Commentary on Alan Watts youtube video: “ Alan Watts is God for Ten Minutes”
1) Alan
Watts Video Text:
A
question from the audience: “If we are
all supposed to love each other, love will cease to exist because there is no
hate to contrast it.”
2) Bill
Schaeffer comment:
07:33 I
tend to think this statement represents a misunderstanding of love. To
me, love is “wanting to be” in the same "space" with someone (or
something) else. Love is the universal law of attraction. Love
has no real opposite, except possibly apathy or indifference.
Love is a force of attraction. There is no opposite to gravity, there is no opposite to light. Darkness is the absence of light, but darkness does not negate light.
Hate is a fearful perversion of love, a twisted mutant emotion that wants to be in the same "space" as someone else, but is fearful and uncertain. This hate manifests itself as wanting to destroy the thing it wants to be close to, but it never succeeds. Hate is never satisfied and is self-destroying.
Love is always satisfied and is self-perpetuating, and self-generating, and ever renewing force of growth in the Universe.”
Love is a force of attraction. There is no opposite to gravity, there is no opposite to light. Darkness is the absence of light, but darkness does not negate light.
Hate is a fearful perversion of love, a twisted mutant emotion that wants to be in the same "space" as someone else, but is fearful and uncertain. This hate manifests itself as wanting to destroy the thing it wants to be close to, but it never succeeds. Hate is never satisfied and is self-destroying.
Love is always satisfied and is self-perpetuating, and self-generating, and ever renewing force of growth in the Universe.”
3) abc123754212 comment:
“Although is light not merely a physical
phenomena created by the giant , flaring ball of fire and gas we call "The
Sun" ? Is light not merely a physical and observable phenomena that has
arisen out of physical processes of billions of years of formulation
?
How can Love be a force in the universe when Love is only found n earth in humans and animals ? Human and animals constitute an infinitesimal fraction of the universe . How , thusly , can Love be said to be a universal force ?
Please explain ?”
How can Love be a force in the universe when Love is only found n earth in humans and animals ? Human and animals constitute an infinitesimal fraction of the universe . How , thusly , can Love be said to be a universal force ?
Please explain ?”
4) Bill Schaeffer
response:
"Well, it is largely a
poetic turn of phrase. HOWEVER, IF we look at the Universe in a slightly
different way THEN we could think of it as follows(in super condensed form):
Some ideas:
1. One interpretation of the dual slit experiment is that electrons have conscious thought and these electrons actually choose, or decide, their course of action.
2. More than one philosophic tradition talks of all things in life as having a "living soul" (i.e. rocks, stones, hills, plants, trees, insects, birds, animals, "everything").
3. Even our own bodies are made of billions of one celled animals that act with purpose and intent. Are they conscious?
4. "Radical" Physicist Amit Goswami considers that it is consciousness itself that gives form and concrete reality to the Universe we inhabit. This, in my understanding, is a kind of a generalization of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, where it is our own conscious intent that "makes the Universe real."
5. Jeremy Narby in "The Cosmic Serpent" claims that psychedelic visions could be messages of photons of light that are emitted by our DNA itself.
6. In one interpretation of electron spin pairs, these electrons are still "instantly connected" across billions of light years of deep space.
In any event, IF we consider the Universe to be teeming with conscious entities, that are all coexisting and communicating on many simultaneous levels, AND all behaving with conscious intent; THEN we could say that, "LOVE IS A PRIMARY MOTIVATING FORCE Of THE UNIVERSE."
Again, the briefest of explanations, full of possible flaws, but a poetic vision of the Universe that in many ways seems more true to experience than the giant impersonal "clockwork" theories of the 19th century academics."
Some ideas:
1. One interpretation of the dual slit experiment is that electrons have conscious thought and these electrons actually choose, or decide, their course of action.
2. More than one philosophic tradition talks of all things in life as having a "living soul" (i.e. rocks, stones, hills, plants, trees, insects, birds, animals, "everything").
3. Even our own bodies are made of billions of one celled animals that act with purpose and intent. Are they conscious?
4. "Radical" Physicist Amit Goswami considers that it is consciousness itself that gives form and concrete reality to the Universe we inhabit. This, in my understanding, is a kind of a generalization of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, where it is our own conscious intent that "makes the Universe real."
5. Jeremy Narby in "The Cosmic Serpent" claims that psychedelic visions could be messages of photons of light that are emitted by our DNA itself.
6. In one interpretation of electron spin pairs, these electrons are still "instantly connected" across billions of light years of deep space.
In any event, IF we consider the Universe to be teeming with conscious entities, that are all coexisting and communicating on many simultaneous levels, AND all behaving with conscious intent; THEN we could say that, "LOVE IS A PRIMARY MOTIVATING FORCE Of THE UNIVERSE."
Again, the briefest of explanations, full of possible flaws, but a poetic vision of the Universe that in many ways seems more true to experience than the giant impersonal "clockwork" theories of the 19th century academics."
Copyright© 2013, 2014 William
Schaeffer
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