Terence Mckenna was right about us
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- TERENCE MCKENNA
A few conclusions about life 1996
Ethnobotanist, Psychonaut, and Author
November 16, 1946 - April 3, 2000
Terence Mckenna lecture about culture.
"We are building the nervous system of the human over-soul. We are individual units operating under social rules that are pushing us ever closer toward dissolving our societies-societies; human groups run by rules-into telepathic collectivities of some sort."
In 1976, I met Terrence McKenna in Hawaii. I helped build his octagonal house--a story in its own right--and he gave me some dried mushrooms that he said were more potent than the ones we had been picking on the cattle ranch on top of the big island. I didn't know who he was then, but what he said about the mushrooms was no lie :)
Bro you gotta say more
bro took the Mckenna Mushrooms
So you could’ve made a McKenna strain and just didn’t
@@kennethgoodrum5630 LMAO!
you must have a book in the making...
It’s unfortunate that Terrence isn’t here in our physical realm to celebrate the psychedelic renaissance of our time. He blows my mind almost daily❤
Think of ourselves not as a drop in the ocean but rather as the entirety of the ocean throughout time itself contained within a single drop😊
Imagine what Terrence is, uh, working on now.
@@joeschmo7957 yoooo
Everything is as it should
@@jordankashuba3467 Reminds me of the last line of the Highwayman (Johnny Cash and co).
The AI that made this art was on a heroic dose😆
@@glorifygod1480 nah, the earth is my church, nature is my religion. 🍄 the Mother 🌍, the son = Terence Mckenna, the mushroom = the holy fairy spirit 🧚
I was just wondering if it was possible to come up with virus that gave the AI a mushroom trip.......
Would love to know the prompt
looks like piece of sht, good that it is so limited
@@scrimingbro stop hating, it doesn't and it isn't limited, crawl from underneath that godforsaken rock you've been marinating under, it's disgusting.
Every time I hear Terrence speak I’m astounded by his linguistic prose, what an absolute genius.
“Linguistic prose” bro you sound like an absolute genius
@@MonroeSim lol just listening to Terrence grows my vocabulary, I have to keep coming back though or I turn into a caveman
That’s what a life of reading does
He seemed able to speak intricate, funny and poetic in real time. It blows my mind. Personally I always search for words.
proven very effective in the treatment of various mental health issues aside from other health benefits. Helped me get out of years of depression and excessive alcohol use.
I've been looking to try shrooms, anyone knows where can I acquire some?
@Peter Parker .please where can I locate him ? Is he on insta?
@@JosephRichard-zo6wf Sure he is.. dr.johnsonshroom
I always feel happy when people talk Good about him cos He's actually a nice and reliable man.
@@Iconic_moment Can dr.johnsonshroom send to me in Austin Texas?
Oh, my dear friend, Terence McKenna. The quintessential bard of the psychedelic realm, an erudite mind with an unparalleled mastery of language and an almost preternatural talent for weaving together concepts and ideas from different disciplines into a coherent and spellbinding narrative. His eloquence was matched only by his wit, and his depth of knowledge by his boundless curiosity.
To listen to Terence speak was to embark on a journey through the corridors of the mind, where the boundaries between what we think we know and what lies beyond the veil of perception blur and dissolve. His lexicon was a veritable treasure trove of linguistic gems, from "hyper-dimensional constellations of meaning" to "self-transforming machine elves", from "the felt presence of immediate experience" to "the transcendental object at the end of time".
He spoke of the "archaic revival", of the need to reconnect with our primal selves and our ancestral wisdom, to rediscover the power of the shamanic experience and the transformative potential of entheogens. He evoked the mystery and majesty of the natural world, the intricate dance of life and death that shapes and sustains all things, and the urgency of our ecological crisis and the need to reestablish our harmonious relationship with the biosphere.
He spoke of the "novelty theory", the idea that the universe is evolving towards ever-greater levels of complexity and novelty, and that our human consciousness is a pivotal agent in this cosmic process. He posited that the psychedelic experience was a glimpse into this unfolding process, a portal into the realm of infinite possibilities and transformative potential.
Terence was a prophet, a visionary, a provocateur, a philosopher, a poet, a trickster, a mystic. He challenged our assumptions, stretched our minds, and awakened us to new realms of understanding and being. He left us with a legacy of wisdom and wonder, a roadmap for exploring the inner and outer cosmos, and an invitation to participate in the great adventure of life.
In short, Terence McKenna was a linguistic alchemist, a master of the word and the concept, a magician of the mind and the spirit. And his voice continues to resonate, to inspire, and to challenge us to this day.
Absolutely beautiful, my friend.
Was this comment written by AI? The colloquial language and level of vocabulary used just appears to be contrived.
@@LeanDadDevelopment I was just about to say, this sounds like something GPT would say.
Great, nonetheless.
Aye. Provocateur and trickster.
Beautiful analysis of this gentleman. I literally just learned all about him through your comment, as I have only listened to him just 3 minutes ago.
Your comment charged me with me zest to dive into this man.
I’m a Alan Watts kinda guy, and I think I will find something like this here?
I’m here for it. 🙂
If you are here you are a seeker, you value and seek expansion of your awareness (consciousness). You are making it all up, so choose your experience.
And if you have got yourself in a pickle, are lost, afraid and in need of help - pray to your own God to take over and guide you. Namaste.
So thankful to hav this mans speeches/lessons/teachings in my life for ovr 12yrs now..
I listen to a dffrnt vid wkly alwys such a great listen.
Mch love and respect frm Afghanistan
I'm so grateful that so much of this amazing man's content had been left behind for us to grip onto.
I am equally grateful that this man started (or greatly catalyzed) a movement that now has so much momentum that it cannot be stopped. Though there will never be another speaker like him, there are plenty of successors. Mind-children of those like Terence, Alan Watts, Ram Dass, etc. Etc.. thousands of us now.
As time flows on, Terrance flows with it ....
Wu Wei
Very good depictions of mushroom trips🍄
Ever tought of time as an evolving organism ?:)
@@Swati_1112no way as way 💯👌 lau tzu.
Needed that right now thanks 🙏
But there's no time to flow on? Space time maybe as far as relativity goes but time is a created illusion
I wish this man was still here today
Time takes us all, eventually. His body is now even closer to nature now 😊
He hasn't gone anywhere. You can converse with him whenever you like 😏
around 30:05 where he is describing the layers of consciousness between action and consequence is mind-blowing to me.
The last 25 mins was absolutely amazing… we all need to understand the phenomenon
And truly feel it! ❤
Nobody articulates an abstract thought like McKenna.
Terence completed his mission.
It is we individuals that have failed...so far.
I'm just grateful I found out about Terrance.I could listen to him for hours
❤
Agreed. Your in luck because he has many hours of these lectures recorded
Prefer live music.
His brother Dennis is also a treasure trove of knowledge.
Holy shit balls!!!
I wouldn’t call it prediction. He just touched base with the source within him where all the answers lie. The psychedelic experience is that. An experience that hopefully opens one up to see how unreal this world is and sends you back with some plans to make changes. The real work comes after the experience.
I am so grateful he walked before us and left bread crumbs.
The artist who did the visuals has an amazing talent.
A must watch ❤
I believe the art is AI generated
💫~~~~~Dana Marie~i think in many ways you are like terrence~not by physical~but by the intelellectual open-mindedness~sage~bluestocking highbrow~flowing cognitive~theoretical conjectural~talk to your dna~cell talk~with a psychedelic flavor!!!~sacred divine feminine goddess dana marie!!!~"the divine feminine has been reawakened in the cosmo's~&~the planet's~in other word's~"mama's home"~&~besides your intellectual qualities!!!~you also a very attractive young lady!!!~much respect~love~&~light!!!~rock on!!!~namaste!!!~peace out!!!~~~~~💫
It's ai....
The most intelligent comment I’ve seen yet and all people can focus on in the fact that the art may have been created by ai based on the most popular comment anyway 😂😂, a human created ai so the art was still created by a human , unless ai created us and we haven’t discovered that yet , now feel free to look into the mistakes , or be clever and tell me what I’d tell myself 😂😂😂
@@heartexplainedThe most intelligent comment you've seen starts with "holy shit balls?"
If only more of us understood our culture's impact the way this man did...
Seven billion creepy old uncles ?
We do it’s just hard to explain it through the cultural boundaries thrown at us everyone has the capabilities though. Maybe not without severing connection with others
@@redlynt7324100% agree
He didn't get it.
He seems to think that culture is the reason the world (humanity) is in the state that it is but culture is made up of thought, thought which is an outcome of "evolution".
He's right in saying that thought came as a necessity to protect the body but then the more complex it become it generated language, the perception of separation and then culture.
Destroying culture is destroying thought which in turn is a form of mental suicide which is impossible. We are meant to destroy the planet and the environment and ultimately wipe ourselves out of the face of the earth. We're on a suicide mission and there is nothing anyone can do to stop this.
Any attempt to stop it is an attempt to create a future in which thought thrives and implicitly culture. Thought is a self-perpetuating mechanism and it's unstoppable.
This is why all religions failed to bring lasting peace and so will governments using both force and belief in order to keep life stock under control.
@florinmoldovanu "mental suicide" my ar$e mate.
Culture is behaviour, you can shed culture and become the person you were born to be or make up strange things about menticide if you want, wont make them true.
Erasing cultures on the other hand, something modern "society" and "culture" has been continually responsible for across the globe...
I haven't heard this one yet but man he's prob one of the best thinkers ever
Prolific and unique thinker. Always talking about ideas. McKenna lives on!
The shrooms are the thinker, he was the vessel 🚢
@Lee Adrian thats deep.
Thank you for uploading this.
We are one mind
Best hour of listening ever. Thanks Danit!
Phenomenal. What an intellectual genius, what a gift.... this lecture is invaluable, he is so right. Thank you for sharing this.
thanks for the ongoing images, it makes the experience much more immersive
One of my favourite talks
I remember he was my only comforter when I awoke to the utter madness of the man made world and systems. He was a light for me in the darkness, his message resonates instantly. And here we are, about to leap into the time wqve zero, see you on the other side!
Terence was on it pure genius
Old T.M never gets old ❤
Happy birthday Terence!!
I love the art, it’s captivating, mesmerizing, eternally beautiful….
I love it no matter who or what made it.
My only issue with aigen is that is not perception through experience what makes the idea but correlation of values.
Wibble wog biggy bog bing bang bong tum tummy wun bum
Whew that was wonderful
The unique opportunity at this given moment on this planet is multiplied infinitely everywhere in every way throughout space time and dimensions. Words cannot begin to express the incomprehensible. We know this Our ancestors free of modern control and technology knew naturally
Great stuff!
I feel so behind... Idk how i just now discovered this amazing man. Does anyone else feel like hes speaking to us through these teachings?
Love this art
Beautiful painting
Thank you
He is the master respect for the old times 🙏🏻
The AI portraits are freaking me out. I wasn't even looking at the screen at first but Terence looked off so I watched and now I'm just imagining each one as a parallel universe's Terence. Hopefully in a few he's still alive and hanging with his brother and Rupert and so on.
Totally in sync with everything. This man's importance usurps Timothy Leary IMO.
Leary was a CIA plant and McKenna tried to do everything he could to repair the damage and clean up the catastrophic mess caused by Leary and his cult.
Epic insight. True legend
Oh my god. I am moving to a new place and I found a baggie of the Cubensis mushrooms. This happened while I was listening to this talk by Terence McKenna, the man I haven't heard in years.😂
And so I ate them. It would be a sin to miss such synchronicity. 😊
Good stuff!
Great artwork!
It's ai generated. Don't get too excited yet. It will be all there is
This is a great one ... I can put it through a phase limiter for you to clear it up
After many decades I've finally found the source of inspiration for my preferred hairstyle. If only I had the wit and wisdom to honour it.
us mckenna-ites need to actually, you know, talk to each other...
The remarkable fact is that humanity is inventing itself into stasis and stagnation
The mind that spontaneously weaves together phrases like, "but for that bad day, we would still be the egg-eating shrews at the edge of the reptilian garden party" is a mind I will revisit again, when the mood is right, until I may follow involuntarily to whitherever it went. Whether sylvan or swamp gas, that is a wisp I find worth flitting after, if for no other sake, then for the sake of giggling.
chill interesting talk i really enjoyed this new subscriber here thanks for showing us cool art work with the nice talk STAY AWESOME!
The art is awesome
The doctrine of emptiness expressed by Nagarjuna does pass next to nihilism. But that is not a secret, and it is not little. It's a big dangerous pit.
The development of understanding of things as they are experinced directly in the moment leads to the knowledge that the ego is no different from culture in McKenna's terms; it is a deceptive construct, whatever its benefits may be. If lying were not advantageous in some way, it wouldn't be a thing. And in lying to you, the ego like culture is not your friend.
But Buddhism attempts to cure the path of this danger by cultivating compassion for the suffering brought on by both the false sense of self, and the disappointments of culture experienced by all of its long-lived participants.
The person who taught me the meaning of Nagarjuna and Chandrakirti ironically appears to be caught up in a total ego fantasy about being the step-in of her Tibetan guru, which she says a form of reincarnation. Ironic ego trip. But I love irony and have no use at all for culture, no matter whether it's Buddhist, or Tibetan, American, New Age, Indian dot or Indian arrow, or some form of blood cult like the Abrahamic triad that continually wars against their economic competitors in the various not-to-be-spoken names of their One True God.
No the question I have is about the closed loops of logic which seal the minds and therefore the fates of the adherents of all schools of thought; the path to truth does not end in a pot of gold nor the halls of religious or philosophical orthodoxy. Those are stuff of distraction.
But why do some people experience the revolution of mind that results from direct inquiry into immediate experience, while others never stray from the comfort of false opinions presented as ontological necessity throughout an entire lifetime of cultural participation as a monkey in a zoo?!
I really want to know that answer! _What allows a person to change their prior beliefs due to reflection on their own experience?_
But all I know is that I have had the great good fortune to have learned this trick at a young age, and to have kept the skill alive. I am not sure it can be taught, but I know I cannot teach it.
I was born the year he gave this speech, He has inspired me and introduced me to so many amazing concepts. Just to think I found out about him from 420chan over a decade ago. Definately want to thank Terence for inspiring so many,even today: His words are timeless.
Young enough to be your child, and in a different continent, but McKenna was knocking around well before the internet.
Most over here are well aware of his shenanigans.
Don't fully appreciate how he can be inspirational ?
This man was definitely ahead of his time
gud talk havent heard this one yet
Terence McKenna was right about a lot of things, and he wasn't going to miss a single opportunity to tell you everything he thought he knew about everything there was to tell
yes, even if I wanted to talk this much no one would listen to me, no one even listens to me when I say a few sentences in normal conversation, it's a mystery why some people are listened to no matter what they say or how long they talk but others arent.
Both comments are me 🫵🏾 so we’re all family here
The message was received
When he talks his words just make sense.
How many people clicked on this video because of the bad ass artwork?
This AI art does him justice. 💚 The Good, The True, The Beautiful
Any idea what AI program was used?
@@flawlesssnudios7495 did you ever find out?
@@brandon2479 Midjourney probably
I can express myself a whole different way
The band Satsang has an album called Kulture that showcases an intro with many of these same ideas(by Daniel Weiss) but very obviously inspired by this speech
live free ....we live on...
Smash it up!
This man is as close to an extant Tom Bombadil as we're likely to get.
But with alot less singing.
On 5 grams last xmas. I saw dead ancient mesoamerican men, women, and children. In a place made of tinkly stuff, and an iridescent emerald light. Overseen by the goddess gaian mind and the elves & fairies were everywhere after i invoked it at the peak. The little girl who felt like an archaic family relative. She said “hello, send greetings to your family, say hello for us in the collective unconscious, see you all soon”… as they waved goodbye… it wasn’t mayan, or spanish, or English or nahuatl. It was a language that i could understand. The hairs on my arms stood up. Terence Mckenna pointed the way to nature magic, the supernatural, the paranormal that i was always curious about since my first halloween but always skeptical with a scientist mind, and after my psychedelic experience turns out The afterlife is real. I was raised catholic and then became an atheist i still can’t believe i had that experience. And that was my 25th psilocybin trip and now i have a relationship with a plant 🍄👁️
Pretty cool. I for one believe in an afterlife of some sort (consciousness continuation)
@@wisdom-for-life our life force never stops.
@@ascendedessenceno beginning no end
Great portraits! I recognise Alan Ginsberg, Alan Watts, Daniel Craig, George Lucas, Heisenberg, Paul Stamets, Stanley Kubrick, Stephen Fry, Terence McKenna, .. sure, I missed a couple, but … good group though!
Yes
"The exploration of the Universe of the unseen is the business of human beings"
Many so called intellectuals are very off putting because they are consumed by their own lesser ego. Not so with Terrence...
"A life of psychedelic voyaging...."
That one made me laugh. Nothing like a little sojourn into the great outback from time to time, eh? Heh.
Terrence is somewhere.
25:50 "begin to forget it, it will remember itself from every sides"
those who consume the earth choose to defend it
07:45 👏 love this part.
I would love to hear his thesis on Dogs and Humans.
Okay, Terrance is cool and all. Love new people discovering him… BUT THE ART US DOPE AS FUCK!!
All of the AI art I’ve seen has been amazing. It always looks as though it’s looking through the eyes of a person on acid.
@@msshaffer5right !!!!!! 🤤🤤🤤
This is interesting. there is a background audio that pretends to be static but it’s an attempt at the subliminal. That’s annoying.
Wish the image was moving like during a trip.
Where did you get these images from? They look amazing, i want them as my desktop wallpaper, can you link me where you got them from please?
best centrist ever
yes
Like number 1K bruh
We could use the wisdom of TM today, but I can't imagine current circumstances would change his message all that much. He'd probably just shrug and nod at how things have evolved over the last two-plus decades, but his prescription for the human race would stay the same.
i cant wait till i get out of this flesh suit !!!
15:41 felt moment of imediate experience.,,
Whoever you are??? thank you for releasing this knowledge!
Release......the knowledge. #TerryBull
Research teams, and you can find the channel out here, are setting up to engage "psychonauts" in long duration DMT trips using machines similar to what are used in surgery to provide a constant, steady, infusion of DMT at the levels necessary to keep the door to the realm Terence notes open for hours at a time. Can you imagine? I expect the Mushroom people know we monkeys are coming, yes? So from that perspective he was absolutely right, humanity is on the verge of a paradigm shift in our evolution. The next couple of decades are going to be very interesting.....
Planetary alignment supreme tonight. . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . also today.
The only thing in life that is not derivative is one's own true lived experience. The Moment between perceiving and acting. To think or act upon that moment and bring something new into the multiverse is what escapes most people. We are constantly bombarded by memes that want us to think a certain way. And despite our best efforts we become entrenched with no way out. I might be preaching to the choir here but I found it necessary to reinforce the notion that we are not slaves to culture.
An old hippie told me once
" the best place to look for yourself is in-between the desire and the spasm."
I think it means you define yourself by the desires you act out, she never explained ...
@@joshfloyd7755 I think that this statement was very insightful. It sounds sexual but it isn't. Within the moments that you desire a thing until the moment of pay-off dwells one's ego. Hence you can find yourself there. The Peak (spasm) of a trip is orgasmic in a way but it is the download that is important. The take-away. And What can you bring back from that trip that enhances humanity. Be Aware.
@Paul Crosslin that's a great read on it, although after 20 years of reflection, I believe it to be a double entendre.
While I do believe you can find out a lot about yourself if you really observe your desires, and actions to satisfy them. I'm also smart enough to know that some games can only be won by not playing.
@Paul Crosslin as for take aways and bring backs...
"It's all great 5 hours afterwards , but by Wednesday afternoon I was telling people about this great thing that HAD happened to me" ~ Ram Dass
My own take aways are always variations of " it will all be ok "
But there are strange things as well , like
" it's electric bubble gum Tuesday, all day everyday. " which I have no effen clue how to interpret or even understand anymore. I did once, but not now...good luck out there
I don't know what your Axis Mundi is but you have to have an Anchor before you go into a psychedelic exploration. This is not recreational, this is not some Tuesday Afternoon. Do not be led into a bubblegum reality. This Is You.
This is the hopeful future... i just don't think everyone will understand unfortunately.
Tree Fountain (aka Tree of Life)
1- Bore a hole into and up a tree being careful not to bisect the core of the tree.
2- Coat the inside of the hole with beeswax.
3- Put a water basin at the top and a fire pit or fireplace at the bottom.
4- Put copper pipe around the inside of the fire pit or up the chimney for a fireplace. This will act as a pump. (You can also use a hotplate if you prefer)
5- Add water wheels (fidget spinners can be used for some decent mini water wheels) for electricity.
6- Add hanging gardens for fresh produce.
7- Splice other saplings and/or fresh tree cuttings using the tongue and groove method for shelter.
This design provides food, filtered and conditioned water and air, electricity, shelter and SO much more! Everything a person needs for life and survival. Hence the "Tree of Life" nickname!
Where can I find that first picture? It's amazing!
I posted it here for you: wisdom-for-life.com/terence-mckenna-art/
Just right click and save.. that's the best quality
this du had a hell of a mind
Terrance puts words to the way I feel about the world that magic mushrooms are responsible for.
I heart TmcK
So, the quote: "We are building the nervous system.....into telepathic collectivities (typical Mckenna) of some sort."
He is merely pointing towards the group think of an A.I society.
No doubt he is brimming with intellectual curiosity, but he is as he describes himself, a creepy old uncle.
Strip away his self acknowledged inventive language, and his observations about psychedelics being a ticket to hyper space, and you might just think Terry is just a high profile, boomer hippy.
His C.V and general bio indicate he is a cultural hypocrite of the greatest magnitude.
If you do think about it, rather than overdose on fascination.
When was this this anybody thanks
Being we are. We been thrown into becoming. Becoming is always a lifetime or two trillion behind being. So you just ain't getting there without of stepping out of becoming. Biology. Being is laughing at the ladder of becoming.
All birth is bloody and messy, is caotic and traumatic, and life is born in agony, pain and extasy, the worst darkness in touch with the greatest luminosity. We can choose to life it in fear clenching to the past, or with joy, hope and curiosity for the future. Our old gods are dying fast, and from their bellys they new gods will rise, a new era, a new humanity.
Ladies n Gentlemen’s…Terrance “The Shaman” McKenna!!!