Alan Watts Interview in Dallas - March 1970

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[@pauricdevro]

Strange seeing video of him talking after just hearing his voice for so long. First, he's so cool haha with the cigar and the things he says. Second, how prophetic.

[@eliVII]

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[@dickyboyryw]

There's lots of footage. Alan watts archives page on Facebook. Check it out.

[@5712114]

Prophetic ?? I guess I missed America turning into a barren wasteland 20 yrs ago .... ;-)

[@davidmireles9774]

stole the words out of my mouth! :D

[@mikebarrows8344]

P D I agree with you on ur comment,it would be cool if more videos were like this.

[@adamstarritt7572]

I think him smoking a cigar tells you a lot about his mindset. It helps me solidify what he says about attachment to religion and living life like you're playing music - just bring present. At my imaginary dinner party where I could invite anyone, he would be invited. I'm only 37 and I'm sure I'll be listening to him for the rest of my life. I've been doing so for the past five!

[@christianlewis7055]

I feel the same way.

[@Madanth0ny]

Been listening to him for years ...and he predicted Twitter ....” a plague of virtues people “

[@1Live2Love3Thrive]

Theyve always existed, now they have a platform.

[@captainbuzzkill4658]

He's a professional bullshit artist just like any other philosopher.

[@omarbataineh6028]

Virtuous

[@ilord4555]

​@@1Live2Love3ThriveI'd say Twitter has advanced this or updated it into a worse state

[@CosmoVlog]

I listen to allan watts every year for the past 7 years now, this man's way of thinking is on great in today's day and age

[@thomasjamesconnolly4350]

I've just discovered this man. Wow.

[@fungi42021]

dig in. enjoy

[@juhajuha4221]

Hi, glad to have you with us. I suggest you check out "Joker" and "Do you do it or does it do you"

[@themotorcycleguy5980]

Same here a few months ago, he's awesome

[@11smallroaches1]

Don’t miss “Myth of Myself” I think of him as Uncle Alan, the wise old uncle I never got to know but still feel so connected to

[@aindriubradleymarshall6226]

He's a paradoxical genius, enjoy the trip......................

[@rcjc411]

boss. guy just owns the mic. No f's given for what society thinks, because he's one of the few that knows it doesn't.

[@baptm727]

Those eyes have seen some serious inner shit!

[@eliVII]

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[@sonnyparker5231]

Duck knows what

[@harmalauri3891]

Like those of Bodhidharma

[@baptm727]

@@harmalauri3891 yes exactly

[@Saral_Lekhi]

Oh! Finally an actual video of a man I have heard ever since I stumbled across him in Lockdown n became AWARE of him and can now never forget him. What a hypnotic voice ! ❤

[@aug.jam.1]

He changed my life. Well I did with his help 😊❤

[@yeahyeah410]

Incredible, never thought I'd see this sort of Watts content

[@Chichimee]

The enduring badass. God bless bro

[@soliton1]

The video ended right when Alan Watts got in motion.

[@eliVII]

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[@cryptotab250]

I love alan watts. He passed away in his sleep and was a heavy drinker. I feel he was drunk in this interview

[@nikelombambo]

Yup thought the exact same thing! He was known as an alcoholic like you said.. But still a phenomenal speaker!!!

[@vincentlanglo7367]

wow, I didn't know he was an alcoholic...

[@liborsionko]

Carl Jung linked alcoholism with a desire for spiritual experience/awakening.

[@Add_Account485]

@@nikelombambo oh.. I didn't know he was an alchaholic. And here I am looking to him for advice, and he didn't have it sorted out.. So I don't know what to really think now

[@Add_Account485]

@@liborsionko lol. That explains a lot!!

[@christopherscotellaro5027]

Been listening to several utube interviewe n have some new found respect for watts. Hes the only ‘guru’ type from that LSD era who admired men like Joseph Campbell and Baghavan Dass, RICHARD ALBERT n’ who readily admitted to his human male flaws. Other philosophy orators like Terrence McKenna years later etc never admitted to their most basic charlatantism - TM the shroom dude whom i love couldnt allow himself to simply admit to being quite the drug addict. Watts became a brilliant orator n drunk n chain smoking scoundrel who understood the levity of his own mask. Cant take life too seriously or else one believes he’s truly some gift to the earth. No man has ever been a gift. We’re all flawed hominids with both feet in our graves every second.

[@4yz222]

Love his passion

[@eliVII]

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[@nestoracosta1551]

What an act! Bravo!

[@polat6810]

He looks so serious!

[@eliVII]

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[@jehriko7525]

@@eliVII bro stop it's annoying

[@eliVII]

@@jehriko7525 sorry my bad

[@dickyboyryw]

Please, please put more of this up? It's Watts at his best.

[@mysteradio]

i wonder where we can see the whole uncut interview?

[@Budsport_TV]

I recall hearing a respected researcher of a name i cannot recall at this moment state that Alan Watts died Sad and Penniless. It always bummed me out to hear that. They man’s point was: what is the purpose of spending all your time gaining this great philosophical knowledge, ancient wisdom, self help methods from around the world if you just end up alone, bitter, a drunk and poor?

[@The_New_Abnormal_World_Order]

I saw an interview with his daughter. She said he knew so much about spirituality but he didn't actually practise it himself.

[@downtownstalker3428]

He lived and died with integrity, something which money can't buy.

[@Lateralmove]

We all die penniless. But only a fool thinks he can save up some cash for the beyond Sadness is just an emotion like any other, and if he did die sad? It is just as well. There is no point in enlightenment, we are all God in drag anyway.

[@bouncyspring6274]

Thx lekreaem for sharing this gem

[@doges_xrpenis9761]

Is there a longer version? Great tho!

[@elenol1310]

Yes

[@doges_xrpenis9761]

@@elenol1310 do you have a link?

[@elenol1310]

@@doges_xrpenis9761 No, i just agree with your statement . Whould have loved to have the link myself hahah

[@harrOwbrO]

Look up "The road to hell is paved with good intentions - Alan Watts" same topic

[@corncob4627]

@@harrOwbrO which video is it precisely?

[@stevolution898]

Wow thank you i had not seen this before.

[@alexisaac9032]

Love that analogy of his interview.

[@jackhutchison9363]

Where is the full interview of this??????

[@1Live2Love3Thrive]

He's like an old wise cat with defined whiskers haha. Alan!

[@davmac6148]

There is no longer nothing united about the United States......spot on

[@Alex-qr7yh]

The barren wasteland is one of social media driven social divisions and group thinking

[@cianpritchard1961]

He just described the “united” states!

[@krox477]

Ya he's right

[@samuelstevens3438]

How is this even possible

[@veraintuizione6497]

LEGEND ❤️💕

[@jamievanharen3925]

If Alan was around now he would have a field day same as Bill Hicks, gorge Carlin and Terrance McKenna.

[@ChrisTenalach77777]

What a prophetic words from Allan. America still don't understand what he says, 1970 i give America maximum 50 years then it wil be a desert. Where i can find the hole interview?

[@mitchellanderson3068]

Wish I could’ve met him

[@KitCalder]

Shows a side of the guy that makes me love him as opposed to just respect him. Such is the duality of man. That said, it seems clear to me that his failure was due to a lack of zazen.

[@manfredmalmos7523]

what failure?

[@tomato1040]

Like Duke Ellington said, It's Solitude is The Etude of True LIFE=mc2 that overcomes an isolated Society from a heavy plight, Tyrannous Rex Future Teachers prophesying Desert for Dessert instead of an Eden for All of US!

[@infiniteuniverse9938]

The King.

[@eternaljoke8433]

"there is no future" it's well and good to say that, but it's a realization that's felt. If you don't feel it, you'll just be saying empty words. And it's true there is no future it is merely an abstraction, so stop worrying so much. (inner monologue)

[@watittakes2264]

Not quite sure what you're getting at here. Wouldn't mind hearing a bit more about this in detail should you wish, and feel it might help.

[@theuniques1199]

@@watittakes2264 Because you are the Universe and the Universe is you repeating itself infinitely, you have always and will always ask this same question just as I will always and have always answered this same question because we are all the one whole Universe and the Universe is all of us as one whole first belief of existence infinitely repeating as our first belief of one whole existence.

[@kansuo1144]

@@watittakes2264 We live in an eternal now. This shared moment that has no time, no name, it just is. The future never arrives and the past fades away, like smoke. The future and past exist in our minds as images, which are seen in the now.

[@watittakes2264]

@@kansuo1144 love it

[@solofluye]

JESUS CHRIST THANK YOU

[@ABc-kx7lu]

"There won't be a united states " wow so relevant especially now in 2020 -2021 😳. Hopefully things get better 🙏

[@112jungle]

..."The people who have hope in the future are the miserable people, because they are like donkeys chasing carrots that are dangled before their noses from sticks attached to their collars. And they pursue and they purse in vain, always hoping that tomorrow will be the great thing, and therefore are incapable of enjoying themselves today." ~Alan Watts...

[@solofluye]

Please please please where can I pay to see this full interview?

[@JoeSinopoli]

Here is a link to the complete asset that includes the Alan Watts interview -- kzbin.info/www/bejne/aXfCoJyqg8d0nbs. There isn’t much more that includes Watts, but there is a little b-roll at 11:15.

[@patrickl6932]

HAHA love this. Alan was always so drunk.

[@EsmagaSapos]

That's what I instantly noticed, he's drunk in this video. Edit: Spelling.

[@StrangeScaryNewEngland]

@@machineparadox9677 How do you know he died bitter? He was sleeping

[@stewiegriffin6503]

He died just 3 years after this interview....

[@irreduciblerascal]

His comment about America is not far off the mark

[@Ozplatelickerscovidcon]

Excellent

[@stevrgrs]

About 20 years off from his prediction but it was pretty darn spot on lol

[@jonesjamison5035]

Does anybody else think he’s hammered in this video? He looks wasted, and more bitter than usual, but obviously still his brilliant self.

[@ShowMeWhatINeedToKnow]

He's only about 20 or 30 years off.

[@Terrarium86]

Brilliant. The masses, irrespective of economic status, can not come into their humanness.

[@JVL6644]

Please where can I find the full version .

[@stfannla]

Greate Buda Satva🙏🏻 he knew that the present is the future. Is our present getting any better since this video was recorded? Are we, human, living with love or hate to each other? Our future is doomed.

[@hWoPL]

They doing this way, nothing change going to nowhere

[@BarryRogue]

Insider.. With Insider Knowledge.

[@crazyeyedme4685]

I wonder if George Carlin and Alan Watts ever spoke eachother?

[@crazyeyedme4685]

@Daniel Cook they definitely have a lot in common. I didn't even consider it until thr other night. Both great observers with a simple perspective on life. Carlin on the questions of life:" You wake up, go to work, come home, eat, take one good shit and go back to bed! What's the fuckin mystery!??" 😂

[@TockaMea]

@@crazyeyedme4685 very Zen :)

[@saprissa30]

Do you know that George Carlin talk a lot with Robert anton Wilson.

[@crazyeyedme4685]

@@saprissa30 no I didn't know that. Interesting

[@robbenfelix]

They probably knew each other, considering where they lived and when. And Carlin has used the word zen appropriately, stating that while laughing people are in a zen like state.

[@klytemnestra]

His eyes says a lot of things…

[@Fartman3000]

This is the real top g

[@husnainanwaar1992]

so true

[@martyhopkirk6826]

He seems pretty drunk. And before you holler, it might be worth looking into his biography (I've known about Alan Watts since the early 80s, and have been privileged to meet people who knew him; he was an important figure, and he drank an awful lot of alcohol towarcs the end of his life--these two things are not mutually exclusive!).

[@dross5751]

Wow, 2020.. kinda seems like he may have been correct

[@lavbusarac2547]

And here is United States in 2022, still not sure how it holds together

[@arnoldasskulskis9276]

Poor man understood too much and too deeply about our world so he got addicted to alcohol..

[@1Live2Love3Thrive]

Not true I though the same thing but the more I listen to him the more I realise he enjoyed it as a part of life and knew this whole life is a game, he saw the futility in trying to live forever because death and life are one in the same. Listen to his talk on self improvement.

[@lanodramallama]

This is the message you take from his life's work? Alan Watts is not to be pitied. He was blessed with an excellent intellect and developed the tools to go beyond his intellect. What is more, he was eloquent enough to be able to relate much of what he knew to the wider world. Or to try to, because words will only get you so far, as he himself conceded. Watts strikes me as a man who really lived. Not a poor man by any yardstick that matters.

[@tomwatson7626]

Nah, alcohol is just very addictive and in those times everyone drank like there was no tomorrow. Doesn't take anything away from his wisdom

[@Mr_Goodall_CD]

I've been saying this for 10 years and in not even Buddhist.

[@neilburrows6670]

Alan knew

[@rocstraz9199]

Wowed I am.

[@mirouu13]

I think its just so sad

[@Julian2Sounds]

🙏

[@crazyeyedme4685]

The United States isn't anymore

[@XxHaydenManxX]

Is there a full interview ?

[@ADAMSIXTIES]

1:00 "There won't be a United States in the year 2000 if we continue the way we're going. It will be a barren eroded country; a desert." 🦓

[@robertsimpson4693]

What did I just watch ?

[@annehebert510]

Impressive...very nice. Let's see Paul Allen's bleary-eyed prophecies.

[@zaveeramini9712]

When all humans have been extinct for a long long time, a new 'intelligent' specie will arise and find our remains and figure out our language. Once they've done that, they'll watch this video and think: This man warned them in 1970.

[@NoPrivateProperty]

freedom torch

[@mrityunjayahiremath3951]

Where can I find the complete video

[@crazyeyedme4685]

Damn where can I get more of this?

[@cianpritchard1961]

youtube, he has about 400 lectures all recorded if i’m right...

[@crazyeyedme4685]

@@cianpritchard1961 oh yeah I know. I should have been more specific. I was wanting more interview style video/conversations of Watts. Like...regular convo rather than his solo lectures. Thx tho

[@cianpritchard1961]

@@crazyeyedme4685 Oh, search up Alan Watts live image or interview. There’s loads of data there. There is a full documentary too!

[@PoloABD]

Is there any more of this footage?

[@RyanConte-nn8vx]

Of course, this question goes unanswered.

[@scottfeeley944]

Was wrong about a few things I noticed

[@therealKINDLE]

Alan Watts & that one interview everybody knows about.. of Jacque Fresco by Larry King.. so prophetic. "If we do not take responsibility for the future, there shall _be_ no future"

[@YTIR1]

so what changed...?

[@winskypinsky]

There was Allan Watts, and now there’s Jordan Peterson. Both Holy Men who went to the edge of the soul’s world and returned to us to report what they saw.

[@joeygurzynski7074]

I love them both... I'd love to know what Jordan thinks about Alan Watts philosophy. They both seem so articulate but at almost opposite ends of the philosophical spectrum. Almost like two really smart brothers. I wonder if in the future AI can mine all the videos and data and create a mock debate between the two of them.

[@ChrisTenalach77777]

Pls pls pls never never compare a loser like jorden with alan again. Alan is light years ahead of Jorden ever wil be

[@winskypinsky]

I’d love to hear Watts respond to your infantile comment. “Please, please, please”? I can make any bloody comparisons I chose. Lots love Peterson, lots hate Watts and some think Hitler was misunderstood. I can have opinions and keep them--wank off.

[@Purwapada]

. @@joeygurzynski7074 I love them both too. I try and strike a balance between the ideas of the two

[@michaelrainbow4203]

Alan Watts has a better voice. ;-)

[@distortiontildeafness]

Laissez faire?

[@moisesdelcastillo6703]

What the name of the stick he is smoking

[@stijndelie1458]

The stick of wisdom

[@HugoHenriqueGrah]

@@stijndelie1458 hahahaha

[@elenol1310]

@@stijndelie1458 Ahahahaha

[@HugoHenriqueGrah]

@@stijndelie1458 Man, I'm still laughing at this LOL

[@RichyWins]

Plot twist this is not a simple cigar he is smoking

[@TheJeremyKentBGross]

It was thr 70s, who would be surprised?

[@ME-ud5fo]

Has he got a hangover?

[@lanodramallama]

In about another 12 hours, yes.

[@timonsanchez3347]

was he wrong about what America was going to be in 2000?

[@christianmonturanoii6539]

He would have been a good actor I'd like to see him and Richard Burton together smoking 🚬 🚭

[@shinobi2324]

If only he hadn't hit the bottle so religiously..

[@herr_von_mann]

Its a tragedy, why didn't he manage to put his insights into practice?

[@tomwatson7626]

he did

[@herr_von_mann]

@@tomwatson7626 Do you mean he took the easy way out?

[@moisesdelcastillo6703]

What is he smoking

[@lindataylor6831]

It is called a cigar. You haven't seen one ??

[@scottdmartin]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigarillo

[@christianmonturanoii6539]

🚬 🚭 😤 💨 🌬

[@PhoenixProdLLC]

Um, yeah. Not listening to an alcoholic. You're already starting with someone too busy lieing to themselves to tell anyone else "the truth". He was an entertainer, not a philosopher. And HE is the one who said as much.

[@josephpercy1558]

And what is a 'philosopher,' if not entertaining thoughts?

[@fungi42021]

he looks weird in this

[@mautrindade]

he's drunk as he fought heavy alcoholism at that stage

[@ABc-kx7lu]

Hes probably Tired all of the bullshit ....i know i am

[@joshtomlinson8169]

drunk af here

[@stephenridley1153]

Sloshed, addled and not aging well at this stage.

[@robertdavidson9393]

Still is a United States and its 2024 😅

[@xTriad]

I encourage you fellow readers to really look at Alan watts in his older age here. Look at his eyes as he speaks. This man was not at peace. I think Alan gave up Christianity because he loved sex. The truth will piss you off. Alan just tells you what you want to hear. I love sex too, but I understand there is a design to life and relationships. As someone who has been celibate for the past two years, I can say Alan is making things up about celibacy in his talks on it. Sex is like fire and it’ll burn your life down over time if it’s outside the design of marriage.

[@sinane.y]

lol nice projection

[@zephodx]

You really, really don't get it.

[@xTriad]

What am I missing?

[@user-kv4xt2oh3d]

You are right in some ways but I've been trying to be celibate for more than a decade and have given up now

[@xTriad]

@@user-kv4xt2oh3d I don’t think celibacy can be done with only human will power. God’s Spirit is the only way, asking him to help us see women as he intended and not as sexual objects. I still struggle with lust of the eyes and am currently working with God on acknowledging the attraction I feel which is not wrong, but then keeping it there and not going further in my mind and heart, asking him to help untangle my desires that go right to sex. A woman’s beauty points to heaven, God’s glory. It’s a good thing, but we want to grab that beauty and hold onto it.

[@MarcusBarnabassisSystersSonne]

he's wasted af