In the opening line of this video, Alan Watts says, "You don't need to try to be God, you are." How would you explain this to someone who disagrees? Would you try to explain it?
The person who doesn't know they are God are the types that externalize God. To see God as separate. This is fundamentally important, because the concept of God cannot allowed to become the whim of the human ego. These types see themselves as flawed, but are inspired to change and grow to try to be better. And they can be. The person who does know they are God are the types that internalize God. This is fundamentally important, because the concept of God cannot allowed to become the threat of an old man on a chair -- the whim of human ego would like to be the old man on the chair. This type of person can be an incredible saint, or damned criminal! As a criminal, you decided that as God - your will shall be done. And so people deserve to pay sacrifices, and that is not 'theft' for you. But as a saint, you decided something different. You decided that yes, you are God. But so is everyone else, even the criminal. You decided to see the grand Play as a play --- as a theater of the divine. And how can it NOT be so? God created the lion, and the gazelle. Why should God create the gazelle, to live in fear as prey to the lion? Why should this infinite benevolence create a condition of suffering? Well, its obvious: because God decided to experience that. God decided to be the hunter, and the prey. It decided to create these dimorphic situations in order to experience itself. You see? It's a matter of balance. I don't speak much on these matters, but I'm inclined in this case to answer because your question is very close to being a statement.
I can explain and still never convince 😂.. even myself. Stagnant, unprobed thinking loses purpose. But if I were to try and convince, I’d approach from an attempted sociological/historical/scientific view as that’s something me and the person-to-be-convinced most likely both have common ground in. First some context: I think Watts means God obviously in the sense described below (“love is the energy of the universe..” i.e read some poetry by Rumi (also hey T&H when some Rumi?)) rather than the “paternal, authoritarian God on a marble throne”. First how I would try: the idea of God is whatever we subjectively see fit to create. This is represented by the views of Gods all through human history. How environments shape societies and societies fashion God’s for themselves. This is an identifiable pattern. So in some sense, your belief in a God is your own explanation for yourself! How you are, what you are, etc… making sense of the world. Second. We are physically extensions of the material of the universe. As everything else is. I am just a very small (or very massive) part of the universe, as every human is. As every star is. As every atom is. Just in a particular biological, chemical, atomic way. Those are my main two reasons. But for me, the issue which arises with using “scientific” thinking to justify subjective feelings is exactly that. They are opposites and can’t mix. So where do I draw the hypocritical line between faith and science?
I've never, ever heard a speaker like Watts. The way he talks, the way he forms sentences, the way he describes things with comparisons to make us understand his thoughts, the way he instantly responds to questions with the most brilliant answers... No one I've ever heard have been as engaging to listen to as him.
This man was definitely a Gift to us. I care NOT what anyone says, he has opened my eyes beyond belief and changed my life for the better and I truly have an understanding or AM understanding more and more each and every day. Again...he was such a Gift to us from the Universe
There's a great separation of man, now and then. What separates us from people like him is education. What we are taught in school isn't "education" we are taught to be workers NOT thinkers. Rockefellers made sure of that after their substantial donation in the education system. We hear people like Allan speak and we are shocked and hypnotized instantly because he makes so much sense, nothing like we have ever heard. Educated people like Allan are sent to our ears to lay eggs in our brain. Just because his words Suduce us doesn't mean we have to submit or give consent. Challenge everything!! Remember always WE ARE NOT GODS, GOD CREATED US, GOD LOVES US, THE DEVIL WILL SUDUCE US THE WAY ALLANS WORDS DO, CHALLENGE IT. THE DEVIL COMES IN THIS FORM TO CONFUSE US, TO OPEN OUR MINDS PAST THE BIBLE AND BIGGER THAN THE BIBLE, THE HOLY BIBLE IS GODS WORD AND YES IT IS THAT SIMPLE. IVE FALLEN FOR THIS SAME TRAP SO MANY TIMES AND AS MUCH AS I WANT THIS STUFF TO BE TRUE OR THE EXISTENCE OF ALIENS, OTHER HUMAN FILLED PLANETS, HUMAN POWERS, AND SO ON... ITS ALL JUST A GAME TO DISTRACT US AWAY FROM THE SIMPLE TRUTH JUST PRAY TO GOD AND START A RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM. He loves us no matter what. Don't ever change who u are as a person that God made u. We all sin because we are NOT Jesus God. Now remember that the devil mixes truth with lie, you will hear many truths in his great lie. He will tell scientific truths that sound so real while lie to u about telling u that ur energy is God and make u believe the rest of his story because you heard some truth. Challenge all, even the bible
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I've listened a lot to Alan especially in this setting of taking questions and not one time after a question has he paused to think of an answer, it seems to be answered sometimes before the questioner is finished asking which tells one this man is living life from the space of reality from which we all originate. We all know, but Alan knows he knows.
Probably because of our circadian rhythm. We are not supposed to be awake before the sun rises. Biologists have shown that shift workers who are awake during the night and sleep during the day are several times more likely to suffer from diabetes, heart disease and cancer. Try getting to sleep during the night and get up with the dawn and you will find that your emotions are more stable.
i think it has more to do with thousands of years of human evolution handed down to us, generation after generation. nighttime is our time for heightened fear and alertness, but also for wild dancing and liberation. daytime is our time for living, playing, learning, and growing. i love the duality of our one moon and sun - it’s like the duality of conscious and subconscious, fire and water, air and earth.
@@punchline43 She is spouting pseudo-scientific and superstitious non-sense. I gave scientific explanations to a phenomena. It is like agreeing with someone explaining gravity by asserting that "oh yes of course, the fairies make ll object fall down".
Don't bother looking for the meaning of life because the meaning is life itself, enjoy it and don't feel guilty about it, if there's an afterlife then great, and if there isn't then all the worry about it is never going to put it there.
I listen to these videos over and over again, because it makes so much sense to me. Even more sense than what I do, see, hear, or think everyday. This seems more real than anything outside of me. It's sad most people don't see this and I feel like an outsider most of the time.
Try not to think of people as sad. If you know what’s real , put it to practice and just be. Awareness is the best word for me I helps to remember when the ego tries to distort the now
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there is a present that makes the past and some things get stuck in our memories for a long time its there in our minds because we lived it enjoy life while you can it goes fast
@@albundy9597 I was talking about in his speech Not his personal life,he probably had reason 4 that too.. but it's not my business and I didn't ask u 🙏🏼
I can say AND feel however I WANT too,so don't like it don't come on my comment or the comments looking for some1 for you all to bully🤦🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️ get a life an go get your Own answers and reason to why you are on here picking @ what I said,you all should be ashamed of yourself...just sorry.i feel sorry for anyone who came on my comment, she's called *karma......
A tiny, subatomic blip on the radar of existence. I might as well have never existed at all. And yet, such a profound little blip; a blip that knew it existed in the infinite grandeur of all that becomes, and all that ceases to be. Human, all too human.
I am the warrior but remember we...are...one.... , I'll tell you a secret that is just a scratch of the surface, the song ,warriors of the world listen to it. And second ever song that we ever heard is preaching the cospel, just listen to the lyrics of every song and any, there lies our future and fate and savior just trust me, 🙌 🙏 then look up at the sky mid day at the clouds and you'll see the eyes 👀 in the clouds everywhere just see for your self then comment on this so I can be here for you to vent
I have a very small God like complex within myself I am the Creator I am the destroyer because every time I wish something bad something bad happens every time I want something good something good happens it all depends on my attitude on how the world turns God learns many lessons over and over and braces every aspect in life and does not go against the currents we are all God living through one another
Funny when I was a child I used to think 🤔... When you die you go back to the silence before birth. Now I'm older and fight w myself and others about where we think we all go
I've never met anyone else who remembers the silent void before birth until now. It's weird to imagine life, and imagine before life. My mind shows me all it can perceive and that is darkness in it's purest form kind of like dark matter forming into anti matter at the very bottom of a never ending black hole with minimal density and zero direction. There's neither sound nor touch, taste, or any other senses to be discovered. Zero consciousness/existence/being I feel like that is inaccurate though because just because we weren't conscious aware before creation doesn't mean we were dark matter in a void. That's just the way our mind perceives what "before creation" was like. Parts of what made us were things that have names or don't depending on if they have been discovered, named, disected, defined, recorded, explained yet or not. I believe we are part discovered (sperm, eggs) and mostly undiscovered pieces scattered throughout the universe and only when the right chemicals, lighting, temperature, and energy mix pieces of what become us create. Instead of the darkness of void, I now see dust, sunlight, dandelions and tall grass and I hear nature mixing with the warmth as it's carried out through each blade of grass all at once through a slight breeze. I see all of this without me existing but eventually I will be aware of this scene I just seen as a description of me before me. As amazing and magical this all seems, God is greater than the creation of the unborn magician who became discovered, named, disected, recorded, defined, and taught. God is greater than everything and everyone at their best from what we perceive to be their best in this world. God is everything unperceived because we can't imagine God unless God himself reveals Godly things for our mind to open up to. Here in this world we discover things we find because we can see them. God isn't of this world, his language isn't born from confusion and clutter. His language isn't spoken with a subductive tongue Gods language is 1 but heard by all, It's spoken with the weight of the world in a weightless vast in a subtle tone and never repeated but always heard. Cross chatter from the deceptive one of 10,000 tongues recreate his sound with words mix with lie and confusion, question, anger, hate, pain, fire 🔥 and hell is burning while your ears have a choice to hear many men or the creator of all man. Only a fool who once heard God would doubt the sound of God when he speaks to him once again. A fool always chooses another MANS answers instead of searching undiscovered truths or simple truth. A wise man always keeps his mouth shut while a fool screams false beliefs and noise cross chatterings
Such great videos on thsi channel--but like all humans Alan Wats did not know all. You do not just repeat life here, when you get out of your body life you reemerge into what some call heaven and your consciousness (gods too) may return to some other body experience
Please make the writing of the questions being asked more visible. Either in a text that is able to be seen over the background, or in a different colour. Thank you & much love to all 💕
If you understand that, then, of course,you understand what infinity . That’s mean no beginning and no end and then you’re free Not trying to gave a lesson, just hoping you will realise
Life is divinely coded. It appears that one of the key features is a holographic universe. Yet this is organic devine development and construction. It is the greatest piece of art with many great pieces of art within that greatest piece. It's love and hate, apeiron, yin yang. It is all possibility. It is ultimately ineffable.
I have one question that scares me and that's "what if we ARE alive and know it now because to not be alive is to be dead so what if we were dead before we were alive and this is the life and when I'm dead again will I not still live on or again since I've already experienced death twice?" I'm scared that when I leave my family to death that I will never be able to experience that same comfort with the same people again? Ig that is my biggest fear.
@@ishikawa1338 yeah I feel like I made the connections I needed to grasp it. I know that energy cannot be destroyed and that which holds all atoms together is a mystery glue if u will that makes up most of the area OF an atom and cannot observe it without it turning to a solid thus making it impossible to see with the naked eye, and that mystery glue is 99% of what we exist in. Mind blowing 🤯 but yes make it count now for what we have even though we will live again but I still feel like during the in-between time we have all recollection of our past life experiences until we live again and forget it all again until that death and hopefully try to remember more in the next life lol 😆 ❤ Good vibes you're way may you're path ahead be fulfilling.
The Bible says that those who hate the Truth love Death, like this man's speech glorifies. If you are tired of death ruling your life, then choose life. Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life.
I'm not too keen on how he ended up though, all that vinegar and nails, a gin tonic watching the sun go down is more my thing but I'm a heathen bound for hell where all the interesting people go.
His thought is on totally wrong perspective against the fact that God do exist. Just because he can't see it doesn't mean God doesn't exist. Ask him how universe created through big bang and he will reply with "entertaining" answer, the way you like it, not the fact
Maybe it's because people think they are God that this world is turning into such a mess now. Man playing or "being their own god" have some horrific consequences obviously.
If you listen to the devil,he will make you believe in fairy tales, when all the time he want your mind,what sound good don't mean it's right , God is not mocked ,whatsoever a man soweth he shall also reap
💥for those who want to go down a interesting rabbit 🐇 hole look into Alan’s private life…circumstance around his death 🍷☠️ 🥃also his followers early on such as Father Sepharim Rose (Eugene Rose) 🕉☯️✝️✡️🕎🔯
