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(There is endless material that could be added here; these are a few quick picks to start. More WILL be added as time goes on. The cutting edges of reality must at all times be ready to make room for further and new speculations. Human knowledge is always a work in progress.)
Enlightenment: when we suddenly realize that there is far more to the world than our previous and limited awareness has contained (38 seconds):
http://usat.ly/2icrSyB
Alan Watts:
You can't go wrong by kicking things off with Alan Watts. Here's a contemporary updating of some of his main ideas:
http://boingboing.net/2016/12/24/are-you-really-the-universe-it.html
And here's a whole section of Alan Watts. Alan Watts was an amazingly prolific and insightful popularizer of various Eastern traditions including Buddhism, Zen, Taoism, and Hinduism. You can see him reappear in every spiritual popularizer since then, including Deepak Chopra, Eckhart Tolle, Wayne Dyer, etc, etc. These are all of the branches that grew from the trunk of Watts. Of course, Watts himself would be the first to admit that his trunk was sitting on roots that were ancient, wide, and deep. True wisdom is timeless, placeless, and personality-less. Know that Watts would likely not approve of many of the commercials that precede his lectures:
How to contact your higher self 13 min:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RFZQjLMV6Y
Seeing through the illusion of the world 55 min:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqorco2kCW0
Egocentricity in humanity 55 min:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkhR9c17ibE
Liberating yourself from society 55 min:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG0L7NsoxqE
How society keeps tricking you 22 min:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ly9xssV9UM
How beliefs create reality:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4Qp_q-PqAc&t=54s
Jesus and his religion 55 min:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MMn6TFvAXc
Buddhism explained 45 min:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukeK8uimkKE
Buddhism and science (1960 tv program with Watts) 30 min:
(He was tireless and prolific from the beginning.
Love the use of the zen brush for his explanations!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzyDTV6EzUs
Cultivating the level of detachment 50 min:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWm2eQzjzNY
The illusion of expectations 55 min:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I3EpotfwxQ
Gaining control by letting go 1 hr 12 min:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQfzwinDrrQ
Your worst enemy is your mind 1 hr 15 min:
(with links to more talks)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlp7YDVkAfM&t=97s
LSD - the secret and how to handle it
(LSD was very popular in Watt's day)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9rQLLDTOdU
You are who you keep seeking (including reincarnation) 50 min:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhuGy7nnNaE
There is endless Watts material online. He has also written many books. This is just a sampling.
Here's an Alan Watts portal for more, but this is far from complete:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-IRvwI81a4&list=PL7QrlNLVje3PUShE-hcg2PIXd7Y5oikqf
Metaphysics Proper:
Metaphysics in 4 min:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxV0zGVDXKo
Metaphysics in brief, 8 min:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKq0Afmsj-U
And Alan Watts gives his 2 cents, 22 min:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksUYxdX8PRg
"Metaphysics is the study of reality." The long version 1 hr, 22 min:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uy8UGPxpCGs
Jung, the Collective Unconscious, and Archetypes:
Archetypes are found throughout literature and culture. 2 min:
(The 12 astrological signs are archetypes):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUJMlSwxu8w
12 common archetypes in 12 minutes (not necessarily astrological):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGucYzMhsAY
Or, if that's too much, 4 minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaivpNssqVA
Or, if you would like a full lecture 1 hr 22 min :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAE4bFKpUlA
The Collective Unconscious 18 min:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WCKLg4oUrQ
In-depth Jung including all of the above and more, 2 hrs 30 min:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lViOY9wIDBQ&list=PLk7GfzughQiCUjg62OF26FBGEDUUtILZ-
Astrology and Metaphysics:
(See also the astrology section. Astrology is by definition metaphysical. Astrology is intimately connected with spirituality, because our horoscopes are our primary connection between the material world and the world of the immaterial; that of spirit, soul, and archetypes):
Astrology as guidance, Ravi Shankar (not the musician) 3 min:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3LmJ9n2bKg
Ravi Shankar on Saturn and spirituality 7 min:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7pFGWmt7VY
Astrology, mind, and space/time Ravi Shankar 8 min:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi-Lz-_YT6k
Lots More Stuff:
Closer to Truth: large grab bag of videos on physics, consciousness, metaphysics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3CunRgjXBk
2 hour documentary on the life of the Buddha:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDgd8LT9AL4
Ray Grasse Varieties of mystical experience 1hr 6min:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okbAziEeBpQ&t=1543s
Holographic universe 1hr 22 min:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMBt_yfGKpU
Law of Attraction with Dr Wayne Dyer 1hr 30 min:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c3307Ia7Nw
Krishnamurti on freedom from mental programming:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GncsGOHrjDs&feature=youtu.be
An interesting speculation for Jesus' missing years:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nP73FPMNHQ
All religions are man's attempts to understand. True understanding, and reality itself, undoubtedly lie beyond the various stories and traditions of the different religions. Here are some more speculation regarding Christianity's ties to Hinduism. Religions certainly did borrow from each other, but Christianity no doubt has a very distinct origin from that of Hinduism, in contrast to this video. Nonetheless, the world is full of parallels and archetypes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcrygSAqfj4
Now that Alan Watts and Krishnamurti are gone, not to mention the Buddha and a hundred other teachers, Eckhart Tolle is taking up the teachings for the modern world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3CunRgjXBk