Im not advocating for use of psychadelics for everyone but trying lsd has been for me a life changing experience. made me realize i was living life with my eyes wide shut.Thank you for another great video, love your content.
Trips are different to highs because they take you places. These aren’t physical places but you explore neural pathways that are otherwise unacceptable this allows you to see the world in a different way, DNAs discovery is credited to LSD for instance
Me too dude, lsd seriously made me realize how much I was fucking my life up. I don’t use it anymore because I don’t need it however I seriously don’t know where I’d be without LSD
"Im not advocating but" *goes onto say positive life changing event* Come on man can peeps stop with the i'm not advocating line, I see it everywhere right before someone goes onto say how epik it is.
Spin lol fair enough, in my case i wasnt even planning on trying it the night i did - and it can be detrimental if you have mental health conditions. I consider myself super lucky to have come put of that trip the way i did! So yeah i dont advocate it, the decision of trying that strong of a psychedelic/going on that kind of trip has got to come 100% from the individual imo. Its not up to me or anyone to tell another what to do with their consciousness :)
Did LSD last summer during a dark point in my life when I lost my motivation to life, it's not for everyone and it may even break certain people, but for my taking Acid made me have dark strips often and forced me to deal with my demons and made me realize what I want in life. Haven't been the same since, killed the existential dread you get when you're 12 so I finally got over my depression at the age of 17
same exact story for me except i was 18. it's wild how it's able to lift you above and beyond the shit, so you can see and think clearly on how to get through it.
Whilst I’m happy, with how this affected you I have to say that no one really points out that these are issues which can(with usually more effort) be solved without it too. It feels like people say it’s the only way out, but there are always other options not to say that psychedelics are bad or anything. They are merely situational for everyone, and sometimes it should or shouldn’t be taken.
Jaakko Toivonen actually i read somewhere that they think the reason people see the light at the end of the tunnel and stuff is actually our bodies releasing enough hallucinogenic stuff so we can die peacefully while our bodies shut down something... idk... but people who have more motovation than me should look this up and try to find it its fascinating....
@@mayap8191 thta is not true, researchers have linked dmt experiences and near death experiences, but that does not indicate that this chemical gets released! www.google.com/amp/s/www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/out-the-darkness/201810/near-death-experiences-and-dmt%3famp
Aldous Huxley was one of the important influences on my development - he is what inspired a life-long love of learning in me, and has led me to now become a Neuroscience PhD student studying the mind, brain, and psychedelic drugs. I wouldn't have taken this route in life if it was not for his immensely inspiring life and way of being. He was way ahead of his time, with an insight into things that was both extraordinarily broad and deep, from the most mundane social dynamics of the British intelligentsia, to the most profound realizations of mystics and psychonauts. Really a towering figure in the 20th century. Thank for you this video.
I'm trying to make an argument in an essay I'm writing that Huxley inadvertently "proves" that the idea of cartesian dualism is the correct view of consciousness. I'm probably wrong, but do you think I can make this claim and back it up?
substance use is as old as self-awareness. The only way to extend beyond the self is to be in a state at least somewhat removed from sobriety. It's a shame that psychedelics, the most useful medium through which one can introspect, are illegal.
Willpower and being smart about self reflection also help you to introspect, you don’t need to harm yourself or get high on psychedelics that tend not to help but instead to hurt.
Once we can like, categorize all people and their personalities In a huge database/spectrum we can assess what we need brains to be able to do right? Is what I'm saying even making sense lmao
I've done several psychedelics. Shrooms, Acid, and DMT. They all opened my eyes to how cruel I was to myself. I'd go into more detail, but... Well... I stopped smoking cigs altogether, and took a vow against future self mutilation. Even when I dissociated the last time, my main goal at the time when I wasn't really there was to feed my hungry belly. I've come very far. ^^
I quit cigarettes cold turkey after tripping too! I feel like psychedelics have a way of peeling back the wool that we, and society, imprints over our perception. What may have been acceptable becomes fucking gross while tripping. Glad to hear you're making healthy choices, happy tripping, internet stranger!
@@michalis75 Absolutely, I couldn't agree more about the affect of psychedelics. We have such a dirty lens to look through, it's nice to get a clear view sometimes. It took tripping HARD for me to be like: "Yo, I'm too fucking beautiful and kind to let cigarettes rule over me these days. It's been too long." (Started at like 11 btw lol). Thank you for your kind words, I wish you the same! Happy tripping~! ^-^
New mic!, not even a minute in and sounds much clearer and bright, dont get rid of the acoustics tho, i dont want that cozy feeling of your videos going away.
Trips are different to highs because they take you places. These aren’t physical places but you explore neural pathways that are otherwise unacceptable this allows you to see the world in a different way, DNAs discovery is credited to LSD for instance
Plato also discovered the concept of dualism after taking an ancient Greek brew. It is still unknown to us what exactly he took, but his report describes carrying out a ritual in a cave where he saw the souls of those around them leave the shells of their bodies.
@@MsMastress You are probably referring to Eleusis (See ''Road to Eleusis'') where people had to pilgrim couple of miles before reaching this secret place. You couldn't talk about it at all ; otherwise you'd be killed. R. Gordon Wasson explored these rituals, who lasted not less than 1800 years, and found, with the help of Albert Hoffman, that they probably extract LSA (Lysergic Acide Amide) from a fungus who grew on rice, not far from Eleusis. It was water solube, so pretty easy thing to do, even for a more primitive society.
Yo, keep on the good work. Also, I do think the word may end up in what was described in Brave new world. Especially when we are more and more tending to prefer the easy and happy way out.
Aldous Huxley truly means a lot to me, despite having died before my father was even born. His book feel like genuine self-help books, in the same vain as how he perceived LSD, a mere tool that is up to the experiencer to decide. He has helped make so much sense of both the world, my surroundings and me on a frequency I feel like no person I know in real life matches, he resonates to me on this level never seen before. What I just do not understand is how Huxley (according to google trends) is becoming less and less popular, despite being ahead of even most people of our time. I really hope more people will find out about the man and read his works, because his genuity extends way beyond that of Brave New World: think about the books he mentioned here (Perennial philosophy, Island, Brave New World revisited) but also 'Ends and Means; and 'Heaven and Hell' (not to be confused with the 'between heaven & hell). There's just so much to learn from this guy, and if I had a single wish it would be seeing his reaction to the modern world and hearing his take on it. I think even he would be astonished at just how accurate his claims have really become, throughout reading the biggest works of his, I've only stumbled upon a single thing that didn't come out to be true, and it was so minor I don't even remember what it was.
I 100% agree but it doubt it will never happen because the school system has no incentives to. The American school system was designed to produce factory workers and hasn't change much for centuries
I read the book recently and I keep sharing this quote everywhere because it is so accurate to how the games industry works: "Nowadays the Controllers won’t approve of any new game unless it can be shown that it requires at least as much apparatus as the most complicated of existing games." I received Doors Of Perception as a book prize for creative writing when I was 18
This seems to me like one of the most important video essays on TH-cam today, taking us all back to the 10 min discussion of a Brave New World we had once in highschool English class, to the almost scarily accurate portrayal of our consumer culture in the modern world today and the warning flags that have been waved and we need to take notice of. This is serious in 2020, thank you.
Fuck they need to make Brave new world into a film man I also think Huxley’s idea of the future definitely correlated more with our current society than Orwell’s- especially with the overstimulation of information driving us to egoism, and overstimulation of pleasure driving us to passivity and decadence. I can’t believe he’s so underrated in comparison to Orwell.
I always wanted to get familiar with Huxley's work and this video really inspired me today to pursue that. I love his perspective and insight on what really matters, takes people their whole lives to even understand some of it. Your videos are awesome and I love seeing whenever you upload ^u^
@@mohannadali9662 Island was Huxley's vision of what an 'ideal' society would look like. Contrasted by Brave New World which was Huxley's vision of what an oppressive future society would look like.
@@AKAThatKid Nice. That’s what me and my buddies have been doing. Last time I did it was a few weeks ago, i tried something called 4-Aco-dmt, basically synthetic shrooms. So much introspection. If you don’t mind me asking, how old are you? I’m 17.
@@benwilliams9726 Yeah nice, love a bit of self-reflection, but can be challenging. Im 21 (and in Australia). Keen to trip again soon once I'm on uni break :)
I'd find aspects of Huxley's ideology somewhat reminiscent of Ted Kaczynski's views of modern industrial-technological society. A video on the unabomber would be pretty darn interesting imo.
It was a critique of a specific type of drug use. If drugs are just a tool for changing mental states, then taking drugs to lower cognition in an attempt to pacify is bad; using them to expand thought and perception is good.
I can't help but disagree with most of what Aldous says. To me, taking psychedelics for introspection or experiencing "spiritual" events is equivalent to fooling your sober self, the fundamental flaw for me is the belief that psychedelics open the mind instead of shrouding and confusing it. And sure use of psychedelics could have positive consequences initially, but I personally hold to the belief that telling yourself falsehoods or perpetuating societal falshoods can only lead to negative situations somewhere down the line.
I don't feel that it is quite the same as telling yourself falsehoods and fooling your sober mind, but more as encouraging your mind to think in different ways. Having the opportunity to experience these alternative perspectives, at least in my opinion, doesn't diminish ones understanding while in a sober state. Even with the occasional psychedelic use we still primarily see the world from a sober perspective and I believe having the opportunity to change up this perspective is valuable. Furthermore I think that psychedelic use can lead to a greater understanding that the mind is truly complex and can operate very differently in other people or under different circumstances, at least that is how I feel.
altough to be fair, bad trips are pretty minging in the moment, but there is always a lesson to be learned from them and is a good way to free yourself from your own mental prison by realising that the cage you're in is actually unlocked.
Brave New World sounds prettyyyy familiar to ancient Roman poet Juvenal’s “Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.” Definitely not a specifically new idea...
The timing of this video couldn't be better, I just finished reading Brave New World and 1984! Really liked this video and very interesting that George Orwell was actually a student of Huxley!
hey bro, if you're using chrome, install an extention called "Ears: Bass Boost, EQ Any Audio!" that turns up the volume of web pages when you click on it, it's the first result on google, and it's very useful!
some ppl take hrt to reaffirm a transgender identity for me it was weed, changa, tabs and shrooms and quitting alcohol and DMX that helped reaffirmed my transcedental identity i read BNW for the first time last year while sleeping in a car during the pandemic, huxley was the first drug
I don’t know if anyone’ll read this but, thomas huxley was one of the ppl behind the socialdarwinist theory (look it up). this man was ALDOUS HUXLEY GRANDFATHER, like wtf, how can a family EVOLVE so much?? don’t know bout u but I found this shocking.
I don’t think there’s a point of psychedelics when pursuing the truth of existence or metaphysical. At most it seems like it can only be used to learn more about oneself or just for fun ngl. No transcendence
In many way his grandfather was a philosopher, or at least his ordered world of facts and skepticism lead to pretty much modern biology. Coined Agnosticism. I think we see what we want to see, the masses having read 1984 from Orwell and A Brave New World from Huxley our bias makes us think we are heading in that direction. Thought wake me up when we get naked centrifugal bumble puppy.
I have multiple sclerosis its hell on earth and our for profit health care system only offers poison to treat it been sick for 20 years mushrooms and lsd saved my life I went from a suicidal wreck to just a wreck lol but its created a reality for me that I needed to survive
Sgt. Pepper’s also has represented Simon Rodia, the Italian steel worker who single handedly built The Watts Towers and has been compared to Gaudi. He built the towers on the property that his house sat on, and after completing the work gave the keys to his neighbor and disappeared. The City of Los Angeles eventually received the towers, and concerned they were a public risk attempted to tear them down. But they proved too strong to easily demolish. The towers are today in the middle of the Hood® of South Central LA. Since Rodia was single, he could be said to deserve to be on the album cover more than Huxley, who was married…
I would argue that talking about the love for the nation, instead of the global society or state, is inaccurate inside of the book's world, as these notions that I have mentioned are the ones used in the own book. In the book local ethnicity, langauge and culture have been vanished, thus this world lies in the destruction of clasic nations. Sorry for getting so long for such a minor detail anyway.
Idk if it was purposeful or not, but nation is not the same as state. If Huxley meant love of nation, he’s wrong. If he meant worship of the state, he’s right on.
Psilocybin and LSD has reconnected me with old memories of things I used to do as a child. Not without my share of challenging trips though. I'm glad you made this video.
After I read Brave New World I was like I'm out. I don't want to waste my time trying to understand politics and philosophy I just want to live. I don't care what becomes of the world and the people in it. But I have nothing else to do so I'm here.
Agnosticism is completely removed from atheism. Not in any way the same, let alone "diet" version. This is important man. More so than you have as yet become aware it would seem.
I think that both are right. We live in a duality. To think these where the first two books among all those that came along...I absolutleyly spoiled myself but I was unaware.
it's pretty ironic how Huxley and Orwell had opposing views on what leads us to destruction, yet they were both simultaneously right about it.
moderation
That within sameness there is difference., although that difference is not different from sameness.
Wayvak nice
Carrot and stick. Gotta hedge your bets.
@@wayvak3330 wtf does that mean
Mushrooms and DXM were what took me from drunk, socially isolated human to being part of a tribe of friends who I love.
Psychedelics are amazing, just makes life feel so golded
One Percent Better at the same time?
Same then I moved three times, now I have no tribe.
A tribe is a feeling of home correct, so would home not only be oneself?
well i think i really need some or im going to die of isolation always thought to try some but never actually did it
Im not advocating for use of psychadelics for everyone but trying lsd has been for me a life changing experience. made me realize i was living life with my eyes wide shut.Thank you for another great video, love your content.
Explain
Trips are different to highs because they take you places. These aren’t physical places but you explore neural pathways that are otherwise unacceptable this allows you to see the world in a different way, DNAs discovery is credited to LSD for instance
Me too dude, lsd seriously made me realize how much I was fucking my life up. I don’t use it anymore because I don’t need it however I seriously don’t know where I’d be without LSD
"Im not advocating but" *goes onto say positive life changing event*
Come on man can peeps stop with the i'm not advocating line, I see it everywhere right before someone goes onto say how epik it is.
Spin lol fair enough, in my case i wasnt even planning on trying it the night i did - and it can be detrimental if you have mental health conditions. I consider myself super lucky to have come put of that trip the way i did! So yeah i dont advocate it, the decision of trying that strong of a psychedelic/going on that kind of trip has got to come 100% from the individual imo. Its not up to me or anyone to tell another what to do with their consciousness :)
Broke: "Everything is 1984"
Woke: "Everything is Brave New World"
Facts
My high school English teacher gave me his personal copy of Brave New World.
More than one thing can be true
We're literally living through both at the same time.
It is something in between though to be real.
Did LSD last summer during a dark point in my life when I lost my motivation to life, it's not for everyone and it may even break certain people, but for my taking Acid made me have dark strips often and forced me to deal with my demons and made me realize what I want in life. Haven't been the same since, killed the existential dread you get when you're 12 so I finally got over my depression at the age of 17
Felt lost once, now feel profound...🤘🗿
This is exactly how lsd worked for me and even the same age and time
same exact story for me except i was 18. it's wild how it's able to lift you above and beyond the shit, so you can see and think clearly on how to get through it.
glad it worked. I would normally tell people its not the best to take during the low points if you haven't taken it before.
Whilst I’m happy, with how this affected you I have to say that no one really points out that these are issues which can(with usually more effort) be solved without it too. It feels like people say it’s the only way out, but there are always other options not to say that psychedelics are bad or anything. They are merely situational for everyone, and sometimes it should or shouldn’t be taken.
LSD on one's deathbed doesn't sound too bad actually
Jaakko Toivonen actually i read somewhere that they think the reason people see the light at the end of the tunnel and stuff is actually our bodies releasing enough hallucinogenic stuff so we can die peacefully while our bodies shut down something... idk... but people who have more motovation than me should look this up and try to find it its fascinating....
Light Echo Yeah your body releases a chemical called DMT which I believe is a psychedelic
@@mayap8191 thta is not true, researchers have linked dmt experiences and near death experiences, but that does not indicate that this chemical gets released! www.google.com/amp/s/www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/out-the-darkness/201810/near-death-experiences-and-dmt%3famp
Imagine there's a possible afterlife and you show up high. Like if Christianity is right I imagine meeting Satan blazed.
Light Echo dmt is where we came from and where we go. Once you do it you will understand
Love this, would love to see one on Terence McKenna
And Hunter S Thompson though he wasnt overly philosophical he still had a message
TERENCE
YESSSSS DUDEEE
TERRY BOY
Hahaha of course
Surprised you didn't mention the fact that the book "the doors of perception" is where the doors got the name from 🤙
Really? What were they called till then ?
Thats a fact jim stated this in many of his interviews 💖
Based band
@@chaitanyavelamala7268 Gates? IDK
The book came out before the band existed
The school of life for less pretentious people
Couldn't have put it any better.
school of life just gives really fucking bad advice too
More like The school of life but not dumbed down as "self help"
school of life is kinda full of poo
Aldous Huxley was one of the important influences on my development - he is what inspired a life-long love of learning in me, and has led me to now become a Neuroscience PhD student studying the mind, brain, and psychedelic drugs. I wouldn't have taken this route in life if it was not for his immensely inspiring life and way of being.
He was way ahead of his time, with an insight into things that was both extraordinarily broad and deep, from the most mundane social dynamics of the British intelligentsia, to the most profound realizations of mystics and psychonauts. Really a towering figure in the 20th century. Thank for you this video.
I'm trying to make an argument in an essay I'm writing that Huxley inadvertently "proves" that the idea of cartesian dualism is the correct view of consciousness.
I'm probably wrong, but do you think I can make this claim and back it up?
You should make a video on the greatest philosopher of our time, Jaden Smith.
As if anyone could ever capture the greatness.
@@TheLampl1ghter good point.
😂😂
Are y’all joking? Jaden Smith is a fucking joke
Joseph sorry to burst your bubble big fella but... thats the joke
substance use is as old as self-awareness. The only way to extend beyond the self is to be in a state at least somewhat removed from sobriety. It's a shame that psychedelics, the most useful medium through which one can introspect, are illegal.
Willpower and being smart about self reflection also help you to introspect, you don’t need to harm yourself or get high on psychedelics that tend not to help but instead to hurt.
We know basically nothing about the human brain tho right?
Once we can like, categorize all people and their personalities In a huge database/spectrum we can assess what we need brains to be able to do right? Is what I'm saying even making sense lmao
luke I would hope we never see that specific future
luke and every human being is unique enough that at some point you can’t keep accurate categories except to have one for each individual.
I've done several psychedelics. Shrooms, Acid, and DMT. They all opened my eyes to how cruel I was to myself. I'd go into more detail, but... Well... I stopped smoking cigs altogether, and took a vow against future self mutilation. Even when I dissociated the last time, my main goal at the time when I wasn't really there was to feed my hungry belly. I've come very far. ^^
Thats amazing I'm glad you're getting better😊 Seratonin does some amazing stuff.
I quit cigarettes cold turkey after tripping too! I feel like psychedelics have a way of peeling back the wool that we, and society, imprints over our perception. What may have been acceptable becomes fucking gross while tripping. Glad to hear you're making healthy choices, happy tripping, internet stranger!
@@michalis75 Absolutely, I couldn't agree more about the affect of psychedelics. We have such a dirty lens to look through, it's nice to get a clear view sometimes. It took tripping HARD for me to be like: "Yo, I'm too fucking beautiful and kind to let cigarettes rule over me these days. It's been too long." (Started at like 11 btw lol). Thank you for your kind words, I wish you the same! Happy tripping~! ^-^
Hope you're doing better now (:
Im doing that too :)
His ideas feel extremely relevant in today's world, seems like he was way ahead of his time
We are slaves to our pleasures, yes?
Well, yes and no, but I'm glad you find him relevant to our times :)
Because the problems of now are just the problems of the past that have gained notorierity as time progressed.
Practical Inspiration it’s just because he knew how the society was being programmed
New mic!, not even a minute in and sounds much clearer and bright, dont get rid of the acoustics tho, i dont want that cozy feeling of your videos going away.
Trips are different to highs because they take you places. These aren’t physical places but you explore neural pathways that are otherwise unacceptable this allows you to see the world in a different way, DNAs discovery is credited to LSD for instance
Plato also discovered the concept of dualism after taking an ancient Greek brew. It is still unknown to us what exactly he took, but his report describes carrying out a ritual in a cave where he saw the souls of those around them leave the shells of their bodies.
Ewan Baxter Dualism is a borrowed concept from Zoroastrianism.
@@123ssecret Oh, thanks for the knowledge! Plato's story still stands though as an important experience of psychedelic insight.
@@MsMastress You are probably referring to Eleusis (See ''Road to Eleusis'') where people had to pilgrim couple of miles before reaching this secret place. You couldn't talk about it at all ; otherwise you'd be killed. R. Gordon Wasson explored these rituals, who lasted not less than 1800 years, and found, with the help of Albert Hoffman, that they probably extract LSA (Lysergic Acide Amide) from a fungus who grew on rice, not far from Eleusis. It was water solube, so pretty easy thing to do, even for a more primitive society.
@@gspm23 Wow! Thanks for the information! I'd heard that there was perhaps a connection to an analog of LSD, but wasn't sure
Yo, keep on the good work.
Also, I do think the word may end up in what was described in Brave new world. Especially when we are more and more tending to prefer the easy and happy way out.
LSD worked miracles for my life and even got me into literature and philosophy. It made me generally more appreciative of life as well.
822勃大大 yeah you gotta be responsible with it and it’s an awesome drug
Imagine dying while dying holy shit what a mad lad
Aldous Huxley truly means a lot to me, despite having died before my father was even born. His book feel like genuine self-help books, in the same vain as how he perceived LSD, a mere tool that is up to the experiencer to decide. He has helped make so much sense of both the world, my surroundings and me on a frequency I feel like no person I know in real life matches, he resonates to me on this level never seen before. What I just do not understand is how Huxley (according to google trends) is becoming less and less popular, despite being ahead of even most people of our time. I really hope more people will find out about the man and read his works, because his genuity extends way beyond that of Brave New World: think about the books he mentioned here (Perennial philosophy, Island, Brave New World revisited) but also 'Ends and Means; and 'Heaven and Hell' (not to be confused with the 'between heaven & hell).
There's just so much to learn from this guy, and if I had a single wish it would be seeing his reaction to the modern world and hearing his take on it. I think even he would be astonished at just how accurate his claims have really become, throughout reading the biggest works of his, I've only stumbled upon a single thing that didn't come out to be true, and it was so minor I don't even remember what it was.
Same bro ... same 💖
*THE* psychedelic philosopher. We just gonna forget about Terrence and Alan?
Cringe
Yes, a philosopher. Not a new age guru. A philosopher.
@@arrow_of_longing Terence was hardly new age but ok
@@thinginground5179 nor was he a guru, he openly stated that he despised the concept
Just found this channel and I already love it
Infant conditioning is scary schools need to focus more on learning, less mindless obedience.
I 100% agree but it doubt it will never happen because the school system has no incentives to.
The American school system was designed to produce factory workers and hasn't change much for centuries
Get out of the school system, advocate homeschooling instead.
@@Zorro9129 homeschooling is for religious weirdos lol
Great video! Do Terrence McKenna next !!
I read the book recently and I keep sharing this quote everywhere because it is so accurate to how the games industry works:
"Nowadays the Controllers won’t approve of any new game unless it can be shown that it requires at least as much apparatus as the most complicated of existing games."
I received Doors Of Perception as a book prize for creative writing when I was 18
I just started reading the Perennial Philosophy two nights ago, so this is perfect timing. Great video!
Do one on Terence McKenna. I dare you.
3 millenia later... Sysiphus: DONE
This seems to me like one of the most important video essays on TH-cam today, taking us all back to the 10 min discussion of a Brave New World we had once in highschool English class, to the almost scarily accurate portrayal of our consumer culture in the modern world today and the warning flags that have been waved and we need to take notice of. This is serious in 2020, thank you.
Strange, I was peering at my vinyl cover of Sargent pepper hanging on the wall as you said those last words, I didn’t even know he was on it.
Sergeant Pepper also has Aleister Crowley.
Fuck they need to make Brave new world into a film man
I also think Huxley’s idea of the future definitely correlated more with our current society than Orwell’s- especially with the overstimulation of information driving us to egoism, and overstimulation of pleasure driving us to passivity and decadence. I can’t believe he’s so underrated in comparison to Orwell.
I always wanted to get familiar with Huxley's work and this video really inspired me today to pursue that. I love his perspective and insight on what really matters, takes people their whole lives to even understand some of it. Your videos are awesome and I love seeing whenever you upload ^u^
Huxley’s novel Island is hands down my favorite book
Same! A friend gave me a first edition copy of that book. Belonged to his parents. I 'forgot' to give it back 26 years ago. 😉😁
sameee!
What's it about
Edit: no spoilers
Edit 2: nvm...
@@mohannadali9662 Island was Huxley's vision of what an 'ideal' society would look like. Contrasted by Brave New World which was Huxley's vision of what an oppressive future society would look like.
@@gladyslucas198 you had me at "contrasted".
loving the more regular uploads
also ima drop some lsd tomorrow.
How was it?
@@benwilliams9726 great thx for asking. my friend and I went down to the river and played with rocks and watched the sunset.
@@AKAThatKid Nice. That’s what me and my buddies have been doing. Last time I did it was a few weeks ago, i tried something called 4-Aco-dmt, basically synthetic shrooms. So much introspection. If you don’t mind me asking, how old are you? I’m 17.
@@benwilliams9726 Yeah nice, love a bit of self-reflection, but can be challenging. Im 21 (and in Australia). Keen to trip again soon once I'm on uni break :)
Buddhism
The psychology before psychological science!
Buddhism is omega based
and still better in many ways
The religion without any god !
Patriarchal therapeutic model? WHAT?
Guess what the article has been written by,lol.
@@superioropinion7116 a woman? lol oh no, so spooky!
@@saassas5879 Thanks for the answer kind stranger,I would have given you gold if I could.
I'd find aspects of Huxley's ideology somewhat reminiscent of Ted Kaczynski's views of modern industrial-technological society. A video on the unabomber would be pretty darn interesting imo.
One of the reasons why Ted did it was his brain was fried from the Harvard LSD studies as well
I'm just saying, people be taking LSD and then they Get It (tm)
Lmao his last wish was LSD, very based
Never wanted a proper trip, but acid has done wonders in my life, 6 micrograms at a time. For people who don't know, 100 is a typical dose
Psychadelics are the best drug class. Absolutely changed my life and has changed many friends for the better.
If you rearrange Huxley’s birth year from 1894 it becomes *1984*
Easily my favorite philosophy TH-camr 👍🏾, Your videos are consistently thought provoking.
Was not "Brave new world" a critique of drug use??
It was a critique of a specific type of drug use. If drugs are just a tool for changing mental states, then taking drugs to lower cognition in an attempt to pacify is bad; using them to expand thought and perception is good.
Now this is what I have been waiting for.
Your new mic really makes it more understandable, good
it seems like someone has been reading Pollan's book
Thank you! Another great video Syphilis. 👍
I watched an old interview of Huxley (this one to be more precise : th-cam.com/video/9xEiOb_WvDE/w-d-xo.html ) and his French is unbelievably good.
I can't help but disagree with most of what Aldous says. To me, taking psychedelics for introspection or experiencing "spiritual" events is equivalent to fooling your sober self, the fundamental flaw for me is the belief that psychedelics open the mind instead of shrouding and confusing it.
And sure use of psychedelics could have positive consequences initially, but I personally hold to the belief that telling yourself falsehoods or perpetuating societal falshoods can only lead to negative situations somewhere down the line.
Couldn’t disagree more with you.
I don't feel that it is quite the same as telling yourself falsehoods and fooling your sober mind, but more as encouraging your mind to think in different ways. Having the opportunity to experience these alternative perspectives, at least in my opinion, doesn't diminish ones understanding while in a sober state. Even with the occasional psychedelic use we still primarily see the world from a sober perspective and I believe having the opportunity to change up this perspective is valuable.
Furthermore I think that psychedelic use can lead to a greater understanding that the mind is truly complex and can operate very differently in other people or under different circumstances, at least that is how I feel.
Its just a chemical that gives some people more perspective over them self and the world clearly it doesn't work that way for everyone.
Heyy I see you classical man. have you tried quantum physics? That shit is trippy bro gotta stay on trend yo
lsd is good shit, just make sure that YOU'RE ready to do it, make sure you're comfortable and you'll have a sick time.
altough to be fair, bad trips are pretty minging in the moment, but there is always a lesson to be learned from them and is a good way to free yourself from your own mental prison by realising that the cage you're in is actually unlocked.
Brave New World sounds prettyyyy familiar to ancient Roman poet Juvenal’s “Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.” Definitely not a specifically new idea...
The timing of this video couldn't be better, I just finished reading Brave New World and 1984! Really liked this video and very interesting that George Orwell was actually a student of Huxley!
bro please for the love of god increase the volume of your videos, my laptop is already at 100%.
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It makes you pay attention with the low volume
Yeah, He needs a new mic or something as well. His audio quality is always woefully lacking. Great content as always but painful to listen to.
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@@groob33 all good man! :)
Can you create a Playlist with all your videos in one so I can binge on it without clicking each video
3 Important Figures of there respected Fields Die on the same day.
Illuminati Confirmed.
*X-Files Theme Plays*
some ppl take hrt to reaffirm a transgender identity
for me it was weed, changa, tabs and shrooms and quitting alcohol and DMX that helped reaffirmed my transcedental identity
i read BNW for the first time last year while sleeping in a car during the pandemic, huxley was the first drug
itd improve your video qualities if you compress your voice a lil
I don’t know if anyone’ll read this but, thomas huxley was one of the ppl behind the socialdarwinist theory (look it up). this man was ALDOUS HUXLEY GRANDFATHER, like wtf, how can a family EVOLVE so much?? don’t know bout u but I found this shocking.
I don’t think there’s a point of psychedelics when pursuing the truth of existence or metaphysical. At most it seems like it can only be used to learn more about oneself or just for fun ngl. No transcendence
great video ily sisyphus
0:23 Rise of populism (is a bad thing)
But democracy is a good thing
Pick one. You have to pick one. 🤦
In many way his grandfather was a philosopher, or at least his ordered world of facts and skepticism lead to pretty much modern biology. Coined Agnosticism. I think we see what we want to see, the masses having read 1984 from Orwell and A Brave New World from Huxley our bias makes us think we are heading in that direction. Thought wake me up when we get naked centrifugal bumble puppy.
I have multiple sclerosis its hell on earth and our for profit health care system only offers poison to treat it been sick for 20 years mushrooms and lsd saved my life I went from a suicidal wreck to just a wreck lol but its created a reality for me that I needed to survive
Sgt. Pepper’s also has represented Simon Rodia, the Italian steel worker who single handedly built The Watts Towers and has been compared to Gaudi. He built the towers on the property that his house sat on, and after completing the work gave the keys to his neighbor and disappeared. The City of Los Angeles eventually received the towers, and concerned they were a public risk attempted to tear them down. But they proved too strong to easily demolish. The towers are today in the middle of the Hood® of South Central LA. Since Rodia was single, he could be said to deserve to be on the album cover more than Huxley, who was married…
It’s pronounced Mess-KAH-lynn. I love your videos but your mispronunciation of easy words like Mescaline and Episcopal kind of drives me nuts.
The upcoming generation will be called Alpha too btw like in BNW
Huxley was also inspired by Kropotkin and Henry George. Maybe we could get videos on them in the future?
Huxley born in 1894
Orwell’s 1984
Coincidence???
I would argue that talking about the love for the nation, instead of the global society or state, is inaccurate inside of the book's world, as these notions that I have mentioned are the ones used in the own book. In the book local ethnicity, langauge and culture have been vanished, thus this world lies in the destruction of clasic nations. Sorry for getting so long for such a minor detail anyway.
He foretold some things but he wasn't a prophet. He was an original thinker and a good writer.
masks don't work, ya derpo
Hurr durr breathing in my own exhaust is a good idea
It's 1984 in China and Brave New World in America :)
Idk if it was purposeful or not, but nation is not the same as state. If Huxley meant love of nation, he’s wrong. If he meant worship of the state, he’s right on.
.... I guess the fear that politics would become a commodity is older then i thought
Fascinating
Keep up the great videos my dude
Can you please link the John Hopkins article
Been trying to find it but couldn't :(
Mans inspired ORWELL. says fuckin enough.
Eating cheese it's and watching this video July 5th, 2022.
Psilocybin and LSD has reconnected me with old memories of things I used to do as a child. Not without my share of challenging trips though. I'm glad you made this video.
Psychedelics are essential for human evolution.
He held it together better than Terence McKenna. McKenna got a bit wavy toward the end of his run.
3:25 hahahahahahaha
Arkera,. Archera is Italian the "ch" = k sound.
Please pronounce. Mayne I love your vids just sometimes I hear ya miss a little not hate just love man keep it up
7:04
2x Come on baby light my fire~
Try to set the night on fire~
Yeahhhea~
"God'lming"
My first name is Huxley and this video is wild. Great vid btw
After I read Brave New World I was like I'm out. I don't want to waste my time trying to understand politics and philosophy I just want to live. I don't care what becomes of the world and the people in it. But I have nothing else to do so I'm here.
The OG hippy
Agnosticism is completely removed from atheism. Not in any way the same, let alone "diet" version. This is important man. More so than you have as yet become aware it would seem.
Actually no it isn't
can we get a CS Lewis one?
Aw yis, though it would be hard to get anything that isn't already covered by CS Lewis Doodles.
so anti maskers and misinformed? thanks for isolating your fan base
HOLY FUCK, that's a lot of LSD.
I think that both are right. We live in a duality.
To think these where the first two books among all those that came along...I absolutleyly spoiled myself but I was unaware.
Like 2 sides of the same coin.
Mans was so right, drown the reset on the sea of irrelevance
I wish psychedelics were legal so I could try them . Hahahahahsh
why is there a red tint to the whole video
Why does the game outer world's seem like Huxley trip
Moral of the video: I like seizures and dancing on the floor
Bro brave new world literally makes me fall into deep crisis
I think I found the philosopher I’m going to study next