Alan Watts: Man is a Hoax - Being in the Way Ep. 20 - Hosted by Mark Watts
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- Опубліковано 29 січ 2023
- Sifting down behind the cultural myth of man as separate, Alan explores how we are all actually Earth, the Universe, and the Big Bang.
In this episode of Being in the Way, Alan takes us on a journey from childhood to adulthood, highlighting how we are trained into separation from a young age, and forced to focus on the never-arriving “future,” rather than being present in the moment. Through this lens, he further spelunks the “hoax of man” and offers insight into how this sense of ego identity creates tension and frustration.
This series is brought to you by the Alan Watts Organization and Ram Dass’ Love Serve Remember Foundation. Visit Alanwatts.org for full talks from Alan Watts.
In this episode Alan discusses:
How from childhood onward we are constantly preparing for something in the future, rather than being present for life
The culture’s division of work and play, and the confused idea that money can buy you pleasure
Growing up in society, identity, defining a person, and being a “genuine fake”
How the sense of ego creates tension, separation, alienation, and frustration
The inseparable connection of the polarity of self and other
The dawn of creation and how we are not actually separate from the Big Bang
The 19th-century myth that man is a fluke in an unintelligent, automatic universe
“Your actual self-what is finally and fundamentally you-is not a separate and lonely part of the world, but the real you is the world itself, everything that there is, expressing itself as this particular organism here and now.” - Alan Watts
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I'm 24 and I'm just now hearing this man for the first time at 6 in the mornin . Amazing feeling
Lol yeah I remember Alan Watts for the first time. Truly brilliant and funny. Namaste 🌄
You’re very fortunate you found him at the age 24
He's a word technician!!!
@@shigeo44 im 20 and found ram dass online when I was 18. Then Watts, then Eckhart tolle, then Jack kornfield and Trudy Goodman, then Charles Eisenstein, then Dr Zach bush. I think there is a whole new breed of young people engaged with spirituality and I am excited to find/form community with them. These concepts and ideas excite me even more then the stuff I learn at the university and I hope to combine the two somehow some day. Also always very happy to go through comments under talks like this to feel some connection and love
28, I apparently wake up at 6am every day now lol. Been listening to Alan Watts for a few weeks now, I’ve felt so educated
During my mastectomy, the surgeon put me on a breathing machine. I had the experience of not being able to breathe in, even though I was under anesthesia. I thought, "Guess this life is over. On to the next." And then I had a kind of NDE, I guess. We've all been here before, and we'll all be back. Don't forget to smile. Peace, happiness to all beings everywhere
One of the most life changing experiences I have ever had was having past-life hypnotic regression. It enabled me to lose my fear of death as nonexistence and view it as opening a door and passing through into another room.
Beautiful,don't forget to smile, thanks🙏🙏🙏.
@@DilbagSingh-sp2yp ua-cam.com/video/cKaEzqR4tEk/v-deo.html
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Good thank you
I wish not to come back
Alan Watts is still changing lives long after his death
In more ways than we can fathom
Yes,helped me get back to what shrooms did back in 18/19. Amazing
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LSD and three words, "This Is It," the title of an Alan Watts book unexpectedly zapped me to experience The Ultimate Reality way back in 1971.
undeniable :)
Death?
What I cannot fathom is the fact that such great minds have existed within our time and we still confuse everything. Such a shame we are.
You are not the body and mind in the first place ,you are Eternal Spirit trapped in the body and have become identified with the body as your true self.
Meditation - separation observation- is the ancient practice of putting the body and mind to sleep ( like a computer in sleep mode ) but staying AWAKE and ALERT inside until you experience yourself as eternal Spirit.....again.❤
Man is REAL but the socially engineered mask is a hoax
You're able to do all these things By just doing it as Alan says because you are a very profound ACTUALITY not a nothingness. Putting all his logical fallacies aside, The thing that Alan Watts is alluding to that's not real is the socialization that poisoned people when the organic divine ego was degraded and displaced. In this way the synthetic culture cultivated by elites (Tavistock etc.) created egos that did not correspond to the essence, the organic being. A lot of pathology and confusion surely will result. Rather than point this crime out He continues their work of socialization of a new ego now in the spiritual eastern format. To be clear, since people don't seem to grasp this, In man There is an essence and there is a personality : the personality is the software that is supposed to conform and subordinate to the essence. The essence is the throne of consciousness and conscience, therefore it is divine or if you prefer cosmic. but what Alan does is throw the divine essence out together with the bath water, to give you the supposedly positive message that the elites also desire you to have: that you are nothing and that will solve all your problems. By extension, Be happy and own nothing. Apply your critical thinking to everything Alan is saying and eventually you'll see what the real problem is.
No I’m a lamp
One doesn't peer into the oven when baking a cake and half way through exclaim "Such a shame, this unfinished cake."
We're just not done yet ;)
Yeah but there are quite a few of us and instant mass communications are relatively new.
Alan Watts was a gem and one of those rare intellectuals that were able to transcend their own cultural biases.
7 days ago I was guided by LSD and Shrooms through a Spiritual journey. I dug and dug through UA-cam to find this specific lecture/recording and eventually I did find bits and pieces of it along with other versions with compromised sound quality. A day later Mark and the team over at BHNN uploaded this beauty. There are no coincidences. This is much appreciated. 🙏
That’s a materialistic journey. A spiritual journey is consciousness working through YOU. No drugs will ever be involved with any sort of liberation/enlightenment. Namaste all
@Sierra Penner In your opinion
@@sierrapenner4805 Millions, including so-called primitive shamanistic societies, would beg to differ. In the West, psychedelics have kick-started ever-deepening spiritual journeys. My own personal feeling is that drugs can't definitively get you there (let's assume there is a 'there' for argument's sake), but do they have a role? Absolutely. Some are excellent at breaking through the crust of the 'reality' that we have constructed for ourselves.
I am more suspicious of dogma than I am of drugs 😉
@@sierrapenner4805-
I disagree. If it wasn't for LSD I might have never realized "This Is IT" - which is also a title of an Alan Watts book.
theres no spirituality in hallucination
He knows how to reach those who have no knowledge of the topics, and for that he is a great guide
Yes, it's also like he speaks at many levels at the same time. That's one reason that I listen to his talks many times over.
and for that only?
Absolutely and indeed.. most well said . I was a mere laman prior.. 😁
In my estimation, he is the greatest guide for that very reason - he makes the subject what it is: playful and fascinating and full of meaningful sustenance for anyone who's ever been conscious, even if one never has a cosmic experience.
@@thomasrutledge5941 I listened to "the game of life" today on repeat. And I used to listen to him more than a year ago and it just felt like I understood what he was saying but but without being able to explain it back. Feels nice to listen and finally fully understand it.
Alan watts and his prophetic voice was the sole soothsayer in my life when it was dark, painful and hopeless. Eventhough he is no more in this world. His fatherly nonchalant voice guides me and inspires me. Thank you for being the father i never had.
I'm hearing this guy again and was wondering what this guy is like to people today...and it's 5am!.. first learned of Alan about 30 years ago: changed MY life. Glad to see it strikes you
His nuances of understanding of the various faiths and ways of knowing entertain and fascinate. Thank you for publishing these recordings. They are butterfly wings stirring up understanding. :-)
Love the way your put that.
Wow! Lov'in it, Bro.Rowe, butterfly wings stirring up understanding! Did touch a nerve of JOY as this Papillon read thine comment! As does Alan & Mark, you seem to bring out the BEST in all of us! Shalom!
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Thank you for putting your father's teachings up.. He has been the spiritual leadership I've needed to guide my spirit and soul threw this thing we call life. R.I.P DEAR TEACHER 11:11
This is Watts' philosophy summed up in just a half hour. Beautiful! 👏👏👏👏
Yes
@@kbruff2010😢 I'm jrm😢 JJ
alan watts is the very beginning of your spiritual journey. go deeper family, peace
Alan Watts is the man....still
Thank you for sharing this and all of the timeless information your father gave U.S. This information lives on in all of us, and must be shared by each person through our behavior and love for each other. Being that which you have understood is all that is asked. Become your authentic you is the all.🙏💜
As A Stranger of the Earth ….. such a beautiful interpretation…. Very interesting point to speak about ….🌞
Tomorrow never comes because the time of day is always Now.
Lsd and Alan watts are able to put into words what I can't.
I love this Man 💙🙏
This talk needs a billion views
Good for you for finding him so young. You’re already ahead
Never heard of this channel. I made a song called “be here” so its funny this showed up. Great show.
Here and now happens to be with Allen Watts😊 Listening to his voice truly inspiring to his Knowledge.
Your Father was is amazing, he has helped me see the real truth of life i feel so lucky to have found him, keep up the great work 🙌🏻👍🏻
I concur, he saved my life so many times , such a gift he was , I’m sure mark is so proud:)
One of the most beautiful videos I’ve seen!
I'm glad you Let your father do most of the talking now. Thank you.
I always told people that anyone with a personality is psychotic. A defined personality is like acting everyday
TY Be Here Now. AW is one of my favorite mentors.
Great stuff, I’m thinking of the Black Sabbath song Symptom of the Universe while I listen to this.
Black Sabbath is the G.O.A.T 🎸🎸🤘🤘 in my opinion
Same here
Spoken like God,,,connecting the dots,,,Thank you for this.
brilliant, humorous, before HIS time.
STILL
Neautifuly and eloquently said.
Good talk. Watts is pretty accurate in what he says in this, in my opinion.
I love this man!!!
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That was amazing and beautiful. ❤❤❤❤
Absolutely wonderful 😊
Respect love and gratitude 🙏
this is amazing ❤
Truly astounding.
This is a classic!
Love this man.
so nice to listen rich people telling you money it's not important
My gran wrote something down it said “when I thought tomorrow wouldn’t come, it’s yesterday”
Everyone is on their way, they just don't realize it yet
I've listened to several of these teachers of Eastern thought and I find watts to be the most helpful in understanding it from a western pov. Also I feel like he helps with the epistemology of philosophy rather than speak in riddles or bring in spiritual fluff. Anything "spiritual" he does say imo appears as a poetic expression on life. Where I hear others talk about breaking laws of physics like passing through solid objects or levitation, I don't hear such things from him. Maybe he has and I just haven't heard it yet, either way god bless everyone
He's my fav too, for all the reasons you mentioned. Watts has brought up paranormal powers before, and always immediately asks, "To what end?" I wish I had the quote at hand about Zen practitioners traditionally "not being all that impressed by such things," but alas - we need better ways of searching through hundreds of hours of audio recordings to find quotes. There's no "control + F" haha!
Watts' example of "dreaming any dream you want, every night" illustrates his (and Zen Buddhist) feeling on the matter of power/control, which is: if you were God, and you had the power to be anything you want, do anything you want, know anything you want, forever and ever and ever, wouldn't that get boring? What would you want? A surprise.
The development of skills, paranormal or otherwise, are great as long as you don't think they solve your existential problem.
Because skills are things that let you do and know, and PREDICT the future. Except fundamentally you don't want to predict the future (yes, we all want measures of stability). But fundamentally we also want surprise. We want story. We want NOT to know how it's gonna end, because every part of being a human and the human story is the tension / anxiety of working toward something without knowing for sure you'll be successful. And then, thus, the meaning/feeling of accomplishment that comes when you DO succeed (as compared to the times that you don't.)
The thing is, what we don't realize, is that we ALWAYS have surprise. Because we never know what we're going to think or feel next, nor do we ever control those things. "You don't control your thoughts, you don't control your feelings," was the Watts line I'd heard for over 10 years before it hit me viscerally about a month ago. I actually felt a measure of what he meant. We're not in control. Nothing is. "Neither fate, nor free will" said Watts in a conversation with Elliot Mintz (great interview on UA-cam).
No free will.
No one wants to talk about free will because the concept is so often overtaken by moral relativists who want to use the conversation to justify any action. And we don't want to hear that we're "not in control" - we immediately think we must be automatons and that's depressing. Except damnit, we don't choose anything. Just look at your thoughts. You don't choose them. Nor do you choose how anything makes you feel. And those two things (what you think of, and how that thing makes you feel) are the core of all conscious existence.
Yes, we have the feeling that we're choosing, but upon closer examination, what would 'to choose' be? Thinking about an option and seeing how it makes you feel, no? Except you don't choose how that option makes you feel. Yes, we learn, such that we feel differently about things over time and see the consequences of our actions. And there are always consequences, and we always have a conscience (even if it's not always correct). But we don't choose. I think the fallacy of 'choice' is at the heart of the human conundrum: a) we think we're in control, so we get resentful when suddenly life feels out of control... AND b) we get bored, thinking we're in control, not realizing every thought/feeling/action is actually a surprise.
When you realize you don't choose your thoughts, nor your feelings, you realize there's no 'you' doing anything at all. I think that's how the ego dies. But (and I've said this before), just writing it doesn't mean my ego dies. It doesn't work that way - you're not in control. None of us is.
And that's why Watts laughs kindly at supernatural powers.
Everything in what you said was bliss until god. Low capital was purposeful.
He had a brilliant mind and, crucially, the eloquence to relate his complex thoughts. Somehow he manages to be simultaneously straight-talking, as you allude to, and poetic. I'm so grateful his talks have been archived and shared.
What I've heard him say is (I'm paraphrasing), "We think we have a soul, a self, that can travel through walls yet that then begs the question, "How then can my soul/self move my arm?"
If levitation is indeed possible, then it wouldn't violate the laws of nature, because levitating would be something that happens in nature. The laws of physics would simply have to adapt, the same way it has always happened.
I have "That Moment " quite often lately...
I'm getting to the point now where I'm tired of being a slave to sexual energy. What is that, lower chakra? It's becoming more of a distraction now. Anyone else experience this in their journey? The whole thing seems empty to me. Just like materialism, it's so boring. There's literally nothing you could offer me in this world that I would want. I feel as though I've lived life so many freaking times. Hell, I've lived a thousand lives in one lifetime. Lol. It's like when you're thirsty and you reach for salt water. Unsatiated. Unsatisfied. Sex appears to be void of any significance other than procreation( obviously ), and temporary pleasure. It's child's play for the ego, just another trap to get caught in. I'm just venting here. Not denying any part of my humanity, I'm just bored with it. It's lost it's allure. Because at the other end of seduction, you're back where you started, still hungry. Like food or anything else that appeals to the senses.
Example of the matrix desensitizing human conscious reality FROM BIRTH in order to deceive creation/life making it seem less valuable than it really is. In turn they reinforce their own forms of measurement.
Hey brother, strong vent. I feel very similar energy. My relationship with sex and the energy it brings has been treated like something cheap and transactional. Between porn, dating apps, and hook-up culture I have become lost. Have done some research to see if I can get this energy and that piece of me back. I highly recommend getting the audiobook "Your Brain on Porn". That is if you think you may not like your relationship with it. As for humans, a long detox, followed by positive action everyday has started (I hope) to bring my soul back especially sexually. I mean a life with no intimacy is just gret to me. Hope this helps mate and may we all live for a full day.
@@thatsmymortgagebroker244 Appreciate your comment. Thank you! I think my negative association with sex goes back decades ago. I was exposed to sexuality alot as a kid, much more than anyone that age should. So I'm sure these events have influenced how I view sex, or at least the negative connotations surrounding it. I'm married now, but I feel very distracted by energy like this. Not by other women I mean. Just the dominating force that it's grown to be in my life. I feel like im being manipulated by biology. Lol. I'd rather not have a sex drive. Its just one more thought process that I have to make space for. Anyway, thanks for your honesty.
Yea mate, im sorry you had to go through that as a child. Our innocence is so unprotected and all we can do is stand by until we are old enough to protect ourselves. Dont give up, I also recommend psychedelic therapy. You may find solitude in the root of your pain by being able to go the core with a guided trip. If you ever need to chop it up just shoot me a dm. Have to keep our mental health in all aspects way up. The world needs good healed men.
I hear you brother
I knew a few wiggles in high school. Always with the pants sagging and the hop hop tapes.
Love ❤️
tomorrow is a very diffiuclt concept to comprehend as well as yesterday
Why am I listening to this… deep inside I know this is so true! Reality is so very depressing 😢
Hi, I’m interested in knowing what you found depressing?
Brilliant !
I just took a drive down to the coast and had the "pleasure" of enjoying the riverside etc, without money i wouldn't have been able to get there
Thank goodness that women are ingenious!!!
Namaste 🙏 thankyou God bless 🙌 🙏 💖 ❤️ ✨️ all😊
"Hey there, trape-tastic viewers! So, here I am, diving into the deep philosophical pool of Alan Watts' wisdom. It's like trying to balance on a tightrope while juggling existential questions. Just remember, if you fall off the trapeze of enlightenment, just laugh it off and embrace the cosmic circus of life. Let's keep soaring together, folks!"
Alan was probably high when making podcasts, cause he only makes sense to me when I’m high try it
Such a Topic …..Everything kind of grows at the moment for later but in invisible motive process to grow -with real disciplined-care acquired…. So true ….and important the feeling how to plant 😂Otherwise Consequences to Face -But Learn Learn Learn from -All -😂 For Your Own Whole …..🌞
EPIC MIND 😀🙏
Alan watts would be great at reading the Mr men books. he has a voice just like Arther lowe. It's the first thing i thought of when i heard his voice.
can you share the intro music song ? stuck in my mind
1,000’s of people love to listen to Alan. I do too. For me his talks simply confirm much that I have realised myself. However, it must be understood that he is simply a master of the English language and often a master of entertaining his listeners, but he was not living like the Person he endorsed to be the living incarnation of God, Adi Da Samraj. He said of Adi Da, “It is obvious, from all sorts of subtle details, that He knows what IT’s about, …a rare being.” If you wish to be truly enlightened then listen to Adi Da’s Teachings aswell. Thank you 😊
bhaaaaaaa
Well, "but he was not living like the Person he endorsed to be the living incarnation of God," First off, god should be spelled with a small G. Secondly, there is no necessity to live in a way that you think is correct. Once one understands the Ultimate Reality one realizes there is no special or good way to be. You're just trying to present yourself as separate. You aren't.
At least Adi Da practiced what he preached for others to practice, i.e. total and 100% devotion to Adi Da's every want and need. There's something to be said for consistency! Except for re-editing his books... in that sense he was a precursor to the way we handle online information, in the sense that it's not "set in stone" or even on paper anymore... today, the books could be fluid in the service of Adi Da's needs at that moment. But he did what he could with the technology of the day. Owning a publishing company, he did some good work. I've got a Dawn Horse edition of the Keith Dowman translation Divine Madman. They added some introductory material and illustrations, but you could take those or leave them. The personality cult... eh, it didn't seem like utopia, from a distance at least. The Tibetan Buddhists teach compassion training before the bed and graveyard stuff, and for good reason!
I don't. I heard a little from him and what he says is in no way original or profound.
@@GizzyDillespeeAdi Da got caught balls deep in a sheep high on cocaine. He wasn't perfect.
10:43 THE WORD PERSON ,,,PERSONA THE MASK... etc.
3:04 my new ringtone…..
Are we happier "when people identify us by our "social self"? Does it help make the feelin lighter?
Gracias!!
All well and good...how does it pay my mortgage or any other bills for that matter?
What we are looking at is a technological shortfall .
I did obey - (concerning responsibilities being disciplined performed )..what made sense to obey …. But exactly never ever obeyed ….And in the mind always what it brings today for todays look and season and atmospheric states to change newly …..🌞
Todays living experience itself is a preparation for any next coming ….so be warm and bright today and live as a human being with all the packaging……🌞
24:56 Sometimes metaphors can be incorrect but for the correct reason. We are all a natural part of the one energy that exist in and of everything we experience both internally, our minds and externally through senses. That can't be a result of a big bang simply because it explains nothing, and in a world where something exists anywhere we look at any scale or frame of reference it does.
If the world around us we see hear etc. came into existence by a big bang, then how does that expanding universe 1. Contain a vacuum? 2. What is still driving or pushing outward the expansion of the universe if it contains vacuum? The supposed "red shift" shows we are center and not all points moving away from center. A physical universe that follows the laws of force and motion, pressure and density, electromagnetism etc. would not drive expansion it would withdraw expansion.
Dont get me wrong I love Alan Watts talks. I've heard every one I could find multiples of times, they have greatly helped me with understanding much of the world and feeling ok about life and death. Someday we shall see if it helped.
Thank you
Simply brilliant. Thank you for sharing 🙏
W O W ✨️
amen x 100
The end reminds me of a Cheech and Chong scene in up in smoke. “You feel better man”? Yeah says Cheech and then Chong screams at him and Cheech says why did you do that? That’s what the music at the end does.
👍 The man of truth is ridden to All is One!
H.P.Lovecraft.
If Van Morrison approves then I'm in
the world's all-time champion airhead.
00:00:09 ♪ SYNDROME³
He gets it.
This what my boss is doing . ...he promised to teach me all the skills...but so far he only teach a little....it's been a yr and half
The original Dr. Strange
I Never Herd Of Thiz Man But He Speaking Real Logic.Remindz Me Of George Carlin But Not Az Raw
6Jun 2003 Pls review 30 minutes into the presentation Christians are now, Screaming in the streets."
the future never arrrives -
It takes one to know one
Been listening to Alan Watts for about 8 months now @ 35 years. Very fascinating man. Really enjoy listening to his philosophy and words on all of his topics. The waking up app has a ton of sessions as well and is free if you email them.
Thumbs up for this lecturerer and thumbs down on lies proof it
As a parent, I was glad when my kids went to school. It gave me a break and it was free childcare. The thing is, what do we replace the human progression through life with? Yes, Watts' observation of life are true, but he offers no replacement or a better way. He spent his life mocking humanity from a point of privilege. Why did he believe his diatribes were more valuable than any other educated and reasoning persons rants? He stated the obvious far too much and isn't really addressing intelligent minds. The audience he needs to address are too stupid to follow his thoughts, while the rest of us wallow in his comforting upper class English accent, without really listening to him at all. It's a mish mash of thoughts, delivered with an annoying arrogance. I can't abide him personally.
Not a stranger of the earth. I'm a symptom of the universe.
This doesn't make sense to someone who starts off poor..... they experience life from childhood, with all the disadvantages that lie ahead.... and still thrive, it's the ones who graduate that takes everything from the poor to make themselves rich.
I CANT STOP LAUGHING. I CANT STOP HOWLING AT THE MOON STARING BACK AT ME !?!? silly silly little sapes running round Henny Penny the sky is falling. IM DYING WITH LAUGHTER AT ALL OF YOU. go get em. Bully for you. Tally Ho
He died 50 years ago when I was 8. He died at 58. I discovered him at 58.
Perpetual student .. 😌 _💭
Alan Watts has a son!!!???
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I thought the title was about exposing Watts as a hoax. 😊😂
💜💙💚💛🧡❤❤🧡💛💚💙💜
7:50
Of course money buys pleasures. With money one buys oneself a good coat to protect oneself against the cold. Actually I once was a homeless and went into a fish and chip (fries in the USA) shop and asked for chips, but told him I had no money. I was told, "no money no chips". Of course we need money and money does buy pleasures.
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whhen does the future begin ?
Time and future is all made up
now !