Inspire

In this talk, Alan Watts delves into the philosophical quandary of life's meaning, highlighting its absence as a source of human discontent. He examines religious, philosophical, and communal avenues that promise purpose. Childhood memories of theological concepts prompt scrutiny of existence's purpose and its potential as a symbolic representation. Alan contemplates biological urges as driving forces, questioning if they perpetually lead to progression. Theistic perspectives portray life's meaning as a divine presence, inviting philosophical exploration of love and yearning. Drawing from aesthetics, Watts considers "significance" as a nuanced term, arising in moments of internal tranquility. The philosophical exploration reaches its culmination as Alan Watts contemplates transcendent spiritual experiences where the self-evident significance of existence is embraced. If you like this video, please feel free to let me know by hitting the Like button and/or leaving a comment below. We love to INSPIRE you! @inspireAS

Man's main mission in life seems to be solving the problems of the world. Experience has shown, however, that when trying to find solutions for certain problems, we often create bigger ones. The challenge lies in finding solutions while realizing our superficial knowledge of ourselves as well as of the world we are trying to enhance. Our language and thinking systems are inadequate to grasp the world's complexity. We mistake symbols for reality. Our concept of self, or personality, is a misleading abstraction. This notion binds to bodily tension, creating a false sense of identity. Alan Watts suggests therefore putting first things first, thus reconnecting with reality and discarding the illusory ego. We'll then realize that we should better leave the world alone. If you like this video, please feel free to let me know by hitting the Like button and/or leaving a comment below. We love to INSPIRE you! @inspireAS

In this talk, Alan Watts questions the idea that God's nature must be strictly defined and suggests an alternative, fluid concept beyond the graven images of traditional religion. He displays how emotional associations often influence our understanding of God more than intellectual ideas and suggests reimagining the divinity in an opposite imagery: a black, feminine entity symbolizing the negative principle. This negativity is reevaluated as life-giving and essential for appreciating positive aspects that are vital for understanding existence. If you like this video, please feel free to let me know by hitting the Like button and/or leaving a comment below. We love to INSPIRE you! @inspireAS

Why do people perceive and react to the ever-changing nature of life in different ways. If some seek to be rational, analytical, and in control, while others value spontaneity, emotion, and fluidity, which approach could be more beneficial in the long run. Alan Watts addresses these very questions, challenging the mechanistic concept of the universe, and argues that it's just one way of looking at things. Consciousness may indeed exist even in inanimate objects and reality is more interconnected and fluid than a rigid mechanistic view implies. Life is just too alive, too vibrant, and too full of potential to be reduced to mere mechanics. What could be more open and more appreciative a perspective on the world?

What is the definition of the self? When we talk about the individual you and me and every other person or thing, we basically allocate a separate individual self to each one of them. What if the self is actually nothing of the sort? What if the self is actually one? Alan Watts dissects in this deeply insightful speech the basic concept of Iness, obliterating thus the illusory boundaries between the personal and cosmic I. If you like this video, please feel free to let me know by hitting the Like button and leaving a comment below. We love to INSPIRE you! @inspireAS

Alan Watts discusses in this speech one of the most fundamental questions of all: Is the human organism something separated from the universe in the sense that we perceive ourselves and the world around us? He explains how the illusory separation between the physical and the spiritual in our mind inevitably leads to the crisis of identity we basically undergo in this life experience. If you like this video, please feel free to let me know by hitting the Like button and/or leaving a comment below. And if you love inspirational high-quality mind stuff, you might want to subscribe to this channel. We love to INSPIRE you! @inspireAS

Alan Watts discusses here the concept of spontaneity, which is actually the way everything in nature is made and designed to function. He explains how therefore the lack of spontaneity is a direct product of the ego-driven human attitude to life, trying to control everything in it. If you like this video, please feel free to let me know by hitting the Like button and/or leaving a comment below. And if you love inspirational high-quality mind stuff, you might want to subscribe to this channel. We love to INSPIRE you! @inspireAS

The illusory nature of what we call "reality" has always been based on our visual perception. Thus, the intuitive conclusion that what is real, is what we see, seemed for millennia to be the most obvious postulate of logical thinking. Although a totally different point of view has been advocated by almost every spiritual tradition for many centuries, it has failed to go mainstream due to the materialistic indoctrination of the human mind. This false construct which seemed indestructible for centuries has been shaken to the core of its very fundaments by the findings of quantum physics in the 20th century. The energy-based nature of everything perceptible (so-called reality) depends fundamentally on the perceiver. Reality lies literally in the eyes of the beholder. The participatory nature of reality, although it has been a scientific fact for decades now, is still far from being part and parcel of our collective consciousness. This is because it represents such a quantum leap in understanding that most people barely try to contemplate it, let alone live by it. In this talk, Alan Watts displays his unparalleled ability to explain the explainable in a way that makes even the most challenging shift from such a deep-rooted psychological paradigm to a comprehensible, and thus workable concept seem as a simple task. If you like this video, please feel free to let me know by hitting the Like button and/or leaving a comment below. And if you love inspirational high-quality mind stuff, you might want to subscribe to this channel. We love to INSPIRE you! @inspireAS

One of the greatest misconceptions in traditional Christianity is the exclusive status of Jesus as the one and only son of God. A status to which nobody else should dare to aspire. Ignoring the fact that Jesus himself unequivocally stated the opposite of this idea was not only part and parcel of the fear-based ideology of the self-proclaimed gatekeepers of God, but also one of the most reliable mechanisms fostering the illusion of separation throughout the centuries. In this speech, Alan Watts shows no mercy in smashing that old idol that has survived for too long. He demonstrates how the illusion of being a finite entity that is separate from God is the very reason why we are desperately struggling to become something superior to what we think we are. If you like this video, please let me know by hitting the Like button and/or leaving a comment below. And if you love inspirational high-quality mind stuff, you might want to subscribe to this channel. We love to INSPIRE you! @InspireAS

In this speech, Alan Watts explains how trying to improve oneself or improve the world is not only of no avail, but never does work. This might sound outrageous at first glance for most people, but following Watts' reasoning, you easily realize his point. If you like this video, please feel free to let me know by hitting the Like button and/or leaving a comment below. And if you love inspirational high-quality mind stuff, you might want to subscribe to this channel. We love to INSPIRE you! @inspireAS

In this speech, Alan Watts explores the deep implications of intention within the fabric of thought and action. He displays thus how human action is basically preceded by overthinking and therefore barely spontaneous. If you like this video, please feel free to let me know by hitting the Like button and/or leaving a comment below. And if you love inspirational high-quality mind stuff, you might want to subscribe to this channel. We love to INSPIRE you! @inspireAS

The questions that haunt every spiritual seeker are often: What can I do to accelerate my journey? How can I reach enlightenment rather sooner than later? Which is the best spiritual practice do I have to embrace in order to be realized? Alan Watts' answer to all these questions is pretty sobering, yet his reasoning can only be disputed by those who still do not comprehend the most fundamental fact of the universe: Tat Tvam Asi. When you understand that you already are all that there is, you then inevitably see that there is nothing to pursue. If you like this video, please feel free to let me know by hitting the Like button and/or leaving a comment below. And if you love inspirational high-quality mind stuff, you might want to subscribe to this channel. We love to INSPIRE you! @inspireAS

If you like this video, please feel free to let me know by hitting the Like button and/or leaving a comment below. And if you love inspirational high-quality mind stuff, you might want to subscribe to this channel. We love to INSPIRE you! @inspireAS

On the path of spiritual development, every initiate comes to the point where he or she has to learn the most important lesson of all. This happens mostly rather later than sooner, and yet it never happens too late: There is nothing you can do to accelerate your spiritual journey. Keeping on trying couldn't help even the Buddha to attain enlightenment. It was in fact letting go of the personal will that brought about the final breakthrough. In this speech, Alan Watts elucidates this simple, yet obviously seldom-understood fact in his usually humorous and intriguing way. If you like this video, please feel free to let me know by hitting the Like button and/or leaving a comment below. And if you love inspirational high-quality mind stuff, you might want to subscribe to this channel. We love to INSPIRE you! @inspireAS

One of the principal idols Alan Watts was eager to smash was the idea of free will. The intrinsic human drive to control things and to claim authorship of one's thoughts and deeds is just too holy a shrine to approach. But Alan Watts wouldn't be Alan Watts if he wouldn't challenge even the most untouchable paradigms. In this speech, he explains in an unmistakable manner how the individual "I" as the actual power behind all that "happens" is but an illusion. If you like this video, please feel free to let me know by hitting the Like button and/or leaving a comment below. And if you love inspirational high-quality mind stuff, you might want to subscribe to this channel. We love to INSPIRE you! @inspireAS

Alan Watts addresses in this speech one of the main traits of the human psyche, man's obsession with the future. A closer look at our everyday life betrays the fact that all our actions, decisions, and thoughts, are basically future-oriented. We even tend to define our success in life in terms of how future-oriented we are but fail to realize thereby that living for the future implies a very high price that we seem to be willing to pay. That is to be dead for the present. If you like this video, please feel free to hit the Like button and to leave a comment below. And if you love inspirational high-quality mind stuff, you might want to subscribe to this channel. We love to INSPIRE you! @InspireAS

The dream of every single human being is to live a happy life without fear or anxiety. Most people think that to achieve this, they must first strive for economic success. What happens almost inevitably is when they achieve economic success, they realize that neither fear nor anxiety has disappeared. Rather, the opposite happens: They become more fearful of losing what they got and more anxious to get more of it. Alan Watts expounds on the concept of "the uncalculated life" - a life without plans for the future and therefore of total freedom. The very fact that such a concept is just too hard to accept in our society today betrays the predicament of our present 3D consciousness, caught within the limitations of sheer material possibilities and deprived of the boundless riches of infinity. If you like this video, please feel free to hit the Like button and to leave a comment below. And if you love inspirational high-quality mind stuff, you might want to subscribe to this channel. We love to INSPIRE you! @InspireAS

Alan Watts explores the question of self-love as the main motive behind every single aspect of human behavior. Realizing this should inevitably lead to the big question, "What do I want?". But answering this question requires answering another more existential question, "Who am I?", that is to say, who is the self that is wanting all that I want. What seems here to be a brain gym exercise that is hard to follow down to its philosophical conclusion makes perfect sense if only thought through. If you like this video, please feel free to let me know by hitting the Like button and/or leaving a comment below. And if you love inspirational high-quality mind stuff, you might want to subscribe to this channel. We love to INSPIRE you! @InspireAS

In this speech, Alan Watts explores the question of pain and the mechanisms of its manifestation in human life. While demonstrating the fact that pain as such is nothing but a mental reaction that arises from the fear of pain and our innate inability to go along with it, Alan Watts makes it clear that triumph over fear becomes possible when we realize that our strength lies in our weaknesses that we are trying to run from. If you like this video, please feel free to let me know by hitting the Like button and/or leaving a comment below. And if you love inspirational high-quality mind stuff, you might want to subscribe to this channel. We love to INSPIRE you! @InspireAS

This is another speech by Alan Watts in which the most renowned philosopher of the last decade explains some of the most characteristic patterns of human behavior: the curious tendency to praise or blame. If you like this video, please feel free to let me know by hitting the Like button and/or leaving a comment below. And if you love inspirational high-quality mind stuff, you might want to subscribe to this channel. We love to INSPIRE you! @InspireAS

The Truth is often discomforting at first glance, but more often liberating when thoroughly understood. This is what Alan Watts is doing in this speech. Obliterating the boundary between what happens in our lives and what we do, and explaining in a simple and yet fascinating way how the two are actually one and the same thing. If you like this video, please feel free to let me know by hitting the Like button and/or leaving a comment below. And if you love inspirational high-quality mind stuff, you might want to subscribe to this channel. We love to INSPIRE you! @InspireAS

One of the last bastions of the so-called logical thinking is the notion of causality. As a fundamental premise of the way we perceive anything that happens, it's almost inconceivable to question its legitimacy. In his typically straightforward manner of smashing idols, Alan Watts debunks the very fundament of causality as a mere illusion. Our conception of some events as causes and others as effects is rooted in our inability to recognize the fact that there are no separate events and that all events are mutually interdependent. Speaker: Alan Watts We Love to INSPIRE You! ​ @inspireAS

The illusion we seem to be unable to recognize is that we are stuck in the subject-object conception of ourselves in relation to the universe. What Alan Watts is doing in this speech is trying to demystify the fact that we are actually one with what we experience. Speaker: Alan Watts We Love to INSPIRE You! ​ @inspireAS

The idea that we might be talking to ourselves all the time seems somehow outlandish to most people. They assign such "abnormal behavior" basically to the insane, just because insane people talk to themselves loudly. But the so-called sane people do pretty much the same thing - the only difference is they are doing it silently. This is why ordinary consciousness is nothing but a widely accepted form of insanity, which is generally not defined as such because it represents the rule in our society. In this talk, Alan Watts expounds on what happens when we stop talking to ourselves. He explains how the past and future, the main denizens of our thoughts, just disappear. What remains is the mystical experience of the eternal now, of the ultimate reality. Something that, according to Watts, requires neither spiritual initiation nor the help of a guru, but can be accessed through deep contemplation in the state of no mind. Speaker: Alan Watts We Love to INSPIRE You! ​ @inspireAS

The way we perceive our organism (or any organism at all) as a single entity in an insecure environment betrays the selective - what Alan Watts accurately defines as the myopic - view of the universe. In this speech, Alan Watts explores the aspects of holistic perception. The kind of perception that sees the figure and the background as existentially belonging to and depending on each other. This is the “single eye” according to Jesus that doesn’t define space as an empty interval between so-called “things”, but rather as an essential component of the unified reality in which every single tiny event is indispensable for the entire organism of life as a whole. Speaker: Alan Watts We Love to INSPIRE You! ​ @inspireAS