Alan Watts: A Conversation with Myself- Part 2 

it's sad that the people I want to hear this wouldn't have the patience to listen

Not only was Alan Watts able to figure these things out - he had the balls and the bleeding heart to turn around and tell us.

I think you make a good point about awareness. There are so many things to enjoy in this life and I notice that many of us don't engage ourselves outside of our daily lives. Take care.

after a few videos, he's the first to make me feel like im finally understanding

"We may have to come to the alarming conclusion that the universe is smarter than we are."

Mark: Thank you so much for posting this. Your fathers work has changed my life in a profound way. And the fact that you've endeavored to keep his work available speaks volumes to your love of not only him but of the universe.

probability the most wise comment ever posted on youtube. thank you.

Actually, they thought his message was very much in keeping with their own Prophecy. And later, when we went with the Keeper to the United Nation and recorded him telling the commissioners of their vision, I had to marvel at the parallels between the Hopi and Hindu world views. Four worlds, increasing challenges, and the cyclic ending and renewing of reality. We are only beginning to understand the real message of these myths.

Most of alan's books and videos are even more clearly summed up by my favorite qoutes of all time. "words can never be the things they represent". -aldous huxley, dorrs of perception. This is what alan always tries to get at but huxley describes more clearly than anyone i have seen. Robert Anton wilson says the same thing "the map is not the territory". This all means that experiencing something is a different entity from describing it in words or equations.

Thanks Mark for posting !

My favourite vlogger

this guy rocks, thanks seth and mark

It depends on the intent. You can use them to goof off, if that's your goal. But if you want to use them as mental tools, then make no mistake, they can have real value. Me? My best experiences on psychedelics have found me on acid in a meditative pose, listening to Alan Watts lectures. Man, the beautiful evenings I've had...

totally man. when we are in alignment with creation it is the definition of heaven

Basically the universe talking to itself The universe realising itself through itself

Awesome x

this is exactly how i feel and its 2008. sadly. he knew this long ago and till this day alot of people still live ignorantly

If this was shown on TV today, Watts wisdom would we drowned out by network tags/logos and screaming commercials. They would add soothing music over his words with secret messages. In short, they would not 'get it' and think they were making it 'better'.

We are the universe

awesome philosopher.

You can find his stuff on torrents. I suggest the "Out of Your Mind" series. It's always nice to see someone new discovering Watts. :)

I feel all humans should experience evening like those

I'm glad we're starting to deviate from line-by-line thought

Everyone gets caught up in a one track mind atleast a few times, Others are trapped. Its easier for people to look at one side of a square & not the whole cube. Me & Alan Watts are inside the cube looking out. Where the cube could be many or one. I observe all sides, then i become what i am studying, in essence you see yourself looking outside other individuals from the inside of them. We walk in their shoes to get a greater realization of things. We can also do this with plants/animals/matter

@TheIntruders Yeah, I don't see the bitterness. Just because he isn't constantly telling everyone how amazing they are doesn't mean that he doesn't feel it.

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Yes.

I wouldn't use such a negative word as "doubt" - I'd say "playful curiosity"! ;-) about how the brain works, what the universe is, and what we are (and the fact that the two are really the same!)

Sorry, I'm just slightly confused to why you're asking me if I'm confused? Of course, I agree with you (that being 15, one is still bound to be 'full of ego' haha), I have quite a large one to be frank, not something I'm particularly proud of, but I'll change as I grow, become more educated, and hopefully more content. I'm just wondering me why you're telling me this - because I deeply agree with you, I think I listen quite well to my family and friends, thank you very much.

His powers exceed the need of using weapons of any kind :)

There is a much stronger tradition of contemplative arts in the Far East than in the west. And what we find of it west of the Bosporus most certainly was an imported phenomenon. Indic-Iranic-Hellenic. That is the flow of influence. I could prove it to you but it would take about 10 posts to do so. So just trust me ;).

@SuperCookiemunsta Science may confirm spirituality (NDE research, consciousness experiments in neuroscience). Science is already there, we just haven't discovered it yet. We're limited by our application of science, technology. Science is perfection, our brain is not! Science is not "only improving", it may one day change everything. If you improve on an error you get another error. A wrong hypothesis can't lead to correct answers. Science is not a wrong hypothesis. Our interpretation of it is.

ya bro itd be mind blowing bc ud have to hang on his every word

@Zachdudeio2 what he's trying to say here is that we are eagerly using reason to exploit this world; we seek in physical and reasonous while we should seek inside our selves and with intuition :/

@Teszchk I get high to get enlightened, to induce creative thinking, to expand the mind. Unlike you, who seems to be so close-minded, judgmental, & stereotypical. I fully support natural mind-altering substances which help to explore the mind & the universe around us. If you don't, than how about you just not say anything instead of going on the internet judging others. It's a sign of weakness on your part.

Wait ten years, I'm working on it.

The universe is giving this talk,not the concept Alan Watts.

Thank you Mark Watts for sharing these talks. Your fathers work has helped me immensely, and in helping me, he is helping others through my ability to be more patient and kind and happy.

I found Alan Watts in the middle of a major awakening. His concepts are amazingly what we've all thought but unable to put into words. I love how he says he's merely a philosopher. Not a Buddha yogi or anything else and not selling anything. He's right that westerners are waking up more. There is a spiritual revolution he was in on the ground level. Many scientists are changing the way they think about mysticism now and Alan was part of that. He was onto something big and it's our job to continue it. So glad I found some actual videos!

I'm glad you enjoyed it, and your observations are likewise appreciated. I may slip a phrase from your comments into a film outlook we are developing. I'll be posting a new video soon.

"We are a way for the Cosmos to know itself." - Carl Sagan.

Remarkable, and obvious. Profound and playful. Mysterious and poignant. Your dad will always remain a huge influence on my ever-developing consciousness. Thank you

I listen to this as a meditation. His words take me to a deep peaceful place in my feelings. Thank you Alan Watts.

Thank you VERY MUCH, Mark. Your realization that your father's thoughts and words are a most dear and precious record and a thing which, because of the diligence and caring of people like you, will live on and be treasured by persons not yet born, is a thing of joy. The impact of the words and thoughts of Alan Watts on my own life is impossible to know but I'll just say that the world has more colors than it did before I discovered your father's work and I hear more beautiful sounds, if if you will, as well. I think your dad helped me see things I might just have missed otherwise. Or at least helped me see them in a light that I probably would have missed until he pointed my face in that direction. For that I will always be grateful. Thank you, too. Namaste. Your friend, George

That beard has had some good stroking

@bendtx "When you get the message, hang up" - Alan Watts on the use of psychedelic drugs

I love him. He must be loving where ever he is right now.

Hey Mark, I don't know if your father was into automobiles, only you would know about his hobbies and interests. But @ 4:53 - 5:03 Whatever car was smashing through that road, he closed his eyes to focus on it. Out of the whole conversation, it went together with what he was speaking about. This is how I know he isn't BS....well at least for me that is. hahaha

Thank fuck for Alan Watts!

Mr. Watts saved my life!

@guidomith This must have been aired on BBC. At 1969-1972 David Attenborough was responsible of the output of both BBC channels.

Some people have a big honking picture of Jesus up in their living room, I have a giant framed picture of Alan Watts.

It seems to me like he is thinking of all this as he stands there and that is absolutely incredible

It would be nice to get together with a group of likeminded individuals again and admire nature, create art again.

still so lucid, still so relevant. Timeless teaching

This is excellent, in such a way we think that we each follow a certain "path" of life, a straight and forward motion from beginning to end it shows us that too is but our attempt at trying to bring logic to a world where logic does not belong. Where in actuality we don't follow our path but we walk randomly and respond to what happens along the journey. We pave our own roads, and in some cases we try to help others by letting them follow the trail.

I don't feel it is some desperate escape. You escape nothing on psychadelics. It does truly expand the mind

I found this man at the most perfect time of my self discovery, I was waiting for someone come and flip a switch inside me. I didn't "feel it really" and I was thinking I missed something, but I was always there just like all of us are.

Watts said what Ted Kaczynski did but without blowing anyone up.

"Everything we're doing to try to improve the world was a success in the short run, made amazing initial improvement, but in the long run we seem to be destroying the planet." This is so true.

Thank you Mark for posting this video. Your father was a great man, and his material has helped me through perplexing times in my life.

Thank you Allan watts for your views on wordless thought.

Amazing man, well and truely ahead of his time. Incredible to consider he was born 110 years ago..and we lost him 50 years ago. Only discovered AW last month, but now catching up with his insights. As a side note at 0.25 seconds in there are faces in the foliage, very surreal…

Great video and one of the rare chances to actually watch an older Alan Watts pass along his wisdom. It's like magically having a video to watch of Master Hui-neng, Chuang Tzu or Dogen. Thanks Mark!

God bless you Mark Watts, Alan Watts, the whole Watts extended family, and you, me, and everything else. God bless us all.

5:00 this is what I need to hear, I'm freaking out. GO MAN GO!!

why chop up this short film into seven minute segments?

2022 Save the planet 1970 Yep .

We have it, but we don't use it. And we don't stop to think, either. We just react to what is actually right-on with hostility.

silimar to hundertwasser in his philosophy. i love this!

Is this the same Alan watt that appears on Alex Jones show? Or is it two different people with the same name? (O_o)

"The intellect is subordinate to the eye" ~~cc

The 'I' is the universal consciousness inside us all, and the 'myself' is the experience it is having in incarnated form.

So, in order to better understand the universe he silently suggests to process it in parallel. To increase the data flow. More TPUs,(tensor processing unit) GPUs and less conveyor CPUs.

But you didn't, and aren't really doing a bang up job of it now despite 'many years of evolution'.

This made me smile so much

Just found this video!!what a amazing man! !2021

@TheIntruders It would definitely not be bitter... How can you propose that? I am trying to find and can only see 1 reason as to why Alan Watt's might have been 'bitter', and that is perhaps that he was upset he'd never see the world working in the way it should have been lived and inhabited in his own lifetime. Every second spent thinking about it is just another way of delaying it. just Be

Where there are no bees there are no flowers. Where there are no flowers there are no bees. Therefore they are one organism. I think that was in the 1st part. That made me think. I have never thought like that before. Sure they are in a symbotic relationship that's accepted. However, to think of them to be ONE organism is fascinating. In the same way that the heart cannot live without the brain and vice versa.

I'm not too fond of the school system myself, well I dislike it actually... I can't stand to be in it, which is why I see private tutors instead. I watch and listen to Alan Watts because I enjoy his mind, I think he's absolutely amazing, someone I admire very much. Thirty years? That's an awfully long time. Of course it does, again, I agree with you - I'm just wondering why you're telling me this? Did you misread or misinterpret my comments?

Big egos and small minds, obviously not a good combination. Whether it's too idealistic to wonder if one day humanity'll behold a new view of the universe, one of love, compassion, spirit, and consideration for others and the planet Earth; I don't know. Who knows, maybe one day we'll see, or just continue to live in a world of mass opression with only more delusion, and destruction to come our way, blindness. Humanbeings happen to be selfish... I can only hope,

feel as if I'm living in a world of 'squares', as he mentioned, of straight, narrow, simple lines. Or simple minds I should maybe say. They're all around me, theirs too many of them. And as for the more 'wiggly' people, the ones I consider to be more free, loving, natural, open - I only know a few of them. It just saddens and frustrates me to no end, that theirs so many people who just fail to see the absolute beauty of this planet, of nature and their own consciousness and existence.

@3:18 it's an idea but still a reality for most because realizations have consequences and conditions of living that are realized tend to be unescapeable. Another reason is most conform and enslave themselves to their habits, life's or jobs so much they mistake the ambience of life for reality and instead of working their minds they choose the paths of least resistance in the liberties they give themselves.

You Tube and the net IS a giant picture book, you know? Visually oriented media.

@Teszchk I'm pretty sure that's all I do when I get high is form thoughts. Try having a smoke and take a walk in nature. See what philosophical ideas come flowing through your mind. It seems you have the wrong idea about cannabis my friend.

yes Alan, but that was before Windows 7 was it not...? His points and opinions are correct for the most part I think, people should walk in the countryside more, and pick up signals and understanding from it - as he seems to be doing so well

Human beings are just animals. Why do we try to give ourselves more value than that and why can't we accept we are just animals is what baffles me

If only people understood how important native soils and conditions are. No...instead we make more humans to pave over a perfect system. We have lost that we are one with nature. We are nature.

It is sad, yet almost comical, that just as Alan said, that the more we participate in pushing our presence to rule the world in which we live, the more we push ourselves away from it

I think he got it right, we humans are too simple minded.

Writing and words are part of modern technology. According to some, the Druids chose to use neither.

Woah what an experience if you have the ability to pay attention to parts 1 & 2. Makes all the difference

@greenfruitface ya it makes me wonder how much was written or if he had any idea what he was going to say at all....

three brothers go off to perfect a science. one learns that if he is given a bone he can put muscle and skin on the bone. the other learns that if he is given a bone with muscle and skin he can make it into the full version of the animal. the final learns that if he is givin a lifeless animal he can give it life. so they go to the wild grab a lion bone. one puts the muscle and skin on it the other makes it whole, and finally the other gives it life. the lion comes alive and eats em all

three brothers go off to perfect a science. one learns that if he is given a bone he can put muscle and skin on the bone. the other learns that if he is given a bone with muscle and skin he can make it into the full version of the animal. the final learns that if he is givin a lifeless animal he can give it life. so they go to the wild grab a lion bone. one puts the muscle and skin on it the other makes it whole and the other gives it life. the lion comes alive and eats em all

@Generaldrummist I agree and I think most are just regurgitating crap they've heard others say, but there is a very long history of many different cultures using drugs to alter their consciousness. I'm not advocating the use of anything, nor am I demonizing it. I'm just saying that certain drugs taken under the right circumstances can have extreme effects on your consciousness and give you very deep insights into yourself and the Universe.

@thawkeye24 science is predicting the next most probable, and it uses a method of measurement. as we go from classical physics to quantum, all that changes is the approximation. but these equations and symbols are abstractions of reality. it is important not to confuse the map with the territory. eastern mystics understand that our language is limited and we have trouble explaining it because the experience transcends words. spirituality does not need science and vise versa but people need both

I think we are dispensable.. and we need to fully realize, and not only to makes ideas of it, as the Alan said, we need to realize that the universe came first and the only, in my opinion, difference between it and us is that we can realize that we are here, we are conscious of ourselves and because of that we separate the whole nature of us.. even when its obvious that we are the one and same thing.

@topbluffa1 How can you say that when you don't know what my view on drugs are? I think you missed the point of my comment, it's possible that you were offended but i was in no way making a bash on drugs. Drugs being far too vague of a term to be judged as a whole. I was simply asking "Why is it so hard to believe this man could think so deeply about things without chemical stimulus?"

@ElShadaiLives I don't know what kind of definition you use to come to that conclusion, but whatever it has become it is useless as a word, I might as well say everyone is an atheist, for not believing in many sorts of Gods. Everyone then becomes both religious and atheist in that way, better stick to practical definitions, in which case, it is totally wrong to say that everyone has religious beliefs. I for myself reject any belief having to do even indirectly with supernaturality