Terence McKenna - Culture In The Light Of The Fourth Dimension

A comprehensive and beautiful speech by Terence McKenna.
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Art by Peter Bergmann
Music: We Plants Are Happy Plants - Simple Satori

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"The felt presence of immediate experience. This is sufficient. It's hard for us, armoured as we are and defocused from the moment as we are by our previous imbibing of toxic cultural values, occasionally we touch this."

[@spiritlevelstudios]

Thanks for all your efforts Pete. Simple Satori is a perfect closer. 🙏🏻☯️💙

[@Alb3rtocardoso]

We kind of need Terrence alive right now, telling us WHHat he thinks of all this connectivity and what it did to us now.

[@800shotakd]

Be the change you want to see

[@TripAces]

We need Terrence, We need Hitchens,

[@LionsDen2112]

Terence was a prophet. Timeless. Discovered him back in the late 90s..incredible to hear his voice ringing in our reality. Those that are here..we are blessed!

[@Xica448]

FANTASTIC SOUND QUALITY!!! I think this has to be one of the best clips I have ever heard.

[@huarwe8797]

Circumstances do not matter. Only state of being matters. ❤️

[@tiankalou4467]

"Love is what waits beyond abandoning the search for closure" the most beautiful, spot on, timely talk ever! We are all in shamans. Love this guy always speaking truth

[@EllaBoadu]

I love this man. He has taught me so much about life and how to embrace being. Simply just existing and flowing with the continuity of life. It’s so beautiful. On the bus getting slightly emotional haha

[@christomorpho]

This is incredibly vital information, especially the first 4 minutes. Makes me feel waaay more comfortable with my experiences with mushrooms, and more confident about doing more large doses. Thanks for the upload.

[@Kylounette]

Really good to have you back uploading some Terrence material. Thank you very much.

[@Bjorn_Algiz]

Wonderful brother

[@shamanic_nostalgia]

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[@jalekianpriest6854]

I love Terence.

[@UtopiaForMore]

Wow! ....just wow!

[@starcloudatlas]

Thank you

[@wowozer]

damn. this is tough medicine.

[@NorfolkHypnotherapist]

Bloody brilliant

[@saltnbananas]

So beautiful so magical it simply makes one cry. 🔥

[@jammyyoon949]

might be one of McKennas best words

[@jeanneroulet2240]

We are moving as a collective towards inclusiveness, singularity, oneness in self and with all matter. A raising of our vibration to our Source our higher selfs higher cosmic consciousness. Love beyond lust our home as eternal beings.

[@jojo5715]

Thank you, for sharing these clips. This one may be my favorite Terrence McKenna talk ever.

[@Thereisnospoon8]

If anyone out there has had a high dose of shrooms and you’ve seen the un speakable then you’ll know that Terence is so bang on with what he says.

[@Crabbadabba]

Explain how that has anything to do with this, please.

[@GratefulGrackle2668]

Thank you for sharing!

[@danialmr5960]

Keep up the great work

[@guhlobtrekker]

What a wonderful guy

[@payafarhadbahman976]

Thank you!

[@Renkoryj]

my best friend

[@TTV_UNIFIED_8]

🌀🐒♾🍄🌀 “Make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick.” ― Terence McKenna 🌀🐒♾🍄🌀

[@kamilaewska1663]

❤❤❤

[@daltoncowan4104]

"The real enemy to this process..." *Ad plays*

[@PeteRed-ig3fp]

Synchronicity

[@daniaboustany9499]

Just wow

[@ashtree3006]

Love is silent

[@spiritlevelstudios]

Silence and sound are two sides of the same coin.

[@dstog2367]

"Life is death, death is life, the past is the future, the present is eternity"

[@elvirhodzic2582]

The author argues that corporate capitalism and object fetishism, which are driven by anxiety, trivialize what it means to be human. He believes that psychedelics, meditation, and other spiritual practices can help individuals reconnect with the present moment and experience a sense of stillness and connectedness to nature. The author believes that human beings have wandered away from their connection to the living processes of nature and that the current cultural values have put the world in a precarious place. The author believes that it is important for individuals to embrace the mystery of life and not rely on a single leader or cult to provide answers, as each person has a unique perspective. :)

[@sioh3]

How's Terence's voice so clear in this video?

[@spiritlevelstudios]

No closure for you 🙂

[@ericphalen7109]

Trance

[@drunkwritersroom1695]

Is there a source? Ai is a tricky one...no disrespect we are happy planets.

[@lonock1100]

Are we going to have Terrence Mckenna Monday again?

[@TheGunnCat]

I've observed that aboriginal cultures that have embraced psychedelics often fit harmoniously into the natural environment. Whereas cultures who demonize these psychedelics shape nature to fit their own desires.

[@kabbam2761]

And nature will thusly shape them in (not so) kind.

[@PunkingtonGrunge]

Interestingly though, I believe Aztecs consumed ceremonial psychedelics and it didn't stop them from performing human sacrifices. It's the only inconsistency I can think of regarding these edifying ideas. I'd like to hear an academic like Rupert Sheldrake share his thoughts on this notion that psychedelics pacify.

[@fragon9927]

Where is this clip from?

[@sawtoothiandi]

hip rap

[@shamanculture780]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@wpahp]

"We do feel the weight of some kind of original sin. We are cast from Paradise. We feel flawed, and if we aren't flawed we rush to invent flaws."

[@shamanic_nostalgia]

hey have you watched the talks from Dennis Mckenna's ESPD55 conference last year?

[@wendywhite4929]

@@shamanic_nostalgia no… I know he’s been capitalizing on Terrence’s work that he used to scoff at. Is it on here??

[@nadiamirza523]

This is interesting because I hear comments in this vein very often, but rarely from people with direct links to, or from indigenous cultures.

[@anrkyking720]

Is “NPC” a new flaw? Hmm ha

[@meganturner8438]

Wow I read this comment at the EXACT same time he said that. Synchronicity showing me I’m where I need to be yet again. 🤙🏻❤️

[@jon...5324]

This might be my favourite clip from mckenna

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[@wpahp]

"A mature, civilized being lives without closure, without the closure provided by Freudianism, Marxism, Buddhism, Positivism, Capitalism, Zen, The Hopi Prophecies, The Teaching Of The Arcturians, or anything else. Living without closure is honest living, and it's uncomfortable because there is something about the anal retentive mind that we want to button it down and say it's this or it's that, with no sense of irony, no sense of scale, no tongue-in-cheek approach at all. I think that corporate capitalism and object fetishism, which seem to be two human traits that cross fertilize each other, are run on anxiety, and that this anxiety trivializes what it is to be human, and that all of Nature waits upon human beings to awake from the delusion of history and to re-embrace the living processes that nature represents."

[@kabbam2761]

*Muah*

[@Crabbadabba]

So basically return to monkey? Re-embracing the living process seems kind of hard to define as we’ve been living and this is what we’re going through at the moment. I think it’s wise though to always consider alternatives and be ready for the best or worst to come from our dabbles in understanding and controlling the world around us.

[@PeteRed-ig3fp]

​@@CrabbadabbaWe are not monkeys we are Mushrooms having a human experience.That mushroom created all life on this planet.

[@larae3nynian]

"Transcend ideology", "Cult is closure", "Leadership is unnecessary"... "EMBRACE LOVE"... 🙏

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[@Harshharsh111]

What love? Self-love ? I found peace in Islam

[@caiuamoreira6958]

I found peace in islam. Love for my creator goes far beyond the love found in this mimic of a reality.

[@caiuamoreira6958]

I became muslim through the teachings of the mushroom.

[@Harshharsh111]

@Caiuá Moreira I was a militant atheist, ketamine infusions put me face to face with the true reality beyond my limited material senses. Then the Mashroom was just a confirmation 👍 it has been 3 years, and I'm still unable to fathom or comprehend what I saw.

[@christophervillarreal8565]

He was too ahead of his time that he failed to realize when a human reaches this level of understanding and wisdom and experience they are at the end of the dualistic journey in the 3rd/4th dimensions of time and space thus his early departure. He was one step in the other door and left us with the conclusions of his journey into his way of reaching the end of the journey. "The fast track" to enlightenment.

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[@tmkredpillonlyGreen7]

This is the "new age your going to burn in hell if you don't believe in Jesus" guy

[@bellezavudd]

@@tmkredpillonlyGreen7 Who is ? Terrence?

[@tmkredpillonlyGreen7]

@bell Christopher ... Thanks for ur input tho

[@bellezavudd]

@@tmkredpillonlyGreen7 Oh , so the OP is a christian zealot. Ok. So, Is there an issue with directness here ? Will it get comments shadow banned or something ?

[@FortniteOG420]

He speaks of what the ancient mystery schools taught, but not from learning the from a school, but from nature

[@anicanaprta7397]

"no one knows, it is a mystery, and a mystery in not unsolved problem" amazing insight, true wisdom

[@Crabbadabba]

I mean, it could be, not solving a murder mystery could very much be a problem. But not knowing where we’ll be as a society from 100,000 fits into this ‘non-problem’ category.

[@hab0272]

Living without the need for definite answers allows one to infinitely innovate one's ideas and ideas about these ideas.

[@cryptic_fox]

17:30 The truth is so ephemeral sometimes, but I think it's hard to come closer than what he says at the end with the implicit Heraclitus (Being vs. Becoming) reference about our world being in the realm of becoming and always striving and incomplete, reaching towards attainment of true being that exists in the realm of love beyond all conceivable boundaries

[@haydenwayne3710]

Towering genius!!!!

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[@NamoYugen]

🧙‍♂️

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[@kt9495]

I feel this one innately. I may have to write down bits of the last part to be spoken or written when I die. We are getting back to nature in pockets. Last night I found a green burial preserve in my city, and I’ll be making plans with my children for it. 🌿✨

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[@archieg8009]

Even his beard contained psilocybin.

[@jensoh]

"The core of being is pure contradiction. Life is death. Death is life. The past is the future. The present is eternity. and comprehending this is not to become some kind of 'ivory tower' intellectual. Comprehending this is is to move past intellectual concepts, to actually embrace love. Love is what waits beyond abandoning the search for closure. Love is not closure. Love is challenge, emotion: Being, in the purest sense. This is the realm of becoming, and it is always striving and it is always incomplete. Love is the realm of true being. And it lies beyond the prison of culture. It lies beyond the prison of ideology. Beyond the prison of self-defined limitations."

[@marcinswoboda7993]

Well, Its like your opinion, man [continues to rock on a chair and chuckle occasionally]

[@MSJ_raptor]

the dude abids

[@gtziavelis]

Although "no-one is in a position to claim leadership", and that's true, I momentarily ascribe just enough leadership to Terence M. to wonder what he'd have to say about 'deep dream' computer-aided artwork, such as that towards the end of this video; I think that he'd be very much into it (paraphrasing: "we must turn the art dial up to 11"), and that, using half his own terms and half theirs, he may quip something like "with the neighborly virtuosity that is found in all of us, even the slash-and-burn machinery of post-modern culture and capitalism can be tricked into coming up with beauty in a way that the anxious inventor never originally intended or imagined, and this is a fine way forward". Hear! Hear! ❤️👽

[@sakuraiblossom128]

God even just the title of these uploads is exquisite. Keep up the good work, brother.

[@shamanic_nostalgia]

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[@lilco2163]

I must’ve sat and listened to Terrance at one of these events in my past life because I can never get enough 👁️ or eye am him

[@beingcamo]

I feel so much gratitude that I can receive these words. To carry then on, beyond the point of becoming and spark in those the fire to be. 🔥❤️ Thank you Terrence McKenna

[@anondokolpo]

Felt Presence of Immediate Experience

[@odeszarules5125]

When was this originally recorded? Wow. This man’s wisdom is astounding

[@getoutsidenow420]

Now that's a terence image

[@howardrobinson4938]

The damn commercials...philosophicus interruptus.

[@Simonhughes185]

Brilliant. Would've rather heard the words and music completely separate tho as when combined I can't hear either properly. And hearing Terence was the point. Nice track tho.

[@shamanic_nostalgia]

please check out Dennis McKenna's film BIOGNOSIS and all of the talks from his ESPD55 conference last year, more people need to hear these new talks for real! Rupert Sheldrake is still putting out content as well!

[@Kar-Kan]

I don't think shaman's would like math...

[@andresalbarran3960]

This man was taken from us before his time

[@timothyhilton3408]

Wherever you are Terence, I offer you my eternal gratitude.....and thanks.

[@avian8354]

The wordsmith.

[@onlycryptofans]

Absolutely incredible

[@ashtree3006]

6:36

[@tomasgrandi]

🍄

[@random.9238]

always becoming is no closure aswell, and love is acceptace of what is, just knowing what is.

[@elvirhodzic2582]

Our big brains are part of top 10% of smart people on this earth. If we talk about smart ideas, we can make things better for others. This is important. Now, there's two ways we can go: we can become a group of silly followers or we can keep being smart and do things our own way. Following others is silly. No one knows better than you. If you think someone else knows better, think again. Everyone has their own ideas and no one should be the boss. People who say they know everything are not to be trusted. Life is a mystery and can't be solved by anyone. Love is what's really important, not trying to understand everything. Love is about being good and doing what's right, not about following others. Love is bigger than anything else.

[@berniebermea1419]

Ahoo!

[@xChewiix]

🌏🌎🌍🍄🍄🍄

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[@lemuriamaya]

🧡

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[@lonock1100]

Cheers