"Alan Watts is God for Ten Minutes"
Atwaterpub said:
At 7:33 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.
ABC said:
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 ?
Atwaterpub said:
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 embedded in 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.
7. 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."
8. 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.
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