I'm so happy you made this channel.

Literally crying tears of joy because for so long I felt crazy, I felt lost and confused. You put my thoughts and what I thought were crazy ideas into words and so beautifully as well. Thank you, I will forever share this.

Dont do drugs kids, you might become enlightened

"Nothing invites something and something invites nothing"-Adam

I love having these discussions with people, I'm glad their's now a whole channel dedicated to such topics

I had mushroom experience with a couple of friends, it was going well until one of my friends started freaking out. He would repeat his phone number rapidly, and saying that he had to go home. He kept trying to leave but we had to convince him to stay and even had to use some physical force to constrain him and calm him down (no violence was used). We finally got him to calm down and had him lay down while we put the tv on for him. He stayed quiet for a while, but then after about 15 min he suddenly yelled "wow!" With a hysterical laugh, as if he just had a revelation, but a very disappointing or unexpected one. He said again "Wow! Really?! That's all there is?".He laughed and we asked what he was talking about. He responded "that's all there is, we just die, and we start all over again! There's no point! We just die and we start all over again!". He repeated this for about ten min. Imagine how horrifying this is while tripping! He has no memory of this night or of saying this.

Psychedelics make you question everything

we need a community for all the people who know this truth

Thank you everyone for subscribing! Along with philosophical videos, I will also be posting life stories and experience videos here. Basically, this channel will host the type of content I couldn't post to "PsychedSubstance" because it's not all psychedelic related :)

don't expect normal people to understand your videos. keep uploading amazing videos.

Great video, in enlightened states what I learned was that life is just one giant loop, no start no end, and part of the game of life is that we are constantly pretending we are not enlightened when in fact at the core we are

I think you just aren't supposed to know you're in the game while you're in the game, but you did choose to come into the game to learn a lesson / level up. I believe once you die you'll remember what real actually is, like you rarely know you're dreaming until you wake up. This life is similar to that. When you die, you'll wake up, and realize that THIS was the subjective, and just like a dream only felt real. Like it says in quantum mechanics that reality is basically a wave of potentials, and nothing truly exists in one place until you introduce an observer. Side note: A friend of mine has a son that's in the second or third grade and one day he wrote "it's ok mommy it's all just a dream" and gave it to his mom. It weirded her out, but I think that's pretty awesome. Oh, I also think we're all here at different levels. There is no level that's higher or better than any other level though, just all here for different reasons. I know I said, "level up" but there's not people that are "better" in any way if that makes sense. Anyways that's my two cents. Cool channel!

im lvl 17 right now. i only need to finish school so i get enough xp to lvl my character to 18 where i unlock some cool features like the ability to learn ''drivers license''

Someone should make a game about this. Everytime you loose your life, you start up as a new character, location, parents, etc. The catch this time is that you are aware of yourself playing. "Life" coming soon on PS4, Xbox One and PC.

In a dream you can't control your reality but once you become lucid you can, so if I were to put a bunch of people in a dream world and I was the only lucid one , I would be a god

Energy is not created nor destroyed. Only transferred.

As devils search for the secrets to immortality I alter my physical chemistry Walk through the valley of the shadow of death I exist even when no things are left Vibrations transcend space and time Pure at heart because I deal with the mind -Jeru the Damaja :)

Gotta hustle to win the game ya feel me

The first rule of fight club:

why is his intelligence such a relaxing experience!!!??? I never want him to stop speaking

Damn Adam speaking so openly about polarity and hermetic philosophies makes me happy

Seriously the best video I've ever watched. More deep stuff like this please!

a year ago i wouldn't have understood what you were saying. but I've been enlightened. I woke up. watched koifresco, you, and infinite waters mostly and read a lot. we are infinite beings having a human experience, we are the universe and the universe is us. i am you and you are me. i understand that level of conciousness now. Thanks for explaining things clearly and easily! You're amazing :)

I don't know what happened to me, but I cannot stop watching to your videos. Everything you talk about resonates with such clarity, simplicity and truth. You appear like a digital shaman of some sort. Thanks.

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This is the trippiest shit I've ever heard. Holy shit I'm so high right now and this dude is making too much sense man.

this is definitely not where I parked my car

Worst game ever. Shitty story, gameplay and ingame physics. Good graphics though.

"Adam Watts" " / " ~ Separate philosophy channel is a good idea

This is something that I have been struggling with for years now. You've offered me insight but I still am scared.

Adam, I love what you had to say. I feel you're spot on. About a year ago, I was having panic attacks about this reality, and what it all is. I'm one of those people that are stuck in their heads most of the day. It gets very overwhelming and scary as fuck somedays. So I was at a very overwhelming point and the voice in my head says, "it doesn't matter what the playing field is made of. None of you will ever know. The only thing that matters is how you treat yourself, the people around you, and your environment including animals, insects, plants, etc." I've had to remind myself that a few times. And it helps to know that. I really wonder where that inner voice comes from. I've gotten answers I've never thought up. I really truly believe there are things, past family/friends, that speak to us, but it comes through as our inner voice. I'm very happy you made both of these channels. You do help people and I've gotten quite a few things out of what you say. Keep up the good work bro. :)

I like how you've tied this to Alan Watts' philosophies, however I don't believe you've understood it completely; specifically in how you define "I". The way you explained it makes it sound like you believe in a 'soul' or the 'real you' or your 'spirit'/mind carries on, however Alan Watts said: *"Underneath the superficial self, which pays attention to this and that, there is another self more really us than I. And the more you become aware of the unknown self - if you become aware of it - the more you realize that it is inseparably connected with everything else that is. You are a function of this total galaxy, bounded by the Milky Way, and this galaxy is a function of all other galaxies" - Alan Watts* *"What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself" - Alan Watts* To put it simply, what carries on, is the universe, of which you are a part of. Imagine yourself as a wave on the ocean (the ocean being the universe); you are made of the universe and the atoms in your body are being replaced all the time as your wave moves. However your wave will eventually subside and you will die, but the ocean will keep on waving. *“You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.” - Alan Watts*

That's some damn good analogies Adam. I love your content.

You're expressing a lot of things that psychedelics have made me start to feel, yet didn't know how to know.

Thank you for this video Adam. You’ve helped me personally and plenty of others through some tough times. Keep living your dream!

"How many times have you seen Pac Man die? Doesn't bother him."

I love how you're able to so easily put your thoughts into words. It amazes me! you're an amazing being!

A great way to imagine not being is being under anethstetia. The only point where the nothing gains value or existing is whilst looking back from the other side in the recovery room. Its only a thing when contemplating the gap in time from the before to the after.

10:52 this part made me so happy, to know that someone else had the same thought gives me a piece of mind and reassurance. thank you adam, honestly.

Thank you. The past few days, I could feel myself fading. you just pulled me back.

beautiful kind of content, bro! just subscribed!

So two weeks ago I had the best trip ever and what I think is my last trip. During this trip I learned something similar to what you say. Not to mention I sleep better, eat better and just feel amazing. I learned that we are all one conscious playing a game with itself. See this conscious has no body, or beginning or end and like you said its just blackness. So it created a game where the rule is to disprove it exists. And like you said anything goes. That includes sadness, anxiety, depression, suffering, etc. So this is where we come into the picture. We believe that we are separate and that we are not or could not possibly be the creators. But the game was designed this way. Because only by disproving and having people prove, that they can manifest things, can this conscious be sure it exists. I'm subscribed and I am happy to hear someone else say something similar. Peace and love to everyone.

Seriously, I'm 18 and due to this guy I'm already not afraid of dying!!!

I am so happy i discoverd your channel. You explain your thoughts so well and those are so interesting. I love discussing thematics like those with people and it makes me feel exited that you opened this channel. ^-^

Nothing will always be something. There will never be nothing, there can never be nothing. Now that existence itself has existed, it's too late. Nothingness can never ever exist.

this is hard for me because I want to know, but the only way to find out is to die, which gets tempting just for the answer....

Dayum... I've been a subscriber of both your channels since they started and been a long while since I commented. Just wanted to congratulate you and thank you for all hard work and the ideas presented, keep it up, we love you.

Love this channel (and PsychedSubstance). I don't think once one knows it's a game they will try to end it, because anyone who knows it's a game, knows that the object of the game is to learn, grow and teach. Ending ones life prematurely just means they will need to come back again to learn that, and next time their circumstances may be even worse.

You just summarized all of my thoughts ive been having for over 6 years

I remember when i was a child i had a feeling of knowing of something before this world, easy explained. But the knowing slowly disappear. It was a strong feeling and a "knowing". I dont have the knowing anymore but i remember the feeling very well.

I was just thinking "hmm this sounds a lot like Alan Watts style" then your caption came up lol. Alan Watts' lectures are so great for aiding in the integration of a heavy experience!

this is a great way to explain life an death, once I started meditation an spiritual practice an along with psychedelic drug use I had realized this same thing, life is a game an it's up to us to make it a good game for our own reality until we die an ascend or whatever. life is how you make it, happiness is a choice just switch the light on. high five to you my friend!

I can't even try to describe how awesome you are for describing this in such and accurate way. You just made into clear words what was the absolute worst ever experience in my life. (A.k.a. an heavy mushroom bad trip) I couldn't remember clearly how my trip was, all I knew was that it was absolute hell. And the fear and discomfort has been haunting me to this day. And it's been this way for almost 2 years. But now I understand that it was EXACTLY (and I do mean, EXACTLY.) about what you just explained in this video, just in a much more gloomy and dark way, in a paranoic and depressive background. That trip caused me the so called "drugs induced psychosis" that I heard you talk about. Keep in my mind it has made my life hell for 2 years. And now it's completely gone. Thank you man. Thank you

Hi Adam. This is going to be pretty long, probably the longest comment I ever posted on youtube, but I feel the need to communicate this things to you, mainly because your way of thinking is very similar to mine and there are not many people that I know directly with whom I could possibly talk about this. First of all: I subscribed to your channel straight after I heard you talking about "the wall" in your video "How to DMT". The reason is that I love quantum mechanic and physics and when you talk about the wall you are actually saying things as correct as they can possibly be at this stage of human knowledge. So I thought: This guy is not just someone that talks about drugs, he actually knows shit pretty damn well. I have embarked on a journey to understand how the universe and everything works since very young age, and it has been a long time now that I have this very strong feeling that we will never brake through the big problems of cosmology and quantum mechanic without rethinking about our own consciousness as a key player in the "equation of everything". As a main example of this state of things I like always to remember the "Two Slit Experiment" and the collapsing of the weave function when the detectors are turned on. I am a firm believer that consciousness as to be treated as something "in within the game", not as something unchanging and absolute from which we get all of our conclusion from. One way I found to describe this is as best as I can is: "We exist in every point, in every state, and in every moment of the "continuum space-time" and at any given time in what we call the real life, we create through consciousnesses a version of the universe as quantum observers. Consciousness is the pick of the quantum weave of our life." I have other great ideas that support this hypothesis, but to write them all down would make this comment even longer. What I want to ask you is: When you say that everything exist because of the opposite to compare it with (light-darkness, something-nothing and so on) you are absolutely right but then, when we die and "one face of the coin gets scraped of" how can the other side possibly keep existing without the other to be compered to? If it this the case, I personally think that consciousness as "awareness" will die with our physical form only and just because they are so connected that they can not be by themselves. I could say that physical form and consciousnesses are in a state of Quantum entanglement. I would like to say a lot more... I have so many ides in my mind about this matter and I am so happy that there are explores out there that are going all out regardless the judgment of other people. You have all my support. I would like to end with a citation of Dante Alighieri: "Consider well the seed that gave you birth: you were not made to live your lives as brutes, but to be followers of virtue and knowledge." Canto XXVI - Ulysses -Divina Commedia I apologize for any grammar mistake, English is not my first language.

This is beautifully well put, thank you so much for expressing yourself. I've used this analogy in the past to explain my view to others, however you put it together so well, it was a truly enjoyable video. Thanks again.

It's wonderful to see my consciousness , my thoughts through someone else... I recently subscribed your two channels because, I had my first psycadelic experience with lsd a month ago , and I wanted to know more about it, so I choosed your channel, means you, to guide me... Thank you for sharing all of your experiences and wisdom... From Portugal 👍

Hey man, sorry, but life is not a game, it is a movie. It is a movie because free will and control are illusions, you don't control your body - your mind does. And you don't control your mind - your environment does. The truth is, you are still nothing. What is that something you think you are? You are no thing, because you experience everything. I would love to use more details to illustrate that, so if anyone is interested just reply to this comment.

I recently had a bad trip from MDMA, it started with the come down. I had a really bad trip once on LSD, constantly switching between realities but this was different. Because everyone who took the MDMA was currently coming down me and two friends tried to get away from the bad vibes and we just talked. We were super socially aware and mentally on the same level. Basically we together came to the conclusion we were sitting infront of a movie screen, life is a simulation and other persons are planted by those runnung the simulation, manipulating and distracting us from the knowledge that everything is just a simulation. I managed to drag myself out of that hole by valuing my current life and I came to the conclusion that yes, I am living a good life. Interesting that you found the same approach! Needless to say the expierence ripped me out of my daily life and it took me a whole week to get back to normal. Scary stuff, I totally get you.

You just twisted my mind so hard its soo crazy I love both of your channels!! You are one of the Best youtubers right now imo! Keep it up i'm very grateful that u exist your videos make me think all the time :) greetings from Germany

Damn this video was absolutely excellent...added it too my watch later playlist in order to watch it again as I dont feel like I gathered all the information and insight you provided in this video.

You can think of your theory in a different way, DMT is a natural chemical substance produced by our brains, small amounts of DMT are what make you dream and it is said that when a persons physical time on this earth ends and we 'die' a large dose of dmt is released into the brain, due to DMT being a recreational substance we can make some links between a DMT trip and death, mostly the fact that having a true DMT experience requires you to go through the tunnel of light, DMT users report their 15 minute trip in our time lasting an inconceivable amount of time, so maby those last few minutes as our brain functions shut off could last 1000 years, free from our perception of time on this earth you could say that life goes on, but I'm not convinced that we 'come back' as you put it though I understand the thoughts behind your conclusion. And i cant definitely say no matter what your beliefs, we all play this game, and there must be some reason nobody knows the real truth, or at least can prove it. (just microdosed and watched too many videos about life and spirituality) play the game your way :)

if you see your life as a on off switch like you said its still smarter to go on because you will never be at the point you are in this moment again and isnt just experiencing another moment worth experiencing why not at least make use of the happiness that is still left inside you (through happiness hormones) That leads in most cases that you see the good side of living angain and start wanting to go on again! you will still want to make progress if even more when you know its a game, because you normally play a game to have fun, so just make everything that its more and more fun. its easier without ego, because you can see things from a more logical and less personal view and this way you can get over problem because it just doesnt feel out of reach anymore but instead something like a lot of questing (like in rpg games for new items, but instead you can climb the ladder in anthing you are interested in!)

I'm so glad I found this channel and video....totally lines up with exactly where I am in life and it feels awesome!

your theory on life is so similar to my theory on life, I love that! I'm glad you started a channel, you are helping me so much expanding my mind !! I needed that ! Thank you dude !

Why does so many people find it so hard to fathom the idea that consciousness may be the underlying construct of reality? It makes so much sense! Cheers! :)

I passed ego death so im here in my room like finished all the tripps knowing i need to get everything back together so i can be sober, my 600 ug lsd trip let me experience the smallest thing ever and tge loudest and biggest thing ever, the end of infinity

You took to much my friend, you have a follower for life out of me. Keep it coming!!!

waaw that was one of the most thought provoking things i've ever seen i literaly get a knot in my chest of excitement while opening up to this idea

I don't think you would have any memories of being nothing going back into this game again, because memories are only ideas, and ideas can't exist without a brain, and they die with the brain. No one has any ideas coming back into the game. A blank slate. That's the whole point to the game of existence I think. To have an experience and eventually have it end and somewhere else there's a new brain that will form a new personality that will have a completely new life with all different experiences. I like to think there's only one mind in the universe, which is the universe itself, but it can't experience itself (like memories, an experience is an idea) just as fire can't burn itself, and that's why we exist. As a window and vehicle to give the universe consciousness. The ability to move and our senses being fixed in our bodies gives us the illusion of being separate individuals, in some lives you wake up and realize the game, in some lives you remain immersed in it. They're all the real you, every form of animal life in the universe is you having every possible experience. Just like these bodies, perhaps after the real you (the universe) ends, a new universe (a new you) will burst into being and new life-growing planets will form and the cycle goes over and over again, playing new games. What's to stop you from killing yourself if you realize it's pointless? Maybe realizing the nature of the game…Whatever life you're living right now if you don't enjoy it, want to start a new game, realize (and I think you have talked about this too) that this is what you, the real you, wanted. Indeed you did ask to be born, you just don't remember it! There will be plenty of time to live a new life later. For now, experience this. ☯️🕉💟 Dr. Watts originally opened me up to this idea, and I think it's really cool to hear you talking about it.

I think I have a very interesting theory to talk about that's been on my mind for a while! Okay so this is salvia related and there have been many accounts where people who have tried salvia where they will experience 'the wheel' of life. They will see many people's lives spinning around and they will temporarily go into the lives of these other people and for a brief moment will experience the consciousness of that life. One moment they will be an angry father shouting at his children cowering in the corner, another moment an sick old woman laying in bed dying, and another maybe a baby playing with its toys etc. This is a common thing people who take salvia have experienced that I have read about. And some people would say how it felt like they were trying to get back into their original life that they had before doing the salvia, but the trouble is being in that state they don't remember it! It's a struggle to try and figure out which was the 'right' one and not come back as someone else! The theory is instead of coming back as themselves as they knew before the salvia trip, is that they come back as someone else! And they would never know because they would automatically have all the memories and life of the new person that they have become and will not know any better! So you would never know that it happened if it had happened! And it can only happen where you switch around with someone else who also just done salvia at the same time as you. Is this really possible? What are you thoughts on this? I wonder about it all the time whether it is really possible to switch bodies with someone else in a more permanent and long term way? Since you can temporarily for just brief moments experience the lives of many other people outside of you when you are in that state.

I like to think of releasing resistance over waking up, you can always keep waking up, it is all relative in this ever evolving/refreshing game with no absolute highest good. There is always more, this can feel depressing and unsatisfying in the sense of trying hard and resting or like total freedom when being more relaxed with it. My sense of releasing resistance and experiencing myself suddenly playing the bigger game is the most loving and joyful experience that I've come to know so far and I'm recognizing it as an important guidance sense, I think it can coexist with day to day life experiences and I feel like it becomes part of all interaction in an inspirational way. The paradoxical nature of the enlightening state, backed by immense euphoria proves to me that the contrasting mind is only part of the game and that the true I is more than just the ego. Instead of conversing with the mind, I try sitting in silence for an answer, just with honest, natural intent. This is what helped me to allow previously mentioned enlightening states. Once experienced, l tried remembering the difference, but it's always a new game. It still feels familiar, yet completely, greatly new like it isn't familiar at all. As far as manifestation goes, initially emotion, goosebumps, eventually anything. True expectation or involvement with the path through the game. The path is right under your feet, it's a real-time save point, which can seem harsh at times, but it's beautiful too. I suggest chilling in the now, without paying too much attention to what's going on around you when it's not pleasing you, if it is pleasing it's like a buffer of momentum. There's always more, you can never get it wrong and it's never done. It's the easiest thing to do, it's always perfect for you and I'm convinced life will never seize to be, I've seen things which implied more, but at my own command. My honest command, the kind of command that doesn't need you to direct anything, just allow it, you can even directly be the witness of it, the sense of having a choice will be there once you feel it, infinite intelligence is there to back you up when you choose through contrast/duality. Now you allow.

this way of thought is just brilliant, you simply say the words that i think, but im not capable of expressing. Very greatful that you have the rhetorical ability that i dont have, and that i found your channel to clarify my thoughts.

my brain just melted

We were born infinite times in infinite characters through infinite time sets... That's why it's a game... The purpose is to enjoy the much you can from each character... We'll never be able to understand how this world works because all the answers are in the word "infinite" and we'll never understand "infinite". So stop thinking and start enjoying the game. 🙌🏻😏

Woahhh.... im really high but im sober enough to have this spiritually BLOW my mind! I already had this idea but thank you for finally verbally explaining it❤️❤️👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🕉 namaste!!!!

Thank you so much for sharing this video & articulating it in such an amazing way that I totally related to :) Videos like this help me so much in gaining comfort with my experiences & obtaining a better understanding.

my favorite movie is Matrix

I resonate with this on a level I have never felt. It’s as if Adam and I are literally on the same energy. We need as many people as possible in this energy band

I respect you humble intro! Not to assume you know ALL! I respect that. That’s intro alone made me continue to watch!

i just want to thank you so much for teaching me a new philosophical understanding about existence, i truly feel more at piece with death then i ever have because of watching this very comprehensive video. i aprove and support your creation of more philosophical videos because we think very alike and i can fuck wtih your shit man keep it up and myself aswell as the community thanks you for the things you have gifted us and taught us, this channel and psyched substance channel are both so helpful to the community and both very entertaing. you have become one of my new fav youtubers

I'm italian, so I didn't understand all your words. But, please anyone answer me, what if, like some kind of animals, extinguish? (I don't know what's the word for "estinguere" in english so I used google translate) Are we going to continue to be nothing? Forever?

This video gave me schizophrenia

cant't explain how much I love all your videos, especially this

I can't believe that I actually understood all of this.. Great video! Adam's philosophy helps me with things I still struggled to think about💯💯

"...or so we think." lol

you could just re-brand this as a life hack yo

Started watching your channel recently - was cool to see someone shares a lot of the same experiences and ideas i have had :)

The BEST video i ever seen! More people should learn this perspective! hope you guys have a good day!

I was so sure of simulation theory on shrooms. Like I was in the matrix. It's just a silly thought experiment to most philosophers and normal people hah. But to the psychnonaut it's TOO real. It's frightening as hell. It's exciting. It's wonderous and mind blowing. I wish we could study the psychedelic realm through a "proper" method of inquiry. Or is that why they're so amazing? because we can't?

man...could you transcript your videos (from both channels) so the community can translate them? I can translate it to brazilian portuguese.

Hi Adam. Love this video. Like you I'm a huge ALAN Watts fan too and it's great to see you sharing your understanding of our true nature with the world. More of these please❤️❤️🙏🙏

Totally agree with you! I've been thinking about it for a long time. I would add that another way to see this, is that there is a potential for consciousness everywhere. Like a fundamental physical field. When matter is organised complex enough, this potential materialize into consciousness. So you are already playing every other lives at the same time without knowing it.

Don't watch this video on shrooms bad mistake

You go girl! 👍🏼

Thank you. THANK YOU. I've felt this way about existence for some time now but I never had the ability to put it into words because it's too overwhelming. And you did it perfectly!!! Thank you so much!

adam, you're fucking amazing, when you said "because before i was me/adam i was nothing" my mind expanded

This same philosophy is why I believe in reincarnation

But Adam, how do I grind my wood cutting to lvl. 99 if my player character didn't get the "lumberjack career" dlc?

"The illusion of progress is exciting; it keeps things interesting." Holy fuck

Man this got me crying walking on the street. Thank you. Truly beautiful words.