Alan Watts - Atheist Spirituality

**SageTree** · 02-23-2010, 12:43 AM

This wasn't earth shattering, but I thought it was a fun way to hear about solid concepts.

YouTube - Alan Watts - Atheist Spirituality

**farmergiles** · 02-23-2010, 10:16 AM

I like the bit where he talks about people's sense of self and ego.

flappy · 02-23-2010, 10:25 AM

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**SageTree** · 02-23-2010, 10:38 AM

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Originally Posted by farmergiles

I like the bit where he talks about people's sense of self and ego.

I'm glad you enjoyed it. This guys a pretty interesting character. I really enjoy these youtube talks myself. When I sit down to smoke I like to throw on one with more than one part and kick back to listen. These are good beginners mind places he starts from and can really blow some dust off the ole' mind.

reverie · 02-23-2010, 10:22 PM

Haha that vid was cute, I love the prickly and gooey guys. "Go out of focus and everything goes blooahh" Haha Awesome. Alan Watts is phenomenal. His talks always center me regardless of what I seem to be going through at the time.

Ironically enough, a quote of his has been my most recent of musings "To go out of your mind- at least once a day, is tremendously important. Because by going out of your mind you come to your senses."

**SageTree** · 08-04-2010, 04:51 PM

still diggin it!!

**~~Dantastic~~** · 08-04-2010, 05:01 PM

Humphreys did not know him personally, but knew of him, via Crowley’s association with the Buddhist writer Alan Watts, who had previously been a member of an OTO-like sex magickal order in the 1930s

http://www.scribd.com/doc/8548131/Al...tury-in-Magick

LOL, all I had to do was look at the title of this thread to know there was a connection with the oto. Google helped.

**SageTree** · 08-04-2010, 05:15 PM

And then what else?

Ego Tripping · 08-09-2010, 06:01 PM

I have a 10 cd set of Alan Watts...he was amazing and so much of what we spoke of is now being reiterated amongst the 'new wave' of spirituality, ala' The Secret, Abraham-Hicks, Law of Attraction, etc..

Really awesome to see the pieces come together.

The_Jester · 08-10-2010, 05:07 PM

I feel like something was missing from that clip, like I loved it but there's one part I must have zoned out with the cartoons haha. in the part where he explains "everyone is out for themselves they don't care about you, etc, etc". Felt like something was missing in that section. So I'll watch it again in a second.

I love the ending though. "You were supposed to sing and dance". Cute stuff, I'm a fan of watts but nothing devout. Thanks for sharing as always

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farmergiles Yahookan Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: In My Fire Engine Posts: 7,134 Thanks: 2,040 Thanked 3,167 Times in 2,191 Posts	I like the bit where he talks about people's sense of self and ego. __________________ Cultivate a stoic calmness *Fuck the Monkeys*

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reverie Cruising Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Canada Posts: 1,422 Thanks: 29 Thanked 68 Times in 52 Posts	Haha that vid was cute, I love the prickly and gooey guys. "Go out of focus and everything goes blooahh" Haha Awesome. Alan Watts is phenomenal. His talks always center me regardless of what I seem to be going through at the time. Ironically enough, a quote of his has been my most recent of musings "To go out of your mind- at least once a day, is tremendously important. Because by going out of your mind you come to your senses." __________________ "For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly." -Gibran "Where there is cruise there is an escort of anti-cruise. But even in a bastion of anti-cruise fodder... there is cruise" -Levitch dissolve popular detachment

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SageTree ~Kalyāṇa-mitrā~ Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: In Love Posts: 22,612 Blog Entries: 26 Thanks: 11,486 Thanked 5,709 Times in 4,024 Posts	still diggin it!! __________________ YaHooka is.... Cannabis lovers from around the world pulling up a comfy chair, picking up a vaporizer, a bong, a brownie, a pipe, or a joint, getting high, stoned, buzzed or healthy. Uniting our minds in conversation...While Portraying a Positive Image of marijuana and marijuana users to the world. Treat your fellow YaHookans with kindness,respect and tolerance. "We're not here to judge what's good from bad, But to do the things that are right."

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SageTree ~Kalyāṇa-mitrā~ Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: In Love Posts: 22,612 Blog Entries: 26 Thanks: 11,486 Thanked 5,709 Times in 4,024 Posts	And then what else? __________________ YaHooka is.... Cannabis lovers from around the world pulling up a comfy chair, picking up a vaporizer, a bong, a brownie, a pipe, or a joint, getting high, stoned, buzzed or healthy. Uniting our minds in conversation...While Portraying a Positive Image of marijuana and marijuana users to the world. Treat your fellow YaHookans with kindness,respect and tolerance. "We're not here to judge what's good from bad, But to do the things that are right."

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Ego Tripping Are you in? Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 13,461 Thanks: 229 Thanked 657 Times in 438 Posts	I have a 10 cd set of Alan Watts...he was amazing and so much of what we spoke of is now being reiterated amongst the 'new wave' of spirituality, ala' The Secret, Abraham-Hicks, Law of Attraction, etc.. Really awesome to see the pieces come together. __________________ God appears, and God is light, To those poor souls who dwell in night; But does a human form display To those who dwell in realms of day.

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~~Dantastic~~ Banned Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: A suburb Posts: 1,095 Thanks: 285 Thanked 324 Times in 219 Posts	Humphreys did not know him personally, but knew of him, via Crowley’s association with the Buddhist writer Alan Watts, who had previously been a member of an OTO-like sex magickal order in the 1930s http://www.scribd.com/doc/8548131/Al...tury-in-Magick LOL, all I had to do was look at the title of this thread to know there was a connection with the oto. Google helped.

08-10-2010, 05:07 PM	#10 (permalink)
The_Jester The Fool Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 371 Thanks: 239 Thanked 178 Times in 98 Posts	I feel like something was missing from that clip, like I loved it but there's one part I must have zoned out with the cartoons haha. in the part where he explains "everyone is out for themselves they don't care about you, etc, etc". Felt like something was missing in that section. So I'll watch it again in a second. I love the ending though. "You were supposed to sing and dance". Cute stuff, I'm a fan of watts but nothing devout. Thanks for sharing as always __________________ In LOVING kindness, The forum fool.

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