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Alan Watts about what reality is. A short clip I made with some footage I recorded with the Osmo Pocket 3.
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What we really are
We pay attention to our own true nature and by becoming fully conscious of the union of our nature with Christ, we become fully ourselves.
John Main, Word into Silence, p.18
The idea of time has many expressions, from chronological to biological, emotional to cosmic. We sometimes feel we have lived a lifetime in a moment. We can feel time as a crucifixion or as a resurrection. The vast figures measuring cosmic time in an expanding universe can seem overwhelming but the few years of a human life can seem more significant and precious. Time and mortality live out the drama of birth and death and the painful mystery of separation. In the light of faith we come by stages to see the all-pervading mystery of union…
This consummation of union, whether it is called nirvana, liberation from rebirth, enlightenment, moksha or heaven is part of the common ground of all religious wisdom when we understand religion in its mystical dimension. It refers to the experience of oneness, the transcendence of the ego’s centre of consciousness, the transformation of the dualistic mind, the movement from the mind’s self-mirroring complexities into the simplicity and pure vision of the heart, the non-duality of the spirit. With a silent passion deeper than their words and differences, all religions point to this. If they do indeed teach this way and not just pay lip service to it, religion offers our often sad and battered humanity a reasonable and empowering hope.
We both lose and find ourselves in the otherness of ultimate reality. This is easy to say but it is a hard paradox to wrestle with. It demands a deepening faith commitment. When the master class of life has taught us enough, commitment meets detachment and solitude, the recognition and acceptance of our uniqueness becomes more attractive and even easier. We gradually withdraw from unnecessary activity and distraction. We become freer from compulsions and addictions.
Laurence Freeman, First Sight: The Experience of Faith, p.76-77
What we really are is this. We are not what we think we are, frail isolated intelligences trapped in a zero-sum game of mere survival, creatures of allegiances and enmities, just barely hanging on. We belong. We are part of it all, wavelets on a limitless ocean of grace.
We must… make a clear distinction between belief and faith, because, in general practice, belief has come to mean a state of mind which is almost the opposite of faith. Belief, as I use the word here, is the insistence that the truth is what one would “lief” or wish it to be. The believer will open his mind to the truth on the condition that it fits in with his preconceived ideas and wishes. Faith, on the other hand, is an unreserved opening of the mind to the truth, whatever it may turn out to be. Faith has no preconceptions; it is a plunge into the unknown. Belief clings, but faith lets go. In this sense of the word, faith is the essential virtue of science, and likewise of any religion that is not self-deception.
Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity p.24
Faith is no more, perhaps, than this radical open-heartedness, this helpless surrender to what is, in David Jones’ words, “actually loved and known”. All our practice, all our patience and all our prayers come down to this simple oneness. What we used to be is dispersed, patched and rotted through with light. None of the old certainties can hold. They don’t need to: this trackless brightness beyond the memory of shorelines is the waking heart itself, nothing more.
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This was made in 10 minutes from footage I got at a vintage car "display" or whatever you call that. I was testing my second hand Osmo Pocket 3. Added some music and a bit with Alan Watts. Enjoy 😃
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The world in slow motion - And Alan Watts
It's a brand new day, I haven't figure out my last week, and I spoke with most of my friends, and I'm still confused by the idea, concept and how it's breaking my own way of living, but this isn't the only thing, maybe there is more, and here comes this week text to express it.
https://jeferson.me/blog/2026/04/24/are-we-free
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"Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing, you’re a writer. Write like you’re a goddamn death row inmate and the governor is out of the country and there’s no chance for a pardon. Write like you’re clinging to the edge of a cliff, white knuckles, on your last breath, and you’ve got just one last thing to say, like you’re a bird flying over us and you can see everything, and please, for God’s sake, tell us something that will save us from ourselves. Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we’re not alone. Write like you have a message from the king. Or don’t. Who knows, maybe you’re one of the lucky ones who doesn’t have to.”
― Alan Wilson Watts
During a discussion of how only power matters between states, not laws (whether international or not, whether long-established or not), I was reminded of Alan Watts' saying "There really is no other problem for human beings than ... [death]" [1] and how that encompasses ALL of the various struggles humanity has been through whether it's against slavery or for the eight hour day or whatever you look at. The threat is always, ultimately, "comply or we will kill you" whether from a state, a corporation, an individual, doesn't matter. And so it is between states themselves as well to a degree. Sadly.
[1] See for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioFG999aOCs&t=125s but if you have the time, just watch the whole thing. 🤷
(Proudly self-plagiarized from a January 2026 post from my previous account.)
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