"Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone." -Alan W. Watts

@princeedmunddukeofedinburg

3 жыл бұрын

I washed my hands in the muddy water - Elvis Presley

@BumaBightMaryme

2 жыл бұрын

@@princeedmunddukeofedinburg 😆 🤣

@arbiter8246

Жыл бұрын

If that’s true why do we need to clean our water system?

@cob571

Жыл бұрын

@@arbiter8246 my dad runs a water treatment plant. Water is mostly cleaned with gravity filters. You leave it alone and most of the nasty stuff settles to the bottom

@arbiter8246

Жыл бұрын

@@cob571 damn gravity is being exploited without pay!

when he says "you're looking at you" it makes me feel really warm inside, he uses such a humble and gentle sort of tone when he says it, beautiful

I owe melodysheep such an immense debt. If not for this music, I might never have become aware of the philosophy of Alan Watts or the transformative worldview of Carl Sagan, both of which are mainstays that have kept me from going over the edge.

@ShakinJamacian

10 жыл бұрын

I feel the same! Right on, friend.

@BrunoHolanda

9 жыл бұрын

I share this feeling of debt, almost all my bookcase was created by melodysheep, I love this channel!

@Ocasek77

9 жыл бұрын

What do you mean by "going over the edge"?

@ShakinJamacian

9 жыл бұрын

Kai Tendo She probably means that Watts and Sagan helped give her a clearer picture of the world instead of that tribalistic, close-minded, egoic outlook all too many people have of the world around them. Groups like ISIS are based in that line of closed off thinking, and it's a common trait to see in the world.

@dejureclaims8214

9 жыл бұрын

ShakinJamacian Specifically, I mean that they have helped me to recognise human affairs as only a small function of the universe. A genuine acknowledgement of the line we share with chemical and evolutionary history has changed my life fundamentally.

Thanks for the comments everybody! I elected to keep the audio hiss in order to preserve the character of the original video (1971). I also think it adds a desirable eerie quality to the sound.

@Kowzorz

4 жыл бұрын

Ahead of the lofi curve

@brightland9

3 жыл бұрын

Ten years on and I would absolutely love if you did more work with Alan Watts someday.. All of your work is spectacular

@Kaio_Kid

3 жыл бұрын

No complaints here 👌

@etiopisk4life

2 жыл бұрын

Hi 👋🏼

Melodysheep and Alan Watts?! Two of my favourite things! How have I only just discovered this?

@rainbowpheanix

Жыл бұрын

from my perspective, you were 8 jears early. Lucky you. and since were all connected: lucky me^^

This man saved me from suicide many years ago. Every time something I discover something frightful, I always come back. I truly pains me that this man is dead, and that finding successor is so hard with all the new age crap out there.

@singleplayeradventurer691

2 жыл бұрын

I don't see him dead. That influence is still going on within and the teachings will abide in living tissues , that grey matter as we all traverse the same as Alan Watts.

@frozzytango9927

11 ай бұрын

White man making money from Asian philosophy.

I feel it to the point of tears of joy...

The chair you sit on, the earth you walk on, the air you breath, the food you eat, the sun you absorb, and the sounds you hear are not separate from your physical body. They are your physical body as much as your hands and feet are your physical body. You can't live without them, and they aren't relevant without you.

Awesome!!! One more for the playlist!!!! Thanks John!!!

"everything in nature depends on.... everything elce...." this guys a badass

This blew my mind...can't get enough of it... Like... Love... Subscribe... Commentary...

Nature is wiggly ♪

@Blight_OS

6 жыл бұрын

william Barker everything wiggles

@Blight_OS

6 жыл бұрын

william Barker and all of this wiggliness is too complicated.

@mysterymonsters969

6 жыл бұрын

timey wimey

"When you look out of your eyes at nature happening out there, you're looking at YOU, that's the real YOU, the YOU that goes on of itself." I love it!

This is one of my favorite videos. Watts was certainly a genius in his own right. e had some important things to say. I wish there were more Alan Watts in today's world. RIP Alan.

@bizbite2

10 жыл бұрын

Alan would say he's still in here, always was, always will... Like a wave that returns back into the ocean... he's in everything... he is universe... we are universe...

@Blight_OS

6 жыл бұрын

damn. too deep.

@nivya4679

4 жыл бұрын

He still alive alright

People like Alan are on another plane, and yet apart of everything; even us. We need more like Mister Watts♥

"Nature is wiggly" -Allen Watts

I know I'm drunk and high but Alan Watts is spitting Barzz!!! 🔥 🔥 🐉

There once was a man who said, "Though, it seems that I know that I know, what I'd like to see is the I that knows me, when I know that I know that I know." - Alan Watts

@foodbody2031

3 жыл бұрын

I can't understand. It's too late for you to see this comment but if you see this, could you explain it to me? Thanks

@GabrielWithoutWings

3 жыл бұрын

@@foodbody2031 It's completely subjective. You have to interpret it in your own way. It's just a poem.

@udaypsaroj

2 жыл бұрын

Just bookmarking this

Masterpiece !

I love Alan Watts! Symphony of Science just keeps getting better.

Make more songs with Alan Watts please!!!! :D

@YOU.ARE.LOVE.

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed

"now listen" is the best part

Absolutely wonderful... sad that someone like him is gone : /

A guru is one who is regarded as having great knowledge,wisdom, and authority in a certain area, and who uses it to guide others... When I listen to all the self help gurus today making millions from the wisdom they offer ..i think back .back when they were young they drank from a stream which was flowing from one man~~ A.Watts

wow..... What a beautifull way to look at life/the world, i mean i always beleived in interconnectedness... But to see the world and its flora as a whole and to see oneself as a oneness with it....... Thats you, thats the real you!

It cracks me up that Watts is standing there in a field like a boss in his pimp suit with his cane, sort of "rapping" his words of wisdom :D Still beautiful though.

@WideAwake127

9 жыл бұрын

Yeah right :)

@Sydebern

9 жыл бұрын

***** Because life becomes a pain if you take everything that seriously.

@Sydebern

9 жыл бұрын

***** Ok.

@Blight_OS

6 жыл бұрын

it's mixed but I see your point. he's dope as fuck.

@pg9193

6 жыл бұрын

do you still have a moral hangup on the world's oldest profession?

We need more people like him in this world..

So many humans seem to miss the fact that we are a part of nature, not apart from nature. Thanks for putting us in our place.

If it's you who made this sort of song about Alan Watts ,you are Great It's so nice

"In the same way that a wave is something the whole ocean is doing, you are something that the whole universe is doing"

@midnightchurningspriteshaq8533

3 жыл бұрын

Beautifully said and intrinsically true

@kimberleyyoung803

Жыл бұрын

This put it so clear for me in my mind and was such a comfort to me. I'm not alone.

i dont ever get tired of listening to him. and you put him in a beautiful melody...it's double the happiness :) thank you!

Selflessness, compassion, mercy, charity, humility... this is the path to letting go of ourselves.

Absolute genius. I love how the vocal blends so dreamily with the melody. excellent production dude fish : ) peace yo

amazing way of presenting it! the music was perfect very good samples

Your heroes are my heroes! I am glad that you made this song/video. Alan Watts just got a big popularity boost!

I love melodysheep it's such a raw look at the importance of life and the individuals around us....

Brilliant remix! Thanks.

Quoting Carl Sagan "You are the universe experiencing itself!"

The more I listen to Alan Watts, the more I relate to him.

I dont understand why this isnt as famous as the symphony of science videos, its awesome!

While Alan Watts was going on about the wiggliness of nature I thought there was gonna be some like crazy unexpected black guy shouting "DAMN NATURE YOU WIGGLY" thus leading to a softcore hip hop interlude with a sicknasty freestyle scratch and a catchy voice sample of Watts going "zen zen zen nigga zen zen zen" in the background. But that's why melodysheep makes the music, and I just listen to it. nature is happening out there, guys

@DiamondMind

10 жыл бұрын

Arrrghhh yes... yes god damn it... yes

@hafsashahid7936

9 жыл бұрын

:D

@phosphorescence

9 жыл бұрын

fking nature, shit flyin in my mouth I... I just can't see.

Alan watts: when you look out your eyes at nature happening out there, your looking at you- Thats the REAL you... Me: * looks at dead tree * Also me: i can see that...

@princeedmunddukeofedinburg

3 жыл бұрын

Haha

Suicide is something we tie to leaving our pain behind. But only creates more for those living, best way is finding cooping mechanisms. For me, that has been Alan. From addisons diesase killing me to realizing not only the pain i felt. But the pain in the eyes of those looking at me and my soul. We will carry our debts with us when we die but it is important not to force so. Alan has made my thoughts more clear and concise. Am extremely thankful but still fighting daily for reasons. Just keep a reminder, you matter. To someone, to something. What ever your purpose may be. Love when he talks about letting go. "It is important that we let go of ourselves, and it can be done. Not by anything we call, by doing. Acting, willing or even just accepting." We are all going to die but carrying a differnce in your heart, makes changes. Thanks Alan!

A MelodySheep x Alan Watts ALBUM PPLLLEEEEEAAASSSSSE!!!!

If you liked Baraka, you'll love Koynaqaatsi and Samsara

@d0nj03

10 жыл бұрын

*Koyaanisqatsi

Alan watts looks like king ecbert form vikings

@anthonyterrado5116

8 жыл бұрын

lol right!?

@romeoechofoxtrot18

8 жыл бұрын

anthony terrado glad someone noticed

@mirraust

5 жыл бұрын

Hugh Mann Haha! 😂

Long live the king!

2022? I need it more than ever!

he gotta be high. "wiggly wiggle. everything wiggle. look at that tree over there, that's you!"

@ShakinJamacian

8 жыл бұрын

+Tortoise010 Not high, actually. His view is largely talking about a state of not-self and nondualism. These concepts are actually heavily supported by science. A neurologist can make the same calls about the illusion of personhood and use data to back them up. For Watts, it was about experience to see there's no "I" that is cut off from the world, that thinks thoughts, and how such views were true bullshit. If everything is interdependent and interconnected, how is there separateness to the degree we infer? If there is no free will and no way to be a cut off "I," how can you have a self, soul, or ego? How we define ourselves is one of the greatest illusions of human thought ever devised.

@Blockistium

8 жыл бұрын

In the original video, he criticizes Euclid for imposing arbitrary rules on the logic of space and time. He expands on this to the point that he correlates things like the sins of Industrialism with Euclidean Geometry. Not exactly a professional, cited thesis paper, (a left-leaning Historian would talk more about Capitalism, for example) but it's an interesting train of thought.

@Baby4Ghost

8 жыл бұрын

+Tortoise010 Once a friend and I was smoking at the harbor. So we where just smoking, talking a bit and watching the night sky (it was night) and so we saw some stars. I was pretty high and pointed at the brightest star in the sky and told my friend: "See that star, that's me". He now lives in Norway (Im in The Netherlands) and he better remember me when he sees my star :D

@Blockistium

7 жыл бұрын

your name though

Alan Watts should submit an entry to *The Truth Contest.* It is a website that is seeking the answers to the big questions of life, where we come from, where we are going, why we are here, the truth about life and death. If you know the answers, make an entry.

@DanielThomasArgueta

9 жыл бұрын

He is not alive anymore.

@culvere.2488

9 жыл бұрын

Alan's message was that there is no point, so it'd be fruitless had he still been alive anyway.

@RelentlessTruth7

9 жыл бұрын

Daniel T. Argueta Sadly

@Edbrad

5 жыл бұрын

Died in 1973 lol

It's been 10 years, damn...

I listened to this on repeat this morning for about an hour. I still love it.

He sings (autotune) better than Britney Spears lol

please never Autotune Alan Watts again.

@Blockistium

7 жыл бұрын

please never watch a melodysheep video again

@PrimeNPC

7 жыл бұрын

He killed alan

@Blockistium

7 жыл бұрын

oh shit.......... we gotta get melodysheep in jail now........

@plasticflashlight3039

7 жыл бұрын

Well I thought it was pretty funny. Then again I'm high as FUCK.

@beakersbeaker6399

7 жыл бұрын

I agree, obviously someone doesn't appreciate the sound and vibration of his wisdom given to us through words, They think they can improve on the substance, instead they ruin it. Life doesn't have a sound track.

Beautiful!!! I have watched and understood the original A Conversation with Myself - and this is a beautiful version put to music!! Well done!

Such wisdom and inner beauty we can learn from A

When you look out your eyes At nature happening out there You're looking at you That's the real you The you that goes on of itself The most beautiful part of the video and song :) Thanks for creating these videos.

I fell asleep to this, it's so peaceful Xx

Whoever you are who created this video, you're beautiful

10 years and it has still avoided a copyright wipe... Watt's brother takes his brother's work offline for monetary gain, and I love this video, so I'm happy it's still here.

I love Alan Watts and Baraka. Well done.

this almost brought a tear to my eye

A. Watts helped me to take myself less seriously. His message is so clear and sane, that I feel more in tune with myself, after hearing his entertaining views. With youtube his voice reaches more people, than it had the opportunity to reach before the Internet. That makes me smile. To those who question his sincerity, I tell: I know he was a drunk, and a womanizer even. But that doesn't take away from the message, it only shows he was a human too, that's OK, and don't take this too seriously ;)

I am looking out of my eyes and I see me everywhere I am there with all the rest of nature....!!!

put a smile on my face thank you

Just what I needed to hear after a long day... Thank you very much.

reminds me how much I love Mother Nature...

8 seconds in and i already know this is fantastic.

Fantastic, this was a very successful branch out from the symphony of science aspect. The music and feel of the song just makes you want to listen and that is the reason I am a big fan of these videos.

i mean DAMN this is like the BEST THING ON THE NET - melodysheep goes HARD

It took me a year of reading and thinking to really understand this song. Worth it though.

Same here! Melody was a great companion over a very huge transformation starting line going on today still

Great song with these phrases we always forget. :) Thanks!.

This video has such an effect on me, I cannot believe it. Great stuff! Alan Watts was one of a kind.

You sir, are an incredible artist

10,000 years. Once we're gone, that's about the time Earth needs to forget we ever existed.

Amazing!! Words cannot describe it

melodysheep has come a loooong way

Alan would have loved this. Thank you for creating it.

Love it Love it Love it...Thank You MelodySheep ;)

I used to watch this again and again years ago. It still resonates with me.

This is a brilliant little production. Thanks👍

im addicted to this. are you even capable of making anything that isnt incredible mr boswell?

The best thing about Melodysheep is not only his music/beats, but he's introduced me to so many amazing thinkers...

Honestly I wouldn't have even autotuned him. A rapping Alan Watts is already the best thing ever.

THIS IS PEACE IN ITS PUREST FORM

This is a fantastic song. It makes me want to listen over and over, and each time I do I get the fantastic message that is being delivered.

I love this! Can't stop listening to it. Thank you for creating such a great mixture of wisdom and beautiful music. Alan Watts is brilliant. I'd love to see more clips like this on youtube! Especially of Alan Watts. :-)

Carl Sagan, just like Alan Watts, are some of the greatest thinkers and speakers of human history, and certainly of the last century. If you truly get Sagan and Watts, you realize the points they share are similar, and where they branch out as separate things still offers great insight. There is nothing either one says that contradicts the other. In fact, both of them compliment one another wonderfully.

Brilliant, inspiring, timely. I'm going to spread this around.

I really love what you do and how you do it!!! Please don't stop!!!!!

I’m at the park lying on a hammock listening to this ... the intro was on point haha

Alan Watts and Carl Sagan are perhaps the two people of recent times to be so full of wisdom and sincere intellect that it blows my mind that we don't have more people like them! I think the world would be a better place if we didn't fall into the potholes of mainstream society and think, and more importantly, ACT well beyond that linear, binary scope of looking at things. There is more to life than what we dare fathom.

this is the best melody of sheep video...

Epiphany. Sudden realization of great truth. Thanks :)

I once typed in "The Nature of Consciousness" on a whim (or so I'll call it) and a transcript of one of his lectures came up. I read it immediately. The next day, I went out and bought a copy of The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, and it changed my life. I am a huge fan of Terence McKenna, and I love almost everything the guy says...but ultimately, I have to go back to Watts as my "hero" as such. I wish he were still among us, and I know that he is...as he himself says.

THANK you for this compilation - it's great, even to dance!

I love this, another great video, and song, TY.

I agree with everyone here that your work is a beautiful blessing upon the universe! Thank you for continuing to remix and synthesize mind-blowing ideas in your own, unique, pleasant way...

Beautiful, Excellent and Wonderful Done!