The future as it is called doesn't really exist, except as expectation, projection, working to prevent fears., etc. Time as we moderns perceive it, is made-up to manage daily time. It's artificial and convenient. in short an illusion. The past is not an objective past - the past are memories of the past that exists in a relative present. All time is happening at once in the world of being. My ego perceives the past as if it were a place back there. My being transcends ego.

When I felt this for the first time in 1991 everything transformed. And the "spooky quote Alan Watts made" is simple as pie.

Have you read any of his quotes about media - like film and television?