man thank you that was a beautiful way to put it and it’s great i’ve just been having a lot of anxiety about death but thinking of it as going back into the soup is kinda comforting
Same I was 17, back in 2020 quarantine when we had a lot of free time to think and contemplate, when I came to a reflexion that death feels the same as it did before birth. This video kind of helps flesh out that idea.
I was 11 when I had this realization. I'm 33 now. You were just the right age:) I broke my brain trying to parse my parents' religion along with these ideas of eternity. You'll do well in the long-term having settled these questions early, though. Realizing our fragility is a gift - no one actually wants to live forever, that's the worst nightmare one could imagine.
Thank you for bringing Alan Watts for more people, I'm a huge fan of his work and I believe he is one of the greatest philosopher of all time and very under appreciated, I think he is a legend
@@DihelsonMendonca I heard Alan Watts mention Krishnamurti, but I haven't heard of the other ones, I will definitely do some research into their work and learn more, thank you for sharing
@@One-Up I mean no detrimental, but Alan Watts comes from Krishnamurti and others, but K. as we refers to him is deeper, original, blunt...When you hear Krishnamurti, you notice that you're listening to one of the most intelligent being that ever walked on earth. He's sometimes difficult to understand, but he has the power to make you see things as you never saw before. He changed my life. Eckhart Tolle is one of the greatest spiritual teachers of this century. I think you'll love Eckhart Tolle since the first video. He has an extreme compassion like Alan Watts, but up to date. He's passionate, because, like Krishnamurti , he's enlightened, humble, he makes your mood lifting, he tell many jokes, he seems to know everything. I get tears in my eyes when he speaks sometimes. Sadhguru is enlightened also. He completes the "truth". He's an incredible, understandable master that know how to teach, and build a discourse instantaneously, so that everybody is touched by his words. A very charismatic person who attracts several millions of followers throughout the world. I listen to them on TH-cam. Krishnamurti has about 3000 videos online, He was born in 1895 and died in 1986. In the 6 years before his death, he used to talk about our time, when machines would take over, artificial intelligence, computers, and how could we deal and grow spiritually despite that. A visionary man. In the XX century, he was considered the master of the spiritual masters, although his first teaching is that there's no spiritual gurus. According to him, each one of us should find the truth, there's no authorities on spiritual matters, he himself is just a mirror which asks and points to some directions, but we only, can discover if it's true or false, a concept that you won't see in any other. "Truth is a pathless land"... Eckhart Tolle has his own channel. He focuses on the inner self, on the real self, on the present moment, and in the presence, consciousness. Almost everything is about teaching that we are part of the great consciousness of the universe. Sadhguru is everything about life. 🙏👍❤️❤️❤️🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶
@@One-Up Eckhart Tolle and Sadhguru are after Alans time. Eckhart Tolle is the author of "The Power of Now" and a present day advocate of conscious expansion. Sadhguru, on the other hand is a more of a loud and insistent Hindu "guru" who has the irritating habit of blending mind expanding informative guidance followed by closed minded judgemental insistence that you reach the conclusion he tells you to (never allowing you to reach your own realisation) leading to cognitive dissonance I cannot recommend. Reach your own conclusion I'm just sharing an experience.
@@Anarchy-Is-Liberty There is a mutual dependence between the perceiver and the environment. YOU are the stuff of the universe. Your very cellular structure acts in sync with the universe. Inhaling, exhaling, eating and digestion is a part of the machinery of the universe. So whenever you look up at the stars of the universe, it's the universe actualizing itself.Its just another way of looking at things.
Yes... was it Carl Sagan who said, "The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.” We are collapsing quantum states down, perhaps in a universe, perhaps in a multiverse which is the realization of every possible value of quantum state collapse result. We are literally the universe's way of simultaneously creating and exploring itself.
@@justinscrivner5457 in that case, shouldn't be everything orbit our planet? Shouldn't be scientists always correct about everything they say about stars, planets, galaxies,...?
You are a lovely man Scott. You wear your heart on your sleeve philosophically, and it's refreshing. If I'm the universe becoming aware of itself, everything has a headache this morning. Weeks of smoke in the PNW have really taken a toll. The rain arrived today but I'm struggling to make myself go. Your video has good energy I need. Thank you.
“The universe is organized.” (The observation we gained with JWST) Things interacting with things, at any scale, gives emergence to consciousness. This video is even better than anything I could describe! I talked about a “fluid computer”, and the Boltzmann Brain with a few people I know. How can consciousness have thought, when it is not incarnated in human form? (Or any brain/computer) The idea of somehow existing beyond my mortal body is something I don’t think I can ever truly feel and believe, but I continue to know and understand it anyway.
You only think because you have language and a body to separate yourself from everything else. Without a body there is no you as you are everything. Without language or a brain the you that is everything is just a sea of potentiality and in an infinite universe, its only a matter of time before you become you- again and again in every potential form and possibility, aka everything and everyone else, all at once for eternity.
This is exactly my idea. It's inconceivable, in my opinion, that when we die we just enter an eternal, deep, thoughtless, imageless sleep. It would mean the end of reality, since reality can only be experienced subjectively, and reality just can't end. I believe exactly the same as you say: our human consciousness, when we die, just returns to where it came from, to a universal level of universal consciousness. And I won't even rule out the possibility of a new "collapse" into a single, material, embodied consciousness, i.e. a rebirth. Since I've come to this conclusion, I have much less fear of death. Of course, being a human, I'm scared of a slow or painful death, and I'm saddened at the idea of leaving all my loved ones, but... that's just my humanly dimensioned brain that suggests me this thought, thinking the only way it's able to. But I'm pretty sure that when my time to go to the other side will come, I will not miss anyone, because I will return to being everyone.
The man is not saying you're going to think and see stuff after you die, that's silly religious indoctrination and wishful thinking creeping in. Your thoughts and experiential ability are a product of your uniquely oriented living neurons (which will be dust) shaking hands. Of course you won't miss anyone, because 'you' will no longer exist. The energy that is you, however, will dissipate back into the ether. It's not an experience - it's a function. Death is like dreamless sleep, natural to fear, but nothing to be afraid of.
Honest Q. You said the singularity created itself and, "That act of creation, was also a decision." Decisions require time. Time didn't exist before the big bang. So how does that work in your hypothesis?
This is awesome! I discovered your channel tonight. I’ve been searching for a channel that could answer the questions that I didn’t know that I had. I searched your name on Google to learn more about your books and where to buy a copy and I noticed that we share a birthday. Hahaha wild!
The Isekai Theory: if the universe is going to go through every possible arrangement of information before it ends, then when you die, you could potentially link with an alternate reality version of yourself that doesn't die, leading you along your own longest personal timeline while to others you are killed here and that's the end of it. This implies that every potential death is a branch in your personal timeline, and you could therefore end up in a completely different instance of the universe at each fork in the road. If you look at yourself as a much larger collective entity with extra-dimensional structure across all of time, that means that every person will likely have their own "iterative archetypes" which are specific paths through the branching structure of timelines that lead to a specific outcome of the contained awareness of the "self" down here only aware of three dynamic spacial dimensions. There is a version of you that lives the best possible life from the beginning to the end. There is a version of you that lives as long as you ever possibly could, whatever that may mean. There is even a version of you that experiences something incredibly cosmically improbable that spits in the face of modern science because it simply doesn't happen often enough to be recorded and studied. If the universe is big enough and long enough, you as a higher dimensional being could become anything you can imagine yourself being, and I could too. We all could. And the world itself, if not reality as a whole.
I have had this exact same thought and tried to express it to others. Yet it never resonated with anyone. This is the first I have ever heard anyone else with the same thought.
That adds a temporal, sequential component to ourselves. That doesn't really make sense. We are multidimensional shapes in the multiverse of all possibilities with fuzzy boundaries (because a me in one universe might be vastly different from a me in another universe). All of them are likely happening at once. I am just the universe right now choosing to experience this entity in this state, although in reality, the multiverse it the entire collection, and experience goes right out the window. The important thing to remember is that this is seemingly contradictory to our daily experiences but for those of us who have reached enlightenment, it isn't an uncommon thought. Reality is incredible: horrifying and beauatiful, and everything else.
Okay, this is wild. I've had this theory in my head since I was like 13. I thought I made it up. I said that's how deja vu ties into things, like we already lived it out in our previous timeline but in this timeline, this alternate existence, it hadn't happened yet and so we experienced it again.
Great stuff, thanks for the videos! I once read a signboard in a dark dream I had that said Consciousness Predates the Universe: All is Transmission and Receiving ! ! I wrote it down upon waking as I often do with my dreams in the notebook I keep next to my futon. Keep thinking about that often. Maybe everything, all matter, has the ability to receive and become conscious, and as matter evolves into more complex states of being, the consciousness becomes more elaborate and complex !
I've been listening to a podcast called Crash Course Pods The Universe and have really been enjoying the dialogue between the more philosophical John Green and a very smart physicist who explains the craziness of this whole thing.
As a Kardecist Spiritualist we were told the following; The material body and the astral body are not the same obviously, as it is less materialized than the one typing this keyboard. What anchors the immaterial body to this is a thing we call "per-spirit" which is a semi-material body, often called "plastic mediator" between the body and the soul. How your death will be pretty much depends on how you treated that invisible organ. It is said for example that when someone committed suicide, the per-spirit wasn't ready from the cocoon that is the body - it never experienced life until the end of its length. The effects are said to be very unpleasant and may take a lot of time for the suicidal individual to recover in the after life. Dying of age or disease is said to be the least painful or discomforting, because the per-spirit was already aware of the end of our batteries - an example to make it sound better. But not all natural deaths are so different. Some non-suicide individuals can relate the same effects to a medium messenger, like suicidal individuals. This is due a per-spirit that never de-materialized enough before death. Although the average death is easier to work with and treat, than suicide. High vibration individuals, non materialistic or simply the good people can have a much less troublesome departing due a less heavy per-spirit. Death by accident is not so different from the examples cited above, and not all suicidal will suffer the same effect, but why? Because it is unequivocally, at the individual's end of how expanded and de-materialized he/she is. I don't mean to sound bad against anyone but you're not the universe, directly speaking. You're an integral part of it, you and me, just like a grain of sand that composes the beach or an atom that composes a bar of metal. Your consciousness however, is, part of a webbing of thoughts. (spiritism was teaching us somewhat about quantum mechanics in the earlier 20th century) I'd say, take care of what you say since words have a lot of power, take care of your mind since your soul depends on it to evolve, and take care of your body, your utmost important tool to achieve all that. What happens or how death will be on the afterwards, will be in the end of the day, a reflection of how you lived your life. But worry nothing. Doesn't matter what sphere you end up to, there is treatment and 100% of it is volunteered by souls so good, they need to pretend they're not made of light.
I definitely had this sensation of a connection being made with the universe when I was with my father when he died in hospital. It was unexpected and strange - it felt science fictional - like he was in a high tech cradle being safely delivered back into the universe at the speed of light. I was kind of tingling with the whole awesomeness of what I had just witnessed. It took a while for the reality to sink in, and the rest of the day turned into a black comedy when his carer's dog died 3 hours afterwards...
The universe continues to grow, perhaps the forces that align our consciousness do so as well. Perhaps the afterlife is like a mini-bang amongst the system - back into the source. Some try to push a more arrogant nihilistic view of death as an ultimatum yet perpetual infinite growth of the universe beckons otherwise. At-least from a linear perspective of time, step outside of the timeline itself and all kinds of laws and limitations of the universe change and expand, perhaps webs of possibilities and potentials like the multiverse theory. Engaging curiosity of our existence seems to be much more in our nature and evolution compared to a nihilism of everything. A system capable of rendering consciousness perhaps from that of its own makes sense with a lot of the religious interpretations often aligning with this pattern.
Congratulations. You hit the point in my head. Finally someone putting together the Alan Watts wisdom down to the regular guy who tries to explain himself the world around him. Why is a pleasure to listen to you? - because while doing so I don't feel a single bit of conflict between what you're saying and what I think. And I don't know, it might be down to the algorithm, but I am always searching, never letting it show me what to see. You've got my deepest admiration for not touching the filthy topics of religion, while being more spiritual than most of their "goats". Thanks.
Scott quoted Alan Watts! Hahaha see I keep bringing up Buddhism in your comment section for a reason :-) Alan is awesome because he sort of combined Early Buddhism (Theravada), Zen (Mahayana), Dzogchen (Vajrayana), Advaita Vedanta, and even Abrahamic and Indigenous spiritual traditions all into one realm of understanding. Super interesting character. Oh, almost forgot Taoism.
Most people think Great God will come from the sky Take away everything And make everybody feel high But if you know what life is worth You would look for yours on earth And now a you see the light You stand up for your right Jah!
Cool my fear of death is because I don’t want to be unconscious forever, I’m afraid of the void, but from what I’m gathering I don’t have to worry about that. I will be conscious just in a different way I hope. So death isn’t really dying. It’s more like a tree, growing, bigger, and longer branches.
There is going to be a problem, locating any sort of information of where we came from or how the universe started because black holes create universes time moves in multiple directions dimensions weave throughout each other. So you may think you have some answers and a solid point in speaking about a big bang but I’m telling you you’re wrong we know nothing when it comes to the origin of the universe or consciousness.
Only just come across you,I like your content and I shall work my way through your vids. Interesting that scientists have realised that the universe is constructed in a very similar way to the brain. I also am a big fan of Alan Watts, I also admire Rupert Sheldrake,both embrace aincent Eastern philosophies
I have been struggling with a sense of purpose, a sense of why are we here, what is consciousness etc. Its like an itch I just cant scratch and its really tearing me up inside to be honest, if I bring the topics up with friends I usually just get scoffed/laughed at especially because it feels like I have a hard time accessing the proper information in my head and putting the right words together. So I just have been watching a lot theories about how the universe began, how time/gravity works, dimensions etc. Its honestly what occupies my brain most of the time, my job is kind of mindless and I have a lot of time to sort of reflect on things, I have a lot of regrets in life and death/reincarnation have been on my mind lately. (Not suicidal, yet at least lol but im still working on things.) And I dont know it was hard to write into words what I was thinking but this theory sort does a pretty good job of it. I will have to do some more research. Thank you for the great videos man!
Maybe our big bang was the end of a previous universe that expanded until it burst, rearranging everything for new types of life forms to evolve. Idk 😂 just a thought.
since no time has passed in the moment of Creation. For time does not begin until the the big ban occurs. once are body no longer function. Does our consciousness returns to that moment. From there I wonder if we can return to anytime and anywhere?
It’s almost as if conscious multiplies. A bit like AI, each part developing a mind of its own. The separateness is created through the brain, when we die we become one with the light again, the earth is forgotten and all that exists is pure bliss…. Who knows what happens after that 🤷♀️, it’s all so spectacularly amazing.
5:42, The opposite is also true, it's like the anticipation of Christmas, December is the magical month, but once Christmas is there, the anticipation starts fading away, even if the day isn't over yet.
While I might be wrong, it seems logical that the experience of nothing is self-exclusing and thus - impossible. Hence, there can never be complete lack of wxperience. And when the dissolution of self occurs and you are back when you were before conceptipn, just as your consciousness assembled, a new one will. And while it won't be you it at tge same time kinda...will.
wow, I was waiting for your punch line to diss this theory of consciousness and dislike this video and unsubscribe from your channel. thank you for your contribution to this awareness! you nudged me to start my own channel to make this truth more mainstream
I had a near death experience as a child. I remember a bright light and a feeling of "going home" and absolute lovely love. I was turned away and came back. But that feeling brings tears to my eyes every time I think of it. Dying is going home, but it's a scary journey. I don't want to go back there yet, I want to see what happens next. But I know that whenever it happens, I will be going "home".
एकोSहं बहूस्याम (ekoham bahusyam: I am one and want to become many). अहं ब्रह्मास्मि (ahaM bhrahmasmi: I am the brahma/universe), ब्रह्मसत्यंजगन्मिथ्या (brahmasatyaM jaganmithya: me is truth, the material world is illusion) Are the extracts from ancient texts from Bharat.
wow esta es la justa conclusión a la que llego en esas noches de insomio. si mis atomos tienen la edad del universo entonces yo tengo la edad del universo. somos el universo!
So is this information your giving based on actual bias from a near death experience that you had Or is this information based on actual science information. Are you a scientist and if not where do you get your information? I’m genuinely interested. I’m not closed minded but I’m skeptical.
vey interesting content here... nice to see someone without a man bun tackling these topics. A lot of the Alan Watts stuff really does feel more like fringe science when you really break it down. Its a very empowering way of viewing our individual and collective reality. Maybe once these ideas become more popular we can start folding god back into the theory and really start to understand our 'universe'.
The Big Bang. If you think of the infinite multiverse as a series of membranes as in our universe there are black holes as black holes get bigger they pull in the entirety of all elements and forces so logic dictates that as the size of the black hole increases it will pull in other galaxies and smaller black holes eventually as a whirlpool empties a bathtub the energy of the black holes it may eventually be sufficient to make contact with another membrane on contact makes all that stuff instantly transfers to that membrane which will appear as a big bang in that membrane. So all the stuff may recombine in some way
Scott, I have been on a journey of discovery which takes me from a cell in our evolved body via the Eukaryotic period, back to the origin. You articulate the complexity beautifully
Some of the things you are saying are exactly what I have been thinking the last couple of years. It makes some sense, and the fact that there are people out there that come to the same conclusions as each other independently suggests that we are not only similar of mind and thought, but perhaps even connected more than that. I think religion and science are not that different from each other, people are trying to interpret phenomena that goes beyond reasoning and explanation. Ultimately both our ideas of scientific theories and religion themselves are fundamentally the same in the belief that after we die we return from whence we came. We return to our makers side, or we return to becoming a single entity, but either way you are returning to what came before existence. If God created existence, then we are returning to God and he decides what to do with us. If we were all one, then we are returning to that singularity...or perhaps we are dividing into like-minded existences? Regardless, I believe that life, our own lives specifically, is not a matter of chance. We did not simply come into existence at random, sure we can't choose the situation of our birth, but at some point we decided to join this place we know as reality. Just as you say that the Universe started as a conscious decision, so to was our existence on this planet. Whatever we were before wanted to know what it felt like to live. If you imagine hearing about a fun new video game that a friend is telling you about, you can hear about it and choose whether or not to get involved with it but you will never know for sure what it is like until you jump in and give it a try for yourself. Your parents decided to have a child, but if you did not wish to give life a try someone else would be here in your place. This is the explanation I have come up with as to why I was born during this time and not sooner, because I was content with not being a part of reality for a long time, and I came here later than others.
But the mind dies when the brain dies. So your individual consciousness does not survive after you die. As you suggested, we are as conscious as we were before we were born, which means: not conscious at all.
LSD disconnects the conductor from the nueronal symphony and allows the user to enter a slip-stream where the sensation of time and space no longer present. You can touch the universal consciousness by experiencing an ego-death.
Each human being, and possibly even animals, is an autonomous unit of consciousness. But each unit is the manifestation of one single energy of the universe becoming conscious. While the consciousness of the Universe is fractured, the Universe builds capabilities to survive the death of its units. How? By storing knowledge, and sharing it. In a sense, each human being who contributes to creating and sharing knowledge participates in establishing the wisdom of the Universe. And each human being who learns from the knowledge pool becomes a part of the wise Universe.
Very nice Ideas! But Alan Watts is a mystic: his statements are unverifiable. When younger I consumed anything that he had written. Magnificent thinker, member of the '60s Esalen group. Also the big bang, although you make a wonderful example of emergence of consciousness in parallel with the emergence of space, gravity and time, it is but a wonderful and very attractive thought, an unverifiable wish. However the present scientific thinking is now putting in doubt that the universe began with a singularity ( Einstein did not believe it and now others are questioning this model- see Penrose). We have a very limited understanding on how th universes is evolving...but consciousness, if it is only a context of an inner experience (if I got this right) is still an unsolvable problem, in spite of what others think (Anil Seth, Bononi et al. and many others) We can only look at consciousness through a mirror, never at consciousness directly, as it is a personal inner experience. The analysis of brain function is reductionist (a mathrmatical model) and does not realise that when you integrate different parts of the brain, new capabilities and qualities emerge which we fail to see: "the total is greater than the sum of it's parts" We continue knowing what we do not know...
If the world as we know it is an ocean of consciousness then why are we as humans practically trapped within our own minds. Maybe sympathy does not exist outside in the universe and just in our heads, along with hell. I am subjectivity itself. I am the viewer. We are trapped in plato's cave with the only means of escape being to obey and conduct myself into the viewing of the images on the cave wall. How are you meant to leave the cave, when we are it. FUNNILY enough the very IDEA of plato's cave yet another representation of our inability to leave the cave. The idea itself was a partaking in the viewing of the lights on the wall. I guess this is the reason I have discovered all of this because I have used one of my brain's fail-safes to become dissociated in the past. Is this the true exit of the cave? To completely and utterly disconnect myself from reality. To turn off the switch of my own perception and let automation take over? The cave wall is what blocks me from something greater than heaven.
If we are part of the universe becoming aware of itself wouldn't we all be connected as in we would be able to communicate telepathically with each other? It seems to me we all would be connected this way being parts of the whole. 🤔
We do communicate in all sorts of ways. Just think about the magic of talking. One person's brain has an idea, flaps their tongue and lungs and then vibrations carried through a gas of nitrogen, oxygen and carbon somehow transmit the message to another brain while also altering it's makeup. It's freaking magic.
You're thinking too basically about it. The reason why the singularity, (the universe as one single point of everything and nothing at the same "time", even though time doesn't exist yet) was because that's the only thing that can happen. You can have 1 or 0 or you can have infinity, which is the same, really. If you were to somehow be able to observe the universe from the outside (you can't), it would look like an infinite cycle of explosion/expansion and collapse back into a single entity. Happens in rapid succession, but because time doesn't exist outside of the universe it's basically everything and nothing at the same time. Time exists only as a concept of relativity, and to have relativity you have to have stuff and distance for it to be relative to each other. So basically "God", in the sense that it's everything all at once, wanted to experience itself, so the Big Bang happened. And it will continue to happen over and over again. It's also only happened once, and it has also happened an infinite number of times. It will also continue to happen indefinitely, and this is also the last time it will happen. So when "we" "die", you just go back to the larger whole. "You" as a separate entity do stop to "exist", at least in isolation, or separation to other things, but the energy that you are continues.
This is a great video. Too many points here to be discussed on a simple comment. I dedicated my entire life to study everything I could. For some years, I have studied Krishnamurti, Eckhart Tolle, Sadhguru, and several other eastern philosophers, mystics, sages... There's a confluence to the idea that we are consciousness, and that the universe is progressively gaining consciousness of itself, or the universe is consciousness per se. We never know if these ideas are true, we can only present them, or believe, until science could prove them. But these are very thought provoking ideas. 🎉🎉❤
Yes. An important point. The ideas I have here are not science. They're faith based on what we know of science. But the ideas themselves are beyond what you will find in a peer-reviewed paper. And that's a good thing. The domains can be separate.
As I laughed out loud at one point I just thought I'd drop a note that Alan Watts was not a "great American mystic" , but a great English Philosopher. He didn't move to America until he was 23. Once I note this glaring inaccuracy it casts doubt upon everything else you said , even though I intuitively agree with it on first listen. Perhaps a little research before committing it to video for a decade or two to come hmmm?
Some very intriguing thoughts here which do make sense to me. On a side note though, I'd appreciate it if you made it more clear that most of this is theory/speculative.
Likely mostly correct, though there are entropic echoes that can be amplified by ongoing ritual action of those left behind. Case in point, the deifications of Jesus, John the Baptizer, and L. Ron Hubbard by their followers. Consciousness is just a part of the human being.
When you die your consciousness dies and you are in a new unfamiliar place and you freak out kinda and get reincarnated so if u learn out of body experience u can become familiar with that new place and cultivate it so when u die u don't freak out and u can stop reincarnation thats my understanding could be wrong please check out ken wheeler
We're born to live and live to die. When we die we become alive again and as a baby we're having dreams of what we just left in our past life but forget it when we start excepting this one. Some of us remember our past life some agree to leave it behind. The gods created us equally in their image and God is alien. With over a billion Galaxies its hard to think we just become non existent but jump to a different world in another universe and never see this one again.
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man thank you that was a beautiful way to put it and it’s great i’ve just been having a lot of anxiety about death but thinking of it as going back into the soup is kinda comforting
I was 17 when I discovered how this is all a reflection of eternity. Sometimes I think it was a bit too early but sometimes im grateful for it.
Same I was 17, back in 2020 quarantine when we had a lot of free time to think and contemplate, when I came to a reflexion that death feels the same as it did before birth. This video kind of helps flesh out that idea.
I was 11 when I had this realization. I'm 33 now. You were just the right age:) I broke my brain trying to parse my parents' religion along with these ideas of eternity.
You'll do well in the long-term having settled these questions early, though. Realizing our fragility is a gift - no one actually wants to live forever, that's the worst nightmare one could imagine.
and still everything is impermanent
Row, row, row your boat Gently down the stream, Merrily merrily, merrily, merrily Life is but a dream...🎶
You noticed that too, eh?
Thank you for bringing Alan Watts for more people, I'm a huge fan of his work and I believe he is one of the greatest philosopher of all time and very under appreciated, I think he is a legend
Do you know Krishnamurti, Eckhart Tolle and Sadhguru also ? They are really masters. 🎉🎉❤
@@DihelsonMendonca I heard Alan Watts mention Krishnamurti, but I haven't heard of the other ones, I will definitely do some research into their work and learn more, thank you for sharing
@@One-Up I mean no detrimental, but Alan Watts comes from Krishnamurti and others, but K. as we refers to him is deeper, original, blunt...When you hear Krishnamurti, you notice that you're listening to one of the most intelligent being that ever walked on earth. He's sometimes difficult to understand, but he has the power to make you see things as you never saw before. He changed my life. Eckhart Tolle is one of the greatest spiritual teachers of this century. I think you'll love Eckhart Tolle since the first video. He has an extreme compassion like Alan Watts, but up to date. He's passionate, because, like Krishnamurti , he's enlightened, humble, he makes your mood lifting, he tell many jokes, he seems to know everything. I get tears in my eyes when he speaks sometimes. Sadhguru is enlightened also. He completes the "truth". He's an incredible, understandable master that know how to teach, and build a discourse instantaneously, so that everybody is touched by his words. A very charismatic person who attracts several millions of followers throughout the world. I listen to them on TH-cam. Krishnamurti has about 3000 videos online, He was born in 1895 and died in 1986. In the 6 years before his death, he used to talk about our time, when machines would take over, artificial intelligence, computers, and how could we deal and grow spiritually despite that. A visionary man. In the XX century, he was considered the master of the spiritual masters, although his first teaching is that there's no spiritual gurus. According to him, each one of us should find the truth, there's no authorities on spiritual matters, he himself is just a mirror which asks and points to some directions, but we only, can discover if it's true or false, a concept that you won't see in any other. "Truth is a pathless land"... Eckhart Tolle has his own channel. He focuses on the inner self, on the real self, on the present moment, and in the presence, consciousness. Almost everything is about teaching that we are part of the great consciousness of the universe. Sadhguru is everything about life. 🙏👍❤️❤️❤️🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶
@@One-Up Eckhart Tolle and Sadhguru are after Alans time. Eckhart Tolle is the author of "The Power of Now" and a present day advocate of conscious expansion. Sadhguru, on the other hand is a more of a loud and insistent Hindu "guru" who has the irritating habit of blending mind expanding informative guidance followed by closed minded judgemental insistence that you reach the conclusion he tells you to (never allowing you to reach your own realisation) leading to cognitive dissonance I cannot recommend. Reach your own conclusion I'm just sharing an experience.
@@DihelsonMendoncasadhguru is a puppet
Whenever you actualize the universe, it's the universe actualizing itself.
Prove it!
@@Anarchy-Is-Liberty There is a mutual dependence between the perceiver and the environment. YOU are the stuff of the universe. Your very cellular structure acts in sync with the universe. Inhaling, exhaling, eating and digestion is a part of the machinery of the universe. So whenever you look up at the stars of the universe, it's the universe actualizing itself.Its just another way of looking at things.
@@justinscrivner5457 so does the universe have an ego? lol sorry that was really cool by the way just had to make a joke.
Yes... was it Carl Sagan who said, "The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”
We are collapsing quantum states down, perhaps in a universe, perhaps in a multiverse which is the realization of every possible value of quantum state collapse result. We are literally the universe's way of simultaneously creating and exploring itself.
@@justinscrivner5457 in that case, shouldn't be everything orbit our planet? Shouldn't be scientists always correct about everything they say about stars, planets, galaxies,...?
You are a lovely man Scott. You wear your heart on your sleeve philosophically, and it's refreshing. If I'm the universe becoming aware of itself, everything has a headache this morning. Weeks of smoke in the PNW have really taken a toll. The rain arrived today but I'm struggling to make myself go. Your video has good energy I need. Thank you.
Thanks! I hope the smoke clears up soon.
The mysteries of consciousness encompass absolutely everything.
“The universe is organized.” (The observation we gained with JWST) Things interacting with things, at any scale, gives emergence to consciousness. This video is even better than anything I could describe! I talked about a “fluid computer”, and the Boltzmann Brain with a few people I know. How can consciousness have thought, when it is not incarnated in human form? (Or any brain/computer) The idea of somehow existing beyond my mortal body is something I don’t think I can ever truly feel and believe, but I continue to know and understand it anyway.
You only think because you have language and a body to separate yourself from everything else. Without a body there is no you as you are everything. Without language or a brain the you that is everything is just a sea of potentiality and in an infinite universe, its only a matter of time before you become you- again and again in every potential form and possibility, aka everything and everyone else, all at once for eternity.
This is exactly my idea. It's inconceivable, in my opinion, that when we die we just enter an eternal, deep, thoughtless, imageless sleep. It would mean the end of reality, since reality can only be experienced subjectively, and reality just can't end. I believe exactly the same as you say: our human consciousness, when we die, just returns to where it came from, to a universal level of universal consciousness. And I won't even rule out the possibility of a new "collapse" into a single, material, embodied consciousness, i.e. a rebirth. Since I've come to this conclusion, I have much less fear of death. Of course, being a human, I'm scared of a slow or painful death, and I'm saddened at the idea of leaving all my loved ones, but... that's just my humanly dimensioned brain that suggests me this thought, thinking the only way it's able to. But I'm pretty sure that when my time to go to the other side will come, I will not miss anyone, because I will return to being everyone.
Try LSD
I think you misunderstood what the youtuber meant my man.
The man is not saying you're going to think and see stuff after you die, that's silly religious indoctrination and wishful thinking creeping in. Your thoughts and experiential ability are a product of your uniquely oriented living neurons (which will be dust) shaking hands. Of course you won't miss anyone, because 'you' will no longer exist. The energy that is you, however, will dissipate back into the ether. It's not an experience - it's a function. Death is like dreamless sleep, natural to fear, but nothing to be afraid of.
@@Ryan-ob6gp the man is talking about consciousness, non energy.
Honest Q. You said the singularity created itself and, "That act of creation, was also a decision." Decisions require time. Time didn't exist before the big bang. So how does that work in your hypothesis?
Oh man. This is an amazing question that is going to send me into an existential crisis.
This is awesome! I discovered your channel tonight. I’ve been searching for a channel that could answer the questions that I didn’t know that I had. I searched your name on Google to learn more about your books and where to buy a copy and I noticed that we share a birthday. Hahaha wild!
Welcome aboard. Cancers FTW.
The Isekai Theory: if the universe is going to go through every possible arrangement of information before it ends, then when you die, you could potentially link with an alternate reality version of yourself that doesn't die, leading you along your own longest personal timeline while to others you are killed here and that's the end of it. This implies that every potential death is a branch in your personal timeline, and you could therefore end up in a completely different instance of the universe at each fork in the road. If you look at yourself as a much larger collective entity with extra-dimensional structure across all of time, that means that every person will likely have their own "iterative archetypes" which are specific paths through the branching structure of timelines that lead to a specific outcome of the contained awareness of the "self" down here only aware of three dynamic spacial dimensions. There is a version of you that lives the best possible life from the beginning to the end. There is a version of you that lives as long as you ever possibly could, whatever that may mean. There is even a version of you that experiences something incredibly cosmically improbable that spits in the face of modern science because it simply doesn't happen often enough to be recorded and studied. If the universe is big enough and long enough, you as a higher dimensional being could become anything you can imagine yourself being, and I could too. We all could. And the world itself, if not reality as a whole.
I have had this exact same thought and tried to express it to others. Yet it never resonated with anyone. This is the first I have ever heard anyone else with the same thought.
@@christophersnyder9232 And now more people will have it. Let's see what the human hivemind can do with this one!
That adds a temporal, sequential component to ourselves. That doesn't really make sense. We are multidimensional shapes in the multiverse of all possibilities with fuzzy boundaries (because a me in one universe might be vastly different from a me in another universe). All of them are likely happening at once. I am just the universe right now choosing to experience this entity in this state, although in reality, the multiverse it the entire collection, and experience goes right out the window. The important thing to remember is that this is seemingly contradictory to our daily experiences but for those of us who have reached enlightenment, it isn't an uncommon thought.
Reality is incredible: horrifying and beauatiful, and everything else.
I have been thinking about this for years. I think its called Quantum suicide theory or something like that
Okay, this is wild. I've had this theory in my head since I was like 13. I thought I made it up. I said that's how deja vu ties into things, like we already lived it out in our previous timeline but in this timeline, this alternate existence, it hadn't happened yet and so we experienced it again.
Great stuff, thanks for the videos! I once read a signboard in a dark dream I had that said Consciousness Predates the Universe: All is Transmission and Receiving ! ! I wrote it down upon waking as I often do with my dreams in the notebook I keep next to my futon. Keep thinking about that often. Maybe everything, all matter, has the ability to receive and become conscious, and as matter evolves into more complex states of being, the consciousness becomes more elaborate and complex !
I've been listening to a podcast called Crash Course Pods The Universe and have really been enjoying the dialogue between the more philosophical John Green and a very smart physicist who explains the craziness of this whole thing.
I believe consciousness is a means to sift through stimuli and concentrate on one or the other.
"We don't know" would have sufficed. but we have to pass the time anyway.
As a Kardecist Spiritualist we were told the following; The material body and the astral body are not the same obviously, as it is less materialized than the one typing this keyboard. What anchors the immaterial body to this is a thing we call "per-spirit" which is a semi-material body, often called "plastic mediator" between the body and the soul. How your death will be pretty much depends on how you treated that invisible organ.
It is said for example that when someone committed suicide, the per-spirit wasn't ready from the cocoon that is the body - it never experienced life until the end of its length. The effects are said to be very unpleasant and may take a lot of time for the suicidal individual to recover in the after life. Dying of age or disease is said to be the least painful or discomforting, because the per-spirit was already aware of the end of our batteries - an example to make it sound better. But not all natural deaths are so different. Some non-suicide individuals can relate the same effects to a medium messenger, like suicidal individuals. This is due a per-spirit that never de-materialized enough before death. Although the average death is easier to work with and treat, than suicide. High vibration individuals, non materialistic or simply the good people can have a much less troublesome departing due a less heavy per-spirit. Death by accident is not so different from the examples cited above, and not all suicidal will suffer the same effect, but why? Because it is unequivocally, at the individual's end of how expanded and de-materialized he/she is.
I don't mean to sound bad against anyone but you're not the universe, directly speaking. You're an integral part of it, you and me, just like a grain of sand that composes the beach or an atom that composes a bar of metal. Your consciousness however, is, part of a webbing of thoughts. (spiritism was teaching us somewhat about quantum mechanics in the earlier 20th century) I'd say, take care of what you say since words have a lot of power, take care of your mind since your soul depends on it to evolve, and take care of your body, your utmost important tool to achieve all that.
What happens or how death will be on the afterwards, will be in the end of the day, a reflection of how you lived your life. But worry nothing. Doesn't matter what sphere you end up to, there is treatment and 100% of it is volunteered by souls so good, they need to pretend they're not made of light.
I definitely had this sensation of a connection being made with the universe when I was with my father when he died in hospital.
It was unexpected and strange - it felt science fictional - like he was in a high tech cradle being safely delivered back into the universe at the speed of light. I was kind of tingling with the whole awesomeness of what I had just witnessed.
It took a while for the reality to sink in, and the rest of the day turned into a black comedy when his carer's dog died 3 hours afterwards...
i need more of these videos, i'm still afraid of death, having panic attacks and looking for a God to save me from this situation
The universe continues to grow, perhaps the forces that align our consciousness do so as well.
Perhaps the afterlife is like a mini-bang amongst the system - back into the source.
Some try to push a more arrogant nihilistic view of death as an ultimatum yet perpetual infinite growth of the universe beckons otherwise. At-least from a linear perspective of time, step outside of the timeline itself and all kinds of laws and limitations of the universe change and expand, perhaps webs of possibilities and potentials like the multiverse theory.
Engaging curiosity of our existence seems to be much more in our nature and evolution compared to a nihilism of everything.
A system capable of rendering consciousness perhaps from that of its own makes sense with a lot of the religious interpretations often aligning with this pattern.
Well said.
maby we live in an gigavers eor an omniverse ?
Beware the person who tells you they know the furniture arrangement in heaven.
This is too much information wow, its actually so interesting to think about
Congratulations. You hit the point in my head. Finally someone putting together the Alan Watts wisdom down to the regular guy who tries to explain himself the world around him. Why is a pleasure to listen to you? - because while doing so I don't feel a single bit of conflict between what you're saying and what I think. And I don't know, it might be down to the algorithm, but I am always searching, never letting it show me what to see. You've got my deepest admiration for not touching the filthy topics of religion, while being more spiritual than most of their "goats". Thanks.
Scott quoted Alan Watts! Hahaha see I keep bringing up Buddhism in your comment section for a reason :-) Alan is awesome because he sort of combined Early Buddhism (Theravada), Zen (Mahayana), Dzogchen (Vajrayana), Advaita Vedanta, and even Abrahamic and Indigenous spiritual traditions all into one realm of understanding. Super interesting character. Oh, almost forgot Taoism.
I love Andrew watts. Such a hero.
Well, even if there is a void, you made it sound way more peaceful.
Most people think
Great God will come from the sky
Take away everything
And make everybody feel high
But if you know what life is worth
You would look for yours on earth
And now a you see the light
You stand up for your right
Jah!
Cool my fear of death is because I don’t want to be unconscious forever, I’m afraid of the void, but from what I’m gathering I don’t have to worry about that. I will be conscious just in a different way I hope. So death isn’t really dying. It’s more like a tree, growing, bigger, and longer branches.
There is going to be a problem, locating any sort of information of where we came from or how the universe started because black holes create universes time moves in multiple directions dimensions weave throughout each other. So you may think you have some answers and a solid point in speaking about a big bang but I’m telling you you’re wrong we know nothing when it comes to the origin of the universe or consciousness.
Only just come across you,I like your content and I shall work my way through your vids. Interesting that scientists have realised that the universe is constructed in a very similar way to the brain. I also am a big fan of Alan Watts, I also admire Rupert Sheldrake,both embrace aincent Eastern philosophies
I have been struggling with a sense of purpose, a sense of why are we here, what is consciousness etc. Its like an itch I just cant scratch and its really tearing me up inside to be honest, if I bring the topics up with friends I usually just get scoffed/laughed at especially because it feels like I have a hard time accessing the proper information in my head and putting the right words together. So I just have been watching a lot theories about how the universe began, how time/gravity works, dimensions etc. Its honestly what occupies my brain most of the time, my job is kind of mindless and I have a lot of time to sort of reflect on things, I have a lot of regrets in life and death/reincarnation have been on my mind lately. (Not suicidal, yet at least lol but im still working on things.) And I dont know it was hard to write into words what I was thinking but this theory sort does a pretty good job of it. I will have to do some more research. Thank you for the great videos man!
Yes you go right way. I had an experience too then I found Ramana Maharishi teachings and that's it !!
Interesting, I've just started my spiritual journey. We are all the universe. Trying to learn as much as i can.
The universe was bored, and thus decided to birth itself into existence. That’s my head canon because it’s funny.
That is actually quite close to the Tantric path I practise.
That’s a wonderful thing for my mind to ponder🤩 Thank you Scott 🙏. I definitely need to start letting my mind loose🤣
Have a great day buddy!!!
Simply awesome.👏👏
It's a very soothing idea that we can't solve death if we can t explain birth.
Maybe our big bang was the end of a previous universe that expanded until it burst, rearranging everything for new types of life forms to evolve. Idk 😂 just a thought.
They call that the Big Bounce theory. Maybe.
@@sgcarney I'll look into that. Thx
@@sgcarneyis the universe one of many? Like for example, all the bubbles in a bubble bath.
Holy shit my dude. It's what I've been thinking since many years, but I had trouble putting it into words...
since no time has passed in the moment of Creation. For time does not begin until the the big ban occurs. once are body no longer function. Does our consciousness returns to that moment. From there I wonder if we can return to anytime and anywhere?
It’s almost as if conscious multiplies. A bit like AI, each part developing a mind of its own. The separateness is created through the brain, when we die we become one with the light again, the earth is forgotten and all that exists is pure bliss…. Who knows what happens after that 🤷♀️, it’s all so spectacularly amazing.
Brilliant insight!! Love your channel bro, just one thing t ol.... Alan watts was English not American,
My bad
5:42, The opposite is also true, it's like the anticipation of Christmas, December is the magical month, but once Christmas is there, the anticipation starts fading away, even if the day isn't over yet.
Gah! So eloquent. Thank you for this.
The way you speak gives me hope I can articulate my own thoughts.
While I might be wrong, it seems logical that the experience of nothing is self-exclusing and thus - impossible. Hence, there can never be complete lack of wxperience. And when the dissolution of self occurs and you are back when you were before conceptipn, just as your consciousness assembled, a new one will. And while it won't be you it at tge same time kinda...will.
Einstein: "I believe in the God of Spinoza."
We are all cells in the corpus dei.
wow, I was waiting for your punch line to diss this theory of consciousness and dislike this video and unsubscribe from your channel. thank you for your contribution to this awareness! you nudged me to start my own channel to make this truth more mainstream
Beautiful.......
I had a near death experience as a child. I remember a bright light and a feeling of "going home" and absolute lovely love. I was turned away and came back. But that feeling brings tears to my eyes every time I think of it. Dying is going home, but it's a scary journey. I don't want to go back there yet, I want to see what happens next. But I know that whenever it happens, I will be going "home".
We are all just the universe experiencing itself.
एकोSहं बहूस्याम (ekoham bahusyam: I am one and want to become many). अहं ब्रह्मास्मि (ahaM bhrahmasmi: I am the brahma/universe), ब्रह्मसत्यंजगन्मिथ्या (brahmasatyaM jaganmithya: me is truth, the material world is illusion) Are the extracts from ancient texts from Bharat.
Beautiful 😍
Awww the universe is a little baby!
wow esta es la justa conclusión a la que llego en esas noches de insomio. si mis atomos tienen la edad del universo entonces yo tengo la edad del universo. somos el universo!
So is this information your giving based on actual bias from a near death experience that you had Or is this information based on actual science information. Are you a scientist and if not where do you get your information? I’m genuinely interested. I’m not closed minded but I’m skeptical.
“I” is just a point of reference! It has no intrinsic meaning or value beyond that.
John 3:16
Our consciousnesses are stars in the universe.
vey interesting content here... nice to see someone without a man bun tackling these topics. A lot of the Alan Watts stuff really does feel more like fringe science when you really break it down. Its a very empowering way of viewing our individual and collective reality. Maybe once these ideas become more popular we can start folding god back into the theory and really start to understand our 'universe'.
The Big Bang. If you think of the infinite multiverse as a series of membranes as in our universe there are black holes as black holes get bigger they pull in the entirety of all elements and forces so logic dictates that as the size of the black hole increases it will pull in other galaxies and smaller black holes eventually as a whirlpool empties a bathtub the energy of the black holes it may eventually be sufficient to make contact with another membrane on contact makes all that stuff instantly transfers to that membrane which will appear as a big bang in that membrane. So all the stuff may recombine in some way
That’s not quite how black holes work. The gravity is balanced by the vast distances and the inverse square law.
Scott, I have been on a journey of discovery which takes me from a cell in our evolved body via the Eukaryotic period, back to the origin. You articulate the complexity beautifully
Some of the things you are saying are exactly what I have been thinking the last couple of years. It makes some sense, and the fact that there are people out there that come to the same conclusions as each other independently suggests that we are not only similar of mind and thought, but perhaps even connected more than that. I think religion and science are not that different from each other, people are trying to interpret phenomena that goes beyond reasoning and explanation. Ultimately both our ideas of scientific theories and religion themselves are fundamentally the same in the belief that after we die we return from whence we came. We return to our makers side, or we return to becoming a single entity, but either way you are returning to what came before existence. If God created existence, then we are returning to God and he decides what to do with us. If we were all one, then we are returning to that singularity...or perhaps we are dividing into like-minded existences? Regardless, I believe that life, our own lives specifically, is not a matter of chance. We did not simply come into existence at random, sure we can't choose the situation of our birth, but at some point we decided to join this place we know as reality. Just as you say that the Universe started as a conscious decision, so to was our existence on this planet. Whatever we were before wanted to know what it felt like to live. If you imagine hearing about a fun new video game that a friend is telling you about, you can hear about it and choose whether or not to get involved with it but you will never know for sure what it is like until you jump in and give it a try for yourself. Your parents decided to have a child, but if you did not wish to give life a try someone else would be here in your place. This is the explanation I have come up with as to why I was born during this time and not sooner, because I was content with not being a part of reality for a long time, and I came here later than others.
The truest words I have ever read 😌
Alan watts was English. Nice video though ❤
Yes, good point. I'm not totally sure what I said in this video, but I usually think of him from his years in California.
But the mind dies when the brain dies. So your individual consciousness does not survive after you die. As you suggested, we are as conscious as we were before we were born, which means: not conscious at all.
Pseudo scientific spiritualism is new age snake oil. but placebo is also real, for some it is going to be comforting.
Alan Watts became American, but he was born in Southeast London. Just FYI.
Great!
row row, row your boat
gently down the stream,
merrily merrily merrily
life is but a ........ dream ?
LSD disconnects the conductor from the nueronal symphony and allows the user to enter a slip-stream where the sensation of time and space no longer present. You can touch the universal consciousness by experiencing an ego-death.
The Big Bang is being called into question nowadays
Ive realised i am the universe looking at itself on a few drug trips. It is now a known fact after experiencing everything possible in worless ways
Each human being, and possibly even animals, is an autonomous unit of consciousness. But each unit is the manifestation of one single energy of the universe becoming conscious. While the consciousness of the Universe is fractured, the Universe builds capabilities to survive the death of its units. How? By storing knowledge, and sharing it. In a sense, each human being who contributes to creating and sharing knowledge participates in establishing the wisdom of the Universe. And each human being who learns from the knowledge pool becomes a part of the wise Universe.
How unspeakably imaginative and - indeed - copernican! What should one make then of your other productions…?
well said Sam.
Freaking awesome - I'm hanging on your every word - love it! Thank you
Very nice Ideas! But Alan Watts is a mystic: his statements are unverifiable. When younger I consumed anything that he had written. Magnificent thinker, member of the '60s Esalen group. Also the big bang, although you make a wonderful example of emergence of consciousness in parallel with the emergence of space, gravity and time, it is but a wonderful and very attractive thought, an unverifiable wish. However the present scientific thinking is now putting in doubt that the universe began with a singularity ( Einstein did not believe it and now others are questioning this model- see Penrose). We have a very limited understanding on how th universes is evolving...but consciousness, if it is only a context of an inner experience (if I got this right) is still an unsolvable problem, in spite of what others think (Anil Seth, Bononi et al. and many others) We can only look at consciousness through a mirror, never at consciousness directly, as it is a personal inner experience. The analysis of brain function is reductionist (a mathrmatical model) and does not realise that when you integrate different parts of the brain, new capabilities and qualities emerge which we fail to see: "the total is greater than the sum of it's parts" We continue knowing what we do not know...
This all makes a lot of sense, but at the same time it doesn't make me feel any better about my own death...
There was no big bang in the first place.
If the world as we know it is an ocean of consciousness then why are we as humans practically trapped within our own minds. Maybe sympathy does not exist outside in the universe and just in our heads, along with hell.
I am subjectivity itself. I am the viewer. We are trapped in plato's cave with the only means of escape being to obey and conduct myself into the viewing of the images on the cave wall. How are you meant to leave the cave, when we are it.
FUNNILY enough the very IDEA of plato's cave yet another representation of our inability to leave the cave.
The idea itself was a partaking in the viewing of the lights on the wall.
I guess this is the reason I have discovered all of this because I have used one of my brain's fail-safes to become dissociated in the past. Is this the true exit of the cave? To completely and utterly disconnect myself from reality. To turn off the switch of my own perception and let automation take over?
The cave wall is what blocks me from something greater than heaven.
If we are part of the universe becoming aware of itself wouldn't we all be connected as in we would be able to communicate telepathically with each other? It seems to me we all would be connected this way being parts of the whole. 🤔
We do communicate in all sorts of ways. Just think about the magic of talking. One person's brain has an idea, flaps their tongue and lungs and then vibrations carried through a gas of nitrogen, oxygen and carbon somehow transmit the message to another brain while also altering it's makeup. It's freaking magic.
You're thinking too basically about it. The reason why the singularity, (the universe as one single point of everything and nothing at the same "time", even though time doesn't exist yet) was because that's the only thing that can happen. You can have 1 or 0 or you can have infinity, which is the same, really. If you were to somehow be able to observe the universe from the outside (you can't), it would look like an infinite cycle of explosion/expansion and collapse back into a single entity. Happens in rapid succession, but because time doesn't exist outside of the universe it's basically everything and nothing at the same time. Time exists only as a concept of relativity, and to have relativity you have to have stuff and distance for it to be relative to each other. So basically "God", in the sense that it's everything all at once, wanted to experience itself, so the Big Bang happened. And it will continue to happen over and over again. It's also only happened once, and it has also happened an infinite number of times. It will also continue to happen indefinitely, and this is also the last time it will happen.
So when "we" "die", you just go back to the larger whole. "You" as a separate entity do stop to "exist", at least in isolation, or separation to other things, but the energy that you are continues.
This is a great video. Too many points here to be discussed on a simple comment. I dedicated my entire life to study everything I could. For some years, I have studied Krishnamurti, Eckhart Tolle, Sadhguru, and several other eastern philosophers, mystics, sages... There's a confluence to the idea that we are consciousness, and that the universe is progressively gaining consciousness of itself, or the universe is consciousness per se. We never know if these ideas are true, we can only present them, or believe, until science could prove them. But these are very thought provoking ideas. 🎉🎉❤
Yes. An important point. The ideas I have here are not science. They're faith based on what we know of science. But the ideas themselves are beyond what you will find in a peer-reviewed paper. And that's a good thing. The domains can be separate.
the same thing as what happens to every other animal.
Exactly.
So it simply means I don't exist.
As I laughed out loud at one point I just thought I'd drop a note that Alan Watts was not a "great American mystic" , but a great English Philosopher. He didn't move to America until he was 23. Once I note this glaring inaccuracy it casts doubt upon everything else you said , even though I intuitively agree with it on first listen. Perhaps a little research before committing it to video for a decade or two to come hmmm?
Some very intriguing thoughts here which do make sense to me. On a side note though, I'd appreciate it if you made it more clear that most of this is theory/speculative.
I need to listen to this again, but I usually give a heads up when I leave science behind me.
Everything is Everything
Where do the Big Rip and the "Heat Death of the Universe fit into this idea?
Likely mostly correct, though there are entropic echoes that can be amplified by ongoing ritual action of those left behind. Case in point, the deifications of Jesus, John the Baptizer, and L. Ron Hubbard by their followers. Consciousness is just a part of the human being.
Can we decouple the physical pain and the beauty of death?
La materia no se crea ni se destruye
Well said
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When you die your consciousness dies and you are in a new unfamiliar place and you freak out kinda and get reincarnated so if u learn out of body experience u can become familiar with that new place and cultivate it so when u die u don't freak out and u can stop reincarnation thats my understanding could be wrong please check out ken wheeler
Blaise Pascal said the universe observes himself in our brains?
Lol this sounds like Evangelion
So the major religions are right. We are all connected. We are one.
How dare we whine at our imminent return to our prior state of being.
We're born to live and live to die. When we die we become alive again and as a baby we're having dreams of what we just left in our past life but forget it when we start excepting this one. Some of us remember our past life some agree to leave it behind. The gods created us equally in their image and God is alien. With over a billion Galaxies its hard to think we just become non existent but jump to a different world in another universe and never see this one again.
Its as if the universe created us so it could experience itself
That sounds ... Lewd😂😂😂
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