To everyone posting saying basically how he is speaking mumbo-jumbo and going no where with it, you weren't listening. OR you're holding onto your beliefs desperately. He has said he is an entertainer, put there to make you think. He makes me think. If I ever speak and I get to at least one person then I would consider that a success and this man has gotten to many people. Sounds like you all may be the fanatics he describes 😮💨
@@codymills6429 Not everyone who appeals to you appeals to everyone especially in the regards of religion. And just because you can relate, it doesn't make you or him correct. You're a small percentage next to the faithful.
Anyone who listens to one of his lectures has to listen to the whole thing. What might come off as nonsensical, mumbo jumbo at the beginning often gets tied together and makes perfect sense by the end.
When someone looks at you, and you can tell that they are judging you, and internally critiquing everything that they know about you, such a look can be extremely uncomfortable and unpleasant. The gaze of an all loving god, however, looking at you and seeing everything that you are and have done would make you feel incredibly seen, and you would know that it had forgiven you already because it is a loving god and you would be able to tell that it loved you more than anything, regardless of whatever terrible things you may or may not have done, and I imagine the feeling you would have would be one of adoration and extreme gratitude, not the normal sort of discomfort you feel when a person watches you .
Conception, birth, LIFE, death. And that is IT! Why would or should there be a need for anything else? If life on this planet is all we get, why waste any of your life hoping for something better elsewhere? Do what you want to do but carefully, lest your term expire too soon.
@@Arseface-X80 Exactly!! The universal life force that flows through everyone and everything, the force that holds everything together. Of course ancient people had limited knowledge of the universe so they constructed the concept of God as best they could. Only in death can we fully comprehend God.
Seeing some severely closed minds in chat, it's just how they deal with their reality only believes in stuff they can see hear smell ECT. But I know they've encountered a moment of 6th sense in their live, maybe not but the 6 th sense is proof of the unseen or heard.
Alan basically is saying throw away everything You have ever been taught. Think for Yourself. Do not expect to ever find the truth. The TRUTH is tapping You on your shoulder!!!
I reckon he knew himself that much of what he told was unfounded and kinda random and he just enjoyed playing around with mystic concepts freely and sounding trenchant and profound and impressing his listeners for fun in the process. If I remember correctly, in one talk he even admitted it himself. Nevertheless I liked his take on ideas and definitions of God being a particularly deceptive kind of idols. But if God is everything that exists for us, why on earth invoke some fantasy entity and not just call it "our reality" 😂 it just appears so absurdly obsessive. Now he says all our ideas of how God relates to us and to life and love are wrong by definition, and then what? So God is nothing in particular? An utterly useless empty concept? His take on faith, to dissect it, consists of two imo unrelated concepts. One is the "Leap of faith" which for science equals to the axioms, the other is synonymous with the psychological concept of "basic trust" (german "Urvertrauen") which is well understood and it's something you can lose or acquire, and you can't make any valid judgement about people who have no Urvertrauen doing something wrong or worse. If you have no Urvertrauen it's a circumstantial tragedy and also a highly functional adaptaion to a dangerous environment. Because that's what eventually drives our soul, but the natural conation to become an adroit being in our environment. So the question as to in what way the/our Cosmos does relate to us remains unanswered. At least regarding our relationahip with our biosphere I claim today we have sufficient data to confidently assert that it doesn't only not care about our well-being, but even lavishly uses our capability of feeling for its own utterly absurd and mindless goals like exothermic chemical reactions, forming a hypercomplex crystalline ecosystem of stupid chemical catalysts as resistance or opposite principle to the sun's rays banging against this chunk of liquid stone and iron we're sitting on. Have you ever considered just how much insane suffering and torture our ancestors and died-out lineages were forced to experience in order to produce us with all our miraculous adaptations? We're all literally products of - amongst some enjoyable experiences - of millions of years of gratuitous, unfathomable pain, torture, horror and blood of innocent children. So screw our biosphere in particular. No remorse. Now ofc., today at least a fraction of our population can go through life with faith in our environment, our instincts, intuition, scientific insights, feeling preserved and thrive by dolce vita, it can be quite pleasant. But was it really worth millions of generations of ferocious, despicable, indifferent cruelty? Imho the biosphere/nature is not our friend. It's our slaver, jailer and abuser towards whom we've developed severe Stockholm Syndrome. To quote Žižek: "Don't be mistaken. If Nature is a mother, she's a dirty bitch." In conclusion, if you think about it, the only remaining big unknown variable for determining our real, genuine relationship to and role in the Cosmos is the relation between the known laws of physics and our qualia, our feelings and sensations. As long as this basic relation remains unestablished, it could be just anything, really, and the brightest heads on Earth stand divided to the core. If we could crack just this single case, we would finally be able to commence constructing our own genuine, sophisticated and emancipated metaphysical identity. And me, at long last, I could find peace amongst my struggles for good.
U like to hear yourself type dont u..... Ignorvirten..... haha..... wish u were watts much..... nice try..... others should stop by and visit so that they may see what babble looks like for themselves....
Nah, it's really the opposite. Look at any video of the top dog physicists talking about consciousness, they're pathetically stuck on the hard problem because surely everything comes from matter in those circles. Open your mind, Alan was brilliant and had a deep awareness.
Case and point.... the man never asked anyone to follow or believe in him..... good job though..... are you angry cuz your parents didn't teach you well and you couldn't decipher what Watts said so simply???? Poor thing...
Nice deepity. What's a deepity? A deepity is statement that is apparently profound but actually asserts a triviality on one level and something meaningless on another. Generally, a deepity has (at least) two meanings: one that is true but trivial, and another that sounds profound, but is essentially false or meaningless and would be "earth-shattering" if true. To the extent that it's true, it doesn't have to matter. To the extent that it has to matter, it isn't true (if it actually means anything). This second meaning has also been called "pseudo-profound bull$h!t."
Well dont u just have all the answers..... do entertain and enlighten us with your profound understanding and realizations........ are you angry Watts was so popular and ur not???? Somebody get the kid a biscuit.....
@@BahbahKaduche *Well dont u just have all the answers.....* I never said that & I haven't even implied that I do. *do entertain and enlighten us with your profound understanding and realizations........* When did I ever claim I have any ''profound understandings'? *are you angry Watts was so popular and ur not????* No of course not. *Somebody get the kid a biscuit.....* ???
@@BahbahKaduche*Well dont u just have all the answers.....* When did I say that I do? When did I even _imply_ that I do? *do entertain and enlighten us with your profound understanding and realizations........* I don't claim to have profound understandings. Why do you assume that I _do?_ I never claimed to say anything of the sort. *are you angry Watts was so popular and ur not????* Of course not. Adolf Hitler was popular but that doesn't mean his claims were valid any more that Watts claims are. *Somebody get the kid a biscuit.....* I don't need your biscuits thanks.
I suspected the same. It is getting better and this is an extremely clear recording... though, looking into it now, if " organism dot earth " is trustworthy, then he did indeed say this. If anyone knows of that site, please do review it for me briefly, if you'd be so kind.
Nothing is an illusion for underlying the nothing is unrealized potential. Everything comes from this unrealized potential. When potential goes unrealized it produces no-thing, we just call it nothing.
You see the first thing that arises from potential is awareness, all is mind, all is mental. The experiential realms then arise from our desires to touch and taste, etc... to have experience. Our biology is merely the perceptual vehicle of the experience, but the true benefactor of the experience is consciousness. Your mind is a fractal of the expanse of consciousness and it does not reside in your brain. Consciousness is not material nor produced by matter.
Stephen Hawking spoke about the inherent desire inside of potential energy to become something, this force of creation, this desire is what all traditions and religions call Spirit, hence the term Spiritual when describing the origins and cycle of existence.
It's refreshing to learn that it's essential to think for oneself. Thank you Alan Watts. God bless all here. 🙂
this was awesome thank you Mr. watts you put into words what i have felt for years
I love Mr Watts God bless you all
Alan Watts has been my prophet, leading out of darkness...an excellent orator.
To everyone posting saying basically how he is speaking mumbo-jumbo and going no where with it, you weren't listening. OR you're holding onto your beliefs desperately. He has said he is an entertainer, put there to make you think. He makes me think. If I ever speak and I get to at least one person then I would consider that a success and this man has gotten to many people. Sounds like you all may be the fanatics he describes 😮💨
@@codymills6429 some are not ready. It’s Been 12 years of listening. Sometimes I hear with my “hearer” and I get it. And it’s amazing.
@@codymills6429 Not everyone who appeals to you appeals to everyone especially in the regards of religion.
And just because you can relate, it doesn't make you or him correct. You're a small percentage next to the faithful.
Anyone who listens to one of his lectures has to listen to the whole thing. What might come off as nonsensical, mumbo jumbo at the beginning often gets tied together and makes perfect sense by the end.
@@michaeloaks9905 Do you think this man is teaching religion? U didnt listen at all if thats what u think.....
When someone looks at you, and you can tell that they are judging you, and internally critiquing everything that they know about you, such a look can be extremely uncomfortable and unpleasant. The gaze of an all loving god, however, looking at you and seeing everything that you are and have done would make you feel incredibly seen, and you would know that it had forgiven you already because it is a loving god and you would be able to tell that it loved you more than anything, regardless of whatever terrible things you may or may not have done, and I imagine the feeling you would have would be one of adoration and extreme gratitude, not the normal sort of discomfort you feel when a person watches you .
Conception, birth, LIFE, death. And that is IT! Why would or should there be a need for anything else? If life on this planet is all we get, why waste any of your life hoping for something better elsewhere? Do what you want to do but carefully, lest your term expire too soon.
God is the universe.
@@Arseface-X80 Exactly!! The universal life force that flows through everyone and everything, the force that holds everything together. Of course ancient people had limited knowledge of the universe so they constructed the concept of God as best they could. Only in death can we fully comprehend God.
The God that many ignore is truly the Nature that many abuse. They are one and the same!
This is more than just entertainment The no boundary proposal the wave function of the universe is exactly the sort of thing
First of old testament God yahwe is a choosing God is evil. Love is God
Seeing some severely closed minds in chat, it's just how they deal with their reality only believes in stuff they can see hear smell ECT. But I know they've encountered a moment of 6th sense in their live, maybe not but the 6 th sense is proof of the unseen or heard.
Nonsense.
Wonder where the exact spot is he's stood in the photo?
Nowhere every spot is unique I mean what are you going to use as your reference point it seems like you didn't even pay attention to his lecture
4:20 Why the f* nobody seems to care about misleading subtitles? ...Stravinsky to bark? Really?
No one knows
Alan basically is saying throw away everything You have ever been taught.
Think for Yourself. Do not expect to ever find the truth.
The TRUTH is tapping You on your shoulder!!!
Exactly! The god they describe sounds like a dictator 😆 all I see is greedy men 🤨🤥
I reckon he knew himself that much of what he told was unfounded and kinda random and he just enjoyed playing around with mystic concepts freely and sounding trenchant and profound and impressing his listeners for fun in the process. If I remember correctly, in one talk he even admitted it himself.
Nevertheless I liked his take on ideas and definitions of God being a particularly deceptive kind of idols.
But if God is everything that exists for us, why on earth invoke some fantasy entity and not just call it "our reality" 😂 it just appears so absurdly obsessive.
Now he says all our ideas of how God relates to us and to life and love are wrong by definition, and then what? So God is nothing in particular? An utterly useless empty concept?
His take on faith, to dissect it, consists of two imo unrelated concepts. One is the "Leap of faith" which for science equals to the axioms, the other is synonymous with the psychological concept of "basic trust" (german "Urvertrauen") which is well understood and it's something you can lose or acquire, and you can't make any valid judgement about people who have no Urvertrauen doing something wrong or worse. If you have no Urvertrauen it's a circumstantial tragedy and also a highly functional adaptaion to a dangerous environment. Because that's what eventually drives our soul, but the natural conation to become an adroit being in our environment.
So the question as to in what way the/our Cosmos does relate to us remains unanswered.
At least regarding our relationahip with our biosphere I claim today we have sufficient data to confidently assert that it doesn't only not care about our well-being, but even lavishly uses our capability of feeling for its own utterly absurd and mindless goals like exothermic chemical reactions, forming a hypercomplex crystalline ecosystem of stupid chemical catalysts as resistance or opposite principle to the sun's rays banging against this chunk of liquid stone and iron we're sitting on. Have you ever considered just how much insane suffering and torture our ancestors and died-out lineages were forced to experience in order to produce us with all our miraculous adaptations? We're all literally products of - amongst some enjoyable experiences - of millions of years of gratuitous, unfathomable pain, torture, horror and blood of innocent children. So screw our biosphere in particular. No remorse. Now ofc., today at least a fraction of our population can go through life with faith in our environment, our instincts, intuition, scientific insights, feeling preserved and thrive by dolce vita, it can be quite pleasant. But was it really worth millions of generations of ferocious, despicable, indifferent cruelty?
Imho the biosphere/nature is not our friend. It's our slaver, jailer and abuser towards whom we've developed severe Stockholm Syndrome. To quote Žižek: "Don't be mistaken. If Nature is a mother, she's a dirty bitch."
In conclusion, if you think about it, the only remaining big unknown variable for determining our real, genuine relationship to and role in the Cosmos is the relation between the known laws of physics and our qualia, our feelings and sensations. As long as this basic relation remains unestablished, it could be just anything, really, and the brightest heads on Earth stand divided to the core. If we could crack just this single case, we would finally be able to commence constructing our own genuine, sophisticated and emancipated metaphysical identity.
And me, at long last, I could find peace amongst my struggles for good.
U like to hear yourself type dont u..... Ignorvirten..... haha..... wish u were watts much..... nice try..... others should stop by and visit so that they may see what babble looks like for themselves....
Maybe stop mindfucking and start living?
Intellectuals have the most amazing ability to fool themselves into believing nonsense.
Nah, it's really the opposite. Look at any video of the top dog physicists talking about consciousness, they're pathetically stuck on the hard problem because surely everything comes from matter in those circles. Open your mind, Alan was brilliant and had a deep awareness.
@@tommroyMy work is going to prove the top physicist ain't shit if they were they would be proving the theory I'm about to publish
Case and point.... the man never asked anyone to follow or believe in him..... good job though..... are you angry cuz your parents didn't teach you well and you couldn't decipher what Watts said so simply???? Poor thing...
Nice deepity. What's a deepity? A deepity is statement that is apparently profound but actually asserts a triviality on one level and something meaningless on another. Generally, a deepity has (at least) two meanings: one that is true but trivial, and another that sounds profound, but is essentially false or meaningless and would be "earth-shattering" if true. To the extent that it's true, it doesn't have to matter. To the extent that it has to matter, it isn't true (if it actually means anything). This second meaning has also been called "pseudo-profound bull$h!t."
Well dont u just have all the answers..... do entertain and enlighten us with your profound understanding and realizations........ are you angry Watts was so popular and ur not???? Somebody get the kid a biscuit.....
@@BahbahKaduche *Well dont u just have all the answers.....*
I never said that & I haven't even implied that I do.
*do entertain and enlighten us with your profound understanding and realizations........*
When did I ever claim I have any ''profound understandings'?
*are you angry Watts was so popular and ur not????*
No of course not.
*Somebody get the kid a biscuit.....*
???
@@BahbahKaduche*Well dont u just have all the answers.....*
When did I say that I do? When did I even _imply_ that I do?
*do entertain and enlighten us with your profound understanding and realizations........*
I don't claim to have profound understandings. Why do you assume that I _do?_ I never claimed to say anything of the sort.
*are you angry Watts was so popular and ur not????*
Of course not. Adolf Hitler was popular but that doesn't mean his claims were valid any more that Watts claims are.
*Somebody get the kid a biscuit.....*
I don't need your biscuits thanks.
is this AI
@davidessien6345 actually I checked again, coz someone pointed it out, it is not AI
@@hindshalfeh1662 actually having listened to Watts forever , no! This is NOT A.I.
I suspected the same. It is getting better and this is an extremely clear recording... though, looking into it now, if " organism dot earth " is trustworthy, then he did indeed say this. If anyone knows of that site, please do review it for me briefly, if you'd be so kind.
@evinkleinman6052 i watched the video again and I think you're right!
Don’t be a clown mate. Get off the internet if you think this is AI ….
I very much doubt the universe came from nothing-what proof can be adduced to support such a silly idea?
Nothing is an illusion for underlying the nothing is unrealized potential. Everything comes from this unrealized potential. When potential goes unrealized it produces no-thing, we just call it nothing.
You see the first thing that arises from potential is awareness, all is mind, all is mental. The experiential realms then arise from our desires to touch and taste, etc... to have experience. Our biology is merely the perceptual vehicle of the experience, but the true benefactor of the experience is consciousness. Your mind is a fractal of the expanse of consciousness and it does not reside in your brain. Consciousness is not material nor produced by matter.
Stephen Hawking spoke about the inherent desire inside of potential energy to become something, this force of creation, this desire is what all traditions and religions call Spirit, hence the term Spiritual when describing the origins and cycle of existence.
Not Alan ai.
Imaginary is the word you're looking for. God is imaginary. You're welcome.
Wow. Enlightening.