How To Be Fully Alive Now - Alan Watts | After Skool
Summary
This episode explores the futility of deferring life’s satisfaction to the future, arguing that hope in tomorrow is a hoax that keeps us from being fully alive in the present. The speaker critiques the habit of living through linear, abstract descriptions of reality rather than experiencing the multidimensional "eternal now." Drawing on Christian and Eastern wisdom, the text highlights how the ego’s illusion of selfhood creates fear and attachment, whereas realizing one’s non-existence leads to liberation. Ultimately, the message emphasizes that by dying to the self, one becomes free from t…
Topics discussed
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The Hoax of Future Hope
The Limitations of Linear Language
Eating Abstractions and the Tao
Eternal Now and Silence of Mind
Sermon on the Mount: Lilies and Worry
You Are the Boss's Son
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Begin Now, Not Later
Spiritual Pride and Readiness
The Quaking Mess of Sensitivity
The Non-Existence of the Ego
Rebirth Through Self-Forgoing
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