Terence McKenna - The History Of New Age
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ย. 2024
- Terence McKenna outlines how the New Age came about in its many forms, and how its meaning has changed over time.
"It's fundamentally shaped by an impulse toward the irrational, and my argument with it is that it seems to lack any ability to do critical evaluation of itself."
"A person can consider themselves New Age, I suppose, if they just practice affirmations and try to keep their cholesterol low, well that's a far cry from signing up at the Solar Temple and giving all your money away and beginning to use moldavite suppositories."
"I think the impulse to watch your diet, and the impulse to form your thoughts with care, lest you put bad vibes into the world, and certainly the impulse to care for the environment, these are healthy impulses. But the sense of moral superiority, the elitism, the gimmickry, the dependency on unproven and exotic technologies, and the general lack of any sense of historical anchoring makes this to me a kind of pop phenomenon."
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"I think the impulse to watch your diet, and the impulse to form your thoughts with care, lest you put bad vibes into the world, and certainly the impulse to care for the environment, these are healthy impulses. But the sense of moral superiority, the elitism, the gimmickry, the dependency on unproven and exotic technologies, and the general lack of any sense of historical anchoring makes this to me a kind of pop phenomenon."
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Reminds me of Glastonbury folks. Some.
"In the psychedelic world, we know, those who advance are not better, they're braver ahahaha" -Terence McKenna ☮️💚 great way to end it
When I see a new WPAHP McKenna upload, I celebrate, go and smoke a large bowl of my best weed, close my eyes and turn the volume up. Bliss, every time. Thank you Terence and Pete
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Terrence summarized two decades of history in order to illustrate his point. And I can't remember my nieces birthday. ✌
Brilliant mind he is..
"A person can consider themselves New Age, I suppose, if they just practice affirmations and try to keep their cholesterol low, well that's a far cry from signing up at the Solar Temple and giving all your money away and beginning to use moldavite suppositories."
So hilarious... had em pegged
Terence is one of those people who can smoothly, precisely and gracefully talk about the inexpressible for hours. Even though I've had quite a few visitations of the 'inexpressible' myself, being able to communicate it is really difficult. A brilliant mind he is.
I've made a song using one of his speeches, think there should be interested people here.
It's on my channel, called 'visitation'. Sending love
Please, link it, too!
@@DamianSzajnowski soz for taking this long. Here's the link if you're still interested.
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@@ridik6220 Super cool stuff yo
On god he was SO WELL SUITED TO TALK ABOUT THIS SHIT! WITH HIS BACKGROUND IN ECOLOGY AND ALL THAT SHIT HE SERIOUSLY HAD A SUPER AMAZING GRIP ON THE WAY SHIT WORKED IN THE WORLD. AND MY GOD, HE HAS MORE TRIPS UNDER HIS BELT WITH THE “REAL DEAL” TYPE OF PEOPLES AND SHAMANS THAN EVERYBODY ON THIS CHANNEL I FUCKING BET
Seriously gave me chills when he said Alan Watts’ name. Watts and McKenna are my favorite philosophical entertainers, I have a playlist for each on my channel. Thanks WPAHP!
Hey Buddha they are also my favorite 2 people to listen to! There's an interview somewhere with his brother Dennis, and Dennis is talking about how Terence stopped taking psychedelics "religiously" before he died, and Dennis says Terence quoted Watts at him to justify it: "After you've got the message you can hang up the phone" - when I heard that I got the same worlds-colliding feeling.
I also love Robert Anton Wilson and have been into him for over 20 years (I read Prometheus Rising as a teen), but really just got into TM deeply a few years ago, and there's a vid of TM and RAW smoking a joint in Portugal, which is like the best thing ever.
@@andymurray8620 beautiful story
I'm glad I was able to listen to this, much of my ideologies habe stemmed from New Age thought, and listening to Mckenna really put it into perspective on how much I've been getting played.
Same here! I grew up in a household where the stuff was handed down like a real truth.
Interestingly, when you study intellectual history, and this is a great lecture by McKenna on the origins of New Age thought, what seemed like revealed truth it’s clearly seen for what it is; a product of a specific place in time, by people with an agenda to sell. It’s so predictable. He didn’t mention this in the lecture but madame Blavatsky and Annie Besant’s theory on these things were steeped in the “race“ theories of the 19th century. There were supposedly seven races, the white race being the most advanced, of course, while black indigenous people were the failed ones. I gave up on new age thinking when I read are supposed channel lecture from EL Moriah where “he” stated that the “the races should not be mixed“. This is not only totally ridiculous but it was obvious these people enshrined in their racial beliefs as if they were cosmic truths. Never mind the fact that the science of genetics has proven that races do not really exist. The best shorthand I have to describe the new age movement is a system of magical thinking from predominantly upper middle class people who want to enrich themselves in save the world by thought alone and not much effort.
I really miss Terence and all his kind who are very articulate and seem to put all my thoughts into an articulate to the point perspective. So often I feel like I’m talking in a different paradigm to the rest of humanity but Terrance always seemed to put my thoughts into words in an Articulate way. I know I keep repeating the word articulate but Terrance really epitomises that word like no one else I’ve ever known.
Wow this is a special one... Terence talking about Crowley and Madame Blavatsky ! What!? So cool.
Wow, this brilliantly sums up so much of how I feel. Millions are trying to break free, find Truth and awaken. Only through direct experience can the individual find their joy and liberation.
I feel like i just tapped in on the cosmic telephone and are dwelling in on the secret of the universe.
to whom it may concern: this channel has been incredibly resourceful. thank you for organizing this page
Thrilled to hear Krishnamurti's name as well. Tmk and jk have been highly influential figures in my life. Despite of their different approach, their teachings have been nothing short of mind blogging, I wonder what they had to say about each other's ideas.
Not to forget they all were anti-ideology and were focused on the felt moment of the immediate experience.
The great white light
That burns for us
It leads us on
It makes us trust
It shows us love
And drips with pain
Allows us all to feel the word
Allows us all to make a change
I can see your light
This is my gift
So many people burning down
So many people need a lift
It starts with one big smile
And grows with every laugh
With every hug and kiss and high-five
Keeps the light from holding back
So give your light some love
Fill your love with sound
Give that sound a little light life from the sky straight to the ground
And let it heal heart
Your heart will free your mind
Take the negative input and flip it upside-down
Cause when we let our pain
Run free to grow and rage
It burns a little of our light out
Every single day
Allow yourself to breathe
Kick back, relax and dream
So many good things come to those who love relentlessly
A global plight
First fear and strife
World-wide test
To do what’s right
We will live on
Yes this I know
There’s so much cruel unjust around us
Only strengthens our resolve
We need to feed the flame
That burns inside our souls
Unleash the great white light inside us
Let it explode into the world
Cause we all have strength
And we all feel pain
It only matters how we use it
Let it heal our global strain- TWIDDLE
I think it would be interesting to know the date of the lectures, so we can better understand the context in which they were given. Thank you for making this material available! 🙌♥🙏
Yes!
Just listen to his reassuring voice.
Thank You Terence 🙏
Just a Thought.....Rather than sending our young people off to do 2 years military service for their countries, we should send them into the homes of our sick brothers and sisters as carers, providing help for people with MS or MN. Instead of our young people returning brain washed, full of racial hatred and carrying trauma, we would have young men and women starting off their adult lives with a deeper appreciation of their own mortality and the gift of life as well as a genuine kindness for our fellow humans. Just a Thought!
@SpeakingAboutLife Yes I agree, freedom to choose!
No one should ever join the military, ever.
I like your idea way better. Reminds me of the Peace Corps.
@@ordinaryweirdo Everyone should have choice but I feel that the experience of caring for someone who can't care for themselves is not only humbling but very grounding. I think it was Ghandi who said "the best way to find yourself is to loose yourself in the service of others".
@@mixkells8048 Yes, free will is essential. We must want to help others. Being forced to help others only causes resentment.
the most comprehensive timeline of this subject ever! Love it.
My first teachers were brought through all this and then proceeded to teach me. It’s full circle time.
"I'm sorry I'm deeper in this shit than I realize " -TM I get the difficulty there.
Never heard this before. Probably the most prescient topic from him in quite a while.
Also, notice how New Age tends to go away during wartimes. Interesting.
After leaving organized religion I started exploring the New Age and psychedelics. Terence’s words match my own experience to a T. I will say though that it’s foolish to throw the baby out with the bath water when it comes to the New Age though. It’s not an all or nothing deal when it comes extensive philosophies like the New Age. A psychedelic person knows that everything is extremely nuanced and multi sided.
Yeah but you can analyze bullshit all you like. That's your freedom.
CLint, I agree with your sentiment. No less than the philosopher Robert C Solomon (may he rest in peace) said the same thing about not throwing the baby with the bath toys when it came to New Age thinking. It is such a wide field that there must be some gold among the dross. However, as someone who was raised in a new age church, I found most of the good ideas to be derivative of other lines of thinking (Buddhism, etc.) and the amount of dross to wade through to get to the gold was not worth the trouble IMO. Part of me wants to say I learned a lot during those years, but I am not sure if I did.
His learned wisdom never ceases to amaze 🙏
He said Alan Watts :0
Greatest crossover since AI
Could you imagine a conversation between those two!
@@BlondeManNoName He did talk to Ram Dass at least
Mind blowing that so few are speaking of this history 🥸
Awesome to hear him refer to Alan Watts, that is phenomenal.
Good words from a non leader. Don’t follow those willing to lead. Health and happiness. 😊
Another great video! But Blavatsky died 4 years before the birth of Krishnamurti. It was Anne Beasant, the successor of Blavatsky, that appointed Krishnamurti as the "saviour of humankind", and then it went wrong...
Well they were idiots
Hi TERENCE
Fantastic video. Thanks so much!
Interesting, McKennas Reflections Listned ToToday In 2020...seeing some of the consequences of those observations. #ReturnToNatureAndConnect
8:41 Finally heard Terrence McKenna Mention Aleister Crowley! been listening to his lectures like music for years, nice to finally hear. Not saying Crowley was an awesome guy or anything, terrence is a much better human. Still tho, that Book Of The Law is some gnar shit.
so true , thank you terence, play with the machine elves for ever ,...
this one was so fine
Terence is spot on, as usual.
I don't think it's so much that people can't tell shit from shinola, it's more a fixation with sensationalist junk, and an eager willingness to delude themselves that goes along with this.
Really would like to know if the full interview is available to here the feedback from the interviewer ;]
Does anyone have any suggestions to find out more about Terence's life/biography?
read Dennis McKenna's book The Brotherhood Of The Screaming Abyss :)
Thank you :)
@@wpahp 📗
The new age movement IMO and IME is simply a stepping stone towards the full breadth of self-realization. Its, "just a phase."
Like teenage "experimentation"?
Stupid phase. Yup agreed.
thank you
Peter, which talk is this? I wish to enhance it :)
this guy speaks my thoughts
Interestingly, when you study intellectual history, and this is a great lecture by McKenna on the origins of New Age thought, is that, like every religion, what seems like revealed truth it’s clearly seen for what it is; a product of a specific place and time, by power-hungry people with an agenda to sell. It’s so predictable.
McKenna didn’t mention this in the lecture but madame Blavatsky and Annie Besant’s (and l think Elizabeth Prophet in the US) theories were steeped in the race “science” of the 19th century. There were supposedly seven races, the white race being the most advanced, of course, while black and indigenous peoples were the failed ones. Not only that, but I once heard an elder woman say that if people of these “lower races“ engaged in the new age work, their skin would turn white, their hair blond and their eyes blue upon enlightenment! But mind you, since we were learning this in a Latin American country, that stuff didn’t really apply to brown people and we were more related to the “white race“ than the lower ones. The last straw for me came when I read a supposed channeling lecture from EL Moriah where “he” stated that the “the races should not be mixed“. This is not only totally ridiculous because peoples have ALWAYS mixed but it was obvious these channeler frauds enshrined their racial beliefs as if they were cosmic truths. Never mind the fact that the science of genetics has now proven that races do not really exist. Yet, these folks who came from a time of peaking European ascendancy, they had self-serving beliefs about their own superiority. I bet my bottom dollar that since wider acceptance of science and social tolerance have shown these ideas to be nothing but racist nonsense, that new agree churches of this ilk don't talk about these cosmic "truths" that supposedly came from the "masters" themselves. What an absolute con!
The best short hand I have to describe the new age movement is a system of magical thinking from predominantly upper middle class people who want to enrich themselves and save the world by thought alone and not much effort.
I just realized Ive been religious for the past three years and boy what a trap that was or is, maybe 😅
New age people tend to be extremely smug and have a moral superiority that’s through the roof. It’s extremely watered down occultism made for mainstream appeal
geepers you sure are smart to know everything like that
*jeepers
@@connorbalisky1827 lol... See? you're such a smarty pants heehee
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I would say that the impulse to do right or stewardship of the earths eco system is where im at im not going to far into the extreme where it becomes foolish like the green initiative with more electric heating up the climate than carbon emissions
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i never knew he knew about alan watts.... interesting...
terrance is right and wrong here. He does the right thing in trying to trace and understand this as a historical idea. Because new age people seem to think these ideas originate from 2000 years ago, when its hard to trace it back past the 19th century (outside of some vedic concepts)
I think hes wrong in that he thinks this whole new age experiment has nothing of value. I think the idea of thoughts influencing reality is interesting and worth going into.
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You don’t need psychedelics to unlock chakras or to be spiritual.
I agree, throughout my life I have meditated. I have also used mushrooms when I was younger and a few times when I got older. I did not need mushrooms to find my chakras or my spirituality. I have had empathy for as long as I can remember, I had a brain tumor at 19 that was cancerous, I'm 35 now and I am very close to spirt. I am no guru, I'm only here to say through love light, and faith in oneself the universe will show you the way, keep meditating it has had a profound effect in my life. I have reached the same state of mind though meditating that I have experienced on mushrooms without all the visuals of course but the point is there are many paths to enlightenment and if we pay enough attention the universe will show us the beauty that we all are and how easy it is to just go with the flow.
Nah