The One As Many by Alan Watts

Alan Watts was one of the central figures who brought Zen and Eastern Thought to the West in the middle of the last century.  He had a way of breaking it down in such a way that the Western mind could see the incredibly practicality of much of this kind of thinking.

 

His more well-known books are "Nature, Man and the Nature of Man" and "The Book on the Taboo of Knowing Who You Are" and the one which I first read and really influenced me significantly, which was "The Nature of Insecurity".

 

In this 5 part lecture, Watts discusses the ancient Vedic wisdom that out of the one come many.  This has also been expressed as "Unity in Diversity".  We are each individual things but also part of something bigger, something Infinite, something some call "God" others call "The Universe" Native Americans call it "The Great Mystery" and in the Vedic traditions this oneness that is all encompassing is often simply called "OM".

 

The subject/object spit - as it is often referred to in the study of Quantum Physics, from a Vedic point of view is a trick of the mind.  Recently science is coming around to the possibility that this is so as well.  The phrase one hears more and more in these discussions is that "the observer is the observed".

 

Many of these talks were given to live audiences in the 1950's and 1960's.  Watts has a very interesting style of speaking that is both highly refined and completely laid back, bohemian, unorthodox and spontaneous.  If you're in a good head space to kind of just relax the mind and listen, there are many doors of possibility which Alan Watts has unique gift for opening in one's perception.  Enjoy this and many other Alan Watts videos in our video library he...

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