Club Kundabuffer

 

Is this "the sly man"? Or maybe not, since "Nathan" just admitted that his former business (selling magical crystals for a profit) was a scam. What if some of "Nathan´s" customers sue him?

Just as I suspected, this guy is a wanna-be "cult" leader. Or "club" leader, to use his own terminology. The most charitable interpretation is that he´s into some modernized version of Advaita Vedanta or Zen. A less charitable interpretation? Think OTO, Franklin Jones, or even Gurdjieff. What is the "power" he constantly talks about? Kundalini, maybe...?

Not recommended.

Just drop it, bruh

 

- Do I look like a Roshi to you, huh huh?

Can ChatGPT please just stop trying to make me practice Zen Buddhism?! Thank you very much, sir!

Permission to be whole

 

This is bullshit. Alan Watts was simply an alcoholic. Get over it. Dude Weed LMAO!

Scott Carney is the man

 

Note how my man Scott Carney goes from a materialist argument to a form of panpsychism or pantheism. 

But...

According to Carney, Alan Watts said "you are the universe becoming conscious of itself". But surely Watts had it exactly backwards? "You" are the universe *losing* its consciousness of itself as the universe.

You´re not the most imporant part of the whole. You´re its least important part. The Moon eats people.   

Context is everything

 

Note how Scott Carney seamlessly transitions from a materialist denial of a unified self or soul, to a de facto form of pantheism. Which could pass for Buddhism in the United States. 

Yes, it´s the same Carney who is currently feuding with Enahm Hof, Wim Hof´s son (or so my man Carney claims)...

Probably don´t have time to check him out further, but feel free to do so yourselves!

Alan Anonymous

 

This is a "parody" of sorts, featuring an AI-generated version of Alan Watts. It sounds almost real, and the only thing that gives the game away is that Watts died long before 4Chan and Anonymous even existed. Or even the internet.

Since Watts was a Zen Buddhist, his "rebirth" as an AI entity does have a certain bizarre logic! 

It seems Alan "Anonymous" Watts is The Man, after all. 

Atheism in the name of God

 

Maverick Zen Buddhist and hippie satguru Alan Watts discusses the nature of God, or rather the Ground of Being, which he identifies with Kali and the Void. Not sure if I like this perspective, to be honest! Still, a very consistent defense of the idea that the Divine is impersonal, or im-anything really. 

Prevalent as measles

 

Alan Watts talks about mysticism. Or rather about a very specific kind of mysticism, which he then asserts is universal and the foundation of all religions. Which it isn´t, of course. Watts lived during simpler times...

You are the universe

 

Fascinating in a way, but the soundbite "You are the universe" probably isn´t very clever when trying to convince narcissistic Californians about the need for ecological consciousness (or anything really). 

Organic unity

 

Not sure why this is supposed to be a good thing...

Alan Watts is the man

 

So I discovered this clip featuring Alan Watts in almost-full hippie regalia, drinking Japanese tea somewhere in California circa 1971. Modernized Zen Buddhism meets Green pantheism.