Rick Tarnas on "Psychedelic Initiation in Postmodern Culture & the Contribution of Stanislav Grof"

[@Nalhek]

Hey Matt, I hope you're doing as well as possible. You are greatly missed by everyone. Keep doing your thing, man. You've been an extremely positive influence in the lives of everyone you have touched.

[@Silvertestrun]

Ty

[@captainwyoutube]

Good stuff. RT demonstrates his commitment to "feeding people's heads".

[@RomanCampolo]

So grateful for stuff like this, Matt. Your channel makes a very real difference in my life.

[@patternsinchaos]

Yes, Matt, another thank you for you and Rick!

[@robis66]

This is SO good. I don't even know where to begin. I want to share it with everyone. Thanks for producing this.

[@albertklamt7622]

Thanks for one more footnote to PLato:) Appreciate Rick Tarnass as much as Stan Grof. Best, from Berlin.

[@fairychris123]

Thank you very much for sharing your incredible knowledge and insight. Thank you Matt for hosting 💚

[@evakrider]

Thank you so much for this remarkable presentation by Rick Tarnas. I first heard Stan Grof and Richard Tarnas present in 1990 at the ISAR Conference. It was a pivot point in my life and led to work with the Spiritual Emergence Network and so much more. I so appreciated the connection to seeing the current planetary birth canal process and our psychic location between BPM 3 Pluto to BPM 4 Uranus. Yes? Thank you!

[@theineffablestream2903]

wonderful to listen and receive. thank you.

[@asaidoni7072]

Thanks for this. I'm deeply grateful.

[@johnaghydon1]

Thanks for this, Matt. Fascinating insights

[@patternsinchaos]

Interpellate: to interrupt the order of the day by demanding an explanation "When the men on the chessboard Get up and tell you where to go... go ask Alice" -Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit

[@katysheridan340]

Is there any chance I could get a copy of the transcript that was generated during the live event last night. I was late arriving and was only able to save the latter portion.

[@Footnotes2Plato]

please email me, happy to share the file. [e-mail]

[@ethanbills1008]

Hey, Matt. Have you ever thought of doing some videos on the works of Sloterdijk or any other lesser-known German philosophers like Gernot Bohme? That I'd pay for :)

[@patternsinchaos]

Dylan not only called for the interpellation, with "something's happening here, what it is ain't exactly clear" he also offered a path to apprehending it, "the answer my friends is blowing in the wind". You must, as the Scorpions elucidated, "Follow the Moskva Down to Gorky Park Listening to the wind of change"

[@thenutballnews]

"dear lady can you hear the wind blow and did you know, your stairway lies on the whispering wind"

[@IxchelLunar]

Thank you for such a lovely discussion. Could we get the links shared in the live chat? The Intelligence squared in particular. (PCC ‘03)

[@Footnotes2Plato]

maps.org/news/media/intelligence-squared-legalize-psychedelics-media/

[@IxchelLunar]

@@Footnotes2Plato Gracias!

[@thenutballnews]

On the danger of potential corporate misuse of psychedelics when made legal: "the greatest preventative measure is depth of transformation by those who would be attempting to use psychedelics" 🙌🏻 They shouldn't be allowed to sell it unless they've experienced it.

[@vardanyanser]

Can someone share the link to the song, please?

[@ilikenicethings]

Just type: “white rabbit jefferson airplane” in KZbin search… kzbin.info/www/bejne/qnzXe2OOidyaiqc

[@jakeelsner2963]

I'm very glad both of my parents are Jungian analysts; it makes it a little easier to absorb the content haha

[@jordansage9655]

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[@projectmalus]

Culture seems to assign efficacy of knowledge to who is delivering the knowledge rather than the knowledge itself being efficacious. The knowledge itself can form an object, a pool that mirrors homo sapiens' creative efforts, and can also be a funhouse mirror that warps relational perspectives. I think the loss of efficiency of larger groups creates an efficient food system that produces bad food that affects and diminishes the individual human system. This enhances negative traits which means fear, which needs to assign a comforting identity for that person to grasp. The loss of thinking ability demands a simple world. The loss of muscle demands an "easy" way of achieving something, the actual doing (where the knowledge comes from) is diminished in favour of an ideal, easy power. Perhaps this is an effect from VOC's, and perhaps the grass family is not out for our best interests and might depress serotonin levels with the zein protein. In any case, when coupled with inefficiency of larger groups that tends to streamline sources of knowledge, a state of exception is enforced by the actions of those people who partake. Revolutions fail because the too-large group problem isn't addressed, the revolution is just a temporary readjustment of that relation of the individual to the world, and then the striving for more power means joining again in a unrestricted way which is okay, until going big leads to going bad. The system of the person and the system of culture doing a dance, apart from the dance of homo sapiens with life on the planet. The state of exception a painting oneself into a corner for both levels of human. Thanks for the video, Rick is awesome.

[@jacehendrix3194]

Male perfection is an old lesbian