Terence McKenna - Sacred Plants as Guides: New Dimensions of the Soul - Part 2

[@Loenthall88]

Terence McKenna was one of the most brilliant people I've ever had the pleasure to hear. His use of language, his sense of humor, his grasp and conveyance of rich and meaningful ideas--I miss him.

[@caelumborn]

One of the best talks Terence gave in my opinion, and I've heard over 300 of them. Pure Alchemical Gold.

[@Primer9]

agreed

[@tpstrat14]

agreed. He really gets to the heart of it here.

[@davidforshaw4810]

Yeah ☯️⚡🕉

[@LucyKorzelius]

He's so knowledgeable ❤

[@repit5014]

The clue is when he said in part 1 that he doesn't talk about the timewave. This talk is far out but it is still rooted in reason. Some of his other stuff is nice to listen to because of his style, but is a bit too much in the speculation domain for me.

[@defetusattitude3612]

Language is the drug, Terence is the dealer, we are the lucky addicts...

[@SteveSmekar-ll6ln]

+deFetus Attitude hook me up, Terence

[@StefanBorkenstein]

Psilocybin is the drug, Terence is their Professor and I'm lucky with being addicted to nothing. Addiction isn't good by any means.

[@DMTInfinity]

*#lolz*

[@Sam-wt9se]

Stavis Maples what were their painful deaths?

[@Sam-wt9se]

Stavis Maples wow, thank you. seriously. amazing answer. i really appreciate it

[@ghettoblastah14]

The intelligence of plants and humans were meant to coexist. Do not deprive yourself of such experiences; your mind, body, and spirit will thank you.

[@robertw2930]

tell that to the dead flesh meat eaters

[@mocromo2010]

Robert W That also is the will of the universe.

[@fredsilvers1427]

Nope

[@1984isnotamanual]

No the chemicals that effect are brain are similar to our natural serotonin because of evolution. All species came from the first common ancestor, so we are cousins to plant species. That’s why the chemicals in them can work on our brains

[@all-hands]

"Human history is completely interpenetrated with the peculiar, the non-human, that which has intentionality for mankind" This is such an important point that we have totally lost. Such a great talk

[@RetroRedline]

He's my adult Mr. Rodgers, love these lectures.

[@ThekidManson]

Listening to Terence is a powerful experience in itself but to be able to see him work his Magick is truly wonderful.

[@avicennitegh1377]

Tried to watch McKenna on here a few years ago. Evidently I wasn't ready. Now I am - what a person! I too wish I could articulate my thoughts even a little like he does. Thank you so much for uploading these.

[@thinginground5179]

This guy helps me forget I'm living in the dawning of a dystopia. Sure wish there was someone like this today..

[@adambane1719]

You think this is bad!? Try living at the beginning of the last century.

[@Find-Your-Bliss-]

Is that going to be you?

[@thinginground5179]

@@Find-Your-Bliss- No

[@thinginground5179]

@@adambane1719 No, this is much worse, only worse because people like you let it happen regardless if you're aware of it or not.

[@adambane1719]

@@thinginground5179 Dafuq outta here with that nonsense !!!

[@iamrubenmes]

Holy smokes, this is GOLD! This has got to be one of the best lectures and presentations from Terence McKenna, the brazen visionary, poet and ambassador of a new world.

[@ravesandcurry3893]

I’ve never listened to something so Earth-shatteringly beautiful/enlightening and unnerving. Feels like a psychedelic experience minus the psychedelic (although perhaps it is a psychedelic experience; an indirect one through the medium of Terence!).

[@coynerooski]

Hearing Terence say that the head "Tyke" or DMT elf could possibly be you encountering your dead self gave me such a strange feeling. The way he speaks in so many of his lectures, it's as if his spirit knew he would pass early...

[@OptaIgin]

I’m still confused by the thing that he said and the shaman said, that if you go deeper it’s eternity, like what does that mean, if you do another trip? Like if you keep coming back to this place? Because listening to his theories and experience, I start to really think of the possibility that we actually meet our ancestors via sort of a cheat code, before we die. Like he said, when you die, after some time you meet those lesser lights/tykes meaning going there before your time ends in this world, could possibly alter everything and keep you there forever? Like as if your consciousness leaves the body and ascends to that world or should I say leaves into that world? I haven’t tried DMT yet but I’m really thinking about it, I know I’ll try it someday before my time ends here, because as he said it’s alien yet excruciatingly familiar which also suggests you’ve been there before or at least know this place.

[@thedude5740]

@@OptaIgin it means when you are on that particular journey, and reach the cliff to look over, you can decide to stay at the edge peering over absorbing and learning to bring back and explain your experience, or you can jump. Should you decide to jump, you wont come back. You will experience death, yet death is not the end. Your ego will die, but the experience of your life will be downloaded into the ether. What you are now ceases to exist and your energy returns to source to be a part of what shamans call the ancestors of past, present, and future. Which is accessible to the living... Matter does not truly exist, it is simply our perception of the rate in which energy vibrates...

[@zazuzazz5419]

Optalgin, if you are thus inclined - and feeling quite brave - begin to explore The Bardo in the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Don’t be afraid. Explore as you need to. Only as you need to. Fear is a natural consequence of an opening mind.

[@mazrimtaim3107]

@@OptaIgin Someone replied to you but didn’t @ you so maybe you never saw it

[@emilyreynolds2695]

@@OptaIgin Good explanation below. I think it's worth noting that the "shaman" in question he didn't want to embarass was in fact the Dalai Lama. He discusses this in other talks.

[@notthrowinawaymyshot824]

“An idea has no power unless it is communicated.”

[@HalfQuickFarmer]

The mentor above all mentors. To go back in time, to when Terrance was alive would be a journey unlike any other

[@nataliesheets5066]

I wish I could phrase my thoughts like he does

[@rpgplay2138]

ur phrases are good in ur own way

[@taylorrathbone5638]

That's your ego talking

[@DuckFart]

U can

[@mikesoussan]

you can but only if you read a lot and have a photographic memory ... Terence did ...

[@dennismason3740]

Just talk real slowly and totally accurately. Easy.

[@thecosmicdance8236]

One of the best Terence lectures that I’ve heard, it’s so amazing that we had someone like him with us♥️

[@DIONYABA]

Sometimes I just listen to him for his impeccable sense of humor

[@treygreen6983]

Thank you, Terence.

[@Hutchsurfer]

Thats it, we need a McKennian movement :)

[@robertw2930]

is there anyone comprable alive today ? rupert sheldrake , graham hancock I wish i knew a shaman (other then in WOW)

[@Hutchsurfer]

Nobody with the knowledge, charisma and wordsmithing skills unfortunately.

[@davidforshaw4810]

We Are!" You Are!" ☯️⚡🕉

[@luisresende5298]

Agreed

[@josho9853]

Hancock lol

[@healyoursoul369]

So grateful to be watching this in 2021.

[@SweatDogg]

I love Terence very much, so glad he had the drive to share his thoughts, what a great gift for us all.

[@Jesterj13]

audience actually listening no cell phones. oh a wonderously engaging time . good old ears eyes paper and pen .

[@MundusTransit]

yes, but here we are watching this on our phones, so focused that the rest of the world blurs to our perception.

[@OptaIgin]

They didn’t have smartphones back in the day. This era of technology has manipulated to make a buck, and to grow addicts.

[@SindhuraFilms]

Magistral, masterclass...Gracias Terence...

[@outlawdirty7886]

ive been reading and listening to mckenna for over a decade.. I'm bot sure if I've heard this particular talk before... but the ending literally brought me to tears.... such an amazing individual...

[@tpstrat14]

the story about Decartes is mindblowing. "Modern science is founded right then, right there... by an angel". The irony is so beautiful, and so true. This whole thing is so amazing. I can't get down with his stuff on novelty theory and the transcendental object at the end of time, theories for which he claimed to have developed mathematics. It's just not real. This stuff is real. I've been there on psilocybin. I know personally that there are other worlds that parallel this one.

[@katieewatson8]

The transcendental object at the end of time is us integrating the “other” and realizing it is ourselves.

[@Lowkey7843]

Beautiful love to all and everyone here in the comments. I love reading them almost as much as falling asleep, listening to Terrance :)

[@JonathanLaliberte1]

Awesome! Thank you.

[@ONLYREALHIPH0P]

Having one child also allows the parent to give more of the attention and love a child needs.. especially since most parents in these times don't know how (and often due to problems in society aren't able to) raise their child right

[@generobillard4961]

the language he talks about, is by using the eternal light that flows through us to create beauty in our physical reality. also to appreciate the beauty of the complexity of nature and what our mother earth births. it's nice to know that we can reconnect with Gaia and visit the other realm. just listening to Terrence speak, you can almost hear the cheers from the other side.

[@iago4810]

I think listening to Terence McKenna has altered my brainwaves.

[@guitagious9464]

Terence's talks make me contemplate things I had not previously considered. Love it!

[@MrLiamanarchy]

"Ask the mushrooms what we should do about George bush... I have hope for the man he has such a botanical promising name" 😂😂🤣🤣

[@diondredunigan5282]

"What if telepathy wasn't being able to hear your thoughts, but to be able to see what you mean." This right here, is the goal.

[@jacobcontreras458]

Listened to every minute of it at the gym. Good workout

[@goshdarnitman]

I happened across these videos just at the time I was starting to understand how we use language. There was a beautiful flow that brought me here and it's dope to see everyone here is enlightened, enlightening or have just entered our collective stream.

[@jaccx34]

Thank you so much for sharing this incredible information. ❤️✨

[@DMTInfinity]

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[@MezcalRainDance]

I am glad there are actual videos of him speaking, where we can witness him doing so, rather than just art in the background. I am not saying that those other lectures are not real, but in today's world it is easy to deep fake.

[@XpRnz]

They could have deep faked the entire video then.. 🤷🏼‍♂️ A little less paranoia would be in order sometimes.

[@SteveSmekar-ll6ln]

Call it what you want and say that big brother is watching and feel and have your opinions. From this point forward, I am open to, and seek out this particular experience, regardless of ramifications, in spite of who or what stands in the way, and full on straight ahead into the center and enveloping, embracing and receiving it in every way. Anyone who is able and desirous of helping, assisting, providing, paving the path clear and/or pointing the way... step forward and make thyself known at your will.

[@NewageLu]

My God, what he describes at 12:49 I have seen in dreams as a little child! I've been there, I still recall it, it was so vivid!

[@Docterdev]

Same!!!! What did they do to you??? For me they would come at me and depending on how many there were, how spread out they were, and ncreate feelings that I could only describe as sharp, anxious, or flat, round, safety?

[@landryprichard6778]

"Someone in this room has what you need." *cue the guy with beard flashing the peace sign* 👽

[@juicedawell2402]

Pretty sure I saw Jerry Garcia in the crowd when the camera panned past everyone.

[@ElaReMan-KTS]

Thank you for uploading this!!!

[@eduardorivera4343]

DMT are the glasses from The FILM they live LOL!

[@kadagiangnosis3496]

Every paragraph he speaks is like prophetic psychadelic informational downloading into the mind. his voice, speech patterns, his eyes, it's like he's an alien preaching love and be free in the most unbelievable way. that there is another way. id imagine Yeshuah, if he existed, which I believe he did, Nietzche said There was only one real Christian and he's dead" ... but I feel that Terrence for some reason is like ... i don't know, Jesus reincarnate and we should all listen to him everyday because there's actual recordings that can't be warped twisted and perverted. Love

[@crazypath573]

His message is no where near Jesus Christ lol..

[@User0resU-1]

Your first sentence is true for many people. There must be something to it.

[@ursulaplatt5000]

Jesus said the kingdom of heaven is within. Dig on that dude

[@surfinmuso37]

Speaking about the "more perfect logos"-Don Juan would very often see what Castaneda was thinking, plucking his thoughts and memories with astonishing accuracy.

[@crazypath573]

using the assemblage point is a seer's forte. it stands to reason that don juan could hop onto the exact position where carlos's reason was currently inhabiting and literally pluck the thoughts that way. the position of the assemblage point is where all the thoughts reside anyways, it is the mind.

[@dimetryp369]

Feels so unreal that he's gone. Especially when watching him and how alive he seems.. Luv you Terence. I hope you felt the impact you had on each of us before your departure into the great mystery..towards the great attractor, warp speed brother...

[@teugene5850]

i had little appreciation for how truly intelligent this man was....

[@nadiazayman779]

I just had a powerful deja vú, when McKenna said "You could believe it if it wasn't happening to you," and like most of my deja vú expeeiences it is like an echo chamber. It feels like I've been here before, but in infinite reverb.

[@matt_leaf]

I always struggled with TM’s idea of visual language a bit, because we already live in a world of visual language. Speech and text go hand in hand. Likewise symbols of all kinds exist. I guess he is talking more about telepathic knowing, rather than visual language. Because after all, language is a cultural phenomenon, you must learn it’s meaning in order to be able to communicate and converse with it.

[@slappyortega2449]

Yeah, he's a little rough on the phonetic alphabet. At the same time, he doesn't say anything about the asian languages which ARE tonal and symbolic.

[@Pawełczytapsalm40]

1:37:30 such a heartwarming moment at the end of the meeting, thanks for sharing that video

[@markmutschlechner2227]

I can listen to that man talk all day long .... 😊

[@tombout4233]

I can't help but to relate the ideas he talks about with the movie Arrival. Idk if anyone has seen it but it also ties into his notions of atemporal communication with ancestors and the "collective mind". Maybe we as humans in the future have figured out a way to live outside of time and can communicate with different planes of existence and or jump time and in fact are communicating with ourselves in the future through psychedelic substances. In other words, maybe the "logos' or the elves we see in DMT flashes are in fact ourselves in distant futures, more evolved and advances.

[@SpacedPainter]

Priceless. Thanks for the upload :)

[@ohmss069]

"Can you ask the mushroom what we should do about George Bush?" Lost it right there.

[@pauldrake1858]

May I suggest he try a diet of fly agaric mushroom!

[@DMTInfinity]

*Terence McKenna is like Barney The Dinosaur for adults.*

[@ursulaplatt5000]

That's funny.

[@high5_mohini283]

Terrence McKenna had his moon in Magha nakshatra in Vedic which is the sign ruled by the for fathers and ancestors. Light a candle on Sunday for them. He was born to do the dharma of Scorpio his Sun sign as Leo is 9 months away. He is powerful. 🙌🏽💚36:00 🧑‍🎄

[@FiguraMolenMedia]

Terrence is music to my ears.

[@locksand45]

He's the Mozart of talking

[@pucka_ak47]

he was one of the very few I've known who can rephrase his thoughts and was able to explain the experience while under influence of psychedelics, most of the people(myself included)are not able to and I'm not sure why but i think the experience was to strong and vivid for them/us so when they come down are still under very high influence and impression of what the hell just happen to me...

[@thefamilydog3278]

“What the hell just happened to me?” By far the most honest description of the psychedelic experience I’ve ever heard.

[@FarmerBenny]

Great talk!

[@xhildhood]

FarmerBenny great?

[@trippymane432]

Fuckin magnificent

[@freeman6403]

Peace and love to the world

[@tobyjoey1]

He came so close! YOU don't put yourself in another persons shoes....... YOU are the other person..... and everyone and everything else. So entertaining!

[@HighEndDigitalArchitect]

Amazing soul :D and great information.

[@kylepsmith21]

the Peru tree frog he refers to at 1:22:00 is Kambo. It's not really a psychedelic, it's more like a vaccine accompanied by a full body reset and deep internal cleansing in a matter of 20-30 minutes. One of the most intense experiences I've ever had, suuper grounding, when the effects wear off you feel this state of cleanliness & lightness of internal weight which is unfamiliar. The toad being almost the exact opposite of Kambo.

[@howardm.burgers]

38:23 There's something magical about this moment.

[@sandfang]

Yes, it's great to not just hear him in this one, right?

[@pumpkin_the_snek]

59:16 YES! that's it! thats what's most interesting to me about psychedelics, the idea conduit aspect. that new ideas can be formed. so very exciting :)

[@alexemery3045]

I currently can’t listen to enough of him. I’ve even met a new friend that looks like him. Very odd. Hello from below Terence. I hope to ride a cosmic wip tail of sound at the end and start of a new old adventure in the great beyond.

[@jasonr2044]

#TERENCEFORPRESIDENT2020

[@TheGamer-nj9if]

Sadly he died, April 3rd 2000

[@marisugawa6665]

Wonderful teacher

[@m74d3]

Holy crap when the camera pans to the audience at the 9:45 mark, there are way more people in that room than I realized

[@mxcollin95]

In regard to really old complex structures Terence is talking about around the 6:00 mark, I bet he would be shocked at all the fairly recent discoveries of really ancient megalith structures that we’ve been finding lately all over the world that have a complexity and scale that we couldn’t come close to recreating with all of the modern technology that we have available today. Somehow ancient people or ancient “somethings” had high technology that has been lost over millenniums.

[@jacobcontreras458]

This man is truly thinking

[@rag98709]

"We are coming to the end of the Age of the Errant Monkey" Word Terence. The question is what are we doing about it? Sing the same old ego song or perhaps a different tune?

[@Moto_Medics]

FINALLY I’ve found the talk that’s been sampled in that song I can’t remember the name to rn amazing haha

[@ProjectSage]

When you realize thar its not DMT thats gonna get you high but just listening to Mr Terence talk.

[@katieewatson8]

October 2021 and the Archaic Revival is in full force. Terence was tapped in 🍄🌱🌿🌲🌳🌻🌞🌚🧙‍♂️⚕️🐍🧬🌪🌀

[@Michael----]

Psychedelics: a catalyst for cognition

[@BlueTitanHawaii]

mushrooms teach you control, mastering of your mind.

[@SuperFailism]

When I was listening to the bit about the elves I kinda went on my own somewhat sober imagination trip where the elves were making sounds and changing the environment around me, and I did the same when Terrence said I could, I made sound and the environment changed in much the same way. So I tried talking to the elves and I floated back and there was a elf speaking for me, and I said wait I'm over here and the elf's lips were speaking for mine. And then they basically flashed from elves to the dwarfs from snow white, even me, well the one speaking for me.

[@salvadorceja3843]

SuperFailism trippy...I clearly pictured that image

[@alargeaviary4895]

Terrence is one hell of a consciousness expanding drug. What a man.

[@codelicious6590]

The ego is absolutely determined to deny any possibility of intelligences other than its own. I really really need to introduce my own ego to this substance! Terrence has intrigued me to the point where I just jave to try dmt and I thought I was totally done with experimenting taking substances.

[@cosmicbackwoods]

august 2020 in america and oh boy does this have some extra meaning now

[@Shenwinchester]

The way he describes DMT is perfect.

[@maciej.ratajczak]

Psychedelic decriminalization: May 2019- Denver, Colorado. June 2019- Oakland, California. January 2020- Santa Cruz, California. September 2020- Ann Arbor, Michigan. Medical psilocybin (shrooms) legalized: November 2020- statewide, Oregon.

[@iAMawakeCANADA]

Beautiful

[@natashakasparova335]

Thank you

[@Tropicsca]

Congratulations to the ones who had the interest and patience to come view part 2

[@bjorndraganov9621]

its not only the dimension of plants giving dmt, which is inhabited. on some p. semilanceata, i entered a room, which whas direct close to edges of a kingdom of something i would call dark elves or little blue children. contact was merely telepatic. they wonder, how i had got there but didn't take more notice on me, since i was really astonished and afraid. i had had to think about this unique experience several times the last years... till now, it didn't happen again....

[@thefamilydog3278]

1:21:14 Interesting to hear him refer to Kambo for the first time. It was almost completely unknown at this point, and now any hipster can attend frog venom ceremonies in Brooklyn…

[@jarrettboyarsky602]

MCKENNIAN MOVEMENT !!

[@MarcoSilesio]

maravilloso

[@joaofonseca7692]

Muito bom.

[@franz7952]

Are You a Baby Boomer???-.

[@javamanV3]

We get high with a little help from our friends...We miss you, Terrence!

[@JJJJJVVVVVLLLLL]

43:34 McKenna conflates telepathy with clairvoyance here. He is describing psychic communication based on vision, i.e. "clear seeing", the literal translation of the original French word. He uses what is otherwise very crystalline logic, which is especially odd because he somewhat deprecates declarations of clairvoyance as a delusional in other talks.

[@ja-ja-eldorado]

2 parents 1 child , its so simple , but try telling people from the western culture that they can only have one kid!

[@ghettoblastah14]

+JJ Stone E'lDorado My exact thoughts

[@WurfmFTW]

Hes a smart man but this is some utter bullshit if it was that easy the Numbers in China wouldnt keep rising and they got 1 child policy since Years. And wich are the 2 most populated countrys on the World that nearly have half of the Earths Population ? China and India and both dont belong to the western Culture.

[@crazypath573]

Western, european, caucasian cultures are having less kids then the rest of the world, soooo.... check your statistics.

[@geraldpde]

A catalyst for recognition...wow

[@song-signs]

i love you 4ever Hermes Mckenna

[@DanaMariedotorg]

He covers so much, even Rogers and Hammerstein :)

[@DanaMariedotorg]

but it's funny normally there are people on social media chiming in I was there! you know? maybe they gave up the internet and live in the amazon, or what is left of it.

[@stevenbury3980]

He used the word "meme" at the end (in 1991). 1:37:37

[@tarekkhatib3728]

The word meme was invented by Richard Dawkins in his book The Selfish Gene back in 1976 referring to the smallest cultural atttibute

[@missanna208802]

Does he ever talk about synesthesia? I watched a thing..one synesthe introduced herself to another and upon saying her name, the other said something like, " oh it's kind of chalky, isn't it?" The other one AGREED. The fact that this name tasted the same to BOTH people surprised me. Why should a certain name taste the same universally, or what appears to potentially be universal?

[@HarryElmore-jl2pj]

this guy needs to be in a comedy bar