Thought provoking video - Jim Carrey | Alan Watts

Jim Carrey , Alan Watts explores the profound mystery of creating who we are
Jim and Andy - The Great Beyond

[barbarahegg]

I always imagine what kind of people are watching these videos. I think all of you guys are spiritual so aware and so positive, but sadly we are such a small part in todays world.Try to imagine our world filled with people like us, it would be such a good one i think.

[yaryar]

Jim was the person everyone else enjoyed. Now he is who he enjoys.

[el]

''Falling to your grave holding a person that you never were'''.. Priceless.

[kestrelfeather]

I took that other road many years ago, when I was about 20. I obstinately followed that path of self-discovery. Now I'm an old man, changing again as I've learned to do. Throughout my adult life, right up to this very day, I mostly did those things that 'I' wanted to do, not those things other people thought I 'should' do. I can't say I've not conformed to some degree during all this time. I've honestly paid my taxes. I've lived many of my dreams, climbed many mountains, crossed oceans chasing elusive love and fervent nature. I was a lonely shepherd, here in these wild and tall mountains, for thirty years, but now I've let my herd go, my last working dog has died, and I'm following this other segment of a satisfying and challenging passage on my own. These past ten years (since I gave up shepherding) I've continued to live simply and mostly what others would consider poor, as money was seldom what motivated me. Being a 'seeker' for so many years, I realized long ago that living in this 'closer to the earth' way, was and is where I truly belong. I'm an old hermit now, no longer having my goats and dogs to keep me company, still living in my old secluded log cabin here in this small, quiet, mountain village. Mostly I garden, write poetry (my poetry blog JoeC's blog spot, I think I've posted about 236 of my poems there to date), study plants and herbs, practice herbal medicine. Solitude and meditation (often deep in the back of a cave at a nearby hot springs where I sweat, say prayers and try talking to the Creator) are second nature to me now. At this point in my life I'm fortunate enough to enjoy photography, compose music, write poetry, grow my wonderful garden, consume mostly home-grown food, all at the foot of this 9000 ft., most often snow covered peak. I suppose I am an anomaly, but there are other hermits secluded not too far away in the forest here too. Uniqueness is not a human quality. Similarity keeps us connected even when the thread is short and thin. I wake up each and everyday, always thinking, "Thank God I live here". Not once have i ever thought these things I do, those things I have done here, were a mistake. Just because I'm relatively 'money' poor (much less annual cash than poverty level for this country), but in reality I feel so damn wealthy. I've been one of the lucky ones I suppose. I can honestly say I shant die regretting my life. I go out in the early morning, listen to the birds, watch the clouds and sunrise, listen to the breeze and its sibling the wind, I regularly watch the stars and the moon (the nearest town and city are many miles away, so the sky remains in a more natural state here), I sleep and eat when my body tells me to, I do what I am motivated to do and do what I want. Freedom is my second name. Freedom being that thing I've held dear all of my adult life. Of course there are other choices people can wisely make, they'll still climb mountains and wake up being grateful in the morning. Still, for me, this was a good choice, in fact a wonderful choice. If I'm lucky I'll get to enjoy many more years of living here on this amazing planet. Jim, you were a Canadian once, as am I. I see you as one of those exceptional people. Thank you for all you have done, and all that you have shared over so many years. I remember when you first reached notoriety. You telling the world, in some documentary or interview, how you were always the class clown. You've made me laugh so very often. You've entertained the world, or at least a large portion of it. We can't laugh enough in this life. Your words and thoughts now seem so compassionate and helpful. Thank you for that. Cheers and best wishes!

[jadenbastian]

Discovered Mr Alan Watts in a really dark spot of my journey. My life has never been the same. ❤️✌🏼

[sarajr]

So nice to see Robin around. Those eyes, that smile, those words. God rest his luminous soul.

[steviea]

Leonardo DaVinci said something interesting in his old age. "I spent my life learning how to live, but what I was really learning, was how to die".

[tpstrat]

In case I don’t see you, good morning, good evening, and good night. *bow*

[slipguy]

“Take a chance on who you really are, or be someone that you never were.”

[Heyxnobody]

Alan watts gets me Everytime. No matter how often i hear him say the same speech. Everytime i get closer to understand fully what he means.
Thank you for Making These Videos!

[dmv]

This video gave me goosebumps!! It reminds me that I am formless, limitless, Divine energy, FREE!! Love and light to all who view this!

[mackenzieo.]

These two men have helped me thru a heap of negative feelings and thoughts that I’m a bit ashamed of... but... I’m still here. Fighting. For my truth ..and the world’s truth.

[isabelsvoice]

i think its time to stop identifying with things. and start loving. start to feel as much love in your body as possible. this is the best way to go.

[finneire]

I have recently dropped my ego and became the person I really am
I went from being a boxer to a musician .

A tough guy to a person full of love the person I always was I always seen the beauty in people nature and mountains trees.

The society I grew up in and the area demanded I be a tough guy maybe to survive and not be picked on.

I feel so free now and have attracted beautiful people in my life and shook the chains off the people that were negative for me.

Greeting and love to all
Their will never and can never be another you.

Greeting from Dublin Ireland

[luludad]

Alan Watts was a guiding light 45 years ago while I was in college so setting me on quest of authenticity and spiritual unfolding which happily continues today. My pleasure in meeting my old friend and some of his new acquaintances is profound. Unlike knowledge which may be added to over generations, wisdom is personal and can only be nurtured over a lifetime. Much love to those companions on the road.

[AlexVite]

Most important thing I realized by listening to Alan Watts for around 5 years now is to stop searching. You are there already! You are exactly were you are supposed to be right now. Thinking about tomorrow is living in the future. Thinking about yesterday is living in the past. You have to let go of trying to control what happens to you. You can’t grab the water flowing in a river. It’s constantly moving and changing. Just swim with the flow. Enjoy every day and try to make it worth living. I’m 28 now and Alan Watts is my mentor. No living man gives me so much wisdom as he does through his audiobooks.

[MrPoe]

This is Jim carreys’ Realization that life is not as he once it was, that he is not who he once thought he was. It is his awakening to his true inner nature. He has realized that what he once thought of as the “ real” Jim Carrey, was in actuality a charicature and merely a figment of his imagination. He is attempting to point out to people that you are NOT the perception that other people have if you. That is merely the image you have projected in order to survive. It is the image that gets distorted as you age, by the toxic society we live in. People are so concerned with grit image, even though it is a false representation of who and what you are in a fundamental level. Who and what we truly are, exists in a deep soul level. Who we are in the spiritual realm is a being if energy that is connected through waves and frequencies that we can never begin to imagine. We are the universe, experiencing itself.
That is the message Jim is attempting to convey to people.

[helenbirdart]

Alan Watts - my go to inspiration plus Jim Carrey - someone who has made me laugh for decades - Awesome

[thomasrudder]

As a musician, every time I get ready to play, I always ask the universe who I’ll be channeling this time. There are nights I’m simply going through the motions, then there are the nights where I just don’t ever want to let go. It’s indescribable.

[mollydooker]

“We talk to coming into world. We didn’t we came out of it” - Alan Watts, that really gave me chills