@@purefoldnz3070 yeah I know, he sued him for the similarities in one of the "outer limits" episodes as I recall but I just wasn't sure what you were referring to from this interview in particular with him "stealing" anothers idea lol
I ALWAYS had my suspicions. James Cameron was a psychonaut. Avatars feminine, psychedelic, nature, art, science fictionc consciousness transference, this explains everything! Even the goddess of biology which you see on high doses of psilocybin
@@Bluesteel_97x why do you think they call it MOTHER nature. Throughout history, pagan religions and mythology, Nature has always been seen as a female/feminine entity.
This entire video is an absolute gold mine. Thank you so much for uploading this. I always wondered if Jim was influenced by Terence McKenna and/or the psychedelic experience. This confirms at least the latter part!
One of the most iconic directors of all time was millimeters close to getting plugged by a campfire made by his wife with his own hunting ammo while high off his ass with acid even before making a single movie. That's wild.
He was just tripping balls. .22LR in a fire isn't going to have that effect. Just heating a small caliber like that alone isn't going to provide enough pressure to send a round flying like it does from out of a gun. Worst that would happen is someone close to the fire getting burnt or losing an eye from exploding brass shrapnel. Just scary firecrackers, really. 🤣
@@Skrenja losing both eyes would have meant he can't look into a camera or watch playback of a scene, thus completely incapacitated to filmmaking. and then we all suffer lol. but true and well said. it was the PEWWW that scared me
I'm sorry to let you know, but it's completely non-toxic and also anti-addictive. You couldn't really get hurt on it except emotionally if you do it in a disregarding sort of way. Maybe due to these negative qualities, it is extremely criminalized and very often carries felony charges for simple possession. Makes sense, when alcohol, which is dangerous, harmful to health, longevity, and addictive (these must be the positive qualities that save it in the eyes of the Law) , is given the government's blessing for all adults to use.
Holy crap! Can James Cameron just put the Avatar sequels on pause for a wee bit and give us a blockbuster movie about tripping balls? It's been too long since we've gotten a good one - I'm looking at you Fear and Loathing - and the special effects are actually up to snuff now. I really want a movie that captures the visual hallucinations, the broken sense of time, the sudden epiphanies and connections that come about, and the ego dissolution that emerges with more extreme doses. This dude knows that experience and is an excellent storyteller... he could take us there in film!
Enter the void had the visuals but the storyline didn't grasp me... It was weird. I know that it was based off the tibetan book of the dead but some parts were weird.
It's one thing to imagine what inspired the world of Pandora, it's another to hear the stories that led up to that inspiration. I've known about Jim's youthful exploits for some time but this video is a real treasure. I doubt I'm being bold to wager that the deleted psychedelic ritual sequence from the first Avatar will find new life in the sequels. Thanks so much for sharing this.
That specific deleted scene certainly indicates that James ultimately did have a mystical experience; probably with a shamanic plant like Ayahuasca. These plant medicines provide a much more organic experience that gives us an insight into the Gaian mind, as opposed to LSD that is more psychological/mental.
I was just watching a new 2023 documentary on “Titanic” and listening to Cameron talk about how the movie was conceived, I thought, “he talks like he’s done psilocybin,” then I found this video. It all makes sense now. Thanks for sharing, guided psilocybin therapy changed my life.
I just watched that exact documentary and i was thinking precisely the same thing, people that have done psychedelics do indeed tend to talk in an energetic manner, Haha
I actually searched for this just now! I thought: he must have said something about psychedelics at sine point! The way nature and spirituality is depicted in Avatar just told me so! Beautiful 🙂
When Cameron talks about the feeling of being a 'tube' that ingests and excretes really hit home: I was at the end of a 10 wk meditation workshop, during an 8 hr meditation, I found myself as a mollusk, a small shelled thing sitting on the edge of an ocean, breathing in and breathing out -- nothing but the breathing - reduced to breath flow as a mollusk on a sea shore. I've done acid (decades ago) but that was an exceptionally vivid and tacit feeling that blew me away.
@@reccct it’s interesting but if you’ve done LSD… not… that interesting. ig snacking on psilocybin mushrooms throughout the night while also high and drunk (i.e. crossfaded) af is pretty good.
@@User61918it’s literally one of the most incredible experiences a human being can experience I wouldn’t call that “nothing” Lmfao wow bruh. I can see they had absolutely no effect on your npc dumbass Lmfao
It’s interesting how many of our most creative and igneous minds, the greatest artists, musicians, CEO’s, filmmakers, etc etc..all have crazy stories of some kind of experience with LSD. The Beatles were the clean cut, fab 4, mop tops making pop hit after pop hit…did LSD then morphed into the greatest songwriters and biggest and most influential band of all time. Also interesting to note that LSD and the Atomic bomb were both discovered around the same time. One being the greatest explosion in the world, the other being in the mind.
@@TrggrWarning If it’s described as a “drug”, as in it fits in the same category as say Heroine, Crack, Meth, many Opiates, PCP, Cocaine, etc..that isn’t what LSD is. All “drugs” are normally toxic, addictive, have no health benefits of any kind are harmful, have no benefit other than for “pleasure” and escape Psychedelics are not that. They are non toxic, non addictive, are derived from fungus and plants and are natural. Can they be dangerous? Absolutely!!! But if done responsibly if provides one of the most important and influential experiences a human being can have. It’s up there with getting married, or having a child. People that have a full-blown psychedelic experience normally state it being one of the most significant experiences in their life. I know it was for me. I don’t consider LSD a “drug” It’s a tool and an access to your higher self. Your spiritual self. The “real” you. And those that aren’t in anyway prepared to experience that, or had some naive idea of what they were going to experience, are the people who have the “bad trip” and give psychedelics a bad name. It’s a full-blown spiritual journey…not some “party drug” that you just take on a Saturday night hoping to “get high.” It’s not LSD’s fault. It’s the persons fault and ignorance towards the substance. The insights, ideas, the creative energy it provides will drastically alter your perception of reality and provide you new insights opening an entire world of imagination. To credit LSD as the “main source” for many of our creative minds creations? No. To say that it didn’t have an impact of influence? Also no. It’s a combination of the individual already being a “creative” person. The LSD just took it up to a whole other level.
It's a nuanced discussion. Too many people give too much credit to psychedelics for changing everything from art to politics, while at the same time others refuse to recognize their very real impact on society and if anything call them only harmful. Truth lies somewhere in the middle.
Awesome upload man, I'm amazed this has remained hidden for so long. Love to hear articulate people talk about their psychedelic experiences. They are important tools, and it's a shame we are too scared to explore our own consciousness. The true final frontier will be the mapping of consciousness via the use of psychedelic compounds.
@@TickleMeTimbers We humans love to map things. We map our genome, we map our earth, we map outterspace. By map I mean understand.... It is currently illegal to explore consciousness via psychedelics. This should change so we can explore and map the mind. Have to start somewhere.
If there is an interview of James Cameron talking about screenwriting and film making and his struggle in the industry this intimately, I'd love to see it.
I relate to that being able to remember former tripping-territory better when you trip again, but for me it happened in a scary/daunting way when coming up on mushrooms, like "oh whoahhhh here we go again... how could i forget how bizzarre, serious, and frightening this strange rendezvous IS?" But then maybe that is just coming up against my own entanglements, which the mushrooms are trying to undo, even heal. They always seemed to land me peacefully/gently and in health, regardless of the intensity. Still I fear them now. Also, the part at the end about animals seems to be a thing for sure. Even just in core/central shifts of the individual. Like, dont crystaline matrices grow outwards, but the pattern can be altered by something at the center/origin? Anyway, my body jas definitely seemed to change on mushrooms in various ways, including inter-cellular integrity. I.e. subjectively described as a soft vibe. One glowing mushroom experience ended up in a really peaceful state in friend's room and she gave me her snake and he coiled up in my hands and we were in a deep stillness, and (I like to believe at least 🤣) in serious appreciation of each other and the moment 🐍🔮🌠 another time a friend's cat raised fully and hissed in fear (kind of made sense by my inner state maybe). People and other animals can become extremely sensitive to, and aware of each other. Some internal states or vibes can be very hard to "hide". Mushrooms can certainly melt a lot of boundaries and leave us naked... you know how ink is the only way for an octopus to have a private moment/thought, as they are like an ongoing physical expressions of, I guess, much to all of what they are, including their "inner state"? I think Terence McKenna made that same kind of analogy. Some of us are trying to grow boundaries again... we know where the melt-button is 🍄🙏
I completely agree with being able to remember from one trip to another, even if you forget about it between the trips. Except my experiences are not related to drugs, but dreams and sleeping paralyzes. Sometimes I remember something from a dream while I'm having another dream, but which I had forgot when I was awake. It's all about taking it back with you from your sleep og your waken state of mind. Or sleeping paralyzes. I suddenly remember what I was thinking the last time, or what I have experienced many times before, until I'm finally able to remember it while being awake. Once I thought; "there is so much evil in this apartment, how could I forget?"
13:50 what's interesting is that that also applies to meditation, where you also build up upon your previous experiences and basically sort of hop on the train of where you left when you stop and do it again.
Always loved Cameron. Had my fair share of psychedelic experiences. This is a pretty far out time capsule. He really has responsible measured answers, as you’d expect him to have. Great upload. Are you asking the questions?
My friend had a boa constrictor, that always just stayed still in its tank. But every time, maybe three or so trips, we sat in the same room with the snake, it would rise up, and move its head toward either of us. It would look directly at one of us, or in turn, some of us. It certainly seemed to be responding to us, and only when we were tripping on acid.
That's wild. Like you were tuned in with senses you normally wouldn't experience and the snake sensed that too. Like you guys were on the same wavelength of experience.
I have always though that lot of experiences that i've had has a characteristic to it which can only be described as "serpentine". Reading your comment was relateable and also mind blowing at the same time.
Makes you wonder if psychedelics involve more of the "lizard" brain that we have, and which might have some kind of telepathic properties. I'd thought I'd heard that science still doesn't have an explanation as how large reptiles like alligators communicate (other than their unique vocalizations).
Wow, what a really interesting and intelligent guy he is. If taken responsibly for the first time (set and setting), psychedelic experiences can be safe and powerful for most people.
I’m sure it seemed so at the time, but .22 cartridges do not blast off when left in a fire. The bullet only separates from the shell with a POP. It would need something fixed solid to blast away from.
Too funny. There's "420 Comments" now 421... This is the stuff Cameron doesn't talk about ever and hasn't since then. Thanks for the upload, it's pure GOLD!
I wonder what the purposes of this interview were? This was Reagan era War on Drugs, people weren't trying to hear all this stuff back then. Kinda ballsy of him to be so candid about drug use and legality, that could have cost some their careers.
God I love young James Cameron, his enthusiasm and witty charisma is so damn attractive ngl. I can see why the ladies liked him so much back in the day hahaa 🤩
@@astronautadejakku9699 In a recent Avatar 2 promotional interview he stated that his best works in the 80's were driven by 'toxic testosterone'. A virtue signaling, unnecessary political, and alienating statement imo..
@@cliddilyI think he knows his own mind and past motivations better than you, a random internet person. Virtue signalling would be him saying something he doesnt really believe just to score points with a certain group. You seem to be assuming that's not simply how he feels, because somehow you are "triggered" by his use of "toxic testosterone" and feel the need to be reactionary and contrarian about it
I have been to that dark place, where there is nothing. It was quite liberating. It happened when I was given a visual/sound show my first trip, it just went blank, when I focused eventually I saw the girls hands come back. She was swirling them while the man made noises behind me.
Oh wow had no idea Jim experimented with acid back in the day shouldn't surprise me as he's always been about and heavily interested in exploring curiosity as a famous quote from him on the Ted talk he did years later but I loved this interview its always awesome to discover and check these ones out interesting thought from Jim as always great interview find was this off a vhs recording you had from years back or was this a deep dive find online? Cause wow 👌
Crazy ,about twenty five years ago my sister and a friend went to Turkey,while there they took some acid,that night there was an earthquake, a very severe one,I think it was quite a traumatic experience,but luckily they made it through . So yeah,that happens.
I was lucky to get one or two in college in the late 90s. Feel luckier now to have gotten in an out of college before the university system became the woke hell it is today. Plus we actually learned a few things, real subjects were still required, no BS gender studies courses and all that.
same happened to me at age 12, i had a survival knife with one 22 round in the handle, we were throwing the knife at a tree as we had a fire going (with older brother and 2 friends). the knife handle broke bc it was a pos and we didnt think anything of it. about 20 min later we were sitting around the fire and it went off. we dont know where it hit but it wasnt a little wood fire pop, it was a regular gunshot sound. freaked us all out but were excited bc it was crazy, unintentional and we didnt get hit! haha childhood......
If tripping on LSD is what gets this guy to do what he does, then let's do what we can to make sure he always has access to the finest LSD Hollywood has to offer.
James should get himself an isolation tank for his home, (if he doesn't already have one.) Lord knows he can afford one. If he enjoys tripping as much as it seems here, he would REALLY dig having his own tank. Those things take you into an entirely new dimension.. without any substances needed whatsoever.
Not surprised that Jim has indulged in psychedelics. You can tell he's been to the other side just by the deep concepts and ideas in his films. I remember watching The Abyss on mushrooms and thinking it was the most horrific of movie of all time, nearly provoking me into a genuine existential crisis.
Bruh me and my bois ripped terminator 2 whilst peaking one night and I couldn’t recommend it more. We were beyond pumped the fuck up. And the Cop terminator genuinely was fucking terrifying. We fast forwarded and skipped the nuke scene tho Lmfao 😭😭
One of the last times I took mushrooms it was a small amount but nonetheles it was starting to turn on me enough to make me anxious. Aliens came on television and it was oddly soothing and all my anxiety went away. Probably because these classic movies I've seen a million times are like a security blanket, or old friends.
I'd be interested to know if James Cameron took psilocybin or Ayahuasca after this interview, as there must be more trips to have inspired Eywa in avatar. Not to mention the deleted medicine scene in the first Avatar.
I was really hoping we'd get a "Dream Hunt" sequence in Avatar 2. Maybe in Avatar 3 or in the extended cut, if we get one for The Way of Water. That would be so cool.
He's such a good storyteller, no wonder he became a famous film director!!!
he probably stole this from Harlan Ellison too.
@@purefoldnz3070 stole what?
@@aus_liam444 its a joke. Harlan Ellison sued him for stealing the Terminator story.
@@purefoldnz3070 yeah I know, he sued him for the similarities in one of the "outer limits" episodes as I recall but I just wasn't sure what you were referring to from this interview in particular with him "stealing" anothers idea lol
@@aus_liam444 thats why it was a joke.
This is what TH-cam was made for
🍷 Amen brother..
And now we have Avatar 2.
Yes indeed 😁😁😁
I ALWAYS had my suspicions. James Cameron was a psychonaut. Avatars feminine, psychedelic, nature, art, science fictionc consciousness transference, this explains everything! Even the goddess of biology which you see on high doses of psilocybin
@@DigitalSniper18 So true! I accidentally stumbled across this video and everything is finally clicking together.
@TheLastWampa femenine???? Wow dude so because they give af about the environment thats femenine?
@@Bluesteel_97x why do you think they call it MOTHER nature. Throughout history, pagan religions and mythology, Nature has always been seen as a female/feminine entity.
This entire video is an absolute gold mine. Thank you so much for uploading this. I always wondered if Jim was influenced by Terence McKenna and/or the psychedelic experience. This confirms at least the latter part!
You're very welcome!
What's with men like Steve jobs , Jim Cameron and LSD? Well now i know.
@@roger72715 it was popular in the 70s
@@mkphotofilm It was pretty popular in the 1990s, as well, but I hear more from people of Jame's generation.
Exactly
One of the most iconic directors of all time was millimeters close to getting plugged by a campfire made by his wife with his own hunting ammo while high off his ass with acid even before making a single movie.
That's wild.
He was just tripping balls. .22LR in a fire isn't going to have that effect. Just heating a small caliber like that alone isn't going to provide enough pressure to send a round flying like it does from out of a gun. Worst that would happen is someone close to the fire getting burnt or losing an eye from exploding brass shrapnel. Just scary firecrackers, really. 🤣
@@Skrenja Losing an eye might not sound like much until you're the one losing the eye.
@@sprafa That's true.
@@Skrenja motherfucker can you stop for three seconds and consider the reality of ACTUALLY LOSING AN EYE???
@@Skrenja losing both eyes would have meant he can't look into a camera or watch playback of a scene, thus completely incapacitated to filmmaking. and then we all suffer lol. but true and well said. it was the PEWWW that scared me
Never forget the unsung hero of these stories, his wife at the time, Sharon.
Yep. Behind every great man there’s a woman who builds a campfire with live ammunition 😄
This is greatest LSD ad I've ever seen, after watch this I want to use LSD right now!
I'm sorry to let you know, but it's completely non-toxic and also anti-addictive. You couldn't really get hurt on it except emotionally if you do it in a disregarding sort of way.
Maybe due to these negative qualities, it is extremely criminalized and very often carries felony charges for simple possession. Makes sense, when alcohol, which is dangerous, harmful to health, longevity, and addictive (these must be the positive qualities that save it in the eyes of the Law) , is given the government's blessing for all adults to use.
Respect the tab. All I have to say.
Do LSD, folks. (Responsibly) The government hates it when you do that.
The most laid back I have ever seen him in an interview. But still very eloquently analytical.
Even the explanation of his acid trips are art
Holy crap! Can James Cameron just put the Avatar sequels on pause for a wee bit and give us a blockbuster movie about tripping balls? It's been too long since we've gotten a good one - I'm looking at you Fear and Loathing - and the special effects are actually up to snuff now. I really want a movie that captures the visual hallucinations, the broken sense of time, the sudden epiphanies and connections that come about, and the ego dissolution that emerges with more extreme doses. This dude knows that experience and is an excellent storyteller... he could take us there in film!
Look up Enter The Void
Enter the void had the visuals but the storyline didn't grasp me... It was weird. I know that it was based off the tibetan book of the dead but some parts were weird.
kind of like revisiting the movie Altered States, but incorporating current technology maybe?
He’d b givn a prmnt vacation for that..
you want the entire world to get high as a cause of that?
might not be that bad of an idea, actually
WCGW?
He is such a good storyteller
It's one thing to imagine what inspired the world of Pandora, it's another to hear the stories that led up to that inspiration. I've known about Jim's youthful exploits for some time but this video is a real treasure. I doubt I'm being bold to wager that the deleted psychedelic ritual sequence from the first Avatar will find new life in the sequels. Thanks so much for sharing this.
Yes! I've seen that unfinished sequence. Hope to see it completed someday.
That specific deleted scene certainly indicates that James ultimately did have a mystical experience; probably with a shamanic plant like Ayahuasca. These plant medicines provide a much more organic experience that gives us an insight into the Gaian mind, as opposed to LSD that is more psychological/mental.
f...n addicts
incredible. brilliant, humble, scientific storyteller
Thanks for sharing this, really interesting to listen to Jim talking about this subject.
I was just watching a new 2023 documentary on “Titanic” and listening to Cameron talk about how the movie was conceived, I thought, “he talks like he’s done psilocybin,” then I found this video. It all makes sense now. Thanks for sharing, guided psilocybin therapy changed my life.
I just watched that exact documentary and i was thinking precisely the same thing, people that have done psychedelics do indeed tend to talk in an energetic manner, Haha
I fucking knew it!!!!!!! He is one of us. The Psychedelic Community.
Lol pretty much my reaction too
I actually searched for this just now! I thought: he must have said something about psychedelics at sine point! The way nature and spirituality is depicted in Avatar just told me so!
Beautiful 🙂
When Cameron talks about the feeling of being a 'tube' that ingests and excretes really hit home: I was at the end of a 10 wk meditation workshop, during an 8 hr meditation, I found myself as a mollusk, a small shelled thing sitting on the edge of an ocean, breathing in and breathing out -- nothing but the breathing - reduced to breath flow as a mollusk on a sea shore. I've done acid (decades ago) but that was an exceptionally vivid and tacit feeling that blew me away.
8hour meditation? 😆😆😆😆
Don't compare meditation with cheap LSD, DMT.
@@phoenixj1299 why? Did I break some cardinal law?
@@mavis3916 You don't understand meditation
@@lastnamefirst4035 enlightened me then
WHAT A FUCKING GEM OF A SOURCE. THANK YOU
This is one of the best videos I've seen, wow!
He even did psilocybin mushrooms. FUCKING LEGEND
whats so special about it?
@@reccct nothing . but def worth trying if you’re curious
@@reccct it’s interesting but if you’ve done LSD… not… that interesting.
ig snacking on psilocybin mushrooms throughout the night while also high and drunk (i.e. crossfaded) af is pretty good.
@@reccct uhmmmmmm for me is special because I can't take psycodelics without bad trip, I admire the people who can (all the world)
@@User61918it’s literally one of the most incredible experiences a human being can experience I wouldn’t call that “nothing” Lmfao wow bruh. I can see they had absolutely no effect on your npc dumbass Lmfao
this man has lived one thousand lifetimes
Not even one actually
@@KerioFive what do you mean
@@brunoarnabar7450 cause his life isn't over
@@KerioFive 🤯
Everyone fits a million different ones into one.
It’s interesting how many of our most creative and igneous minds, the greatest artists, musicians, CEO’s, filmmakers, etc etc..all have crazy stories of some kind of experience with LSD.
The Beatles were the clean cut, fab 4, mop tops making pop hit after pop hit…did LSD then morphed into the greatest songwriters and biggest and most influential band of all time.
Also interesting to note that LSD and the Atomic bomb were both discovered around the same time. One being the greatest explosion in the world, the other being in the mind.
Giving drugs credit like that is strange. Mostly because that credit exists someplace between unfortunate and untrue.
@@TrggrWarning If it’s described as a “drug”, as in it fits in the same category as say Heroine, Crack, Meth, many Opiates, PCP, Cocaine, etc..that isn’t what LSD is.
All “drugs” are normally toxic, addictive, have no health benefits of any kind are harmful, have no benefit other than for “pleasure” and escape
Psychedelics are not that. They are non toxic, non addictive, are derived from fungus and plants and are natural.
Can they be dangerous? Absolutely!!! But if done responsibly if provides one of the most important and influential experiences a human being can have. It’s up there with getting married, or having a child. People that have a full-blown psychedelic experience normally state it being one of the most significant experiences in their life. I know it was for me. I don’t consider LSD a “drug”
It’s a tool and an access to your higher self. Your spiritual self. The “real” you. And those that aren’t in anyway prepared to experience that, or had some naive idea of what they were going to experience, are the people who have the “bad trip” and give psychedelics a bad name. It’s a full-blown spiritual journey…not some “party drug” that you just take on a Saturday night hoping to “get high.” It’s not LSD’s fault. It’s the persons fault and ignorance towards the substance.
The insights, ideas, the creative energy it provides will drastically alter your perception of reality and provide you new insights opening an entire world of imagination.
To credit LSD as the “main source” for many of our creative minds creations? No. To say that it didn’t have an impact of influence? Also no. It’s a combination of the individual already being a “creative” person. The LSD just took it up to a whole other level.
It's a nuanced discussion. Too many people give too much credit to psychedelics for changing everything from art to politics, while at the same time others refuse to recognize their very real impact on society and if anything call them only harmful. Truth lies somewhere in the middle.
To truly appreciate psychedelics one should record them self while high to see how stupid they act.
One being the greatest explosion in the world.. The other being a bomb.
This is fantastic. Thank you for this upload.
Cameron's very last statement presages Kary Mullis' invention of PCR. Trippy, maan.
These are great!
Awesome upload man, I'm amazed this has remained hidden for so long. Love to hear articulate people talk about their psychedelic experiences. They are important tools, and it's a shame we are too scared to explore our own consciousness. The true final frontier will be the mapping of consciousness via the use of psychedelic compounds.
Funny because humans discovering Psychedelics was one of our first frontiers
What do you mean by the "mapping of consciousness"?
@@TickleMeTimbers We humans love to map things. We map our genome, we map our earth, we map outterspace. By map I mean understand.... It is currently illegal to explore consciousness via psychedelics. This should change so we can explore and map the mind. Have to start somewhere.
This is an amazing find. The first story feels like it could’ve fed into his dream for the image of the Terminator.
And let's not forget Ripley tosses an ammo belt into the fire in Aliens.
@@D-Fens_1632 Oh yeah. Such a weird connection. 😄
Weaklings look for miracles and shortcuts.
If there is an interview of James Cameron talking about screenwriting and film making and his struggle in the industry this intimately, I'd love to see it.
@@artofsam this is far more interesting
Find that "Blockbuster" podcast.
He has a course in Masterclass I believe.
@@transcendmeta slashfilm synopsized it; possibly reddit as well
@@artofsam there is a long interview from the late 90s, where he talks about all of this. youtube has it.
James Cameron: "The idea for Terminator came to me in a dream.."
Uhuh... sure James, sure..
Exactly what I though
Wow! What a gem. Thanks for uploading this.
Saved to various personal playlists: Spirit, Aliens, Favorites, Avatar, Watch Later
Wow what a find, thank you!!!!!
I relate to that being able to remember former tripping-territory better when you trip again, but for me it happened in a scary/daunting way when coming up on mushrooms, like "oh whoahhhh here we go again... how could i forget how bizzarre, serious, and frightening this strange rendezvous IS?" But then maybe that is just coming up against my own entanglements, which the mushrooms are trying to undo, even heal. They always seemed to land me peacefully/gently and in health, regardless of the intensity. Still I fear them now. Also, the part at the end about animals seems to be a thing for sure. Even just in core/central shifts of the individual. Like, dont crystaline matrices grow outwards, but the pattern can be altered by something at the center/origin? Anyway, my body jas definitely seemed to change on mushrooms in various ways, including inter-cellular integrity. I.e. subjectively described as a soft vibe. One glowing mushroom experience ended up in a really peaceful state in friend's room and she gave me her snake and he coiled up in my hands and we were in a deep stillness, and (I like to believe at least 🤣) in serious appreciation of each other and the moment 🐍🔮🌠 another time a friend's cat raised fully and hissed in fear (kind of made sense by my inner state maybe). People and other animals can become extremely sensitive to, and aware of each other. Some internal states or vibes can be very hard to "hide". Mushrooms can certainly melt a lot of boundaries and leave us naked... you know how ink is the only way for an octopus to have a private moment/thought, as they are like an ongoing physical expressions of, I guess, much to all of what they are, including their "inner state"? I think Terence McKenna made that same kind of analogy. Some of us are trying to grow boundaries again... we know where the melt-button is 🍄🙏
I completely agree with being able to remember from one trip to another, even if you forget about it between the trips.
Except my experiences are not related to drugs, but dreams and sleeping paralyzes. Sometimes I remember something from a dream while I'm having another dream, but which I had forgot when I was awake. It's all about taking it back with you from your sleep og your waken state of mind. Or sleeping paralyzes. I suddenly remember what I was thinking the last time, or what I have experienced many times before, until I'm finally able to remember it while being awake. Once I thought; "there is so much evil in this apartment, how could I forget?"
Blast from the past. James Cameron became James Cameron from here.
13:50 what's interesting is that that also applies to meditation, where you also build up upon your previous experiences and basically sort of hop on the train of where you left when you stop and do it again.
Thank you for sharing this !!! This is amazing !!!
Really amazing how articulate he is about this subject. I am a tea-totaller and I approve of this video 😅
Always loved Cameron. Had my fair share of psychedelic experiences. This is a pretty far out time capsule. He really has responsible measured answers, as you’d expect him to have. Great upload. Are you asking the questions?
The interviewer is Cameron's filmmaker friend Tom Huckabee. :)
Am I the only person who has never taken drugs?
@@AlexGarcia-ze4yg yes. Now get with the program!
@@arachosia 🤣👍
@@AlexGarcia-ze4yg No, Spielberg just said this week he has never been high on anything, while he was standing next to Seth Rogen, LOL.
That weird tv experience was when the Navi ppl communicated telepathically and giving you all the necessary experiences to make their story!🙏😉
Holy smokes have never see this side of Jim.
Thanks for posting!
You are welcome!
Wowwwwww this man🙏🙏🙏
Makes so much sense. Both of the movies really resembled my own personal experiences on shrooms/acid. Especially the Kiri scenes.
My friend had a boa constrictor, that always just stayed still in its tank. But every time, maybe three or so trips, we sat in the same room with the snake, it would rise up, and move its head toward either of us. It would look directly at one of us, or in turn, some of us. It certainly seemed to be responding to us, and only when we were tripping on acid.
That's wild. Like you were tuned in with senses you normally wouldn't experience and the snake sensed that too. Like you guys were on the same wavelength of experience.
I have always though that lot of experiences that i've had has a characteristic to it which can only be described as "serpentine". Reading your comment was relateable and also mind blowing at the same time.
Makes you wonder if psychedelics involve more of the "lizard" brain that we have, and which might have some kind of telepathic properties. I'd thought I'd heard that science still doesn't have an explanation as how large reptiles like alligators communicate (other than their unique vocalizations).
Wtf lol
Who would trip in a room with a Boa Constrictor!!!😮
The magician🙏🙏🙏long live n love u deeply ever💓💓💓💓💓
This is amazing footage!!
Wow, what a really interesting and intelligent guy he is. If taken responsibly for the first time (set and setting), psychedelic experiences can be safe and powerful for most people.
I’m sure it seemed so at the time, but .22 cartridges do not blast off when left in a fire. The bullet only separates from the shell with a POP. It would need something fixed solid to blast away from.
Big kudos to him for talking about his experiences. More people who use drugs should have the courage to talk about it openly.
I knew Jimbo was a badass through and through. this is just more proof and why he's my fave filmmaker of my lifetime : D
Awesome video... Thanks for the upload.
I love how he took creative license with the events surrounding his acid trip “Don’t ask”
Too funny. There's "420 Comments" now 421... This is the stuff Cameron doesn't talk about ever and hasn't since then. Thanks for the upload, it's pure GOLD!
This is really a great testimony/interview. Perhaps he was fresh from the nightmarish Abyss shoot, seems like late 80s or early 90s
1985.
I wonder what the purposes of this interview were? This was Reagan era War on Drugs, people weren't trying to hear all this stuff back then. Kinda ballsy of him to be so candid about drug use and legality, that could have cost some their careers.
God I love young James Cameron, his enthusiasm and witty charisma is so damn attractive ngl. I can see why the ladies liked him so much back in the day hahaa 🤩
This was fascinating to watch.
My faith in James has been restored by seeing this, even after his recent unfortunate utterances on social media..
what'd he do?
@@astronautadejakku9699 Don't even care. People whine about everything and everyone on that site
@@astronautadejakku9699 In a recent Avatar 2 promotional interview he stated that his best works in the 80's were driven by 'toxic testosterone'. A virtue signaling, unnecessary political, and alienating statement imo..
@@cliddily oh that’s actually cool
@@cliddilyI think he knows his own mind and past motivations better than you, a random internet person. Virtue signalling would be him saying something he doesnt really believe just to score points with a certain group. You seem to be assuming that's not simply how he feels, because somehow you are "triggered" by his use of "toxic testosterone" and feel the need to be reactionary and contrarian about it
Love this !
25:00 Reminded me of the scene where Jake Sully encounters the Pandorian dogs while being lost in the forests of Pandora in his Avatar body.
I feel like this experience as well as tribal influence inspired the dream hunt scene. Wish they kept that in as well as many others in the movie!
Thanks for this man
I wonder how many Yes albums featuring Roger Dean paintings he was listening to and looking at during this time.
I have been to that dark place, where there is nothing. It was quite liberating. It happened when I was given a visual/sound show my first trip, it just went blank, when I focused eventually I saw the girls hands come back. She was swirling them while the man made noises behind me.
This explains a lot actually.
Ladies and gentlemen. James Cameron!
Watching this you get the sense that Mr. Cameron could've ended up telling these stories to random people at a McDonald's in Hamilton.
"I have no idea where I got the bucket (don't ask)" 🤣😆😆😂 💀💀
thank you sooo much
You're welcome!
„I don’t want it to be illegal because I don’t want to get prosecuted for it.“ Thats an answer I can appreciate.
So many things make sense now.
Absolute gold mine!! Where did you find this OP?!
Exactly! This pretty much solidified my theory he set out to create the greatest psychedelic Saga ever made
Terence Mckenna, Steve Jobs and James Cameron. All are psychedelic and have changed the world. Amazing
Francis Crick
Ken Kesey, Robert Hunter, Bob Wier, Jerry Garcia, Hunter Thompson... I can keep going.
Not psychedelic enough. Amateurs.
@@photoninjazz587 gatekeeper
This is better than both avatar films
Oh wow had no idea Jim experimented with acid back in the day shouldn't surprise me as he's always been about and heavily interested in exploring curiosity as a famous quote from him on the Ted talk he did years later but I loved this interview its always awesome to discover and check these ones out interesting thought from Jim as always great interview find was this off a vhs recording you had from years back or was this a deep dive find online? Cause wow 👌
I transferred an old VHS tape that contained this interview from my filmmaker friend who was Jim's pal. :)
@@newpalacefilms no way that's awesome 👍
Crazy ,about twenty five years ago my sister and a friend went to Turkey,while there they took some acid,that night there was an earthquake, a very severe one,I think it was quite a traumatic experience,but luckily they made it through . So yeah,that happens.
He reminds me of these baby boomer hippies that end up as college professors. He is definitely one of the coolest dudes to ever make it in Hollywood!
I was lucky to get one or two in college in the late 90s. Feel luckier now to have gotten in an out of college before the university system became the woke hell it is today. Plus we actually learned a few things, real subjects were still required, no BS gender studies courses and all that.
He's literally speaks for all of us
I mean, if you do drugs. Sure.....
@@zairman i do a lot of drugs.
Lately though not really. More focused on other things.
I dont do drugs
Lmao the thumbnail, how dare you 😂
James Cameron: "The fire is shooting at us!!"
same happened to me at age 12, i had a survival knife with one 22 round in the handle, we were throwing the knife at a tree as we had a fire going (with older brother and 2 friends). the knife handle broke bc it was a pos and we didnt think anything of it. about 20 min later we were sitting around the fire and it went off. we dont know where it hit but it wasnt a little wood fire pop, it was a regular gunshot sound. freaked us all out but were excited bc it was crazy, unintentional and we didnt get hit! haha childhood......
You know, I was expecting the context for the clip featured in Noodle's King Kong video to be disappointing. I wasn't disappointed at all.
Go Cameron
How did you find this video? what is the source? when was this taken? can you guys please give some context? this is amazing!
If tripping on LSD is what gets this guy to do what he does, then let's do what we can to make sure he always has access to the finest LSD Hollywood has to offer.
1000% some of this imagery is in the next avatar films
James should get himself
an isolation tank for his home,
(if he doesn't already have one.)
Lord knows he can afford one.
If he enjoys tripping as much as it seems here, he would REALLY dig having his own tank.
Those things take you into an entirely new dimension.. without any substances needed whatsoever.
"The fire is shooting at us!"
/Andy Bernard/
Not surprised that Jim has indulged in psychedelics. You can tell he's been to the other side just by the deep concepts and ideas in his films. I remember watching The Abyss on mushrooms and thinking it was the most horrific of movie of all time, nearly provoking me into a genuine existential crisis.
Bruh me and my bois ripped terminator 2 whilst peaking one night and I couldn’t recommend it more. We were beyond pumped the fuck up. And the Cop terminator genuinely was fucking terrifying. We fast forwarded and skipped the nuke scene tho Lmfao 😭😭
One of the last times I took mushrooms it was a small amount but nonetheles it was starting to turn on me enough to make me anxious. Aliens came on television and it was oddly soothing and all my anxiety went away. Probably because these classic movies I've seen a million times are like a security blanket, or old friends.
This is so insanely epic
I'd be interested to know if James Cameron took psilocybin or Ayahuasca after this interview, as there must be more trips to have inspired Eywa in avatar. Not to mention the deleted medicine scene in the first Avatar.
Obviously he's done more since the 80s lol
I was really hoping we'd get a "Dream Hunt" sequence in Avatar 2. Maybe in Avatar 3 or in the extended cut, if we get one for The Way of Water. That would be so cool.
@@heartshinemusic yep but I think it's gonna get more psychedelic in different ways.
He said in the interview one of his experiences involved eating psilocybin mushrooms
@@heartshinemusic Same, would love to see that deleted scene adapted into one of the future avatar movies.
Someone needs to put animation to these stories.
Explains his mastery of visuals.Good lad Jim
14:10 much like the feeling of revisiting a familiar world, whilst dreaming.
"Whether the guy was there or not, I'm not really sure" 😂
Now it makes total sense why he's so obsessed with Pandora and explaining all the world building stuff with obsessive detail.
So interesting!
I think this could honestly be the greatest talk to camera film ever. It's much better than 'An American Boy' by Scorsese.
More likeable fellow than I thought he was. LSD is not for everyone though.
Yes it is
@@taylorjeremy71 Maybe so but not when milling rough lumber.
@@willpeony5534 Milling lumber? Talk about moving the goalpost.
@@taylorjeremy71 I can tell you're smart, smart enough not to have taken the vacks ine!
Cameron very eloquently describes the Psychedelic Experience, and a journey that many psychenauts have taken.
If we ever any doubt left after watching T1000 melting back from the checkered floor ✨