Alan Watts

And then the film started.

Yeah, my introduction to this world was Alan Watts.

Yeah.

So same genre.

So, yeah, I think it leaves a mark on some people, at least.

It really brings back for me someone who was in a manner of speaking on this path at one time in my life.

And I was enriched by, as I mentioned to you, Alan Watts and the teachings of Alan Watts.

And this sort of letting go of your ego, letting go of the things that appear to be very important, I think is eternal in terms of the questions we have to ask ourselves.

And then everyone's, and then you'll see something that's like the meaning of life.

Like these Alan Watts philosophy videos or... cartoon bubbles like explaining like Carl Jung or like Alan Watts or like you know I get these deep esoteric kind of things but a lot of like sound bowl sound healing stuff because I'm like trying to fall asleep or trying to relax at the end of the day to someone giving me like a nice little digital sound healing we also really love to watch we're really bad about the This whatever show we're currently like binging and obsessed with, immediately after an episode, we just go to YouTube and watch somebody dissect it and analyze it, which is always so fascinating to me, I think, to like catch symbols and things that you missed.

And I love that too.

I just love that about... art or you know media on like television and movies and like knowing why they chose the music and little things in the background like the set design and like finding all of those hidden things when you watch something for like the third or fourth time that to me feels it feels very like the creation of like the deck or something right like little hidden elements that you don't know or me choosing songs there's like a song for every deck or for every card in a deck that I spent weeks putting together because I...

Und gleichzeitig so die Frage: Wie sehr sind wir Individuum und wie sehr sind wir eigentlich auch Teil eines größeren Ganzen? Und, ähm, da hat mich so ein Philosoph die letzten Jahre sehr gepackt.

Das ist so Alan Watts, so'n unbekannter Philosoph, war auch so'n ganz, äh, komischer, so'n Lebemann war der auch, äh, und aber hat, hat, äh, etwas gesagt.

Vor einigen Jahren bin ich auf ihn gekommen, ähm, zu einem Satz, ähm: Ähm, wir alle sind wie, also die Menschen an sich und alles uns herum ist wie ein Meer und jedes Individuum ist wie eine Welle.

Es taucht eine gewisse, in einer gewissen Lebenszeit taucht es auf, ist als Welle sichtbar und verschwindet dann wieder hinterher im Meer.

... you're not contingent to it going a specific way.

And I, I really love the, um There, there's a Buddhist philosophy that Alan Watts talks about.

He goes, "The, the river of life is what it is.

You cannot change it.

If you knew everything, you're the only thing.

So Alan Watts says this.

If you were all-knowing, what would you do? Well, you would start to dream.

And initially you would dream one night.

I will sort of add one sort of complication or caveat to that, which is that back in the early 70s, after psychedelics were criminalized and Ram Dass and others were sort of moving into meditation.

And so there was this sort of saying, I think Alan Watts might have said this, too, that once you've got the message, just hang up the phone.

And that was used as like, we're beyond psychedelics, we're into meditation and all.

But what I think it fundamentally misses the point is that there's not just one message and we're not just one person.

It was a great experience, culture experience.

I got to wrestle with the European guys.

Got to compete a couple times while I was there.

It was great.

But he's always trusted in me, believed in me, you know, put in work to me.

Even whenever, you know, maybe I didn't want to put in the work, he pushed me and, you know, i believe that willie's made me the guru i said i am today without him i don't think i'd be where i am

he is he is a a great person i will tell you and he'll tell you uh he's had that he's had to talk me off a ledge a couple times in my frustration son so you know he's always been like a good sounding board for anybody to talk to he's a really really good dude um and he's got you right um so you're you're gonna be competing on the uh The Tournament of Champions that NC United's doing, do you know who's in your bracket? Have you guys got bracket? I know a couple kids have gotten saw like their matchups.

What do you know about that?