3

      True

    • @Inkulabi
      @Inkulabi 9 місяців тому +2

      🤌🏾

    • @e.j.bosman7728
      @e.j.bosman7728 9 місяців тому +3

      As ego* you are indeed

    • @maihoang8567
      @maihoang8567 9 місяців тому

      such as ?

    • @gbud888
      @gbud888 9 місяців тому +4

      Well, before you speak for all humans, maybe take a poll? I, for one, am completely fine with it. And not because I believe any silly religious life after death stories. But because, if nothing else, it will be the end of suffering.

  • @willbart1236
    @willbart1236 5 місяців тому +6

    ‘demur’
    I learned a new word today. Thanks Alan.

  • @raygreen5926
    @raygreen5926 8 місяців тому +67

    We come from the stars and when we die we return to the stars

    • @boweevil6442
      @boweevil6442 8 місяців тому +3

      "Everybody is a Star " Sly and The Family Stone '69

    • @tim59ism
      @tim59ism 8 місяців тому

      Sounds good to those that want to believe that we are just a collection of particles. But it's not so, there's so much more.

    • @Dsinkz
      @Dsinkz 8 місяців тому

      I hope so

    • @karenlbellmont6560
      @karenlbellmont6560 8 місяців тому +3

      Miss Carl Sagan. As a child he really opened my eyes (I's).

    • @karenlbellmont6560
      @karenlbellmont6560 8 місяців тому +3

      You don't need to be born on Earth.

  • @mobiustrip1400
    @mobiustrip1400 9 місяців тому +60

    It only happens once, but always. There is no time, you are happening now, everyone is happening now, only once❤

    • @joefranklin1837
      @joefranklin1837 6 місяців тому +6

      i hate that thought almost as much as it comforts others

    • @PresenceAwareness
      @PresenceAwareness 5 місяців тому +6

      @@joefranklin1837 You are consciousness. Consciousness does not need time, a body, a life. It just is. The mind can never perceive itself when it already is consciousness, it is all there is and it is boundless. The universe is a murmur of consciousness.

    • @gdba11er20
      @gdba11er20 2 місяці тому +2

      But when I binge drink and say yolo, I get yelled at

  • @TheTroubledMinds
    @TheTroubledMinds 4 місяці тому +7

    There is a somewhat famous quote attributed to Diogenes of Sinope. Someone asked Diogenes what the difference is between life and death. Diogenes replied, "There is no difference." Thinking himself clever, the man asks why Diogenes doesn't simply end himself. Diogenes replied "Because there is no difference."

  • @MouSewiTch
    @MouSewiTch 8 місяців тому +9

    Facts... It's finally nice to hear someone state the obvious.

  • @Greydoggy1658
    @Greydoggy1658 8 місяців тому +8

    I have never heard of Alan Watts. Never known any of his beliefs or ideas. All my life I have had the same ideas and beliefs on death. This is bizarre. I'm 66 years old. Not long ago, I had a conversation with my younger brother about death. He said, " I wonder what happens when we die". I said without hesitation, what happened before you were born? There is no difference. You are not alive on either side of your life. There was nothing before you lived so why would it be any different after you've lived?

  • @bluemule6278
    @bluemule6278 8 днів тому +1

    When we fall asleep, we never remember when it happens, I think dying is the same, you won't even know you died.

  • @markwilliams974
    @markwilliams974 8 місяців тому +9

    Reminds me of a lecture by an astrophysicist who was asked “did you say the Sun will go out in 5 million or 5 billion years?” The astrophysicist said 5 billion years. The questioner said “oh, that’s a relief!”

  • @BibleTumper
    @BibleTumper 6 місяців тому +4

    Non-existence before your birth isn't the same as physical death. Because physical life is a kind of imprint on the soul. When you die, that imprint of your existence continues on. You're not a leather bag filled with chemicals. But you're a body that possesses a soul and spirit. Energy, information, transference of soul and spirit is more than you can imagine.

  • @LaVieBoheme517
    @LaVieBoheme517 27 днів тому +1

    I think this video just broke me. And I also am now teary-eyed for some reason? WTH!

  • @tina-g8p
    @tina-g8p 7 місяців тому +15

    For those who fear death, listen to all the stories of near death experiences

    • @bartusboxing9642
      @bartusboxing9642 6 місяців тому +2

      Thats al in the brain the people didnt die so the brain makes images in the head

    • @joeschmitz7529
      @joeschmitz7529 5 місяців тому +1

      ​@bartusboxing9642 that's why it's called "near death experience".........

    • @malcolmstockbridge2569
      @malcolmstockbridge2569 5 місяців тому +1

      and then buy their books and DVDs from Amazon that they always seem to sell !....a quick check of UA-cam NDE videos shows around 99% are American...perhaps God has a sense of humour !

    • @leerobinson8709
      @leerobinson8709 4 місяці тому

      @@malcolmstockbridge2569 That is rather cynical. NDE's have been reported in all cultures for as long as there as been the spoken and written word. There was a study conducted of NDE's. Google "southampton hospital near death experience". The top searches link to the studies. They are interesting reading.

    • @Mintcar923
      @Mintcar923 4 місяці тому

      Well if they’re already clinically dead and come back maybe it should be called the after death experience!
      Atheists crack me up.. Like everyone who’s already dead all have the same delusion about an afterlife.. They’re definitely in denial

  • @zippyoffrainbow8174
    @zippyoffrainbow8174 8 місяців тому +243

    What are the odds of me and you being here alive on this planet.. it’s crazy ..
    we should all feel very privileged..

    • @FoundElement
      @FoundElement 8 місяців тому +38

      For what? This place is obviously some kinda hell. A trap. A huge form of slavery…

    • @andrewbrown441
      @andrewbrown441 8 місяців тому +2

      Fate

    • @davidtesler1198
      @davidtesler1198 8 місяців тому +8

      @@FoundElement Hell is self made

    • @kriegsherrcult178
      @kriegsherrcult178 8 місяців тому +16

      Life is hell, death is freedom.

    • @howardrobinson4938
      @howardrobinson4938 8 місяців тому

      Very high. We are here.

  • @oliverlloyd4687
    @oliverlloyd4687 2 місяці тому +1

    Alan says it all with a beautiful peacefullness and clarity.... only just found this guy's work, but to me, it explains a lot, and alligns with what I am learning and feeling these days. Many will disagree on his theories and rational, but what we can all take compfort in is that birth and death are part of the same experience, they cannot be separated, despite our attemps to fight it. By being born we will die, and by diying we were born. I am starting to belive that the experience of time is possibly just another illusion, just like the ego, our sight and image of material things, and many other perceptions we hold as fixed. I feel in my gut, that life is just like a river, never ceasing or with a fixed point, unable to seperate beginning or end (does it start at the spring, the glacier, and does it end with lake or sea). Enjoy it all and don't live attached to the idea of anything permanent.

  • @mashuu2301
    @mashuu2301 9 місяців тому +84

    Death is the same as that moment just after falling asleep and just before waking up.

    • @sahidkhan-qo4py
      @sahidkhan-qo4py 9 місяців тому +4

      Forever

    • @marioivanovic4096
      @marioivanovic4096 9 місяців тому

      @@sahidkhan-qo4py Only in sleep u can dream

    • @dez8346
      @dez8346 9 місяців тому

      Makes sense...like solely death and not the process

    • @HappyHarp-lp7dz
      @HappyHarp-lp7dz 9 місяців тому +2

      I can dig it

    • @errl
      @errl 8 місяців тому +3

      Ya kno If you lose all your spirits your soul won't make it to the next evolution.

  • @peterpiper487
    @peterpiper487 8 місяців тому +24

    FINALLY! An explanation for the "afterlife" that makes sense.

    • @ronbusby3335
      @ronbusby3335 8 місяців тому +1

      The video may sound nice, but it is NOT true! After a human being dies, THEY WILL MEET GOD. “And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment” -Hebrews 9:27

    • @Mihau0794
      @Mihau0794 8 місяців тому +11

      ​@@ronbusby3335 So what? This is as much possible as any other option. Jeez that's what's most annoying part about Judeo-Christian beliefs, that they feel like owners of the only right and absolute truth, just because someone long time ago once wrote it down in a book 🤣

    • @ronbusby3335
      @ronbusby3335 8 місяців тому +1

      @@Mihau0794 my dear friend, it was not just some random person who wrote The Scriptures, it was The Lord Himself and He says in His Word “I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me” -Isaiah 45:5, and He lovingly warns humanity of EXACTLY what will happen upon a person’s death “And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment” -Hebrews 9:27, please do not take my word for it, read for yourself what the Lord Himself says in Luke Ch16, about someone who is CURRENTLY in Hell. That person is still THERE right NOW! That is the awful consequence of dying without having your sins forgiven. “It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.” -Hebrews 10:31, But the Lord IS kind and He has made a way so that you do not have to go to that awful awful place. “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” -Romans 10:13

    • @johnf1121
      @johnf1121 7 місяців тому +1

      @@ronbusby3335 silly, a 2k year old fairytale, nothing more, but if it comforts you, go for it

    • @cropredator1027
      @cropredator1027 7 місяців тому

      ​@@ronbusby3335bro haven doesn't exist

  • @niklasmarklund3742
    @niklasmarklund3742 Місяць тому +2

    My exact thoughts for a very long time... i was nothing, i was born, i die, i become nothing.... if it can happen once why not twice or even forever

  • @philbarone4603
    @philbarone4603 8 місяців тому +18

    Would have loved to see him live into is 90’s and to see him in person.

  • @eddiepullman2745
    @eddiepullman2745 2 місяці тому +3

    If you’re reading this, in 1879 you had no thoughts. No stress. You felt nothing. And that’s what I believe is our fate at the end of this journey. And it gives me motivation to try and truly enjoy this experience. Of course I don’t want to die. I don’t want to be in the ground and maybe my kids need me. That’s what scares me. But I can’t control it once I’m gone. All I can do is give them the best tools to survive as I did. Peace to everyone reading this. Remember, it’s only life.

  • @dannilouise2482
    @dannilouise2482 4 місяці тому +2

    THIS IS SO TRUE AND REAL! In 2015 I overdosed and I remember when I woke up thinking if I hadn’t of ever woke up again I would t have known about it! I went into nothingness! I’ve not feared death since this day. It was total blankness, nothing! But I did wake up and I know now when I do die, and I don’t ever wake up, I won’t even know! ❤ What an incredible man 🙏

    • @apachewraith
      @apachewraith 3 місяці тому +1

      Then how do you know lol?

    • @sarisgames84
      @sarisgames84 3 місяці тому +1

      But you never died so…

    • @wvuhoss15
      @wvuhoss15 3 місяці тому +1

      You ODed and survived. That was called a coma…not death

  • @MrMwolf69
    @MrMwolf69 8 місяців тому +18

    I don't talk about this a lot, but in these days, I will.Ive have seen death 4 times, and the last time I experienced death.I was stabbed 3 times ,one right above my heart.I was ready to go and I wasn't in shock.During my surgery I saw the light in a distant.I couldn't walk or run like i wanted to.Long story short,when I woke up I was in serious pain.But I'll never forget that light.God is my reason, my life, my faith, and my destiny.

    • @DavidHarvey-po9le
      @DavidHarvey-po9le 7 місяців тому

      You're brain was in shutdown, surely god would have known you would survive and not shown you the light?

    • @Evan8800-g8n
      @Evan8800-g8n 7 місяців тому +1

      BRO, 4 times? the las one being stabbed? who are you and what are ya doing....

    • @janiceh.45
      @janiceh.45 7 місяців тому +1

      @@Evan8800-g8n thanks, i laughed for once in a long time lol

    • @Evan8800-g8n
      @Evan8800-g8n 7 місяців тому

      @@janiceh.45 Glad to hear that from you! whatever you're going through at the moment, stay at peace, let it be and let it go.. we live in a cyclical and dual reality and no storm lasts forever. If you want to talk, I'm here. Now, my brosss... you need to stop playing at being a superhero or a villain.

  • @AmazingArnoldVoice
    @AmazingArnoldVoice 7 місяців тому +9

    Once a child is old enough to fully understand and communicate what they remember accurately, it would be interesting to ask them how far back they remember. I for example can’t remember being a baby, I remember very spotty back to maybe 7 or 8 but imagine asking someone when they’re 7 or 8 how far back they can go while still fresh in memory

    • @johntitorii6676
      @johntitorii6676 5 місяців тому

      Seems my first memory was around age 4 , was traumatic event unfortunally.

    • @johntitorii6676
      @johntitorii6676 5 місяців тому +3

      I've got tons of memories from age 5-15 but then major gaps after that, feels like another life time ago to be honest , 42 now. I can't remember Christmas time or 9ne of the homes I lived in at age 16 , my dad died, and it blanked my memory out for some reason .

    • @AmazingArnoldVoice
      @AmazingArnoldVoice 5 місяців тому +2

      @@johntitorii6676 I have those same major gaps. I never understood people that keep journals all their life, now I know why! It’s a manual way to record your dreams and life memories we will tend to forget. Imagine grabbing a journal and reading back 30 years. It would be amazing to take a peek back in time. I don’t write very well but I’m thinking of taking Voice journals to save that I can listen to many years later.

    • @AmazingArnoldVoice
      @AmazingArnoldVoice 5 місяців тому

      @@johntitorii6676 sorry about your dad, I can’t imagine losing mine…their health is failing and I’m trying to spend a little time every day

    • @donnievance1942
      @donnievance1942 3 місяці тому +1

      I have a few memories from around age 1& 1/2 to 2 years old. I can't believe someone's memories go back only to 7 or 8. That's weird.

  • @emmanuelokenwa3872
    @emmanuelokenwa3872 5 місяців тому +2

    Energy is never wasted. Heat is never lost, it is transferred from one body or object to another. Therefore, once you become conscious, even death cannot end your consciousness.

  • @davidhargreaves-e6h
    @davidhargreaves-e6h 6 місяців тому +18

    Born of the stars & destined to return ....

  • @guileweaver1574
    @guileweaver1574 4 місяці тому +5

    "Personally I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born, yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate."
    - H.P. Lovecraft

  • @Roger-uz2vg
    @Roger-uz2vg 3 місяці тому +2

    "Death is not a dead end. It is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight,it opens on the Dawn. (Victor Hugo)

  • @iamtreybonebone7185
    @iamtreybonebone7185 8 місяців тому +61

    If we go somewhere. That somewhere would be the place we came from to get here to earth.

    • @tylerrobibero
      @tylerrobibero 8 місяців тому +1

      Says who?

    • @Micofitness
      @Micofitness 8 місяців тому

      My dads balls then😂 great least he did one for me

    • @DavidHarvey-po9le
      @DavidHarvey-po9le 7 місяців тому +3

      I'm not going back to my mothers womb.

    • @aloisiocorreia5007
      @aloisiocorreia5007 7 місяців тому

      Loved it!

    • @PresenceAwareness
      @PresenceAwareness 5 місяців тому

      There is nowhere to go to. We didn't come from anywhere. Consciousness is timeless and without place.

  • @raulsimon2218
    @raulsimon2218 9 місяців тому +20

    Goosebumps, indeed.

  • @JuandelosSantos-NewYork
    @JuandelosSantos-NewYork 3 місяці тому

    This video represents extraordinary solace for all those who are getting close to the dreaded “death”!!!Good thinking, Mr. Watts!

  • @ancientheart2532
    @ancientheart2532 8 місяців тому +15

    I entered this world without being consulted and I leave without my consent.

    • @mcross320
      @mcross320 7 місяців тому

      You have more to learn about who is that "I" having those thoughts.

    • @mcross320
      @mcross320 7 місяців тому

      @munkeeboi1982 yes unless you think people are born with complete divine consciousness? Most people get here and are taught to be ego-minded and forget their spiritual origins.

    • @mcross320
      @mcross320 7 місяців тому

      @munkeeboi1982 Your spirit is locked in the here and now. That is where the lessons come from. In the spirit world there are no definitions of space and time, of pain and suffering or trauma or even a longing like here.

    • @mcross320
      @mcross320 7 місяців тому

      @munkeeboi1982 We are all spirits in this world, it's your ego that is the phantom.

    • @lawkmask1able
      @lawkmask1able 6 місяців тому +2

      dont you think we should question everything? why we are here and where we are going? what if there is hell and paradise?

  • @angelsdemons8276
    @angelsdemons8276 3 місяці тому +3

    The lord will always keep us our soul 🙏 ♥️ will never die we always come back we are Recycles a souls will always live on

  • @edwardschieler1680
    @edwardschieler1680 5 місяців тому +1

    I remember flying everywhere before I came here to my mother's womb before I was born. I remember descending and seeing my parents on a big ship in the SF bay and remember exactly what they were wearing. I grew up with this memory and at the age of 35 asked my father if they were on this ship and described what they were wearing. He asked who told me this and how did I know this. I said I just remember seeing you and I was descending from above. He didn't understand how I knew this. 😊

  • @wantsome-zs5sq
    @wantsome-zs5sq 8 місяців тому +45

    I was born with a gift. I had near photographic memory. I have memories from before I was born. I was shown my parents and I was asked if I wanted to go. I'm not religious but I know I existed in another time and place.

    • @williamkeller3611
      @williamkeller3611 6 місяців тому +3

      I've felt that way too and was asked if I wanted to go to that situation.. Unless I have a crazy imagination I remember having that discussion..So many unanswered questions.

    • @williamkeller3611
      @williamkeller3611 6 місяців тому +5

      I also had dreams up until age 10 where I had the ability to levitate and fly. I had many of these dreams and actually looked forward to having them. Very strange for me to have them but I can't explain it. At age 23 I did have an out of body experience and saw myself sitting in my chair and I thought I had died but I was floating above myself for about 20 seconds and then bam right back into my body..I consider that a gift and realize there is more to this existence that we really don't know.

    • @wantsome-zs5sq
      @wantsome-zs5sq 6 місяців тому +1

      @@williamkeller3611 The mind does weird stuff when you're sleeping.

    • @vatrweaver5169
      @vatrweaver5169 6 місяців тому +3

      I can't believe I chose this life and this parents. No No Noooo.......

    • @wantsome-zs5sq
      @wantsome-zs5sq 6 місяців тому +9

      @@vatrweaver5169 I didn't choose them. I was shown who they are and I was asked if I want to go. My dad shot himself when I was 5. No one told me life was going to be easy. I'm watching my mom die from lung cancer. I changed my grandmothers diapers and wiped her rear end for 2 years.

  • @janejohnstone5795
    @janejohnstone5795 8 місяців тому +10

    This reality is too real..

  • @Toad-l3s
    @Toad-l3s 3 місяці тому +2

    "For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten. Their love, their hate, and their envy have already vanished, and they will never again have a share in all that is done under the sun.…" -Eccl 9:5

  • @LittlGuro04
    @LittlGuro04 3 місяці тому +3

    Life is a dream, high vibrational dream, if you have experienced death in your dream, it’s like that, then you wake up to another dream, so after death you wake up to another dream, and quality of your next dream depends upon quality of your karmic bubble of life you lived while in this dream.

  • @lawnmower1066
    @lawnmower1066 7 місяців тому +7

    Something can't come from nothing, and nothing can't turn into something!

    • @kaksalphie4886
      @kaksalphie4886 6 місяців тому

      Everything is one with nothing.
      Just like light is with darkness.
      Sound and silence
      Death and life
      Each isn't without the other

    • @PresenceAwareness
      @PresenceAwareness 5 місяців тому

      Because the No-Thing, is consciousness. What is is the manifestation of consciousness.

    • @WhetuMotutere-n4w
      @WhetuMotutere-n4w 5 місяців тому

      Then how did you come to be

    • @WhetuMotutere-n4w
      @WhetuMotutere-n4w 5 місяців тому

      You know life is important it is what you do with it that is important.

  • @petersesugh6272
    @petersesugh6272 3 місяці тому +1

    For all of you that's has the fair of death,,am 26yrs, old i died in my sick bed way back in 2011, but later come back in the next 1hr which nobody notices it's,, when i come back till date i feel so bad for coming back, so it's not the end of the road when it's comes to you you feel nothing but joy leaving this world..

  • @ClimbingKidGG
    @ClimbingKidGG 7 місяців тому +7

    i concluded this myself some time ago and i am so happy someone else has also thought about this exactly the same

  • @DavidParish-q1e
    @DavidParish-q1e 7 місяців тому +16

    At my dads funeral 10 years ago a fireman was doing roll call during the service said my dads name several times, another fireman stood and said he was present but unable to speak, hit me hard i haven't been the same without my dad. Hope to see him again on the other side 🙏

    • @rexp1727
      @rexp1727 2 місяці тому +1

      Don't get it

  • @iramirez95020
    @iramirez95020 8 місяців тому +11

    Wow that was deep! And it all makes sense!

  • @seinj9013
    @seinj9013 9 місяців тому +6

    We are all one. Everyone who is born to life, and there will be eternal births. So YOU never die really.

    • @bartusboxing9642
      @bartusboxing9642 6 місяців тому

      Yeah but have you thought about if thats True you wil live great lives but also al the bad your eyes being picked out torture everything you wil experience thats kinda creepy

  • @isporsathemighty2750
    @isporsathemighty2750 2 місяці тому

    my mother die 15 years ago ! and all this time i have never feel her absence !
    i feel that she was transform into an angel who guard me and show me the way and open every close door in my life !
    every time i look at her photo she simulate a new face like she is alive !

  • @bwnco
    @bwnco 9 місяців тому +9

    Best line on death was from Movie "LONESOME DOVE" Someone asks the Mexican cook guy. What he thinks happens when we die. He replies.." Nothing much, were just dead"... Loved that response. We dont know it, we dont feel it, like no big deal.... Thought it was profound from the moment of some guy stirring Frijoles!..

    • @X-7-JAMES
      @X-7-JAMES 8 місяців тому +2

      Great series.

    • @Evil-Never-Dies
      @Evil-Never-Dies 7 місяців тому +1

      The problem is that most people don’t want that SO BADLY they accept silly kids stories as true.
      Selling hope is the second oldest profession 😂

    • @pokecuz
      @pokecuz 7 місяців тому +2

      No one knows what happens. Anyone who says they do is a liar.

  • @ianfraser1608
    @ianfraser1608 6 місяців тому +24

    Who truly knows till we get there..

    • @haijin7484
      @haijin7484 5 місяців тому +1

      We did though. Death is just a philosophical idea. What you call not existing before? Birth, not existing after is just death.

    • @joshinhisbag4147
      @joshinhisbag4147 4 місяці тому

      @@haijin7484wow interesting

  • @ashtonsoulfire
    @ashtonsoulfire 5 місяців тому +1

    The fact that it’s been done before comforts me.
    Also the phrase “I’ll always be with you.” Refers to the following senario
    The more time you spend with someone, the more of their personality, and character you build within your heart. After they are gone, for any situation or event. You yourself will know exactly how they would act, comfort, advise, and share in your both good and bad life events. In this way they never leave you.
    That is why they call it the “second death” because after all that have known you pass your personal legacy is gone for most people.

  • @wectyler3817
    @wectyler3817 4 місяці тому +10

    The show must go on.
    With or without you

  • @komamix
    @komamix 8 місяців тому +31

    Energy never dies. We are energy. . Define these meanings. N then. Dying. Becomes nofhing, and absolutlt everyrhing. Into nothing. But its always love, light, frequencies, vibrations, and.. that thing we call love.

    • @DavidHarvey-po9le
      @DavidHarvey-po9le 7 місяців тому

      You took energy from the universe to be born and it will take it back - I despise you optimists, you are the reason why religion exists - to create hell.

  • @rafikiofficial4210
    @rafikiofficial4210 9 місяців тому +18

    The question is ....who is the person responsible for our happening again.

    • @quinnmorgan28
      @quinnmorgan28 9 місяців тому +5

      You had your one shot at “happening” understand, you will not happen again… this is it

    • @birk3106
      @birk3106 9 місяців тому +14

      @@quinnmorgan28How can you be certain of that? You wouldn't know because you haven't experienced it

    • @ArthurM1863
      @ArthurM1863 9 місяців тому +13

      ​​@@quinnmorgan28That is what a person that wants to rule the world and rule over other people would say.

    • @505pwned
      @505pwned 8 місяців тому

      Or maybe you're just asking the wrong question. Nobody knows what started It.
      What if 'it" has been here for an eternity..

    • @malcolmstockbridge2569
      @malcolmstockbridge2569 5 місяців тому

      @@birk3106 Ask all the extinct creatures that didnt 'happen again'....its not complicated. Picture your own life before you were born....thats death.

  • @Neilgs
    @Neilgs Місяць тому

    I had recorded his talks in 1975 from WBAI FM on cassettes when I was 15. I searched for decades to find this one on UA-cam etc. could not come across it and finally this is it or part of it.

    • @Neilgs
      @Neilgs Місяць тому

      Ah! After listening to it, it was not the original talk where the blind woman he is referring to was in the live talk, Karen was her name.

  • @peterfarrelly2437
    @peterfarrelly2437 4 місяці тому +4

    There is no way of knowing what it will be like to fall asleep and never wake up because we will be dead. Nobody will ever know what death is like if there is no afterlife.
    If there is an afterlife, I doubt I'll remember this one as I don't remember a previous one. Isn't life strange. Hard to imagine it just simply ending yet even harder to imagine an afterlife