It's crazy to think that when this was recorded; I was nothing. And yet at the same time, there were people around with consciousness that were perplexed by nothingness. Now that I am alive, I am too.

He manages to make me feel alive. Heightens my emotions, what a true genius.

It's really nice to actually see alan speaking, most of his lectures are just the audio

I listen to Alan nearly every day. My 12 year old daughter this morning was mimicking his accent. 😂 I said well he was born when my Nanna was born. "She said WHAT? and he's still alive??" I said no, but then I thought and said, you know what, I listen to him that much he still feels alive. It really does feel like that.😊😍✌🏼

I've often thought, what would be the easiest way to describe Alan Watts? I finally came up with, he knows nothing about everything. And everything about nothing. After watching this video, looks like a good fit. Thank you Alan.

i really want to save the world, but i needed to be saved from myself...Alan saved me. Alan I wish I could give you a hug. Thank you so much.

Alan Watts is the key maker. He makes keys for everyone. Those keys are specific for every person who listens to his words. It is up to us, however, to open the doors which we ignore everyday out of fear

Alan watts is one of the most curious human beings ever but he is an inspiration to alot of people included me

God, I wish I could be inside his mind for a minute.

It was great, seeing the wise man on camera.

For those interested. The song is Dawn by the Cinematic orchestra

If I could meet one person in history, Alan Watts would be my choice hands down. What a remarkable human being!

this guy was a genius

Alan Watts mastered the art of expressing the IT through words

I had the pleasure to spend some time with Alan Watts in the early 70's. He has been in my life for a very long time. The last time was at a benefit lecture in San Francisco for the College of Oriental Studies Graduate School. Thank you for keeping his spirit alive.

Ive been following Alan for a few years now this is the first video Ive seen of him.Dam he puts a smile on my face. I got one, these words wouldnt exist without the spaces between them.

I've always loved 'weird' things too. Like Hunter S. Thompson said: "It never got too weird for me"

Alan watts is better than porn.

I was recommended this by my bf and honestly can’t stop watching these vids

"Variety is the spice of life." One of my favorite quotes of all time.

no joke. i have a tear in my eye. That grand feeling where you feel like you really understand and it just clicks. My chest is very heavy right now. Thank you for this :)

Whoever put this together and threw in those Radiohead gems. Thank you.

Brilliant. Alan Watts is a blessing of existence.. as we all are!

"Alan has us take nothing into consideration." I love it

Death manifests life.

Nothing can describe how profound this is ;)

alan watts changed my ride, because I realised that it is just a ride, there is this feeling of everything in life is just me...the things I fear and the things I love is not something else, its a gift to have alan just two mouse clicks away

Empty is something,we must go beyond the concept of empty...then we find silence without identification

"Massive Nothingness" anagrams into "Heavens inmost signs."

Ah, the drop in of Radiohead, was amazing! I wasn't expecting that.

This has been my favorite Alan Watts video for years, long before they became so numerous on youtube. The editing, and Radiohead music, it's just perfect.

So grateful these wonderful clips exist. Wonderful to see a video of Alan Watts. Thank you so much.

Alan Watts is like a real life Obi Wan Kenobi.

(There is no nothing vs something; nothing is a thing, so nothing IS something. They are the same, nothing and something: something is nothing, and nothing is something.)

I could listen to Alan Watts for hours and hours and hours. His voice and messege is so calming and uplifting.

What an incredible collaboration and bouncing back between Alan's early talks and latter talks. Really well put together with a masterful soundtrack. I'm very grateful. May more people discover his teachings.

Alan was wayyyyyy head of his time.

dope music

Alan Watts feels like a dear old uncle who can explain all the complexities of existence to me in simple terms that I am able to understand. God bless you Uncle Alan!

This is.., incongruent to my 9 to 5 job. I can't concentrate at times in work thinking of universal interconnection and ego... Alan is the man.

I was telling my mother about alan watts, she said.. "He is crazy".. And i was like "So what you really are saying, is I am crazy" I left in anger.. Maybe alan watts would just had laugh at that statement, and really digged it

Maybe you just don't understand what nothing is.. so nothing out of nothing (cant) create something but you already have created something from just the word but the word means nothing so maybe nothing is just something you don't understand yet, and so we call it nothing

I first watched Alan Watts' "A Conversation With Myself" 3 years ago. That one video (and a lot of Alan Watts) put me on a path of thought that has profoundly changed my life, my habits, my well being. Alan Watts is without a doubt one of the most influential people in my life having never met him. He's a genius.

Best Alan watts video

When people say that "something can not come from nothing", I'm pretty sure that what they are actually saying is that something cannot come from ABSOLUTE nothingness. Assuming that this statement is true, there could be no such thing as absolute nothingness,because if at any point there was absolutely nothing in existence, nothing could have ever come out of it. and since things do exist, we know that has never been the case, and won't be in the future, because the absolute lack of absolute nothingness in the past implies that something has existed infinitely. Beyond semantics,Alan seems to actually agree with the quote he is arguing against, because his idea that something can't exist without nothing and vice versa implies the inexistence of absolute nothingness.

I wish his videos didn't have the loud, annoying music attached to it. Every one I click on has disruptive music. Whyyyyy?

wow so profound have been listening and really enjoying all the beautiful wisdom we need more people like Alan Watts!

I absolutely love this man. I would have loved to have met him.

I love how everyone in an Alan Watts comment thread is a philosopher. People get so dragged into what others say and want pour their brilliance. If anyone here truly payed any attention. This comment thread would be perfectly clear. Because everyone would have nothing to say. Get it? Hahahahaha how contradicting my comment is BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA 🤣

So Great to see Alan and listen to him at the same time. Excellent video.

years ago, alan watts and the electronic university got me through a very difficult time in my life. i wish i could find more of his lectures online. this was the very first one - my 'introduction' to Alan. Still great stuff....Thanks Alan, where ever you are.

Love Mr Watts...a great teacher. Peace out folks

_"Everything to do with nothing"_ this is heavy stuff!

This man is so smart and wise his vocabulary is incredible the way he thinks intrigues me amazes me

Such a man, and such a life was unique. I was born years after he died and yet his words resonate so clearly even to this day. Media is a wonderful thing.

Thanks Mark. Alan is a great man and a true inspiration to so many. 🧘‍♂️ We are blessed to have access to these rare videos 📹 🙏

Best quality Alan Watts I've heard so far! Thanks for sharing!

i love him.... period .... he was an excellent teacher !! peace4peace

The greatest edit! Respect.

This is really good compilation. Thanks

"I remember when I was a little boy people used to say to me, Alan you are so weird, why cant you be like other people?" STORY OF MY LIFE! wow. That just gave me goosebumps.

Masterful Editing of Profound Material. What a treasure. Thank you

Thanks for all you did and do Mark

Also he has the gift of making it accessible to everyone. We hear the same thing a thousand times in our life - yet it takes that one person to say the same thing in a way you can understand to be the aha moment of your life - westerners were not brought up in the time and context this was taught - so relating to that time, era and context is a challenge in itself - Alan Watts bridges that gap - thank you Alan - love and peace xoxo

Thank you for sharing these!

One of my Favorites

BEAUTIFUL. This is something i can go to everytime when i have doubt and become whole as if I became another person.

this is one of my fav vids.. :) i too love listening to him talk. ah.

"there's nothing wrong with nothing. there's nothing wrong with me". lyrics of my good friend. r.i.p. duane

I have just listened to the one other being on earth that might have understood me. I needed this video. This morning. :)

so wonderful to hear these words spoken over 'Nude'... everything becomes clearer

Alan's musings were on WNEW-FM Sunday mornings in the 80s...what a trip it was to listen to him as a kid

just a master of Words..

Watts is helping me understand life.

We need more out spoken people like this.

Absolutely AWSOME!!

My first epiphany was nothing is everything. The sheer existence of infinity, means something must happen.

Alan changed my life I wish if I meet him before he died.

I love this guy. I feel like he hasn't been dead since 1974 because I still listen to his stuff all the time.

Excellent post, Mark! Thanks.

I love alan watts ♥️♥️♥️♥️

Worthy of a billion plays.

Good work 💙 that’s a great vid! Cinematic af, I enjoyed it

amazing video, i just got the back and forth with the young alan to the old alan. brilliant.

People only seem fascinated by the way Alan makes them feel, but aren't really understanding what he's actually saying. Alan is saying in our Universe, there is an up and because there is an up, that means there is a down and it's part of our biological structure. As he often states "Life is just a wiggle." If there is male, there is female, front and back, left and right, night and day, hot and cold, etc. Everything is polarizing something, although things may come off as separate, yet they're mirroring one another, without having to be enemies or disconnected. Even through cosmic-flow, within our Universe. The real you is in between, just observing the dance of up and down, night and day, hot and cold.

I Love Alan Watts!

Nothing is more brilliant than this...

Beautiful work Mark!!! Thank you for compiling Alan's talks & doing such a smashing job with the sounds & visuals. You brought it to life just as he would have wished! As there is always more nothing...I hope there are more of these on the way! :)

This is so true. It is when we started to question how can it be that there is no space-time beyond the bigbang that we started to understand what space-time instead was. When we understand the nothing we understand the something. Trying to imagine what would it be like to have no space is to me the best way to understand how real space is.

I really do enjoy seeing Peoples reactions of alan in the comments but at the same time i feel that, and which is the reason i love him, you dont need actually need to say anything afterwards, the nothingness truly just tell you everything we need to know.

Psychedelic video. Far out! Right on!

much gratitude....awe!

I am his fan till the end of time

Absolutely genius i think i had about five life changing realizations watching that love it :)

I love this guy.

I love Alan Watts.

Thank you helped me immensely with my essay on why there is something rather than nothing!

Cue the radiohead sountrack ha ha ha! thanks for the upload!

I've watched this video 100x the last decade.

This is so grounding, thank you