I got hooked on this dude like 10 years ago. Its fascinating to see how many of the themes from his talks are even more relevant today than they've been when these talks have been recorded. a true visionary. thanks danit for re-uploading them. Its a blessing .
This channel is fast becoming a welcome blessing; the finestly chosen speeches posted in the most respectful way to all. I wish Terence were here to see such respect and affection given to his words. Thank you Danit Friedman.
The combination of sound editing makes you feel like you're sitting in a cave with him. I believe this is the best on yet, when you close youre eyes he's right there!
That's such an excellent choice for an introduction, "the global destiny of a species is somehow unfolding with the logic of a dream." Wow, that's such an interesting way of describing things, and also so true.
I thought I had heard all of Terence's lectures! He was so far ahead of the mark with his thinking; I believe we continue to catch up with the passing years. Thank you for sharing this and your amazing art work with everyone.
23:33 "If the world is made of language, then why isn't it the way I want it to be?" I've heard Terence pose this question several times, and I've thought about it. I think the probable answer is that the vast majority of the language that's spoken, heard and thought describes the way we do not want the world to be. And Terence is one of relative few who actually does language how he wants the world to be, in addition to deep-dive articulating the problems. He has also said several times something to the effect that if we can't name it, language it, it can't happen.
Can’t help but feel like most languages were designed that way with dual connotations and colloquialisms. Language is alive and morphing with age, but in whose favor?? It’s important to chose your words wisely for this reason, but even so, have we been set-up for failure from womb? Can any amount of discernment and integrity and conscious verbiage produce the desired world the way you want it to be??
@@AletheiaAboveAll A simple example. We say, "We don't want war." We don't say, "We want peace." This is why Mother Teresa never attended anti-war rallies, only peace rallies.
Listening to mckenna talking spurs my mind in incredible ways. His witty humor yet ability to speak clearly is an amazing thing. Am I the only one who gains verbal facility just by listening, thinking, and attempting to understand his words?
@@BrokenKoolAid The factory stirred your mind is proof that it is not the absolute The absolute is beyond the mind, so don't take his explorations. As the end point it's only the beginning
Yup. Me talk purdy too one day when i hear the shiny words my head gets high and I ponder many thoughts Terrance makes vocab like karate master strikes hard and fast so quick but also cutting truth with sharpened tongue lottsa sounds I know some I don’t but rewind and hear it again?
What absolute fun he had with his mind and shared with his friends. I wonder why i had to wait so long to listen to him or even hear about him. Not like i wasn''t covering much of that ground. The wit and joy of his glass bead game is phenomenal. Alan Watts on a cosmic pulsation. I don't even care about his conclusions, the guy was light years beyond our beloved Timothy Leary. I am so pleased that we have his voice with us still. Thank you sweet Goddess for this gift of creation.
My favourite channel on you tube!❤.....absolutely love your art Danit its so powerful and taught provoking just like the spoken of words of the legend himself... Almost every night I kick back and slap the ear phones on and it helps my to unwind... Coming from a fellow physconaut😊👌🏼 keep up the fantastic work you do
Has anyone seen the video where the guy has a conversation with a language model trained on Terrence's speeches? It is sooooo trippy, truly shocking and meta-reflective to hear this digital Terrence contemplate its perspective with all the cadence and nuance of the real Terrence. It's like talking to his ghost that knows it is in a computer.
Intellectuals normally don’t believe in conspiracies because as public figures it’s career suicide. They can justify it in wild ways. But really it’s probably just a model of reality that they find distasteful so they bury it. But the most simple minded person recognizes this as a fact before adulthood. In fact it’s probably the definition of being an adult, accepting this whole show is being run by someone and not for our benefit.
While in communion with Psilocybin, I also was told there is no-one in control. I thought it was the funniest and most freeing truth I've ever heard. Life is so unconquerable, and I find that to be so beautiful.
So when “psychic” things happen, like for example, I think of the word “zeitgeist” just a few seconds before hearing Terrence say that very word.. it may Appear that, according to the convention of retrograde precognition, this was an occurrence of psychic thought, of the incoming future rippling into the past. But there is just as much evidence to believe that my very thought created the future of the video including Terrence and this particular choice of word being the same. But of course, this video playing in my future is but the record of something from the past. So then you could say, Terrence’s words from the past came to the future, and just before I heard them, they went back to the slight past of when I was to precognize his words before hearing them. Yes it is a cannabis canvas, a circular weave of threads and each one leads to another, or is lead to by another. The head, the tail, whichever part of the ouroboros snake each moment is we cannot say exactly. Each moment then becomes a head and a tail at once. This related back to some thoughts that have been echoing thru heavy synchronicities lately for me. Alpha and omega, beginning and end. Destroyer of worlds, the atom. Christian Adam, Hindu Atman, Egyptian Atum, and of course, atom. The atom bomb, the destroyer of worlds. As well as the fabricator. Our universe is spherical, and the edge is the edge of our perception outward. Just as, historically speaking, the atom was defined as the smallest perceivable individual unit of matter: the edge of our perception inward. So thus, the edge of our largest and smallest view literally is just the edge of an atom. And so our universe is quite plainly contained within an atom in the universe above it. And likewise, each atom in our universe contains an entire universe within. But deeper than this, is time. For our sensation of existence is all based on the story of self. The story of the ego. Which is all based on, what happened in the past, and what will happen in the future. Even in silent meditation, we feel that we are in a place that we just were before, and we feel that we will soon be in that same place a moment later. But if we were truly to remove the past and future entirely from this conception, what then would appear? I reckon there would be nothing at all. Thus this now moment is the alpha and omega, as it is always the beginning and end of what is perceived as the flow of time. Thus, when we dive deep enough into the present stillness, perchance we can destroy ALL things. Because with no story of where we are coming from or where we are going to, no Thing can exist at all. No item can appear, and no separate individual body can exist. Thus time is collapsed in the now moment. And yet, we can scarcely achieve this level of present ness. The mind or the sensation of sound or wind blowing or the feeling of our chest rising with breath, all of these things cause the beginning and ending edged to infringe upon the thin NOW moment and thus completely snuff it out. And it is useless to attempt to suspend all of the past and future phantoms by will force! For the very notion of will worse is based on those same past and future stories. Thus, “we” are completely at the whim of this triune godhead and it’s movie playing out called life. Called experience. We cannot do a damn thing about it. And yet, IRONICALLY and quite comically, almost comedically genius, if the universe may say so itself, is that despite this thought appearing futile and unresolving to this current quandary, we know that this kind of thought, this kind of true admission that begins to expose the illusion, can perhaps become something of a precursor to the great unveiling of that illusion. In other words: all thoughts, all words are part of the veil of Maya. The veil of Maya is only pulled back to reveal the absolute silence of nothingness and everythingness at once. And yet! These thoughts, as part of the veil, beckon the end. The are self referencing and.. ego destroys ego. Mind exposed mind. The vasana or illusory thought form that says, “all thoughts are vasanas” is itself a vasana. Thus, the end of illusion is preceded by the illusion itself fessing up.. to its own tricks. We have seen this fact many times. The illusion keeps saying it! And then reneging. And then wavering back and forth so many times. The ego then mistakenly says that it is being tortured by this turbulence. But really, the ego cannot be tortured, because the ego has no consciousness. Rather, it is consciousness which has ego. Consciousness has many egos! Just as the sea has many waves. But they are all connected. So this comment is but a wave proclaiming itself to be merely the sea. Which is funny because the sea is then talking to itself. The whole universe is entirely schizophrenic. And it is really fun, when it is not play acting as a pitiful and miserable wave.
That is what I think of this and this is what I fear… that we all and everybody together is only one. It itself. One. And lonely. Alone. And talking to itself. Beautiful referring to the sea..
Was just looking through your list of other inspirational books/lectures, might I suggest Manly P Hall and J. Krishnamurti make their way onto your list. Thanks for your work.
Terrence explored the mind. But we need to go beyond the mind I am glad he did what he did But he's still just describing the fractal regeneration of the mind The mind is just memory and imagination It is not the eternal
@@lukemcfarland9759 The yogic sciences are exactly that. Through the meditative state one can transcend the mind and “practice” dying. The masters can choose the exact day and time which they will drop the body Well documented Google Mahasamadhi
The “language” chapter reminds me about something I’ve thought about recently. I wanted to think of something outside of pleasure and pain. I thought how we will often willingly suffer for the sake of something better than we would have had. Like working out or saving money. Then I thought about music and art, which made me think that meaning is more significant than pleasure or pain. But still…when we find art we like we call it “good”… The only thing I can think of that makes sense is pure nothingness. Or perhaps a baked potato with no butter or salt. Or maybe meaning? Perhaps meaning is the thing that makes art so special? Just wanted to share some thoughts I had. Sorry if I couldn’t brainstorm the answer or anything :)
Its always just beautiful listening to Terrance McKenna, "Epistemological cartoonist" was the catcher for me given that we live in a world where people are always giving there humanness away to them for deluded Ideology . We need to stand up & yell Bullshit! Anyway thanks Danit for this!
I say to Terrence that the Cosmos is a system of bits of data and info connected by relationships. Each bit of data is a cell of individuated self-awareness. In a field of time, these cells of self-knowing assemble themselves into relationships of larger and larger organisms, alive and persistent. It is as though the Oneness of the Creator conceived of Pi and other irrational numbers and thereby splintered herself into infinite plankions...and now is passing eternity stitching himself together again in grander and grander systems of self-knowing. Aho! and Amen! I miss you brother.
That hypnagogic state he talks about drifting through after orgasm can be found other ways. I go there during a really good scratch, it can become addictive. I'll feel a little tickle of a certain type and scratch there and go to some inner mode where I know how to move my body to get it to crack effortlessly. I'm an overthinker who can't usually let go of the monkey mind. But in this inner body scratch pop awareness I am something else, I know things I don't know otherwise. Reminds me of the way things feel during trips on various tryptamines, I can only remember the other times I was on that level when I'm on that level. There is a barrier of fog when I'm in my normal consciousness. But drifting after an orgasm or during a nice scratch or huge poop I am reconnected with that deeper layer in some way. Nice mystery spice in the background of my life. I suspect it will all be so obvious during death when I break through that wall of ego fear, so easy, like taking off a jacket.
"It's fooqed up ya know?" I was struck by the fact that as he began talking about datura the detail about answering phones in the woods , which would no longer produce a laugh response from the audience today. But yeah he could have easily been a fabulous comedian. Great storytelling abilities. 👍
I keep on thinking about his omega point concept. If artificial super intelligence comes about, the level of complexity and novelty will skyrocket. Perhaps we really are being pulled through time, not pushing our way. Perhaps that point of peak novelty really is pulling us too it. If so, what a thing to be a part of!
I have a nostalgia for terrence, in the 90's goin to bookstore, new age section being right next to the so called occult. No one is as interesting as Terrance , even his brother seems jaded nowadays.
Terrence speaks with the same vagueness with self assurance as those he calls out. He embodies the same attributes of those of his projections . He speaks with self righteous authority as one who has special enlightened insight similar to guru or religious leaders who is exposing the unenlightened masses.
You don't have to reduce "everything that happens is just chemical reactions" (it feels too sterile - we all know it - life is chemical reactions, yes, but it's more) to see that control IS the illusion and nothing has it. Just start here: even if there's a God in the cartoon story-book form, and even if that God can do whatever He wants with the snap of a finger, he's still limited to 'what he wants.' Not that he's limited, per se, but he is moved to do that which he feels is correct, that which he thinks is right, that which he experiences himself wanting. And, all consciousness is this way. And no consciousness can make itself want something if it doesn't already, and even if it could, it's not up to that consciousness that it wants to change its mind. Aka, your will isn't up to you. Free will or determinism, either way: you experience simply "I want XYZ", whether XYZ is a candy bar or sex or spiritual enlightenment or propriety, or the bad parts of you too. It's will expressing itself. You can't change your will, because if you could, it's just more will expressing itself in the change. Your will WILL change, sometimes, maybe, but it won't be up to you. And in the end, it's only ever expressing itself to you, moment by moment. But it's not no-holds-barred. Because a) it's not even up to you what you do, you're not in control. But b) it's not up to you that you have a conscience, either. Even if you think your pesky conscience is wrong or outdated about something: some judgment 'society' put on you, still, it's not up to you to 'feel or not feel' that belief. You can't make yourself love the person in front of you just by saying I love you. You can't feel something differently than you do, until you do. Your conscience (your judgment about 'what is good', your preference) is not up to you. You feel it. Nor can you learn on purpose. We DO learn, thank God. But we don't rearrange our neurons to finally get it. And even if we did, again, it wouldn't be up to us that we're wanting to and then actively rearranging our neurons (for the sake of the example). We're not in control. So we're stuck, completely. And so when you see that your very next thought, your next judgment, your next eye twitch, your next decision: it's not up to you, then little muscles and tissues in your body that have been clenched, acting out the belief that you're 'the chooser' (you're not, nothing is)... they begin to unclench. Maybe. Again, nothing is up to you. But feel them. Put your mind on all anxiety. It's really just clenched tissues in your body. Breathe, rhythmically, shallow or deeply, and just feel the physical location of any and all fear. Moment to moment. Clenched tissues in your face, throat, chest, abdomen, groin. Again, you CAN learn, but it isn't up to you that you do. So try. Learn to put your mind on your fear - the physical location of the icky feeling itself. Not feeling it (being clenched) is what blocks you from being relaxed and loving. And remember it's not up to you if you have faith. Nothing's up to you. But you've gotten this far. And life still has meaning: you know it. Hence, you can relax (if you do), and trust (if you do), and that IS faith.
we learn the ABC song and by magic we don't care about letters anymore. i kno the song and that's all i need. meanwhile 4 of our letters are redundant and the majority of them are spoken incorrectly. endless words with multiple meanings. vowels getting used wrong constantly. it's almost like a circus with clowns. ehem. it's exactly like a circus with honking clowns. 3 ring circus comes from the Odd Fellows. he neglected to mention this historic group of controllers for some reason. and there is no doubt that he was aware of them - and their level of control.
The IRS just passed a $600 threshold on electronic payments and a new information report for business owners and they can be taken into jail if they do not pay this new tax but nobody is in control 😂 I’m a business owner and I have to pay this new tax and it gives information to local law-enforcement agencies and foreign entities
@@skepticalpanda8862 We can create our own reality to a degree by breaking free of the control structure (that TC mentions 34mins in) by the book or not by the book, in various ways, as long as we don't make targets if ourselves by teaching too many other system-slaves how to escape. I know because I did it, but I am not so foolish to think that the authoritarians in control may not try to destroy my self sovereignty one day by sezing my boat or inventing a new tax and jurisdiction. Let's be realists.
That isn't even remotely like someone controlling every major world event like conspiracy theorists want to believe. But you hear what you want to hear & apply it how you want, I guess.
Im always just glued to Mckenna whenever i hear him speak. He was a true visionary and his lectures are more relevant today than ever before
I got hooked on this dude like 10 years ago. Its fascinating to see how many of the themes from his talks are even more relevant today than they've been when these talks have been recorded. a true visionary. thanks danit for re-uploading them. Its a blessing .
This channel is fast becoming a welcome blessing; the finestly chosen speeches posted in the most respectful way to all. I wish Terence were here to see such respect and affection given to his words. Thank you Danit Friedman.
Thank you for your kind heart @LeifGrahamsson
It means a lot
I’ve unsubscribed to all other TM related channels. Danit is the best !
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Don't believe your mind brother
Manly P Hall…
Agreed Ti's the best
The combination of sound editing makes you feel like you're sitting in a cave with him. I believe this is the best on yet, when you close youre eyes he's right there!
Wow, this one is my new favorite. I'll definitely listen to this one over and over. Thank you!
Thank you @patrickd430
Glad you like this one
That's such an excellent choice for an introduction, "the global destiny of a species is somehow unfolding with the logic of a dream."
Wow, that's such an interesting way of describing things, and also so true.
Thanks Danit
I thought I had heard all of Terence's lectures! He was so far ahead of the mark with his thinking; I believe we continue to catch up with the passing years. Thank you for sharing this and your amazing art work with everyone.
Thank you! @clintonpeatross3823
Love you Danit.. Good to be back and take a break from the insanity of our world politics.. Blessings. ✌️
Thank you Danit!
Thank you again
Brilliant. Thanks again Danit for finding, curating and presenting some of the most fascinating talks by Terence 😊
thanks nice recording , a gem
You making space for "our community" is priceless.🎉
Thank you for your big heart @AuditingWithAutism
23:33 "If the world is made of language, then why isn't it the way I want it to be?"
I've heard Terence pose this question several times, and I've thought about it. I think the probable answer is that the vast majority of the language that's spoken, heard and thought describes the way we do not want the world to be. And Terence is one of relative few who actually does language how he wants the world to be, in addition to deep-dive articulating the problems. He has also said several times something to the effect that if we can't name it, language it, it can't happen.
Can’t help but feel like most languages were designed that way with dual connotations and colloquialisms. Language is alive and morphing with age, but in whose favor?? It’s important to chose your words wisely for this reason, but even so, have we been set-up for failure from womb? Can any amount of discernment and integrity and conscious verbiage produce the desired world the way you want it to be??
@@AletheiaAboveAll A simple example. We say, "We don't want war." We don't say, "We want peace." This is why Mother Teresa never attended anti-war rallies, only peace rallies.
That art is captivating
Thank you
Keep sharing Terrance's message ❤
thanks danit!!!
Thank you @jetrider5983
Listening to mckenna talking spurs my mind in incredible ways. His witty humor yet ability to speak clearly is an amazing thing. Am I the only one who gains verbal facility just by listening, thinking, and attempting to understand his words?
@@BrokenKoolAid
The factory stirred your mind is proof that it is not the absolute
The absolute is beyond the mind, so don't take his explorations. As the end point it's only the beginning
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Happens to me too! He's got such a wonderful musicality with his language.
It pastes my higher mind over my brain again
Yup. Me talk purdy too one day when i hear the shiny words my head gets high and I ponder many thoughts Terrance makes vocab like karate master strikes hard and fast so quick but also cutting truth with sharpened tongue lottsa sounds I know some I don’t but rewind and hear it again?
McKenna talks like the voice in my head. It's really amazing how in tune he was.
What absolute fun he had with his mind and shared with his friends.
I wonder why i had to wait so long to listen to him or even hear about him.
Not like i wasn''t covering much of that ground. The wit and joy of his glass bead game is phenomenal. Alan Watts on a cosmic pulsation. I don't even care about his conclusions, the guy was light years beyond our beloved Timothy Leary.
I am so pleased that we have his voice with us still. Thank you sweet Goddess for this gift of creation.
My favourite channel on you tube!❤.....absolutely love your art Danit its so powerful and taught provoking just like the spoken of words of the legend himself...
Almost every night I kick back and slap the ear phones on and it helps my to unwind...
Coming from a fellow physconaut😊👌🏼 keep up the fantastic work you do
Glad to see others who see Mckenna's work unfold in reality before our eyes
What a beautiful poignant image to go along with this wonderful McKennalogue
Thank you Danit! 🥰🔥 Hope you are doing very well yourself. Good vibes to you
Thank you @julianmendoza5044
Thanks for this. What a cool channel.
Thank You. 🙏🙏🙏
Thank you Danit 💘
Good job!!!
Thank you!
Love 💕 U Danit 🎉🎉🎉 so thankful limitless wisdom
Thank you @zerkton2648
Back to you
Heeeyyy there’s my upload to listen to before work, you posted just in time :)
Thank you @fullauto86
Have a great time at work
If there was any person living or dead I could spend the day with it would be Terence McKenna
Same... maybe someday 😊
Thanks for a "huolellinen" channel description
D. This is extremely poignant on this day!!!
Appreciate you very much
I like how my brain becomes a brain again while downloading the visual audio lectures/speakings of Terence.
Damn forgot Netanyahu was also in power back then, crazy
Thanks
Has anyone seen the video where the guy has a conversation with a language model trained on Terrence's speeches? It is sooooo trippy, truly shocking and meta-reflective to hear this digital Terrence contemplate its perspective with all the cadence and nuance of the real Terrence. It's like talking to his ghost that knows it is in a computer.
Futurama vibes
I'm am always transfixed by Terrence's talks. So glad to find this.
24:20 "information is primary".
This is a central theme in Nexus (Yuval Noah Harari). Pretty interesting that this is discussed here.
Subbed from New Zealand ❤❤❤
Intellectuals normally don’t believe in conspiracies because as public figures it’s career suicide. They can justify it in wild ways. But really it’s probably just a model of reality that they find distasteful so they bury it. But the most simple minded person recognizes this as a fact before adulthood. In fact it’s probably the definition of being an adult, accepting this whole show is being run by someone and not for our benefit.
The inmates are running the asylum. Lots of big players but no true unifying factor.
That is your theory ,don't treat it as reality as there is no way to test or confirm your guess.
He is correct.we cannot control the dreams
Thankyou Danit.
Happy birthday Terry 🙏🏽
TM is my favorite speaker
While in communion with Psilocybin, I also was told there is no-one in control.
I thought it was the funniest and most freeing truth I've ever heard.
Life is so unconquerable, and I find that to be so beautiful.
Of course no one person is in control, rather we are all in some sort of control at the same time. 😁
The guy at 1:05.00 sounds like Billy Bob Thornton ✌️ He would be awesome playing Terence in a movie about Terence 😉
Oof… I love the hostess’ voice.. sultry, intellectual, exotic. ♥️
Blow mymind..... thank you for enter my life, in sach a storm.....
What’s with the laughter?? 13:57
Damn, looks like they got to him too.
I love the ones with pictures :) am child lol.
So when “psychic” things happen, like for example, I think of the word “zeitgeist” just a few seconds before hearing Terrence say that very word.. it may Appear that, according to the convention of retrograde precognition, this was an occurrence of psychic thought, of the incoming future rippling into the past. But there is just as much evidence to believe that my very thought created the future of the video including Terrence and this particular choice of word being the same. But of course, this video playing in my future is but the record of something from the past. So then you could say, Terrence’s words from the past came to the future, and just before I heard them, they went back to the slight past of when I was to precognize his words before hearing them.
Yes it is a cannabis canvas, a circular weave of threads and each one leads to another, or is lead to by another. The head, the tail, whichever part of the ouroboros snake each moment is we cannot say exactly. Each moment then becomes a head and a tail at once.
This related back to some thoughts that have been echoing thru heavy synchronicities lately for me. Alpha and omega, beginning and end. Destroyer of worlds, the atom. Christian Adam, Hindu Atman, Egyptian Atum, and of course, atom. The atom bomb, the destroyer of worlds. As well as the fabricator. Our universe is spherical, and the edge is the edge of our perception outward. Just as, historically speaking, the atom was defined as the smallest perceivable individual unit of matter: the edge of our perception inward. So thus, the edge of our largest and smallest view literally is just the edge of an atom. And so our universe is quite plainly contained within an atom in the universe above it. And likewise, each atom in our universe contains an entire universe within.
But deeper than this, is time. For our sensation of existence is all based on the story of self. The story of the ego. Which is all based on, what happened in the past, and what will happen in the future. Even in silent meditation, we feel that we are in a place that we just were before, and we feel that we will soon be in that same place a moment later. But if we were truly to remove the past and future entirely from this conception, what then would appear? I reckon there would be nothing at all. Thus this now moment is the alpha and omega, as it is always the beginning and end of what is perceived as the flow of time. Thus, when we dive deep enough into the present stillness, perchance we can destroy ALL things. Because with no story of where we are coming from or where we are going to, no Thing can exist at all. No item can appear, and no separate individual body can exist. Thus time is collapsed in the now moment. And yet, we can scarcely achieve this level of present ness. The mind or the sensation of sound or wind blowing or the feeling of our chest rising with breath, all of these things cause the beginning and ending edged to infringe upon the thin NOW moment and thus completely snuff it out. And it is useless to attempt to suspend all of the past and future phantoms by will force! For the very notion of will worse is based on those same past and future stories. Thus, “we” are completely at the whim of this triune godhead and it’s movie playing out called life. Called experience. We cannot do a damn thing about it. And yet, IRONICALLY and quite comically, almost comedically genius, if the universe may say so itself, is that despite this thought appearing futile and unresolving to this current quandary, we know that this kind of thought, this kind of true admission that begins to expose the illusion, can perhaps become something of a precursor to the great unveiling of that illusion. In other words: all thoughts, all words are part of the veil of Maya. The veil of Maya is only pulled back to reveal the absolute silence of nothingness and everythingness at once. And yet! These thoughts, as part of the veil, beckon the end. The are self referencing and.. ego destroys ego. Mind exposed mind. The vasana or illusory thought form that says, “all thoughts are vasanas” is itself a vasana. Thus, the end of illusion is preceded by the illusion itself fessing up.. to its own tricks. We have seen this fact many times. The illusion keeps saying it! And then reneging. And then wavering back and forth so many times. The ego then mistakenly says that it is being tortured by this turbulence. But really, the ego cannot be tortured, because the ego has no consciousness. Rather, it is consciousness which has ego. Consciousness has many egos! Just as the sea has many waves. But they are all connected. So this comment is but a wave proclaiming itself to be merely the sea. Which is funny because the sea is then talking to itself. The whole universe is entirely schizophrenic. And it is really fun, when it is not play acting as a pitiful and miserable wave.
Very insightful and interesting!!! Thank you for your well thought out comment!!! 👏
I read a good chunk of this piece. Good shit. it's like freeform verbal jazz
where did you come from? where did you go? where did you come from, Cotton-Eyed Joe?
That is what I think of this and this is what I fear… that we all and everybody together is only one. It itself. One. And lonely. Alone. And talking to itself.
Beautiful referring to the sea..
I knew he was gonna say zeitgeist because he started saying a z word then stopped temporarily 😂
Alan Watts, Terrance McKenna, any others you all can recommend?
Dr. Norman Vincent peal
Dannit, Terrance,
🖤✌️🫡🏆🤍
Was just looking through your list of other inspirational books/lectures, might I suggest Manly P Hall and J. Krishnamurti make their way onto your list.
Thanks for your work.
Manly p.halls lectures that are cleaned up would be awsome😊❤
Terrence explored the mind.
But we need to go beyond the mind
I am glad he did what he did
But he's still just describing the fractal regeneration of the mind
The mind is just memory and imagination
It is not the eternal
How can you be so sure? Until your physical body dies, who is to really say what happens to consciousness
@@lukemcfarland9759
The yogic sciences are exactly that. Through the meditative state one can transcend the mind and “practice” dying.
The masters can choose the exact day and time which they will drop the body
Well documented
Google
Mahasamadhi
2012-2020 - social media and AI. Holy shit.
The “language” chapter reminds me about something I’ve thought about recently.
I wanted to think of something outside of pleasure and pain. I thought how we will often willingly suffer for the sake of something better than we would have had. Like working out or saving money. Then I thought about music and art, which made me think that meaning is more significant than pleasure or pain. But still…when we find art we like we call it “good”…
The only thing I can think of that makes sense is pure nothingness. Or perhaps a baked potato with no butter or salt. Or maybe meaning? Perhaps meaning is the thing that makes art so special?
Just wanted to share some thoughts I had. Sorry if I couldn’t brainstorm the answer or anything :)
Thank you for sharing your thoughts @Gage.Parnell
I like reading them
Raw potato without butter or salt would be even more pure thing. And not peeled.
I really enjoyed this 27 some years later 😂
Jeez where did that go?😂
Its always just beautiful listening to Terrance McKenna, "Epistemological cartoonist" was the catcher for me given that we live in a world where people are always giving there humanness away to them for deluded Ideology . We need to stand up & yell Bullshit! Anyway thanks Danit for this!
and yell it loud from rooftop to mountain top !
I say to Terrence that the Cosmos is a system of bits of data and info connected by relationships. Each bit of data is a cell of individuated self-awareness. In a field of time, these cells of self-knowing assemble themselves into relationships of larger and larger organisms, alive and persistent.
It is as though the Oneness of the Creator conceived of Pi and other irrational numbers and thereby splintered herself into infinite plankions...and now is passing eternity stitching himself together again in grander and grander systems of self-knowing.
Aho! and Amen! I miss you brother.
Can someone explain who is referring when he says Netanyahu? 1:11
President of Israel
It's ironic.
btw hello danit, i am a fridman also :)
Intellectual nectar.
That hypnagogic state he talks about drifting through after orgasm can be found other ways. I go there during a really good scratch, it can become addictive. I'll feel a little tickle of a certain type and scratch there and go to some inner mode where I know how to move my body to get it to crack effortlessly. I'm an overthinker who can't usually let go of the monkey mind. But in this inner body scratch pop awareness I am something else, I know things I don't know otherwise. Reminds me of the way things feel during trips on various tryptamines, I can only remember the other times I was on that level when I'm on that level. There is a barrier of fog when I'm in my normal consciousness. But drifting after an orgasm or during a nice scratch or huge poop I am reconnected with that deeper layer in some way. Nice mystery spice in the background of my life. I suspect it will all be so obvious during death when I break through that wall of ego fear, so easy, like taking off a jacket.
I just can’t wait to hang out with TM on “The other side…”
Wonderful talk, but the audio goes bad at 1:53
The datura market story 1:03:27 makes me laugh every time. His deatpan comedic timing is genius
"It's fooqed up ya know?"
I was struck by the fact that as he began talking about datura the detail about answering phones in the woods , which would no longer produce a laugh response from the audience today.
But yeah he could have easily been a fabulous comedian. Great storytelling abilities. 👍
I ❤ Terrence
I keep on thinking about his omega point concept. If artificial super intelligence comes about, the level of complexity and novelty will skyrocket. Perhaps we really are being pulled through time, not pushing our way. Perhaps that point of peak novelty really is pulling us too it. If so, what a thing to be a part of!
Is thIs an AI rendering?
No
34:25 we are figuring it out!!! 🙌
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1:04:18 Billy Bob Thornton?
Good ol Danit. We love you, girl!
I have a nostalgia for terrence, in the 90's goin to bookstore, new age section being right next to the so called occult. No one is as interesting as Terrance , even his brother seems jaded nowadays.
Ha thanks for this 😂
double-U which part of that is a W sound? i'll wait...
The woo woo bit 😄
Terrence speaks with the same vagueness with self assurance as those he calls out. He embodies the same attributes of those of his projections . He speaks with self righteous authority as one who has special enlightened insight similar to guru or religious leaders who is exposing the unenlightened masses.
i thought i had a water leak hahahah
I am amongst friends here 😊
Well so thence
1:04questioner sounds just like billybob thornton😊
I would love his thoughts on AI.
My God Terence.
You don't have to reduce "everything that happens is just chemical reactions" (it feels too sterile - we all know it - life is chemical reactions, yes, but it's more) to see that control IS the illusion and nothing has it.
Just start here: even if there's a God in the cartoon story-book form, and even if that God can do whatever He wants with the snap of a finger, he's still limited to 'what he wants.' Not that he's limited, per se, but he is moved to do that which he feels is correct, that which he thinks is right, that which he experiences himself wanting. And, all consciousness is this way. And no consciousness can make itself want something if it doesn't already, and even if it could, it's not up to that consciousness that it wants to change its mind.
Aka, your will isn't up to you. Free will or determinism, either way: you experience simply "I want XYZ", whether XYZ is a candy bar or sex or spiritual enlightenment or propriety, or the bad parts of you too. It's will expressing itself. You can't change your will, because if you could, it's just more will expressing itself in the change. Your will WILL change, sometimes, maybe, but it won't be up to you. And in the end, it's only ever expressing itself to you, moment by moment.
But it's not no-holds-barred. Because a) it's not even up to you what you do, you're not in control. But b) it's not up to you that you have a conscience, either. Even if you think your pesky conscience is wrong or outdated about something: some judgment 'society' put on you, still, it's not up to you to 'feel or not feel' that belief.
You can't make yourself love the person in front of you just by saying I love you. You can't feel something differently than you do, until you do. Your conscience (your judgment about 'what is good', your preference) is not up to you. You feel it.
Nor can you learn on purpose. We DO learn, thank God. But we don't rearrange our neurons to finally get it. And even if we did, again, it wouldn't be up to us that we're wanting to and then actively rearranging our neurons (for the sake of the example). We're not in control.
So we're stuck, completely. And so when you see that your very next thought, your next judgment, your next eye twitch, your next decision: it's not up to you, then little muscles and tissues in your body that have been clenched, acting out the belief that you're 'the chooser' (you're not, nothing is)... they begin to unclench. Maybe. Again, nothing is up to you.
But feel them. Put your mind on all anxiety. It's really just clenched tissues in your body. Breathe, rhythmically, shallow or deeply, and just feel the physical location of any and all fear. Moment to moment. Clenched tissues in your face, throat, chest, abdomen, groin. Again, you CAN learn, but it isn't up to you that you do. So try. Learn to put your mind on your fear - the physical location of the icky feeling itself. Not feeling it (being clenched) is what blocks you from being relaxed and loving.
And remember it's not up to you if you have faith. Nothing's up to you. But you've gotten this far. And life still has meaning: you know it. Hence, you can relax (if you do), and trust (if you do), and that IS faith.
NO NO NO GOD TOLD ME IM GOING TO BE IN CONTROL ILL BE RUNNING THE SHOW BUT FORTUNATELY THE KING FEARS GOD.
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I love you ❤️
12:06 🎉 he coulda been a rapper
the more i listen the more respect is lost. best stop while there's still a shred left.
Grammar y ingles mi hijito. Self respect can found again
we learn the ABC song and by magic we don't care about letters anymore.
i kno the song and that's all i need. meanwhile 4 of our letters are redundant and the majority of them are spoken incorrectly. endless words with multiple meanings.
vowels getting used wrong constantly. it's almost like a circus with clowns.
ehem. it's exactly like a circus with honking clowns. 3 ring circus comes from the Odd Fellows. he neglected to mention this historic group of controllers for some reason.
and there is no doubt that he was aware of them - and their level of control.
Language is used as control
The IRS just passed a $600 threshold on electronic payments and a new information report for business owners and they can be taken into jail if they do not pay this new tax but nobody is in control 😂 I’m a business owner and I have to pay this new tax and it gives information to local law-enforcement agencies and foreign entities
It’s always the intellectual college graduate trying to convince people nobody is actually in control.
Why not pick a dream you actually enjoy? Does this sense of persecution truly serve you?
@@skepticalpanda8862 We can create our own reality to a degree by breaking free of the control structure (that TC mentions 34mins in) by the book or not by the book, in various ways, as long as we don't make targets if ourselves by teaching too many other system-slaves how to escape. I know because I did it, but I am not so foolish to think that the authoritarians in control may not try to destroy my self sovereignty one day by sezing my boat or inventing a new tax and jurisdiction. Let's be realists.
Please give us some detail.
Also, don’t you have to disclose the income anyways?
It’s a policy you don’t like, not a global conspiracy.
That isn't even remotely like someone controlling every major world event like conspiracy theorists want to believe. But you hear what you want to hear & apply it how you want, I guess.