The History Of Reason And Intuition - Terence McKenna

A comprehensive history lesson by Terence McKenna on the forms of reasoning, intuition, and the confrontation of science and religion through the concept of evolution.
cover art by Gyuri Lohmuller
music: We Plants Are Happy Plants - Beyond The Beyond

[@arcanitejedi]

This man's intellectual depth and integrity is beyond fathom. In 30 minutes he managed to clearly articulate the foundational philosophical reasoning, their function and shortcoming, comparing it to their counterpart which dominates eastern mode of inquiry, then gives a brief but intimate detour of 18th-19th century science and its aims and agendas, connecting it to not well known stories behind theory of evolution and its parallels to alchemical views predating it, then bridging it to societal/political frameworks that were shrewdly based on these evolutionary notions and then capping it off with current systems-oriented understanding of nature and how this current understanding can be a foundational framework for shaping our future sciences and society on basis of cooperation - species that can be successful is not one that dominates all others rather the one that is being indispensable to all others - all the while carrying a sassy anarchistic undertone. I feel as if my brain was simultaneous ravaged and cleanses by his intellectual poetry. These views and understandings NEEDS to be spread like the literal plague that is currently ravaging our societies. Please everyone share/comment/like as much as you can.

[@josef2012]

Well said

[@stolensentience]

Yee

[@kkech1]

Algorithm represent

[@asdfasdfasdf383]

Were nice.

[@nizarj1771]

Very well said!

[@wpahp]

settle in with some tea cause this is a long one, but hey, education is fun!

[@meowmeow1303]

thank you for doing all you do, you've made many of my days.

[@andrewpeacock5751]

Long one? Terrence had been known to talk for 5 straight hours without even taking a sip of water. Either way thanks for posting this.

[@RJ-cs9gz]

It's only half an hr??

[@wpahp]

Yeah I have even 24 hour long McKenna videos but I meant this is long for basically one topic, so I suspect it will be more difficult for people to listen to the whole thing than my usual short videos.

[@LifeContent]

🙏🏼💎☯️

[@tribebuddha]

That's education, right there. Thanks, Terence McKenna.

[@mysticrealness]

he touched on some things i have been deeply thinking about lately. Terence's ideas live on through US!

[@Esch_atton]

Man this is a good one. Terence just never dissapoints.

[@alexgardiner9490]

That cover art is 10/10

[@aurevoiralex]

The photoshoot was done for Wired magazine a short time before Terence's passing. A fabulous interview! You can still find it in their archive.

[@alexgardiner9490]

@@aurevoiralex Really why thank you :) Appreciate it Aleks!

[@landryprichard6778]

The best breakdown of traditional Darwinism vs. a more-nuanced look at the idea that we are shaped by a perfection of form (via fractal mathematics and self-similar shapes on all scales) that has a purpose-in-form. How mysterious! And rational as well. You can have spirit in form without the notion of an anthro God ruling down upon us.

[@landryprichard6778]

The culmination of my very first ever experience with the Fungi, in late May of 1995, I found myself asking God what the meaning of life was. He said, "Don't ask me, man. I just work here." And what that meant to me is that we are all spores turning into carpophores, constantly exploring, inventing and reimagining. I didn't get an answer, per se...I got schooled as to the fact that we are all godheads looking back upon itself, striving for answers. At that point, I dropped trow and pissed on the floor. White knuckle ride indeed. 🍄

[@Unsubscribedd]

Fantastic! Thanks for the great story!

[@ReynaSingh]

We can only know that we know nothing 🙏 keep up the good content

[@winryanYouTube]

I wish more were aware of the power of what's perceived as neg. Depending on who's reading it, your comment will have very different meanings, but it's one of the foundational necessities in life for "success" (however one defines it), predictability and ability to accomplish some objective within this game but so many would rather live within a comfort zone of already believing they "know" and finding some place of comfort in all things positive. IMO life is contradiction, that's the beauty even though it makes no sense and you thinking you want more and more positive really just makes no sense at all. It's like there is [Positive/Negative] as one which allows us to slice them into the two as humans but both are nec for each to exist. Whatever, I'm just blabbing but it's nice to see someone that shares one of my fundamental truths that I personally don't see many espousing. I guess when you do kind of find a state in which you feel like you "don't know" vs "know", pos/neg doesn't even apply as much as you don't feel angry about not knowing, you get excited to know that there is more to know and you go find it so maybe not the best example here but I just see people upset when they don't know and happy in their silly belief that they know, thus the content in this stream of thought. Thx for commenting Reyna.

[@vee7037]

I took at look at your channel and I’m loving what I’m seeing

[@BlackShampoo75]

It never stops.. this guy digs deeper every time.. amazing

[@terencedavid3146]

I'm overdosing on Terence, can't get enough of him. R.I.P. n thank u. T.

[@lunkerjunkie]

Thanks for defining pre-eminence

[@asdfasdfasdf383]

This is a very good one. Thank you!

[@mehdidehghani2259]

Awesome❤❤❤🎉🎉

[@tiggerknowsbest6817]

5 Dried grams, silent darkness with only the music of your soul to guide you.

[@biscuits4usall103]

I love the definitions added in. I'm always opening another page to look up words. My vocabulary is pathetic.

[@ispearedbritney]

Thank you for this and all you share with us. Can you tell me the name of the artwork @ 26:36 or perhaps a link to the artist? It is a wonderful visual. Thank again. Peace

[@47RokuW]

One of my favorites

[@raymondkertezc364]

More McKenna Toons soon, please!

[@no-wei]

We Plants Are Happy Plants thank you

[@PsychiCorey]

Perfect end point 🙏

[@NorthGermanic]

Bravo!

[@dusttodust1522]

Where can I get a high definition picture of that escalator of being?

[@buckaroo3589]

I did not realize Terence was this smart.

[@Maxiloup]

We need to self medicate ourselves with psychedelics , as soon as possible.

[@nightrealm3377]

@@plantstho6599 I agree with you. A lot of people want to take psychedelics to experience the cosmos and expand their mind, but then they don't want to take that experience and expansion to use it to implement real change in our objective reality. If psychedelics alone were enough to change this world, the 1960's counterculture would have prevailed, and we wouldn't have half of the problems we do today. However, that's not the world we live in. I have very high respect for Terrence Mckenna, but where I think I disagree with him slightly is that we need to synthesize reason and intuition and use both to our upmost ability in order to truly change this world. We need all the wits we got and all the intuition we have if we are to succeed in making sure the human race survives.

[@nightrealm3377]

@@plantstho6599 Very much so. I worry it's going to take at least two decades if not more, because older generations are largely very resistant to UBI, automated labor, etc. I know most people I talk to over the age of 40 are very ignorant on those ideas and labels it totalitarian socialism without investigating it further. The world will move on regardless of their opinions and beliefs, but the problem is how receptive young people will be to putting in the work to implement these new ideals. I often think about how British Imperialism collapsed partially because humanity at large was losing its tolerance towards colonialism. Many societies in the Bronze Age also fell apart once the masses got fed up with increasing inequities, slavery and forced labor, and simply left. I think in order for Capitalism to end as soon as possible, humanity has to lose interest in defining all of their self worth based on money and develop its potential and actualization elsewhere. We have all sorts of intellectual, philosophical, social and artistic projects we could collectively focus on - with the technology, education and resources we now have available, we could transform this world from the hell it is now into a marvelous place full of wonders, curiosity and learning. The problem is what will it take for humanity to focus on those ideals rather than focusing on money. There are all sorts of ways humanity has been conditioned by capitalism. The education system is a huge problem because it conditions many people into thinking they are stupid or talentless failures, when the reality is it is the system itself that has watered down the subjects of art, science, philosophy, literature, mathematics, etc. and made them boring and stale. I had no idea I wasn't half bad at mathematics until I got out of school and learned it in a style that was appropriate to me rather than having a teacher screaming in my face for not correctly calculating a poorly explained problem within the time span of 0.5 seconds. The way the education system is neutering people's intellectual curiosity causes them to direct their self-worth towards something more concrete and immediately satisfying, such as money. Unfortunately, parents aren't always the solution to this problem like many people think they are, because many parents are brainwashed by capitalism and the education system themselves and often unconsciously stifle their children's intellectual growth by the conditioning they subject their children to. There's a lot of untangling to be done in order for humanity to progress, that's for sure.

[@vee7037]

@@nightrealm3377 what a lovely conversation you and @Plants tho have had. You both are incredible people

[@AlimentodosDeuses]

imagina se quaisquer aula de meia hora transtornasse seu mundo dessa forma

[@VaiXepleX]

I wonder how many people take the time to pause and revise with him what he is touching upon when he peaks about people and subjects.... 🤔🤔🤔

[@Leo-bg8mi]

I believe everyone willing to understand what he is saying. Especially those (like me) who are not born as a native English speakers. I see many "Englishman" not understanding what he is saying, but those arent here I believe :)

[@47RokuW]

Terence Tuesday‼️

[@mirsuhayl]

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[@marcus8710]

The Great Chain of Being is a logarithmic scale. Man is at the center of the universe-planck log scale, to be able to see and study to those edges. But the edges conceal an interior...

[@mysticmouse7261]

Evolution is inductive

[@tomasgrandi]

✨✨✨✨

[@B.Pilgrim]

Apollonian and dionysian

[@mrbananaflasher]

Is it possible to have the video CC'd/transcribed? Thanks!

[@sabyasachisenapati3619]

is there any connection between intuition and abductive reasoning?

[@BetterYouBetterWorld]

McKenna is half green half yellow in spiral dynamics!

[@BetterYouBetterWorld]

@@based9930 I don't consider Spiral Dynamics to be a branch of spirituality.

[@BetterYouBetterWorld]

@@based9930 Each stage from within the spiral has its own style of spiritual behavior. As a whole it's just a model of human behavior. Compare it to something like Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

[@BetterYouBetterWorld]

@@based9930 I actually made 3 short videos on the subject which might change your point of view. That specific point comes up relatively early on.

[@BetterYouBetterWorld]

@@based9930 ew marxism. The QnA video on my channel goes more deeply into why higher consciousness doesnt always mean better. edit: in short, people can abuse their stature if they are so inclined, but usually it's not the case.

[@ArmwrestlingJoe]

“Reason” always leads me atheistic nihilism. I refuse to take reason seriously. Pretending reality isn’t a complex chaotic maze is what is unreasonable to me.

[@Slipping_thru_the_Seams]

preach

[@lukajung9051]

Read some Plato ;) Order in the microcosm is of a special kind that lives among the chaos of the macrocosm. As intelligent, terrestrial beings, we aren't merely Becoming but also Being. Physical nature, while novel and unique, is still intelligible to us.

[@stolensentience]

, he reasoned.

[@vshagoyan]

Why would it lead you there?

[@vshagoyan]

As above, so below. Do not forget this hermetic truism. What is chaos at a lower level is always order at a higher level.

[@drunkenbuddhalaughingmonke8550]

Omg first

[@BlackShampoo75]

Probabilistic laws would say yes you are

[@frankiesmart1113]

Serendipity

[@keithybrinson7804]

If one mask is good then 5 dried grams at a cyber goth rave would help you handle 2 or three respirators on top of a paper mask 👍🏾