The Secret That Was Kept Hidden From Us - Alan Watts On Existence

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  • @WeAreAllOneNature
    @WeAreAllOneNature 3 місяці тому +87

    Extreme summary: Each personality is like a separate wave on the ocean. But who you really are is the whole ocean. Enlightenment is when you are fully aware of being the whole ocean - and more. Hence the term: Cosmic-consciousness.

    • @realxLp
      @realxLp 3 місяці тому +4

      I wondered why recently I was feeling like the whole ocean, and honestly I was just like “cool “. I was already real chill so it makes sense.

    • @theelder4797
      @theelder4797 2 місяці тому +1

      Yeah, but that can only be conceptualized, a mental exercise. There are brief periods where you can feel that through meditation, or entheogens, but it's temporary and fleeting. Those Monk's that meditate their entire lives attempting to reach that state don't even succeed.

    • @WeAreAllOneNature
      @WeAreAllOneNature 2 місяці тому +1

      @@theelder4797 I believe that there are many thousands of enlightened beings on Earth. And I believe that Alan Watts was enlightened.

    • @Swooop920
      @Swooop920 Місяць тому +1

      @@WeAreAllOneNature
      “You are not a Drop in tha Ocean;
      You are thee entire ocean in a Drop” - Rumi

    • @WeAreAllOneNature
      @WeAreAllOneNature 29 днів тому

      @@Swooop920 Yes! Very nice example of: microcosm / macrocosm.

  • @DukeIGNeton
    @DukeIGNeton 2 місяці тому +9

    Great edit. all your videos are so well done, from music to visual. AMAZING!

    • @TrueMeaning
      @TrueMeaning  2 місяці тому +1

      Appreciate the love. 🙏

  • @justgeorge3728
    @justgeorge3728 3 місяці тому +9

    Alan Watts is us as we are each other, and so goes the universe. ❤

  • @alanuptonjnr329
    @alanuptonjnr329 2 місяці тому +4

    thanks allot to alan's family for this vital imfomation great job guys xxx

  • @karin-from-mannheim4027
    @karin-from-mannheim4027 3 місяці тому +6

    I found him years after his death and Love him so much 💖🌹. I wish I would have known him at his lifetime 😢

    • @JMD481
      @JMD481 19 днів тому

      You know him now 😊😊😊😊😊

  • @AlanWattsInspiration-v6i
    @AlanWattsInspiration-v6i 3 місяці тому +39

    The distinction between "spotlight consciousness" and "floodlight consciousness" was a real eye-opener for me. I’ve always felt limited by the way our society emphasizes focusing on one thing at a time, especially through the education system that conditions us to use only our conscious attention. But this video revealed that our broader awareness-the floodlight consciousness-is always working, absorbing so much more than we give it credit for. It makes me wonder if modern life, with all its distractions and pressures to stay focused, has trained us to undervalue this expansive awareness. Are we losing touch with a greater, more intuitive way of understanding the world? It feels like there’s so much more depth to our perception that we aren’t even tapping into because we’re so fixated on this narrow, spotlight view.

    • @RealLifeFinance
      @RealLifeFinance 3 місяці тому +4

      Exactly 💯 We are the universe, but the system wants to say we need to be a specific cog in a gigantic factory

    • @BizzleyBear
      @BizzleyBear 3 місяці тому +4

      do you guys think time &/or consciousness/thoughts behave strangely?
      (ie we can have precognitive thoughts, or also we could be all connecting to some pool of ideas that everybody is accessing?)
      And… do y’all have any stories too, ig? lol

    • @TRUTHbot3000
      @TRUTHbot3000 2 місяці тому +1

      Floodlight consciousness, I feel like it's intuition. That feeling in your gut that tries to warn you before making a bad decision.

  • @1962LIBBY
    @1962LIBBY 3 місяці тому +11

    I needed this. Pleasure to discover.

  • @mindgame_sw
    @mindgame_sw 3 місяці тому +4

    Absolutely incredible as always

  • @chrishynes6091
    @chrishynes6091 3 місяці тому +13

    👍 What a great soul.

  • @lorrainelowes2070
    @lorrainelowes2070 2 місяці тому +1

    Never a more true word spoken. ❤️❤️❤️

  • @sallyabram3084
    @sallyabram3084 3 місяці тому +7

    Thank you!💫

  • @mohg7793
    @mohg7793 3 місяці тому +5

    Explicitly, we are different. Implicitly, we are all natural expressions of the world. Like leaves and waves.

  • @Josh-w1v
    @Josh-w1v 3 місяці тому +2

    No matter how long and persistent the wind blows, as it does and has on all of us that have ever and will ever exist, no two leaves dance the same as any other, nor do we know if it was the tree that set the leaf free from the branch or the leaf that set itself free from its home.
    Be a leaf and own your roots.

  • @randywilliams208
    @randywilliams208 2 місяці тому +2

    Alan was a badass

  • @jamesbanks4606
    @jamesbanks4606 3 місяці тому +9

    Their must be duality in order to have unity. For you cannot have one without the other

    • @frederf69
      @frederf69 3 місяці тому +2

      Yes; if there was never division; coming from a position of healing could be inferred/ 2 sides of the same one maybe...

  • @rosannag.burroughs4563
    @rosannag.burroughs4563 Місяць тому +1

    I went to sleep and dreamt a dream and when I'd awaken nothing was what it had seem!!!

  • @Ultra_Frost
    @Ultra_Frost 2 місяці тому +1

    We estrange ourselves

  • @Chehneda
    @Chehneda 3 місяці тому +4

    He speaks nothing but truth…

  • @jessicahensley518
    @jessicahensley518 2 місяці тому +1

    Hmm 🤔 kind wise soul 😇

  • @BalSingh6546
    @BalSingh6546 3 місяці тому +1

    I am a Sikh an this is 💯💯💯💪🏽💪🏽💯❤️❤️🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽💯💯

  • @EphesiansArmor1
    @EphesiansArmor1 3 місяці тому +1

    Great video - interesting man - thx 🙏
    But the Holy Spirit has given me such serenity and peace beyond explanation. 🙏👍

  • @jonfairway8235
    @jonfairway8235 2 місяці тому +1

    awesome..

  • @valleyviewing
    @valleyviewing 3 місяці тому +1

    Coherent Bubbles.
    En la kech a la kin🌈💀🦴 ⚛️ 🏹 👑

  • @Wilfred-s6d
    @Wilfred-s6d 2 місяці тому +1

    Just the spotlight 💵 but the light is Fiat, and I can see all the deer jackings in its headlights.
    TIMEBANKs 🕛 "fundamentally and forever".

  • @MartinScreeton
    @MartinScreeton 3 місяці тому +5

    I am me and you are you and I am you and you are me. :)

    • @Bigdong-kl2fh
      @Bigdong-kl2fh Місяць тому +1

      I am me as you are he and we are all together. John Lennon.

  • @theelder4797
    @theelder4797 2 місяці тому +3

    Funny he says people console themselves with reincarnation - many of us want this cycle to end, and that's DEPRESSING to think we'd have to return.

  • @ejenkins4711
    @ejenkins4711 3 місяці тому +2

    I looked inside
    I found a door
    I opened up
    And painted my core
    I felt inside a love untold
    Some won wish poor
    UUU found it baldy
    Good craic GCAT
    ⌚🦍🍀🍯

  • @lorrainelowes2070
    @lorrainelowes2070 2 місяці тому +1

    The dumbimg down of humanity has been unconsciable.

  • @阿彌陀佛-v5v
    @阿彌陀佛-v5v 2 місяці тому +1

    Conciouseness is times travel like matrix, space in sizes can not measures infinity, not ease to understand do not go madness

  • @slic_papa2671
    @slic_papa2671 3 місяці тому +1

    I CAN'T!!!

  • @Bifurcatio
    @Bifurcatio 3 місяці тому +14

    It is probably because Alan Watts was a Baptist minister first, then switched over to teaching Eastern traditions that he is not a vitriolically anti-Abrahamic as myself. My vitriol toward Abrahamicism possibly comes from having 3 very close Abrahamic/Christian friends I fought beside in Viet Nam who all ended their own lives several years after their return home, while I started with Watts' book Nature, Man, and Woman, and have ended up a happy camper.
    The Abrahamic religious tradition was written for a world that had a superstitious, magical worldview, roughly the level of psychological development of elementary school and middle school children. I perceive this lower level religiosity (not Spirituality) as THE agent that has arrested the development of the Western world, making us 'followers' of this way solely focused on the 'spotlight' consciousness and denied the 'floodlight' consciousness needed for true Spiritual development. I see no excuse whatever for a Western person who has graduated middle school to attach themselves to the ridiculous fairy tales, ludicrous miracles, and preposterous superstitious prophesies of this iron age religious tradition. Contention?

    • @Betulaaah
      @Betulaaah 3 місяці тому +2

      👏🏻

    • @JustAWatcher73
      @JustAWatcher73 3 місяці тому +2

      Well said! This is my view too🙏🏽

    • @Bifurcatio
      @Bifurcatio 3 місяці тому +1

      @@JustAWatcher73 😋

    • @TheRealFamespear
      @TheRealFamespear 3 місяці тому +3

      “To understand everything is to forgive everything.”
      ~ Lord Buddha
      Everyone must walk their own path.

    • @Bifurcatio
      @Bifurcatio 3 місяці тому +3

      @@TheRealFamespear True in a sense, but on the other hand, 'One who believes he understands everything is the village idiot'.

  • @BalSingh6546
    @BalSingh6546 3 місяці тому +1

    ❤️🙏🏽❤️

  • @TRUTHbot3000
    @TRUTHbot3000 2 місяці тому +1

    The floodlight consciousness is intuition. That feeling in your gut that so many ignore telling them something is a bad idea in advance?

  • @peterwassmuth4014
    @peterwassmuth4014 3 місяці тому +1

    💯‼❤💫

  • @carlavanegmond7856
    @carlavanegmond7856 3 місяці тому +1

  • @benderbender1233
    @benderbender1233 3 місяці тому +3

    🖖

  • @bodiboo130
    @bodiboo130 3 місяці тому +2

    #existence.

  • @stevehammel2939
    @stevehammel2939 2 місяці тому +1

    Universe: uni and verse one word

  • @SandraWoodworth
    @SandraWoodworth 2 місяці тому +1

    I might listen to this if IT was not controlled, I pressed dismiss but it forced itself anyway

  • @kathleen9456
    @kathleen9456 3 місяці тому +16

    Am I the only one who would love to go to sleep and never wake up? I don’t want to go to heaven, I don’t want to reincarnate, I don’t want to live forever. I just want to disappear for good

    • @Maioral18
      @Maioral18 3 місяці тому +2

      Don't worry. I have been where you are. Let me see if I can help you with one thing... Balance.... It brings harmony. 😊❤

    • @justuhdood94
      @justuhdood94 3 місяці тому +4

      Don't worry fam, you aren't the only one. In some way, what you describe is Nirvana, a cessation of "I" or blowing out, as Alan Watts sometimes describes. The thing is, the only way out is through. If you push away life, you're attached to pushing it away. Live your life, learn what you can, and start preparing for the death Bardo(journey) now, so you can walk that path with grace. Much love ❤

    • @tombloxham2229
      @tombloxham2229 3 місяці тому +2

      I feel your pain, I was in the same boat, but the thing that saved me is excepting that the ego always puts a twist on what reality actually is, so trauma can really distort ones sense of reality, if you keep going and do good in the world you definitely won't regret it and reality will become clearer and more pleasant and it's all love ❤ we are one another. I hope and pray for 🙏

    • @lordbizerk1715
      @lordbizerk1715 3 місяці тому +1

      Always. Since a child and still do. Close to the money in hand then wake up, hand empty dream.

    • @BeeLZBeeb
      @BeeLZBeeb 3 місяці тому +2

      In an I'm exhausted and fragile way yeah, but also terrified that we just end.

  • @SageLittleHawk
    @SageLittleHawk 2 місяці тому +1

    👍

  • @yoyo-wr9ep
    @yoyo-wr9ep 3 місяці тому +1

    Yooooohooooo here I am ..😅

    • @BeeLZBeeb
      @BeeLZBeeb 3 місяці тому +1

      Boop 👉 👃

  • @nechopesina2973
    @nechopesina2973 3 місяці тому +1

    🐘❤️❤️❤️❤️🐘

  • @debbilou52
    @debbilou52 16 днів тому

    So vert trye

  • @Swooop920
    @Swooop920 2 місяці тому +1

    Tha Gnostics called it Christ Consciousness 😇

  • @Crystal-ho7so
    @Crystal-ho7so 3 місяці тому +1

    😊💖💝

  • @NehaSingh-un
    @NehaSingh-un 3 місяці тому +2

    whoever is reading this and wanting a change in their life, just go read forbidden manifestation by zara blackthorn

  • @TheRealFamespear
    @TheRealFamespear 3 місяці тому +4

    It isn’t a secret and was not hidden from humanity. Lord Buddha, Lao Tzu & Khóng-tsú explained all of this over 2,500 years ago. 🤷‍♂️

    • @RandallHeath1121
      @RandallHeath1121 3 місяці тому +3

      And yet the bulk of humanity isn’t taught this.

  • @stevendesbrowe-annear5711
    @stevendesbrowe-annear5711 3 місяці тому +1

    I'd rather not wake up!!!

  • @KellySmith-rj3lu
    @KellySmith-rj3lu 3 місяці тому +2

    ✨🕯️🪷💫✨

  • @nishavishwakarma2888
    @nishavishwakarma2888 3 місяці тому +2

    to everyone scrolling, do yourself a favor and read forbidden manifestation by zara blackthorn. thank me later.

  • @sight4soareyez10
    @sight4soareyez10 3 місяці тому +1

    Why are there even comments on his videos?
    Not trying to offend...just saying.
    " It would have been better to say nothing at all."

  • @timessquarephotography
    @timessquarephotography 3 місяці тому +2

    How dare!!! facebook is advertised on this channel, let alone UA-cam??? Gush! Let them advertise themselves on facebook ONLY ❤❤❤ that’s what happens, when they F..k their platforms, and start wanting people to come there… They should be ashamed to advertise on others platforms 😂😂😂

  • @MrRayban_007
    @MrRayban_007 2 місяці тому +1

    ⚡️~333~⚡️

  • @ThinkSleek
    @ThinkSleek 2 місяці тому

    Is reincarnation just our ego talking? We can’t stand existing no more.

  • @GertjanAnkone-q2k
    @GertjanAnkone-q2k Місяць тому +1

    .no. i return as cat or dog i nou😅😅😅😅⁰

  • @ronan.pellen
    @ronan.pellen 3 місяці тому +1

  • @jerryjohnson6056
    @jerryjohnson6056 2 місяці тому +1

    Shut up and listen

  • @ZooScott
    @ZooScott 3 місяці тому +3

    🎲 7

  • @JetteppaYaribandi
    @JetteppaYaribandi 3 місяці тому +1

    stop wasting your time and go read forbidden manifestation by zara blackthorn. your future self will thank you.

  • @MrRayban_007
    @MrRayban_007 2 місяці тому

    ~13331~

  • @benbennit
    @benbennit 3 місяці тому +1

    Nonsense

  • @jules9628
    @jules9628 3 місяці тому +1

    But… youre smoking? 🤨 doesnt align with health.

  • @ldthamovement7083
    @ldthamovement7083 3 місяці тому +10

    ℒℴ𝓋ℯ 𝒜𝓁𝒶𝓃 𝒲𝒶𝓉𝓉𝓈🥹

    • @kabulkajate771
      @kabulkajate771 3 місяці тому

      What aps U use to tipe the alfabet??