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Thank you, I really appreciate it!

I really appreciate it!

Thank you lol

Aww thank you 😊

Hell yeah, I love those microns.

"But the notion that man could somehow bootstrap himself to godhead without reference to nature seems to be highly peculiar and simply no more than an expression of hubris. Pride."

McKenna had such a way with words. So much wisdom packed into so few sentences.

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Hey man, thank you for thinking of me. I totally agree this concept of the imagination plays into Plato's allegory of the Cave. Ideas present themselves to our conscious mind out of the void, we react almost instinctively and claim ownership of them. Just like the prisoners blindly accept the shadows on their walls. By taking a moment to examine our own thoughts and speculate who or what would benefit most from our blind allegiance to those ideas we can start to see the true games being played. If we get good at doing this we can begin to free ourselves of propaganda and other bad ideas. Great to hear from you! I hope you're doing well too.

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Yeah I think Terence was way ahead of his time. So much of what he was talking about in the 80s-90s is about our current world.

I'm glad you like it, thanks!

You're welcome, I'm glad you liked the video!

Thank you!

This is actually something I think about often. After my first psychedelic experience in 2017 it really feels like my unconscious wants me to start drawing mushrooms more and more.

Thanks for the compliment!

It's fascinating to think about the mystery of consciousness and how we all just take it for granted in our daily lives. I would love it if we discovered consciousness was part of some "field," like the electron field and the quark field in physics, and we learned how to tap into that and download the experiences, knowledge and personality of everyone who's ever existed.

He says just before that, "You will be condemned to live out your taste." Meaning if you have bad taste in things, you'll be forever attracted to those bad things.

@@EricYoungArt thank you!

​@@EricYoungArtshout out to the elephant illustrator for illuminating the paradox of coloring up life's shades of grey.

Very poetic comment, I appreciate it!

merica seems to cater to such folks and they seem to live with it. i dont know how, seems shit to me.

Yeah, I think the Ego is a harder thing to get rid of then Terence imagined. The abuse of psychedelics by "rave" and "festival" culture has done more hard to their reputation then almost anything else. Anyone who thinks they understand psychedelics because they took some at a party once or twice has not experienced their true potential. From my experience, anyone I've met who takes them casually might have a few positive experiences but once they have a "bad trip" or two they put them down forever. I think is what Terence means when he said that "egomaniacs can't handle them and will eventually put them down." For the person seeking transformation from these substances, the bad trips are usually the most informative about your situation. But this takes a lot of will power to ignore your Ego's panic and focus on the things your suppressing when your at the height of the experience. Setting your intention for change and taking them in a proper setting is essential for allowing them to work.

@@EricYoungArt I never had a bad trip. It's just smoke and mirrors. You can get a "spiritual" experience out of those too. There's nothing new about the mystics. Their always coming up with old ideas in new ways to sound intelligent and enlightened when all it is is self worship. All this showmanship to find "self love" and I'm the egomaniac 🤣

I'm sorry you didn't have an experience where you got to wrestle with that deep and mysterious part of yourself. They really helped me deal with repressed childhood trauma and greatly enhanced my creative imagination; so I really don't think they're just "smoke and mirrors." Not for everyone at least. My experience proved to me that they do hold a mysterious power for transformation, but that doesn't make them a substitute for the benefits of religion. I'm sure you can find that similar thing in the prayers and rituals within the church but you can also find community and other things that psychedelics cannot offer you.

Thank you, glad you like it!

To become an oligarch, a capitalist needs to do something that makes them indispensable to the rest of humanity. But to maintain your status as a top oligarch you need to suppress and destroy any new threats to your position. This means destroying or capturing new innovation and inventions that would be better for humanity but work against your position of power.

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I have a question for you! Isnt terence’s ideas much more intellectually higher, than jordan petersons. I have seen you post peterson as well. But im not a fan of his. Because of his lack of ability to talk about science. Evolution/cosmos. I was just curious as to what you think comparing both of their philosophies.

I discovered both Terence McKenna and Jordan Peterson around the same time and their lectures really helped me when I was at one of the lowest points in my life. Funny enough, I found them both from the Joe Rogan podcast in 2017. Back then Jordan Peterson was a very different person. He wasn't that famous yet but had been publishing all his college lectures on TH-cam for years. I found them and was captivated by them. His psychology courses Personality And It's Transformations and Maps of Meaning are really great. I still recommend people watch those if they want to get a better understanding of who Jordan really is. He focused a lot of time in those courses lecturing on the same subjects as Terence. He talked a lot about Carl Jung, shamanism and powerful impact of psychedelics in ways that I had only heard in lectures from Terence. Jordan provided a lot of the new scientific research on psychedelics that wasn't available in Terence's time. He made them sound like a safe and powerful tool to transform yourself just like Terence always said. This was the final push I needed to finally try them myself and they dramatically changed my life for the better. It expanded my creative abilities and helped me confront a lot of childhood trauma that I had been repressing. Jordan Peterson went through a lot since 2017. He's gotten really famous and has sold a lot of books since then but he's also lost his job at his university over student protests and the Canadian government went after his license over things he said on Rogan's podcasts. But as far as I know there has never been a single complain from any of his actual students or clients. He also got sick and nearly died but after a while he made a great physical recovery. I honestly feel like he's never been the same person since the illness. He's gotten a lot more obsessive about Christianity and the Bible but I don't fault him for that, especially after nearly dying. He still puts out some interesting interviews and lectures. He had a fantastic conversation with Terence's brother, Dennis McKenna, a few months ago about psychedelics.

@@EricYoungArt can you point to some of jordans good lectures?!

Also when you say they both have similar lectures, which area of subject are you talking about?!

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Who told you that biological evolution doesn't have goals? Are you familiar with Dr. Michael Levin's work? He's a biologist who is doing some groundbreaking research in this domain and has gathered a lot of evidence that "goals" are a real phenomena; even on the scale of single cell.

You? Who is the you here?

It’s pretty easy to see a goal in this universe. Complexity. Everything has oriented itself to manufacture complexity. Life being generators of complexity, and brains being the shining goal of all existence. It’s the goal because it’s the result. Now if you are implying that you don’t believe there is an intelligence that decides on that goal, I don’t think that’s what’s being implied. It’s an inevitable result of a determinist universe that was determined to create this result. Organized consciousness and complexity.

Thank-you. #crabs it is like scientists only claim to read other disciplines. Life: WE will evolve or devolve to be as resilient as possible in our given environment. Imagine the beautiful society we could have.

Are you really a Biologist? How familiar are you with Dr. Michael Levin's work? As a layman, his research seems to be illustrating that we have been completely wrong about how evolution works in nature and how new forms evolve to solve new problems.

@@EricYoungArt could you point which paper? scholar.google.com/citations?user=luouyakAAAAJ&hl=en In STEM we usually don't talk about authors, we talk about concepts, as far as I know Levin is known for biophysics and developing the Xenobots, not evolution There are no laws in biology, it's a case by case approach

His work with flatworms and frogs specifically sheds some light on the implications his discoveries has to the standard evolutionary theory. scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=luouyakAAAAJ&citation_for_view=luouyakAAAAJ:QYdC8u9Cj1oC He has a lot of great lectures where he talks about his discoveries, this one covers how he is able to change the physical morphology of animals without changing it's DNA; which in my opinion challenges a lot of our previous beliefs about mutation and speciation. th-cam.com/video/Bdc-KQn-bwo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=mLGKPvVMSrcpQosy His Xenobot work is even more insane and harder to wrap my imagination around. He's even recently made xenobots out of human skin cells that have the ability to repair severed neurons. All without touching the DNA in the cell and only changing the electrical pathways within the cells. I think he's going to get the Nobel prize someday.

The principles of evolution have been used to condone fascism in the past. We see these manipulations of science being used at present in laughable white supremacy. So the war on science continues. I suspect 🤡ing has a role. Now let's both go read more and make better comments. ;)

If you take "survival of the fittest" as meaning the strongest can do whatever they want, then yes. That is the foundational belief behind any fascistic ideology, just look at the Nazis. But evolution doesn't just create strong creatures, it creates symbiotic creatures that "fit" together in an environment and as time foes on they are more and more adapted to surviving with each other. That is the definition of "fitness" that needs to be promoted to counter the idea that the powerful can do whatever they want.

@@EricYoungArt you're right, but your premise for fascism is wrong

@@EricYoungArt nevermind... you're wrong a lot

please enlighten me, what is your definition of fascism?

No one said Humans have stopped evolving. Our evolution is one of the lingering mysteries in evolution because no one can account for the selective pressures that caused our brains to expand so rapidly. The human mind is the most interesting phenomenon in all of Biology and I think it marks a fundamental shift from normal animal consciousness.

@@EricYoungArt hence why I said “as if” our brains didn’t expand rapidly, we can observe progressively increasing cranial sizes in our ancestors. I don’t see this fundamental shift. There are ants that have figured out agriculture and orangoutangs have entered the Stone Age. I would say our ability to use tools and teach our young to efficiently use tools after we discovered agriculture sent our technological capability to the moon… literally.

I'm not sure what your argument is, are you claiming humans are not special? The human brain's evolution is not a settled debate and regardless the size of the brain doesn't tell us much about how they used it. Anatomically modern humans have existed on Earth for 300,000+ years but it's only in the last 20,000 - 40,000 years that we've become so different. But do you not see the clear differences between the human animal and every other lifeform on earth? Of course you can point to single examples in specific animals with a trait that mirrors our own but none of these creatures has evolved the the creative mind that allows a single animal to master both agriculture and stone tools plus the myriad of other inventions and skills in a single lifetime. Normally these features are baked into their genetic makeup and not inherited culturally like in humans. Clearly we're a weird deviation from the other animals we see on Earth, I didn't think that was up for debate.

@@EricYoungArt what do you mean “clearly were a weird deviation”? no that’s just you being biased and assuming a conclusion. We have unique evolutionary traits to fill specific niches, as all animals do. Like I said our ability to use tools and raise young with those tools, and as of 5,500-6,000 years ago we we’re able to begin recording written knowledge to also pass down. These skills are not built into animals genetic make up these are learned behaviors, at least stone tools are for orangutans. cutter ants id have to do more research on but I think there’s only a few places where they build massive underground colonies. No I really don’t see a clear difference between us and every other animal. Exactly we spent 200,000 years hunting and gathering in Africa, barely getting by before eventually we began to walk out of Africa. And then about 80,000 years after that, people figured out what seeds were and it was all downhill from there.

So when we became symbiotic with plants and domesticated a few of them you're claim it was all downhill from there? You clearly have a nihilistic bias against your own species. Humans are the only animal to evolve that has the potential for symbiosis with the vastest number of plant, fungi and other animal species on this planet and you think it's a bad thing. Insanity...

McKenna was raised Catholic and never talked about their theology fondly but his psychedelic use made him open to the possibility of God/gods and spirits being real. And he was hyper critical of western culture because he saw rampant militarization and an overreaching legal system in his lifetime as antithetical to the "freedom" that America was founded upon. I don't think he would disagree with you that patriarchal norms are a problem across all cultures. In fact, he hypothesized that our ancient ancestors might have used psychedelics to suppress the patriarchal ego for most of human history. He imagined that once the shamanic connection to nature is severed that the male/patriarchal ego takes over society.

I think it's a belief based on their observations with metals. Just like how a Blacksmith can take raw ore and process it into pure metals, they believed an Alchemist could take one metal and transform it into another. This is why there is the classic association of Alchemist trying to transmute lead into gold. Some of the early alchemists believed that metals transformed naturally within the Earth and they were simply trying to speed the process up.

​@EricYoungArt so, basically, alchemy is just the process of change of an atomic structure by introducing or removing particulate energy that proceeds into a chain reaction? Which, if thought that way, would mean that everything is a byproduct of everything else?

@@OAN3476 that's how we understand it through the periodic table but the medieval alchemist didn't have this knowledge. They had their own theories about the structure of the universe but its interesting how close to correct they were. They had no way of knowing that all the transmutation is done within stars and is seeded out into the cosmos when they die. But their exploration of matter is what eventually lead to physics and chemistry. Newton considered himself an alchemist.

Glad I could help, I hope you learn something interesting!

Thanks!

Same here, I've been listening to Terence for years and I feel like I'm always finding new and interesting clips.

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for the comment, it's really motivating to hear that people like the video!

Yeah I agree that it's a difficult problem to convince the masses but this is not something that can be forced. A person has to be lead into waking up and realizing the problems themselves. Many people will resist and fight to hold onto their old way of doing things, that's just the nature of some people.

Thanks for the idea!

That's awesome! I wish I remembered the first one I heard. Terence has so many great lectures out there!

Thank you! I've really missed making videos in the last few weeks since I've been moving. Once I get settled in I should be free to talk. I'll hit you up soon!

How so?

@@EricYoungArt He only knows how to copy, if he tries to make something original, he just mish mush everything and it comes out as some really jibber jibbash stuffs that still looks like its copied from somewhere.

Copying great art to learn is a good thing, I've done it and so have most artists throughout history. It's only bad when they pretend they didn't copy and want to take full credit.

@@EricYoungArt i dont copy, i draw to learn about shape and something but its usually a sketch and its never finished and i never publish it. I build my drawings from mannequins and i build my own style from how i see the world. Theres a lot of people here i know who just copy and draw the most generic art, you look at 20 people's art and they look like they are drawn by the same person.

Yeah I agree with that, it's hard to distinguish between 80% of the artists on ArtStation these days.

lol thanks, it's just daily practice. I'm just lucky that I never stopped drawing in childhood.

Thank you for sharing once again, that was a really nice comment to read! Nature is an endless source of inspiration, it's not surprising that you found some great words while just focusing on the moment while outside. Going into nature and writing the poetic words that it inspires is probably as old as the written language itself. One of my favorite things is to just go to a garden or a zoo and draw plants and animals from life. I often like to think about the earliest humans who began drawing and painting animals on cave walls. Since then there has been a continuous succession of artists who find inspiration in plants and animals and feels compelled to draw them. It feels really primal and natural to do this kind of drawing to take a break from the purely imaginative realm and return to the mysteries of physical reality. And I really empathize with the "socializing is taxing" feeling, I'm naturally an introvert myself. I really appreciate all the awesome comments!

Thank you, I'm glad they inspire you too!

I love that community! Jonathan's work and the communities around him have really helped me on my Christian reeducation journey

@@EricYoungArt Yes, he is one of the few thinkers that I tune into for discernment in these times.

My pleasure, thank you for watching!

That is an interesting idea... I might try marking the page all over with gray markers and see what results. I've seen artists do similar things with taking random brushstrokes in watercolor and then drawing a character to fit the shapes after the marks dry. Thanks for the idea!

Wow, thank you! :)