Alan Watts: This Is IT: Become What You Are

Dec 12, 2011

This video was originally edited by youtube.com/Adam1927 I merely spliced them together and re-uploaded it in entirety because I didn't like watching it in parts. This video changed my life, thank you Alan, thank you Adam....

Alan Watts put forward a worldview, drawing on Hinduism, Chinese philosophy, pantheism, and modern science, in which he maintains that the whole universe consists of a cosmic self playing hide-and-seek (Lila), hiding from itself (Maya) by becoming all the living and non-living things in the universe, forgetting what it really is; the upshot being that we are all IT in disguise. In this worldview, Watts asserts that our conception of ourselves as an "ego in a bag of skin" is a myth; the entities we call the separate "things" are merely processes of the whole. You're IT.