SECRETS! Hypn0t!c Alan Watts ~ Awareness ~ Lofi Sleep ~Meet a ghost
Channel: Conditioned Intuition
Date: 14/07/2021

Alan Watts Lectures

I do not take credit for the lecture.

now today we are living in an age which is quite peculiar because in the world of science there are no longer any secrets

because the method of science requires that all scientists be in communication with each other therefore that every scientist as soon as he has discovered something or got a good idea he rushes into print and it's important for him to do so because some other scientists somewhere else in the world might be thinking about something on the same lines that would be stimulated in his work by this man's speculations even if not by discoveries and so the whole scientific world tries to remain in communication and for this reason uh it was absolutely impossible to keep atomic energy a secret in former ages that might have been managed because there were many secrets once upon a time and people were not admitted to these secrets unless they were in some way tested and found capable of handling them without running amok we live in such a dangerous age because all the secrets are out in the open and anybody can run them up with them and that's just the situation we haven't faced and that is just the situation we have to handle it is too late to stop it because that would be as they say locking the door after the horse has bolted the vice president of an extremely important corporation in the united states very progressive and very vital a few months ago said there are two major forces operating in the world today for good or for evil one is red china the other is lsd

and there is a certain reason why such a thing as a certain chemical which is capable of opening people's minds in a certain way should be something extremely disturbing because uh this particular chemical in common with a number of others that have been known for centuries but have been rather played cool through those centuries

is capable of doing something which simply cannot be tolerated

that is to say capable of letting properly prepared individuals or sometimes improperly prepared individuals in on a secret which is very closely guarded and which is as a matter of fact the deepest and most fundamental of all our social taboos

i have just finished writing a book which i've had with a sort of tongue-in-cheek attitude had the temerity to call the book and it is subtitled the book you see on the taboo against knowing who you are

because that is really the thing that cannot be let out uh sex is not really a serious taboo in our culture if you are initiating a young person into life and you realize that your son or daughter is going to college and that you are therefore to have a serious talk they'll laugh at you and say all this thing you're telling us about sex we knew years ago and we know more about it than you do so uh that is not a subject uh for a serious initiation talk to a young person so we have to think again and try and find out think deeply what is fundamentally taboo in this culture and perhaps in other cultures as well what uh would what information in other words would really let the cat out of the bag and give away the show now quest around a bit ask yourself this for what reason would a person be considered hopelessly insane what uh sort of claims must a person simply not make well there is one and that is if anybody claims that he is god

that simply isn't done certainly not in our culture although it's very frequent in india but in our culture that is simply uh not allowed because we uh most of us from a christian background and if not that from a jewish background it was a great deal in common because both christians and jews are deeply concerned about somebody called jesus christ both christians and jews are in a way followers of jesus christ in different ways he is a problem to both because he was the man who came out and discovered he was god

and that simply is impermissible the jews handled it in one way the christians handled it quite as effectively in another way the christians handled jesus perfectly even more tactfully than the jews by putting him on a pedestal and saying this was the only man who ever was god and nobody else was really so before and certainly nobody can be so afterwards stop right there put him on the altar bow down to him worship him so that everything he had to say will be now but you see the trouble about deep secrets is they can't be repressed indefinitely now here's the problem you see that there are certain processes some of which are