The Top 5 WEIRDEST Psychological Theories

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[@advicepirate8673]

A 9 minute video is just too damn short to be having a minute and thirty second ad, it seems to be a reoccurring theme, despite the fact that I quite like your content otherwise, it very much turns me off of your channel.

[@alexandercolefield9523]

I do find the idea what people in antiquity thought their inner monologue was spiritual, this might not even be a recent evolution thing, but rather a simple cultural shift of the perception of inner thoughts.

[@sumec4148]

It doesnt even sound that insane if you say it like that

[@degla232]

@@sumec4148 just thinking that those voices are from GOD creates and infinite loop.

[@ah.neat.408]

I wonder if those who were contacted by God were actually those with a very strong inner monolouge, as opposed to those with limited or no inner monolouge.

[@clivebriesemeister3042]

@@ah.neat.408 nah they did shrooms

[@uer-px1kd]

If your theory isnt insane, im not taking it seriously

[@jastier930]

Based

[@cjatnip22]

You don’t exist. “I” is a word you use to describe in very simplified terms the relationship between everything that has happened and is happening from your perspective. What you would call the experience of being a person who is looking at a tree, I would just call the experience of the tree. What you really are is an experience. Not an experience “you’re” having. Just an experience.

[@Galvvy]

Depends on how you define "insane" because plenty of things against common sense have turned out to be true, like quantum mechanics. It's always best to entertain an idea and discard it after evidence, not start from the position of not taking it seriously because it isn't part of the "common narrative." That is how progress dies.

[@hugs4drugs205]

Occam disagrees

[@cjatnip22]

@@hugs4drugs205 It’s not a theory

[@bibitta]

I’m gonna continues Laing’s research. I’ll put a bunch of schizophrenics in a house and then have some grad students actually live in the walls. Maybe then I’ll put people with ocd in a house and using surveillance cameras, see if they do stuff like only touch a door handle with one hand and if they do then make something bad happen. I’m sure that has to prove something!

[@samruinseverything]

I am in your walls

[@nonyobisniss7928]

You've reinvented Big Brother.

[@franksandridge5058]

I wish all sisyphus 55 viewers a pleasant morning

[@Precipiceofwind]

I wish all sisyphus 55 viewers on the other side of the globe a good night =)

[@patinsley]

On it! You as well

[@purplehaze2358]

The more I learn about psychology, the more I’m forced to realize how.. weirdly horny it is. In this video alone, there are _three_ theories that pertain to sexuality.

[@torolvro59]

I mean, Its a big part of evolution… I think (hope) that the people writing the thesis didn’t want to make it weird.

[@notsocrates9529]

You wouldn't exist without it, nobody would.

[@JudahMusicArchive]

@@notsocrates9529 We truly wouldn't be here without cum

[@theempire8461]

@@notsocrates9529 i don't exist im just your imagination John

[@demitrirodolpho8771]

‘weirdly’ ?

[@llex66]

Sisyphus yet again pushing up the Boulder of my curiosity

[@cirrus_sky1920]

"His theory of using cosmic orgasm energy to cure mental issues...has very little support". LOL.

[@devonverma8972]

I like that they waited for the second person to jump off of a roof before stopping Lang's practice

[@Holly-sx4un]

Fun fact: the Kate Bush song cloudbusting is about Wilhelm Reich's crazy theories and his relationship with his son

[@seansmith3058]

His home in northern Maine is a big property where you can walk around and see the cloud busting machines. They look like something the pentagon might make out of a tinkertoy model.

[@taylorgraham7067]

Thank you for talking about the Stoned Ape Theory, Terence has another theory that mushrooms are alien technology- might be fun to check out

[@star-1814]

Damn I gotta check that out 😭

[@alexnelson7258]

I'd be more inclined to take McKenna seriously if he wasn't the poster child for "what IS this dude smoking?"

[@alexnelson7258]

@@AndyBlackburnart Oh for sure! Every drug you've ever heard of and most of the ones you haven't

[@CarpeNoctem135]

There was a serious doctor who’s wife had an orgone energy accumulator and when he was asked “if you are a man of science why is this thing in your house?” And his answer was basically she can’t bother me when she is in it. The people who asked the question laughed, agreed and went on with their day

[@b4594]

I hate my wife moment

[@joeblow9657]

Boomer humor

[@crazygreek6341]

Doctor ... Who? *plays British SciFi music*

[@ThatOneRump]

This is likely a unpopular opinion but I have very little respect for even the current metal health field. I’ve been in and out of therapy on different medications and have been to 3 official evaluations. All 3 have different results, 2 of which stated I was over reporting. I experience audio hallucinations and have a hard time integrating with people and feeling sympathy towards the common person. But philosophy and buddhism has taught me just how much power we have over our minds. A completely different state of thinking can not only change our perception of what is good and bad but can make us feel safer with our positive symptoms and heal our negative ones. Our perception and frame of mind can have power over how content we feel with living.

[@TheyForgotMySalad]

good morning folks

[@tanmayyaduvanshi5422]

It's 6 in the evening here

[@actingboi815]

9 at night here

[@coopypoopy8447]

Good morning

[@slinkylemon8202]

12:15 am for me so ur technically right ig

[@Rabbit-the-One]

Morning

[@egalitarian2207]

I was listening to the video, and heard “Artie Lang” instead of “RD Laing” at first. And then what RD Laing said also made sense about Artie Lang’s philosophy, the comedian. Mad world indeed. I saw Paul Stamets talk about Terrace McKenna’s theory in person before. Pretty fascinating ideas, even if there isn’t much research backing it.

[@paradactyl3729]

*Sees a guy with weird looking hair shooting at flying saucers* Is this going to be about Wilhelm Reich? *is about Wilhelm Reich* Oh...alright then.

[@ryanstakes1966]

somebodys always gotta fuck things up by jumping off a roof

[@user-sl6gn1ss8p]

the best offshoot of the whole orgone stuff is the idea that subatomic particles are bound at the nucleus because really they're "frolicking" their merry ways there. What about the electron, you ask? It's orbiting around just to make sure no pesky photon comes crashing the party and disrupting the fun, of course.

[@Jabjabs]

I love that it took TWO people to jump off RD Langs building to consider it a questionable idea.

[@richardlopez2932]

The Sun is or has got to be the oldest streetlamp in the whole universe. And it's location (wait for it) is out of this world.

[@moshi3274]

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[@jheckie14]

8:15 if he wasn't such a massive creep that would be actually cute, I love family bonding time! Wait... How old was his son at that time?

[@ashergano3877]

Mushroom intelligence: neat idea Orgasm energy: wtf

[@devonverma8972]

Could you do a video on Julian Jaynes? The topic is fascinating

[@seansmith3058]

There is nothing like going into a cafe with a book titled "The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" and waiting for people to notice you.

[@CasualDandyAkaSqwrty]

The origins of consciousness(#3) reminds me of something I've seen in another video, possibly one of your own. The idea that we didn't always read 'to ourselves' and instead started by reading out loud seems to be somewhat parallel to the idea that we didn't always have thoughts to ourselves and then choose to share them(or not). Fun video, thanks!

[@nicholasjohnson1032]

Speaking of Reich; Kate Bush’s song Cloud Bursting was directly inspired out of Reich’s son’s memoir about his time with his father, messing with the orgone guns for “cloud burst”, and more centrally, having to witness his father being taken away by the police. It’s such a great song on its own right, but when I saw the previous video on Reich and had a complete revelation as to the depth and context of the song.

[@floydfrandsen4016]

Something to add to #4 is that is is proven that we are more attracted to those who look like us, so this does somewhat make alittle sense

[@jackdawson5490]

4:36 That's Adam Sandler from Jack and Jill, you're not fooling me.

[@seansmith3058]

There is some brilliant understatement going on in these summaries.

[@AngloSaks666]

I'd suggest that R.D. Laing didn't say that 'madness is good', but that it's a process that someone goes through in order to try to find a manageable way to balance out what's going on inside them, and that is a response to their own problems and holds emotional and intellectual responses to them, however confused via being overwhelmed by them, and that the path a mind takes to do this offers complex and unfathomable ways that might provide a way out for that person that is actually related to their own equally unfathomable complex of problems. The idea wasn't that it was good, or fun, or to be encouraged, but that methods that try to stifle what the patient was experiencing and thinking and doing to try to deal with it may be blocking recovery and even maybe causing more problems. Such an approach also doesn't deny the risks of it, or guarantee success. It was more an attempt to get psychiatry to stop a level of cold crushing someone into their own perceptions of 'normal behaviour'. You mention the idea of a 'world where everyone is allowed to go a little crazy', and the easiest way to see that as good, and also just to be a description of 'free countries', is to imagine what to not have that would be; i.e. an imposition from some people onto others of what absolute 'sane' responses to their own personal circumstances are, and to rein in the behaviour of those who don't fit. Also his surname was pronounced 'Lane', and 'Lang' is an Anglicism of a Scottish surname. This is even despite David Tennant, himself Scottish, mispronouncing it when he played him in a movie. You can find instances of Laing himself saying 'Lang', but this is because he gave into this, but in one of his books he complains about it, saying it's "as in 'AN-gel' and not as in 'gang' "and there's video online of his children putting a blue plaque on his birthplace in Glasgow, and they both say 'Lane' all the time, and then it's actually talked about in the pub gathering they have afterwards in an accompanying video. Also there are videos of interviews with him when he's alive by people who know him who pronounce it correctly. Not a big thing, but, you know, Scotland is not England.

[@NoahSpurrier]

LSD as a Spiritual laxative. Terrific.

[@gwc6953]

Damm that Freudian aspect of number four is coming out hard but like reversed lol

[@nilsmadej9091]

Fantastic video! The theory of relatives being attracted isn't completely wrong, although it makes a very critical mistake. We are naturally attracted to our cousins, usually from 2nd to 4th time removed. This is because this was the size of human tribes necessary for a tribe to maintain healthy genetics but also to pass on similar ones on. The theory with thoughts being perceived as hallucinations is interesting although I don't think that it is valid. I think the ancient people used the gods as a natural way of exposing someone's thoughts for sake of literary exposition. I think the theory would be much more propable if setting the date much earlier, during the cognitive revolution.

[@cjatnip22]

Trust me, the theory about perceiving thoughts as external voices goes deeper than you probably think. Ummm… take mushrooms.

[@nilsmadej9091]

@@cjatnip22 oh of course, we can have hallucinations of voices, but it is not the same as perception of international thoughts. When it comes to mushrooms I don't think that they are easily available so testing would have to be postponed.

[@user-sl6gn1ss8p]

@@nilsmadej9091 another line of inquiry is going into a more buddhist direction, the whole idea of perceiving a "separation" between your perception of your thoughts and sensations, and the thinking and "sensing" themselves, or something like that. I think some people have experiences with some drugs which foster this sort of perception

[@lennic95]

What proves to you that your thoughts are in your head and not coming from elsewhere? What a crazy idea it is to believe you have a voice in your head. Surely it must come from outside your head? Why do we perceive thoughts as being in our heads to begin with? It’s not like there’s a chamber in your skull in which the words floats around.

[@cjatnip22]

@@lennic95 The world is a gradient between thought and environment, I don’t believe there’s any point of separation

[@smurphy8881]

For some reason I still want to fuck around with Orgone accumulators and see what happens. I know it shouldn’t work, but part of me is still weirdly curious.

[@richardlopez2932]

Did anyone else think of the song One Chance when the Orgone guy's theory was broken down?

[@PeterGregoryKelly]

The idea of recent evolution of the joining or right and left hemispheres of the brain in only the last 3,000 years makes no sense. Any such universal characteristic would have to go back to the last common ancestor, a mitochondrial or Y chromosomal Adam, back hundred of thousands of years.

[@skeetsmcgrew3282]

Ok but what defines a common ancestor? Like, evolution is a continuum, the concept of the "chicken or the egg" is essentially a joke of a thought experiment. We don't have fossils from every decade, fossils are separated sometimes by thousands or tens of thousands of years. I'm not saying the theory makes any sense, but evolution isn't a good argument against it. We don't even understand what consciousness is let alone how it evolves

[@PeterGregoryKelly]

@@skeetsmcgrew3282 The genetic evidence of mitochondrial Eve and Y chromosomal Adam is firm in the 200,000 years ago. Evolution is an EXCELLENT argument against a common feature of the human brain being only 3,000 years old on account of the genetic evidence alone. Then there is archaeological, anthological, paleontological and ethnic evidence against it. There are people who have the brain structure who have been separated from the bulk of humanity well before 3,000 years ago, like aboriginal people of Australia.

[@skeetsmcgrew3282]

@@PeterGregoryKelly Ok I will admit I didnt know we had human DNA that old. However, it's still not complete proof because it's not like there is a "consciousness gene," a marker we can point to that is the exact moment we had consciousness. Admittedly the idea of having language but no consciousness seems pretty unlikely. But for all we know octopuses and dolphins are conscious, how could we prove one way or the other when we don't even know why WE are conscious? It's like proving dark matter with math alone. We are missing such a massive component that it's all conjecture anyway. Logical conjecture? Probably not. But like, quantum physics is essentially all illogical nonsense and that doesn't stop it from being true

[@PeterGregoryKelly]

@@skeetsmcgrew3282 Are you outing yourself as a creationist? The point is NOT consciousness but the left/right dichotomy. There is NO way that is is less than 3,000 years ago because it is shared by humans who have been isolated from other humans for a good deal longer than that. Genetic distance is worked out by population genetics of groups and drift. For example my mitochondrial haplogroup is K1C2, which is a subclad of K1, and it a subclad of K going back to one meeting point of all clads about 200,000 years ago. This common point of divergence is colloquially called "Mitochondrial Eve". My Y chromosomal haplogroup is ZX-2961 which is a subclad or RL21. The common divergence of Y chromosomes is colloquially called "Y Chromosomal Adam"., a little less distant in the past than ME. Both ME and YC Adam emerge out of Africa and today the greatest diversity of human DNA is found in Africa, the birthplace of humans. All humans outside Africa are descended from a few groups which left Africa. There is more diversity of DNA in Africans today than in the rest of the world put together.

[@lidlidlidya]

sorry i couldnt help but laugh at the skincare part... hahhahaha

[@randomthings9393]

Definitely not me having an exam on theories of personality tomorrow lol

[@gunpowderwithnosulfur9042]

did u pass

[@visionplant]

Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think McKenna ever specified 10,000 BC. I've read Food of the Gods and listen all of his recorded lectures and it seems that he implies it happened at various points in history. Sometimes it seems like the theory takes place in our very distant past when we were still baboon-like apes. Sometimes he writes and talks about the theory as if it happened around the time we start seeing art and jewelry in the Upper Paleolithic

[@brhmah]

You should talk about theories of personality

[@karltanner3953]

As someone very closely acquainted with McKenna's thought, I have to make a small correction. I don't know where you got the year 10,000 BC from, but McKenna typically described the much earlier period when human ancestors lived in the savannas of Eastern Africa. Essentially his theory attempted to explain the developmental rush from ape to man, which was unusually rapid when contrasted with the entire fossil record. It's really fascinating to ponder how ancient psychedelic experiences changed the individuals and groups, and perhaps even species, that engaged with them, even if McKenna's theory has its problems. Magic mushrooms and other natural psychedelics have been around for a really long time and our ancestors undoubtedly had their encounters with them.

[@BrickTree]

I absolutely adore your videos. I genuinely look forward to them coming out. BUT THAT DAMN COMMERCIAL IS HALF THE VIDYA

[@anointedrose]

A lot of research was put in this video. I really appreciate it!

[@HECKproductions]

if the brian being seperate thingy from the times of the iliad is true that would prove that there are no gods whatsoever

[@music_by_carlos]

talking about 2 people jumping off of a roof of a building straight into a sponsored add is craazzyyy wtf man

[@asemic]

Wilhelm Reich was actually a genius, he scared the hell out of the three letter agencies.

[@cthoadmin7458]

Can I ask a psychologist (assuming they're might be one or two of them viewing this) here a question? Can the basic mechanisms that determine human behaviour predict a range or type of behaviour we would NEVER see? In other words, what does psychology tell us we'll never see in human behaviour?

[@skeetsmcgrew3282]

That's a strange thought. Given the vast range of things done by humans every day let alone through all of human history, I can't even fathom what that would be.

[@cthoadmin7458]

@@skeetsmcgrew3282 So if every human behaviour is explicable by psychology, could you ever falsify psychology's causative mechanism (whatever that is)? What I'm trying to get at is, can psychology be considered science? The human mind is extremely complex, and I guess there's a lot we don't know about it, but assuming we knew it's mechanisms sufficiently, could we then identify a range of human behaviours we would never expect to see? I've been reading Karl Popper (or at least trying to). His idea is that science is separated from non science by the principle of falsification: If there's no test you could do that could prove something false, then it's not really science.

[@skeetsmcgrew3282]

@@cthoadmin7458 Ah, ok I see what you are getting at. Idk if you are familiar with the concept of "purity of science," but the essential idea is that math is the most pure and perfect science, followed by physics, then chemistry, then biology, then psychology, then sociology. If you spend any time studying biology you will find out quite quickly that many answers to your questions are "Dude, idfk." So for me, sociology isn't a science at all. Not because it COULDN'T be a science, but because essentially every time someone tried to prove a sociological theory in the past, they committed a crime against humanity. But as far as psychology, I would ask you this question. If after hundreds of years of studying the weather we still can't reliably predict it more than two weeks out, does that make it a bunk science? It's essentially just a bunch of simple physics problems, but extrapolated millions of times in complexity. That is essentially psychology, IMO. It's taking biology, an idea we already have a very poor general understanding of, and extrapolating it to yet another level of complexity. I would say there is a very solid chance that no existing model of psychology is even close to correct. But I wouldn't agree that your binary definition of science is correct either. With a system as unbelievably complex as the human mind, maybe we are literally just too stupid as a species to ever figure out how it all fits together. That doesn't make the pursuit meaningless

[@orbismworldbuilding8428]

This is a very interesting thing I do have one idea, that being "people never act out what they consider evil voluntarily". Essentially saying that anyone who isn't impulsive or disorganized/delusioned wouldn't do something they consider evil unless they had a way to think it was justifiable or unless they were ignorant to what they were doing until after. Another thing people wouldn't ever do is allow a lack of control that they didn't embrace. Essentially people don't allow things to move outside their control without first trusting or embracing that lack of control (which is a form of control in itself). Uncertainty is only allowed or appreciated when there is some kind of stability elsewhere

[@Scrotom]

That sponsor was a bit awkward and irrelevant, but can't be too hard on our boy for getting paid.

[@sivabalanvinodhkumar7495]

"just me and my son shooting shit" 8:16

[@battragon]

One guy has a good idea, it has "little support".

[@angelicsbh]

the last theory is quite...intriguing lol

[@zenny8877]

"all innovation is called insanity before it's adopted, therefore everything you read on the internet is true" - albert einstein

[@brianjones9780]

no psychological or philosophical framework is complete without having also some paradox

[@sexyfoxgirl3013]

when the ad is longer than any of rhe videos topics...

[@crazygreek6341]

Orgon Laser sounds like an anime attack

[@zoidsfan12]

On the subject of the reverse imprinting leading to attraction. I want to posit my own theory. And it has to do with the groups that have the incest fetish. I theorize that it manifests more often in those without siblings. As most people that have siblings hate and are repulsed by their siblings appearance. I theorize that those without siblings watch/read stuff on the subject of incest as a maladaptation, they yearn to have a sibling of their own and that is why they seek out content like that. I myself am an only child, had that fetish up until it became mainstream and a gimmick, and have thought about why it manifested in the first place. Most people that I have found that genuinely had an incest fetish fit the same bill, only child, no siblings, etc. I think it's weird how subconsciously we manifest stuff like that

[@bunbynoy]

Okay so wow i theorized my inc-st thing came from being the black sheep of the family and i had no idea that was actually why i feel like its okay. Not that im attracted to my immediate family members, it just never seemed to bother me as an idea or concept should i come across anybody who IS. whoops

[@cold1895]

Goodnight c:

[@straifus3742]

Good morning!❤️

[@BucketHeadianHagg]

King Solomon said that *everything is a chasing in the wind*

[@rinpaisys]

That last guy sounds like he took the idea of post nut clarity waaaaaayyyyy too far.

[@dasuero7489]

What about the Schumann resonances?

[@urble]

reich was a true believer in post-nut clarity

[@basednewfiegunna2761]

My Orgone energy lvl is OVER 9000!!!!

[@cagastian1]

I love your content

[@dmtdreamz7706]

In 1947, a couple of aliens flew to Earth in a silver saucer-shaped craft. After closely observing mankind, they shit themselves laughing and crashed into the desert in Roswell, New Mexico. The US Army found the shit covered craft, conducted an investigation, deduced what happened and out of embarressment told the public it was a weather balloon. ,,

[@Dr_Binx]

What was the research for I wonder

[@jeffwhite2511]

What is reality anyway??

[@henrycardona2940]

I prefer the simplest explanations.

[@Vodgepie1]

It’s funny how many of these come from people who are experts in one field and think that can do the same in a new field they don’t understand well enough. Boom wild theory

[@ryla22]

I want to wash my brain.

[@DBXZ21]

Video not long enough. I need more crazy theories to satisfy my crazy theories.

[@shadw4701]

The madness thing is at least a little bit true. Look up manic episodes

[@jackm1405]

William Burroughs had an orgone accumulator which Kurt Cobain once tried out

[@bobaktxl06]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@joshuacampbell17]

terence mckenna my goat

[@WillMarino-wl3zy]

why no deleuze :(

[@Alexus00712]

Wait what? You have a face?? You're not just a simple animated stick figure??!

[@__-tz6xx]

Far out man.

[@OverlyCautious_]

mam'selle piano solo :D

[@Denkshara]

Make more videos please 😢

[@gunishooo]

How does he edit the video

[@fryfrom98]

Dont forget to like the video :)

[@mjolninja9358]

Benis

[@yunny2143]

nice

[@judahmccandless9170]

Hamburger

[@joeyg29jgjg]

Yay!

[@iirovaltonen4258]

Number 4 is kinda true though. People are atracted to similar people to themselves - and siblings/relatives are at the very least genetically similar. "Lost siblings" are more likely than random to get attracted to each other. For more info on this I would suggest reading on the Westermarck effect.

[@efeerbas2709]

Ikr. I thought this was common knowledge. A good portion of couples look like eachother and that isn't coincidence

[@dmtdreamz7706]

😂😂😂

[@JoaoPedro-sh4st]

Skin care? I thought you were only a internet persona…

[@Eric1738-7]

Pp

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First

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[@StephenAnderson-k8k]

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