What If We’re Wrong? - Alan Watts On The Failure Of Our Technology
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- A provocative and ey-opening speech by Alan Watts on technology and our place in the universe. Original Audio sourced from: Alan Watts: A Conversation with Myself, recorded in 1971
►“You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.”
- Alan Watts. (1915 - 1973)
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T&H Inspiration is on a mission to share inspiring wisdom. The goal is to have you pause, think, and reflect. Many of our videos revolve around the extraordinary teachings of Alan Watts that we produce with permission from the Alan Watts Electronic University.
T&H also films and releases original interviews with iconic people who have experienced successes, while also persevering through life's highs and lows. We look forward to sharing more of these perspectives and insights.
Our hope with these videos is to push your thinking. As Alan Watts said “No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.” - Alan Watts.
This was recorded 51 years ago. Probably even more relevant now than ever.
Could not agree more, a remarkable man!!!🙃👍
Indeed, it is.
Have a little smoke and listen to ANYTHING Alan has said, ANYTHING. The man was on one amazing trip...
That is to say
Dude talks about the brain like he knows about todays science research. Brilliant man of his era, and of this one too.
One of the wisest men to have walked this earth. Never fails to astound me by his foresight of what was to come. ❤️
There's a trick to his wisdom and apparent foresight. It involves the process of aligning oneself with reality - which actually, is much simpler than most people might think. And the more aligned one becomes, the clearer the overall picture becomes. Anyone can do it really - _if_ they want to. The thing is, not many people want to. Most of us are simply too busy dealing with our immediate little daily problems, to be able to focus on the bigger picture.
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Jesus was, is and will always be. If you beg to differ that's cool, it's my perspective.
Peace
@@jasonfusaro2170 Jesus is not, and never was... relevant to this video. Your perspective is deranged
@@jasonfusaro2170 No one is talking about Jesus nor is anyone even saying or implying Alan Watts is smarter or wiser than Jesus. It is always projection with you people. You are a cancer to society. You seek to destroy simply because things don't fit your world view. Wake the god damn fuck up already. Why cant people find their own way without nonsense like this? If you actually believe your views to be the correct ones then it is just inevitable that people will come to that same conclusion right? Yet people aren't. Christianity has done so much damage to the world and everyone in it and people are walking away from it for good reason. It is toxic and destroys people and society.
It blows my mind that Alan Watts died a few years before I was born and yet still has a better understanding of the world than anyone else that has come after.
Also I love his use of the word wiggly. He had such a profound understanding about the nature of humanity.
a few years ago i heard about a story of people exploring a vast cave network, it had already been explored to a good degree, but these folks were pushing new boundaries, eventually one of them spotted a straight line in that weaving cave system and knew that it was out of place. It turned out to be a handrail, they had found their way into another set of caverns that was a well known tourist destination.
we do need learn how to live in this world full of complex messages.
@@boshenzhang4399 And it is getting increasingly more complex.
Not everyone. There's a few people like Alan. A small handful every generation. Jed McKenna, myself. Even Jim Carrey became enlightened.
The difference between him, and others after him, is he paid attention. He had a desire to learn and understand, not just make money and have power. His kind would make great leaders. Only to get people to change means getting rid of the desires of the flesh. People in this world are so greedy, money driven and in a hurry to go nowhere. Think about it, what are at doing? We haven't evolved at all. To evolve you learn from your errors and mistakes and make the necessary changes. You don't destroy, you certainly don't kill your own kind, and you work together to survive and improve your children's world. The ONLY problem we've created is the desire to become rich and powerful for the very short 60+ years. To be perfect, rich and beautiful. Is rather live of the grid and go back to the horse and buggy and g77et my face out of my phone.
I've been on my journey for quite some time now. Even still, I seem to loose my way from time to time. When I do loose my way, Alan Watts can always reel me back. For this I am extremely grateful. 🙏
I agree.😍🙏😍
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This is how I feel as well. Watts is able to cut through so much bullshit and remind us what is important. I really hope there is life after death simply because I so want to talk to him.
Me too. Right now it's one of those days
when you think you’ve heard all his audio , I am gifted with this one today and love the approach he takes
Since 2 days I some how was able to shut off my ego and for the 1st time I saw things and people as they are, without judgment.,without a filter. I felt love for the 1st time even when my mother cursed and screamed at me.
This video relates a lot to my current state.
Thank you and all the love.
Imagine how fantastically awsome it would have been like to be in the presence of this great man. Peace and love from South Africa. Anunnaki made
The people who went to his lectures were so lucky.
@@zandrokos I think most of us were born after his death. But still he is a legend.
“You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.” ― Alan Watts
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Very clever ...so what now ?
Makes sense, that just means the entire universe is screwed up. Alan always gives the best metaphors and never a way to fix things, lol. Alan said in one of his videos that the root of money is evil... No, he's wrong; what's evil is the pursuit and love of money. The man knew a lot, but not everything... No one does.
All you need to do is create a montage of free nature images from a site that gives you public domain images, stick a moving song and a 10 minute Alan Watts lecture in a video and get a million views on TH-cam. These videos never go away; they're like cockroaches.
@@tootoofalse2625 I think the point is to go with the flow of things and to stop trying to control everything. That's what I got out of it anyway.
@@tootoofalse2625 Enjoy it right now because "so what now" itself is always right now.
The way he moves between the inner and outer world, going in to see and understand, looking out to marvel at its design, always flowing into and out of states...
What a sight to behold
I love you Alan. No listener without an “entertainer” and vice-versa.
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I love this. Brimming with a truth mankind will deny until it is blue in the face.
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But we are mankind. It would be arrogant of me to believe I’m the only one who’s waking up.
@@raynarks Many are waking up. We absolutely have the ability to shape our world or at least live in it. Look at the people rising up in Iran and fighting against oppression of women and oppression of people in general, look at Ukraine people are fighting to protect their home and democracy and their ability to exist without Russia controlling them. Look at Brazil and how its fascist leader tried to steal an election and failed and then tried to overturn it and only stopped because of opposition. Now my country the US is facing this issue yet again in a few days and there is a good chance humanity and freedom will lose out.
We can not allow religious dogma to control our countries and our world. We can not allow fascism to take our free will. People don't like talking politics but politics is how humanity shapes our world.
Can’t say enough good about Alan. One of the finest human beings I’ve ever run across. He’s been a grandfather to me and I imagine so many, many others. His voice and message changed good my life forever,and I’m so glad that these treasures of lectures were recorded and preserved.
Namo Alan
He is always with us in consciousness, “peopling” forever and ever.
💓
@@david9180 he absolutely was, no disrespect received, sorry if this makes him unworthy of praise or admiration in your view.
There are plenty of boring chickenshits that are not alcoholic and never say anything, feel free to enjoy their contributions lol
Everybody has their strengths and shortcomings yes!?
We think we want some type of perfect guru, but in fact, that doesn’t exist, and if it did, we would find it repulsive.
It’s no fun playing a game that you always win, eating delicious food all the time would get very boring very fast, no light without the dark.
Have a wonderful day
🙏
@@david9180 I most certainly do and will continue to do so. I also enjoy Hemingway Bukowski and Kerouac etc etc
Sorry if I struck a nerve
Have a wonderful day of blissful awareness
🤍
@@david9180 😃I’ve been sober for 23 years. Have a wonderful day, David. Variety is the spice of life.
David, I’m speaking from the most sincere place I can, I’m sorry if something I said or did offended you. I was in fact a little of a smartass when I called some non alcoholic people “boring chickenshits.” This is probably my own sensitivity regarding my own alcoholism.
I’ve learned that addiction is largely a judgment over how one spends their time… is it “productive” of not seems to be the crux issue. When I stopped drinking I did like you said and buried my head in the sand using other methods… working out, food, politics, sex, work, even aa itself, which helped me get sober for the first place. to the point where I became addicted to being “non addicted” to anything.
I looked up “frenetic.” This does indeed describe me, fast and seemingly uncontrolled.
I’m sorry for the bad energy brother. I mean it when I say have a nice day.
Strangely enough it took the advent of the internet to bring these thoughts to many of us, as if the universe had to make use of man's own wayward technology as a way to make an attempt to reach out to him.........do you see the darkly humourous irony there?
Allan watts was a head of the time.glad found his 🗣️ videos .
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'all this wiggliness is too complicated'.. love his wording regarding the mystery of humanity's silliness.
Rest in peace Allan, your body of work lives on~
Great work on the video and bringing Alan Watts into this moment.
T & H always spot on. Whenever I need a Soul boost I seek out your videos. Thank you.
Thanks for sharing this Awe moment with us all... Cheers from Tennessee
Very beautifully said.
Few years ago, as I was camping in such a magnificent wilderness, I had just that same thought about myself being an aperture of the universe on itself. Now I discover Alan Watts. Curious to read more of his thoughts.
brilliant video...thanks
Thank you for this kind of information 💚
Soooooo Gooood!!! Thank you!!!!
Fantastic
As above, so below, calling out to those who know.
Glad I watched.
stay blessed 🍀🌺
I know I'm simple. Maybe that's why I choose to live a simpler life, closer to nature. All those numbers and letters. All that language and geometric technology. Civilization built itself on straight lines and human instigated order in its attempt to control and thereby profit. If it weren't for those linear cities people have constructed we'd be living out in the forest and jungle, hunting and gathering, living life as nature intended, revolving in natural circles instead of navigating artificial squares.
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We are very wrong Alan, and your right on do many levels, the world surely misses your wisdom.
I think it's important to keep in mind that when he says "failure", it's only because we've defined "success" within the context of control and improvement. That being said, humans are just being humans the way flowers are flowers, trees are trees, cats are cats, and bears are bears. Humanity flows like the rest of nature, we're just doing it in a unique way. Even if that flow leads to self-destruction, it's still simply nature being nature.
Dude blows my mind
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We didn't grew more brain to involve thoughts
We grew more brain to understand our feelings
There is nothing to learn in life
Only to feel everything that is Already inside US
AND IF YOU ARE READY FOR THAT NATURE'S CREATION WILL SHOW ITSELF TO YOU.
AFTER ALL IT WAS YOU YOURSELF THAT DID EVERYTHING TO KEEP CONTROL OF WHAT CAN'T BE CONTROLED LOVE ❤⚖🙏
My art professor taught me that nature employs organic shapes. Fractals and organic shapes are in nature. Straight lines are rare in nature. Humans use straight and curved lines to build over the top of nature. Yet, we are most attracted to organic shapes because that is what we always saw until we perfected the use of straight materials.
It came from within
This man is the kind of person that Earth needs. He was, is, & even in death, will be one of my prayers.
He puts sanity into an insane world.
This is a beautiful comment! 👏
True, we feel separate but each of us is ONE with the whole universe. Actually there is no lines of separation in nature, only thought creates these separations in attempt to understand and thereby to control the universe from which this same thought springs. This feeling of separation, which Alan Watts admirably describes in many of his talks, conjugated with science leads inevitably to the destruction of nature and therefore of humanity itself.
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So the question for me is if we sprung from the universe we surely are part of it. Why do we behave as if we are separate?
@@daddycool228 In the end it is all play. But it could be for the contrast. Like being hungry and cold and then getting a nice meal at the fireplace. Or being sick for a long time and then eventually getting your health back. This play of separation can get very dark, but apparently these are, for now, the flavours of consciousness and not being able to know it all is one of them.
*HOW TRUE IS THIS* 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.
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That is true...and well stated.
Wonderful edit 🪷🫶☺️
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I love this man.
bravo!!! bravo Mr Watts. You are one of the greatest naturalist and thinkers of all time.
Amazing man
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I've listened to Alan Watts for a long time. This lesson is by far my favorite. It really breaks down, with clarity, the understanding of our realm and our place in it. When one begins to understand that they can never really fully understand, well; that's a knowledge thsts a wisdom that makes the heart ache. Thank you Dr. Watts. Your clarity of thought is that of the best minds ever crossed this plane.
I just love his use of the word wiggly. We have convinced ourselves we have control over our lives and our world but that isn't true at least not entirely.
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"We may have wiggled out of the water. " - John Falk
Awesome 👍
Brilliant!
Being one with nature. We are distracted from truth. Alan Watts clarifies this so well.
Yes you have it thanks Alan 👍
Perfect
What an astonishing mind
An incredible gift of source through itself as alan watts!
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freaking awesome
Wow, this is incredible, I had no idea that was 51 years ago ….it’s unbelievably relevant today and just goes to show if you don’t learn from your mistakes, you’re doomed to repeat them. This is one of my all time favourite human being, I wish I could’ve met this man and I’ve learned so much from him😻✌️
This one was new to me. Alan truly was a genius. Sooooo goood!
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It's obvious to me now, that at least some of my teachers and at least one of my parents, must have listened to this man back in the sixties and seventies, because they used to talk to me in this way, when I was little, and I have carried these notions with me at the back of my mind, like old toys in the loft, until now when I am letting go of career and struggle.
Luck favored you.
One-track minds in a multi-track universe. Insightful yet disconcerting.
Absolutely true, we've have stop to think.
Yeas ago i was wondering who have the same similar thought as mine, Alan Watts was
It amazing how little we all think and don't see the big picture, i use to doubt myself before 2014 and from my past experience everything that i felt and imaging was true
The audio, video, and content quality of this post is 2nd to none. Thank you
good there allan.
I love the man but more importantly we need to start loving one another and our planet.
I think this my very favorite ten minutes of Alan Watts.
Enjoyed the visuals and editing. Thank you.
Indeed
I agree with everything he has just said. I don't know him and am astounded to know that he said it 51 years ago. I may be un-educated but I agree with this man.
Love
I am You and You are Me and We are here. This is 313 of a Consciousness of the Spirit from the Mind of Alpha and Omega as Dark/Light that came from a Union of Love as One. This is The Law of One!
Absolutely amazing! Thank you!
It's not alarming that the universe is smarter than we are. It is comforting.
Love this man’s philosophy 🌌 still learning.
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OMG I have listened to hours and hours of Watts but this is the best ever! What a find! Thank you!
Very well done, thx for this!
Beautiful video. The messages resonate deeply. Everything is truly connected. Thank you.
"...and we may have to come to the alarming conclusion that, the universe is smarter than we are." i have always been of fan of the thought that the universe is going to do whatever the universe is going to do. we are nothing more than passengers, along for the ride. we are reminded, in this summation, that it isn't our 'job' to try and fix what isn't broken or control what isn't to be controlled. but instead, simply to enjoy the ride and not lose sight of the things that should be the most important to us.... none of which includes locking our minds away in thought regarding things that truly, do not matter.
Bedankt
The universe is smarter than we are...like is there actually anyone out there that ultimately thinks otherwise?
I suspect there are far too many people out there who have never even wondered about it or asked the questions. Hence the path mankind is on. That or they've seen the truth of things and simply ignored it.
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It depends completely on what you mean by "we" and "the universe."
Love nature vs. City life
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The "big picture" of our existence in the world. This man SAW it.
Absolutely
Think outside and remove yourself from the box ,
Be the Circle , think from beginning to end ,
All is possible ⚔️🕊️
The universe is smarter than we are ✌
Allan Watts was so ahead of his times.
Things become complicated when we think about them
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My ancestors are from the same area Alan Watts created many of his lectures from.
So beautiful 💗 it really is an oasis right outside the major city
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Thats where I'd be grateful ending up in my 40's or 50's like Alan. Just strolling around with my backpack like a kid on a field trip, yet who got accidentally left behind and gets to just enjoy the experience of reality. I'm already similar to Alan as i'm one of the few enlightened people on the planet but the moment, if it's meant to be, has not yet arrived where I get to enjoy that unplanned field trip. I already think about all this stuff though.
@Mohammad S. :)
Legend 🙏
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Loved it!! 💖🌎💖✨✨🌲🌼🌵🦋🌿☮☮🕉😘☯🏡😊🙏
Tremendous presentation. Thank you 🙏🏻
One of the messengers our Creator has used throughtout the centuries to instruct us on the true path to enlightment (spiritual and religious to some). Even though we see inequality, violence and war in our daily lives, believe it or not this is the best version of humanity that´s ever inhabited this planet. Be proud you are a member of this generation and don´t forget your purpose is to leave it a better place than when you arrived here.
This made me laugh Thanks
Yes
I followed and adored Watts for a long time until I found he just plays with words to confuse, but gives no deeper meaning of consequence.
Humans like squares because it's the most efficient way to be, to get the most from any stretch of land. Nature 'wiggles' because it has no power to be efficient, and therefore is chaos, a survival of the fittest, the strongest. If humans would 'wiggle' people would die due to lack of food and lack of housing. Just see how California 'wiggles' these days and watch the junkies live in tents with no oversight, an ever expanding chaos, and people are dying.
Tranquility
Allowance
When I lived in the bush I had no care in what the world was up to
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Maybe the universe we see is actually Gods brain and we are thoughts and dreams.
Fascinating thought, I've often thought about myself. Like the cells of your body each one alive doing it's own thing never knowing its part of something bigger and greater.
When I had anatony if human body, I remember thinking the same.
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Thank you to whoever created this video to correlate so perfectly to Alan Watts's dissertation. Well done!!!
Waves And stillness
hopefully if Alan is right and the universe is smarter than us, then we are on the right track as humanity even when it does not appear so to us.
The real deal my friends!
In the 90s I wrote an article called "Life As A Holodeck Character".
Unreal.