What Happened to Nietzsche? - Madness and the Divine Mania

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[@Dirge_For_November]

Thank you for all that you do.

[@WeAreAllOneNature]

4:06 to 4,56 is the best part of this excellent video.

[@markoslavicek]

@New Any particular writing of hers where she refers to this particular topic?

[@igormendoncacanga2569]

Thanks you!

[@BestIsntEasy]

@New ❌🐍❌ 5 Jesus replied, “What I am telling you so earnestly is this: Unless one is born of water and the Spirit,[a] he cannot enter the Kingdom of God. 6 Men can only reproduce human life, but the Holy Spirit gives new life from heaven; 7 so don’t be surprised at my statement that you must be born again! 👁💎👁 ☎️ Jesus WAS the way truth and life; Muhammad WAS a messenger. *Any human named Jesus is my ADOPTED SON; Charles Tyler was my only BIRTHED one.* He was raised in my shade, on VERBAL ROD, and worshipping the ground I walk upon. If still physical, he's not fully recognized me for over 1/2 of his existence due to RICHARD HEAD'S! [6:20] Those to whom we have given the scripture recognize this as they recognize their own children. The ones who lose their souls are those who do not believe. [6:21] Who is more evil than one who lies about GOD, or rejects His revelations? The transgressors never succeed. wwwDOTsubmissionDOTorg

[@PJ-ns6um]

"Madness is rare in individuals, but in groups, parties, nations and ages it is the rule." -Nietzsche

[@lightlydark416]

Mass psychosis

[@philyeary8809]

Amerikkka, China, Russias KGB assassin worship, Lil Kim Jong....what a fun planet MAN made.

[@philyeary8809]

@InSanctvs facts.

[@galexi3978]

@@lightlydark416 that is happening now everywhere

[@RicardoPicena]

@@philyeary8809 i know exactly what you mean, they are envious as they have to play games to get what they want. As Lil Kim just does it...not cool mannnn

[@rogerfreeman6787]

This is the best channel on KZbin.

[@joefloine2000]

I agree!!!

[@fettlerjohn3419]

Agreed!

[@velando75]

Hands down!

[@orpheusmorphius2624]

Yes

[@BronsonMacdonald]

Been on a massive binge. It’s exactly what I have been looking for

[@Stargaze79]

"Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live." - Charles Bukowski

[@pyrefly7575]

I read Charles buttowski xd

[@tvg9778]

Madness

[@HighSpeedNoDrag]

I am Good to Go, No Sky too High, No Bar too FAR!. Has anyone seen my ankle holster or Zoloft?

[@mariedelozier2530]

Many have been driven 'sane'....

[@hankworden3850]

@@pyrefly7575 lucky for you

[@sabrisaad8858]

"No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness." - Aristotle

[@ravenone6255]

This kind of madness is the knowledge towards those corrupt people in power 🤔

[@petrabanjarnahor229]

@@ravenone6255 no, everyone has one in 'em. The severity and how one control them differs between people.

[@mjolninja9358]

Super fish

[@Jo-wl5fj]

That makes my mind very great.

[@FallingFeeling212]

@@petrabanjarnahor229 This is very true i dont wanna sound "quirky" lmao but i have this touch of madness in me as well and like you said we all do i have had physcological moments that were descirbed like boulders tumbling on top of me etc etc and even have burst out in tears of sadness and depression all while laughgin lol i know it sound crazy but im pretty sane we just have these moments in our life. I have no idea if i explained what i was thinking in the correct way so if i sound a bit ignorant just ignore me lmao. Edit: I learned that we should just embrace our true selves instead of being what society says is true and whats right for Nietzsche he embraced his madness and became happy

[@UnschoolingCOM]

"It’s no measure of health, to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

[@a-rod1527]

did he really? thought this was credited to someone else

[@innocent_outlaw]

@@a-rod1527 same

[@bobbybrooks4826]

ABSOLUTLY 100% True.

[@valerierogers9609]

to be well adjusted in this profoundly sick society would indicate a weak minded sheep. Boy, we got a lot of them.

[@karenking3574]

My favourite quote! 🙂

[@abbasalchemist]

I cannot stress enough how important your channel has become. Thank you for taking a deeper dive into Jung's works and influences. For too long people have been content to explore his concepts at a surface level. What people sometimes fail to realize is that these are not just hypothetical theories, but expressions of actual experiential phenomena. Jung's writings are very cryptic and written in a circumambulatory fashion, his writings revolve around a central area (The Self) across his Collected Works. He simultaneously veils and unveils through his language and allows people to read into his writings what they project onto it---he will speak of the importance of not identifying with the unconscious contents, but later speak of his apotheosis vision of becoming the Lion-headed Mithras deity.

[@williamkoscielniak820]

I was just reading the red book recently and it's very clear that his existential explorations drove his work. He had the ability to articulate himself in empirical, rational, and scientific fashion, but the driving force behind his idea's was not primarily based on empiricism in the sense of observing his patients, but rather an "inner empiricism" of observing his own psyche during fantasy, dreams, visions, and so forth. As far as his writings revolving around a central idea in a circumambulatory fashion and revealed in a language that allows projection and a plethora of interpretations, the exact same thing could be said about Nietzsche. Jung may have been a psychologist and Nietzsche may have been a philosopher, but what drove their works is what I believe has driven the founders of religions and religious sects throughout the world.

[@abbasalchemist]

@@williamkoscielniak820 Well said. With regard to his empirical approach however, you're right in highlighting the "inner empiricism", but his observations of reality certainly helped with the building of the personal experiences he had and the formulation of his concepts. That's what makes him a powerful figure, he didn't approach observable phenomena in the world with disdain or a priori explanations or dismissals, but observed things as they were. In many ways, his concepts emerge from the "ground up", rather than intellectually/theoretically "top down".

[@ficosranc8530]

The connection you made between the date of the Dionysus' winter festival and the date when Nietzsche went mad was amazing! Thank you for the videos, i really appreciate the work you guys do.

[@chriss.8582]

" I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses." - Nietzsche, "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" This quote has always hit close to home for me personally.

[@PJ-ns6um]

"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." -Nietzsche

[@sasha6454]

Is that from The Birth of Tragedy?

[@sephronnine9775]

@@sasha6454 There’s no actual source for that quote, as good as it is…

[@ayetreyyy]

I have the correct quote tattooed on my arm: "And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

[@seaweedseaside5905]

Because there is no music.

[@CDLuminous]

I think that’s Rumi?

[@visavou]

I fought my depression partly by watching these videos. Thank you for your work.

[@Dacademeca]

*"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."* - Friedrich Nietzsche

[@TheMrcalcovaify]

- DMX

[@PunkProfess0r]

“To be negatively adjusted to low level society is a positive feature.” -Dr. K Dabrowski

[@ReynaSingh]

Not everything can be rationalized. this is why reality falls apart for so many people

[@VAPORFEELS]

I don’t like that humans rarely admit that there is no answer. Or that the answer is incompressible. But at the same time that’s how we’ve met so many accomplishments.

[@empyreuma]

You might be right - but how do you know this ? How do you know that what is unexplainable now will always remain mysterious and that there will always be unknowns ? Are we all trapped or lost or searching for meaning and purpose within perpetual cycles of creation, mutation and destruction that only reveal their true nature, patterns, complexity or intent after they have evolved ? Is there an everlasting energy thread that binds all, fractures all and is forever evolving ?

[@samurai8698]

Hello Reyna! 👋😁

[@orriHirro]

well-put.

[@MrKillswitch88]

I say this is pretty typical of the western mind that is built upon a deeply flawed template expecting everything to fit into neat little boxes like so much crap we all consume on a day to day bases. The lack of heart coupled with a linear mind on top of cement personalities often results in people who can't understand nature seeing such as being irrational. It does amuse me how these sort fail so hard when it comes to feeling and expressing human emotions and brings me to dark places how they pressure others into being cold.

[@RSTBKT]

I really appreciate the art from Zdzisław Beksiński being used

[@Robert-yc9ql]

Agreed... disturbing but not repulsive...

[@telperionmo0n]

Pretty adequate.

[@khanhlinhle2573]

Yass, i love his paintings too. I have done a case study about Zdzislaw Beksinski for art and saw his painting in the thumbnail. I be like :0

[@JBGAMBIT]

When understanding that “Everything” is Oneness,….he is indeed correct in that he was all of those people that he mentioned.

[@TheGerogero]

dghaöldshföalksjdfölajkdf. Amen.

[@alfacentauri3617]

"Everything" is no-One-ness... no Ego, no boundaries = no-thing-ness...

[@TheJeremyKentBGross]

I was looking for this comment. Or one like it. As a frequent listener of Alan Watts, and a low key fan of Spinoza as well, I was like: Where's the craziness? Congratulations you (he) realized it. He's woken up and recognized that you aren't the singular wave on the ocean, pushed about by the winds and tides, to fear your end when you crash into the beach. The real you is the entire ocean. The power of omnipotence is not to be able to do anything, but it is in fact to be doing all things, simultaneously. You don't have to know how you shine the sun anymore than you know how to grow your hair or fingernails. You just do it.

[@JBGAMBIT]

@@TheJeremyKentBGross so true! Anything Alan Watts is fuel For the soul! Another Philosophy that I’ve come across recently that has Been really nurturing is Stoicism. I get a daily email from the site, and they’re always spot on. Seems the Author has a slight political bent, but I just ignore anything Political and savor the good Parts.

[@TheJeremyKentBGross]

@@JBGAMBIT Stoicism is great. As for the politics, yeah the communists and global corporate overlords have made sure that us "live and let live" "don't ask don't tell" libertarians have to become political, because while you might think that you don't care about them, they absolutely care about you and will cause problems in your work or school or hobbies, or all 3. They have filled every corner of media and much of education, tech and government with their propaganda and policies and leave no aspect of society unattacked. At a certain point it's not EVEN political. For example the value of free speech is divine, as God, or Logos, the root word of Logic and Dialogue, is the cornerstone of a functioning society. These days false accusations of National Socialism by International Socialists and Corporate Monopolies is regularly used to silence people who would offer legitimate points of dissent to the current order of corruption. When society goes sideways you are going to be along for the ride. *Objections may come from a philosophical or even theological level, rather than a political one.* But in any case, one may not be able to keep their head in the sand.

[@Shmapn]

as smart as we all think we are for being here I can't imagine how smart OP actually is to make such videos. All his content is so incredible and well researched.

[@uhlexseeuh]

yeah i was just wondering that.. i wonder what he thinks, it would be interesting to get an q and a sometime

[@phxHeritage]

I make similar videos, I'm just starting out , let me know what you think, it would only take 5 minutes of your time

[@shrector123]

Tbf a lot of it is rehashing the same stuff. It's impressive to have 100 videos on any given subject, but its mostly just a scrapbook of moving images/information from one video to another. Watching these is less helpful than actually reading the subject matter, id suggest reading the works of the authors discussed if you are interested in self improvement.

[@117Industries]

I don't think I'm smart for being here. I don't think I'm smart. I think people think they're smarter than they are, and I would rather be honest and mediocre in that regard. I can will myself to be more learned and cultivated, and cultivate wisdom through experience; but I cannot will myself to be smarter than I innately am. And I am innately not. But that is fine. We can only change that which we can change, and the rest we must accept. :)

OPs. Plural. Videos are made by two brothers from Canada

[@johnblasiak607]

These posts are pure gold and the presentation is of the highest order.

[@sindarpeacheyeisacommie8688]

Nietzsche’s mustache got him. It became so epic, it took over.

[@devondevon2454]

👏

[@pwayne3580]

Guns don’t kill people. People with mustaches kill people....

[@jrtaylor1275]

It is an admirable mustache.

[@Saulgoodmane]

😂😂😂

[@VaughanMcCue]

@@jrtaylor1275 Formidable - I think is what R.A.F. pilots called it.

[@YOitsJohnDough]

I've had some pretty far out experiences during my time in solitude.. this all sound pretty familiar tbh. Thank you for uploading.

[@-Siculus-Hort-]

things have lost "substance" for me.

[@grimalteruism8641]

You dont have to be alone to have mania ,some ppl just born with it

[@TheVMbros]

@@-Siculus-Hort- Would you mind sharing your experience? I’d appreciate it, Cheers.

[@gabrielfox457]

I can identify with this a little. I've had emotional and existential struggles and there are times when I come to a kind of tranquility and inner-equilibrium, and I feel good about life and my dreams. It doesn't last long though, I descend into that tumultuous unconscious world again, struggling with it and reality.

[@ΟδυσσέαςΖαφειράκης]

Hmm that happened to me as well lately and tho it felt so true and mind opening it also frightens me when i "logically" thinking of it .After that i had a big twist on perception. Friends of my tell me i ve changed a lot.. Any clue ?

[@gabrielfox457]

@@ΟδυσσέαςΖαφειράκης Well mr. Odysseas Zapheirakes, it's probably a good thing if you experienced that calm and balance. It wakes you up to great possibilities, and kudos to you if you can stay in that state. I think that's what Plato and Aristotle were talking about when they extolled balance and talk about happiness.

[@chuckbrooks7489]

Or are you coming back from the inner calm to outer madness of reality??

[@ΟδυσσέαςΖαφειράκης]

@@gabrielfox457 Ah friend it would be "insane" if i could stay in that state . It lasted 4 days . But i held that feeling so tight in my memory that inspires me whenever I'm thinking of it. The day I'll forget this feeling will be the day I'll be forgotten.

[@wandererofalbion1642]

Sounds like when you return to Firelink Shrine in Dark Souls after defeating a boss for a short rest until the next adventure.

[@ΙΩΑΝΝΗΣΒΕΡΡΟΙΟΠΟΥΛΟΣ]

You're doing a wonderful job and putting a great amount of time into these videos!! I want to thank you on behalf of everyone for making youtube a better place.

[@Mas0o0n]

I honestly prefer the idea that he pretended to be crazy for 10 years, that would be absolutely hilarious.

[@robrick9361]

Nietzsche was trolling before it was cool

[@jonersauce]

xd

[@Microtherion]

There were both precursors and successors, if so. Hamlet, and half a millennium later, the Chief in 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'. Usually, we know such characters from fiction - because people doubtless have done such things, but when they did, no-one could be sure... And what if successful people are faking their 'sanity'? That seems very likely. :)

[@CDLuminous]

Perhaps he was reflecting the madness around him

[@satnamo]

Nietzsche will not pretend because that is not honest with himself.

[@mayginteal2136]

As a bipolar person who went through all of these same manic psychotic breakdowns, thank you for this video.

[@assiakessai]

Iam a doctorat student in philosophy,Ian also specializes in Nietzsche philosophy his madness alwayse fascinate me and I do believe that he see the world with unique way and also rare , and that evidence in his way of reconnected with our mother gaia nature , and how he understands the language of silence, please do more videos about him iam.a big fan

[@kubasniak]

He lost his marbles for leading blasphemous life and ideas. He sold his soul to the devil and got punished. He rejected life and Jesus Christ preaching how one can achieve "great" life. What a madman that no one should follow. He resembles a man from the Bible who was possessed by a Legion. There is only one Savior, Jesus Christ. God Bless 🙏

[@aidenvalentine796]

@@kubasniak nah jesus aint all that

[@jonersauce]

@The Angehender Légionnaire 👍 nice

[@MarioMedinaaa]

@@kubasniak wtf was that

[@WeAreAllOneNature]

''In the darkness of the unconscious, a treasure, hard to attain, lies hidden.'' 1:03.

[@wellnesspathforme6236]

LOTS of monsters typically lie hidden in the subconscious, too. Shrinking the Judge: Awaken the Inner Child by Dr. Rick Malter is a good introduction.

[@WeAreAllOneNature]

@@wellnesspathforme6236 Sounds good. Thanks. I love the way the book title is so self explanatory. Maybe I can just do it without reading the book. Hahaha. Surely UNconfronted monsters are worse than confronted ones?

[@wellnesspathforme6236]

@@WeAreAllOneNature This is actually a VERY DEEP subject. The subconscious is WAY more powerful than people think. The Ugly Truths in society tend to trigger what Orwell called Crimestop, which is clearly subconscious controlled (it completely overrides the conscious mind). ... "CRIMESTOP means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction. CRIMESTOP, in short, means protective stupidity. But stupidity is not enough. On the contrary, orthodoxy in the full sense demands a control over one’s own mental processes as complete as that of a contortionist over his body.” ~George Orwell, 1984 ... Before I knew about crimestop, I referred to this as "trauma aversion mind control, self-induced." It is a play on trauma-based mind control that is externally produced. ... The key appears to be that the subconscious prefers temporary avoidance of dealing with the pain of BIG PROBLEMS when there appears to be very little short to medium term cost of doing so. THIS IS VERY DANGEROUS! Why? Because the family lines who wield private control over the global money systems have learned how to manipulate it such that they deploy what they call "silent weapons for quiet wars." Search that document title and read that document. ... The problem is that the danger is in the long term, not the short term. But silent weapons must, of necessity, work in the long term. Otherwise, they won't be silent. ... I will share some "silent weapons for quiet wars" in future replies, and see if you subconscious prevents your conscious mind from logically assembling the relevant information free of contradictions and free of logical fallacy reliance. What most people don't want to admit is that facts and logic DICTATE the conclusion -- we don't get to choose it based on our feelings. Most want to choose an answer -- not have reality DICTATE it to them.

[@WeAreAllOneNature]

@@wellnesspathforme6236 I look forward to your replies. :-) I will go out for 1 hour.

[@wellnesspathforme6236]

@@WeAreAllOneNature These families that control the global money systems through their privately owned/controlled Bank of International Settlements' debt-based money central banks. Only Syria and Iran are holdouts now. Pretty much every modern war was a BIS central bank country, or coalition of countries fighting a non-BIS central banking country with the net result of a BIS debt-based money central bank being installed in said conquered country. You won't read about that in the his-story books! lol But it is absolutely true. Just like all rulers throughout history, these Money Power Monopolist Families are BLOODLINE-CENTRIC, from Pharoah, to Caesar, to the the present. Every other "bloodline" is seen as a threat to be mitigated, hence, "silent weapons for quiet wars." Their debt-based money systems control societal energy. They also want to deplete the human energy of their "competition." They do this through food supply manipulations. I call this the denutrification and toxification silent weapon. There are many tactics to achieve that goal, but the biggest levers have been made public by Morley Robbins. Inorganic metallic iron filings were added to the food supply in 1941. This form of iron is quite toxic. Organic, sun-kissed iron found in vegetables is far different than rusty metallic iron filings. Bio-copper and magnesium are being depleted over time. They are the rate limiters for cellular energy production, and as they dwindle, so does cellular energy, tissue energy, organ energy, and human energy. Bio-copper activates the enzyme that splits oxygen to make H2O and ADP so that Mg-ATP can be produced as fuel for the cells. Note that ATP is completely worthless. Mg-ATP is the true molecule, but that MG requirement has been craftily concealed from the masses due to its important. Note it was NOT financed on to nutrition labels. Magnesium in biology -- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnesium_in_biology ... Morley Robbins - My Theory Of Everything -- kzbin.info/www/bejne/f6KcZYWFd5qke9U Iron behaving badly: iron as contributor to inflammatory and degenerative diseases -- bmcmedgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1755-8794-2-2 INORGANIC Metallic Iron Filings in Cereal Video -- kzbin.info/www/bejne/fnjFqHmqoq-Cn5Y ** Some will claim beans and spinach have iron in them, so adding iron filings to cereal is no problem. Where is the video pulling metallic iron filings from spinach and beans? They can't do it. The form matters more than the name -- don't be deceived! Organic iron in plants is usable while INORGANIC metallic iron filings are quite toxic and designated as a carcinogen (increasing cancer rates are NOT coming from Mars!). So You've Just Been Told You're Anemic? -- kzbin.info/www/bejne/mYPcYoCBgL2KsMk Summary of Rogue Iron Accumulation in the Human Body -- veritascontent.blob.core.windows.net/audio/YTC_Archive/ytc010719-MorleyRobbins.mp3 Morley Robbins - Magnesium, Copper and Iron Synergy - August 11, 2020 -- kzbin.info/www/bejne/oYqoeJl7bqmIgJY Understanding Copper Toxicity (same as iron overload): kzbin.info/www/bejne/h6q5ZYedjah6eZI The Iron Toxic Calcium Shell (also associated with toxic iron overload in tissues) -- coppertoxic.com/calcium-shell The role of insufficient copper in lipid synthesis and fatty-liver disease -- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5619695/ Symptoms of Copper [Bio-copper) Deficiency (and Iron Overload) -- kzbin.info/www/bejne/apzEnmhta9Vgabs

[@danmoord375]

It seems as though there are many who, after transcending into a deeper level of consciousness, are unwilling to surrender the ego completely. At this heightened state of awareness, the mind becomes nothing more than a producer of grand illusions, attempting to restore it's lost identity.It's difficult to relinquish the conditioned mind, especially when that mind has served as an identity all along.

[@TH3F4LC0Nx]

"What are you trying to say? I'm crazy?! When I went to *your* schools I went to *your* churches I went to *your* institutional learning facilities?! So how can you say I'm crazy?" --- Suicidal Tendencies.

[@FinehomesofNewHampshire]

🤘

[@js4325]

All I wanted was a Pepsi...

[@youngmaster2072]

Subliminally

[@cameldriverforindia]

are you saying mental illnesses dont exist?

[@FinehomesofNewHampshire]

@@cameldriverforindia they are created....

[@LuisRiquelme34]

whenever I read about Nietzsche and his life.... I cry. He was such a beautiful, brave and illuminated human.. All of that only brought him pain and suffering. We should honor humans like him, who shed light into our path even at their own life's cost.

[@carlranger8060]

Stupid Moustache though.

[@LuisRiquelme34]

@@carlranger8060 Fair enough

[@jelkavujacic9457]

HVALA !!!

[@egodust11]

Madness is the greater part of the human enterprise. Virtually everyone has it, yet so few are capable of recognizing its existence, and fewer still realize its phenomenal value: its utility in human awareness. Few realize it's the only fount whereupon art is born and cultivated. Dionysus is both its parent and child.

[@thenewwaydevil]

Now ur work on this channel has always been next to none. But this. This is something special. Bravo and thank u for this video

[@seeker11]

I believe Nietzsche's mind came up with a mechanism to process all that was happening to him. His life experiences, his sorrows, his pain, his joys had to be stored into a whole, so his brain devised a plan to put him in a state of complete indifference to his surroundings and thus achieving some kind of enlightenment. Pulling him out of the everyday torment. A complete overtaking of the memories and not allowing new connections to be made or formed in the brain. Because it could not take more. A self-preservation mechanism. Quite fascinating, isn't it?

[@JoBlakeLisbon]

Yeah, I think he descended into mania more than anything. He was also totally isolated and without purpose. To be honest, I'd love for him to know how many people have appreciated his work and how it has changed more lives than virtually any other philosopher.

[@frednolasco]

always thought of nietzches madness as something profoundly sad, as a form of "proof that his theories of the ubermensch are unreachable" and as a grim end of a great , yet melancholic life. It seems there is a ray of light shining on his "madness" and that is very good news.

[@heatherwhitehead3743]

Hey! I've experienced this. It was like my mind was turned inside out and reality was informed by my thoughts and thoughts are visual. I could see my thoughts truly.

[@MoBoRoS]

The deeper you go, the more chaos reveals itself. It is natural, thus, to be more prone to imbalance but also capable of ordering more and more chaos. Sometimes, madness is just the Phenomenon, when the straw breaks the camel's back... when you have journey'd too far inside yourself and you cannot climb back up. This phenomenon can be exaggerated by illness, unwellness and not having people that care for you around.

[@heavycurrent7462]

You don't "order" chaos. The minotaurs of the unconscious is a grave of logic. Deep within and beyond, nothing speaks reason. You have to learn to navigate by will alone.

[@SkharrTuris]

@@heavycurrent7462 When you start to understand "chaos", you "order" it.

[@007lutherking]

Interesting convo, you drown in the darkness because of false beliefs, you pull yourself out of that hellish pit once you burn your false hopes and beliefs and embrace the truth. Truth restores order, chaos is alway there in your psyche and it is useful too if you learn to control it. You cant convert chaos to order those are two different aspects, two different parts of you one represents neo cortex and other represents basal ganglia. Sometimes the bridge connecting limbic system to the neo cortex gets damaged due to severe cptsd etc and thus cluster bs are plunged into chaos /animalistic behaviour. They only pretend to be civil, deep down theyre animals and it is not their fault.

[@Journey_to_who_knows]

It is true, I have seen my true self and it scares me, one day it could come to light.

[@returnoftheromans6726]

@@Journey_to_who_knows I, too, have seen the darkness. There is a difference, however, between understanding it and succumbing to it. I have thought too much of the human mind and it's different sicknesses. I believe that we are all hopelessly sick. The only way to truly navigate through it (for me) is through the arts.

[@williammaccarthey3089]

I went into psychosis from reading his Thus Spoke Zarathustra for month; he was the mouth to my ears. Then I carried my ashes into the mountains; and paranoid Schizophrenia almost killed me. Though only with what I experienced thanks to Nietzsche could I allow Jesus into my life to begin the healing I needed all along. Then I celebrated the news Nietzsche brought into the valley while keeping from the anchorite. though when Nietzsche said God is dead it was a concession he lamented. Though today I am not sure what he would think of the state of things but with hindsight I prefer now as a theology and philosophy lover.

[@Anarcath]

“I have felt the wind on the wing of madness.”~Charles Baudelaire

[@Johnconno]

That was actually Christopher Walken.

[@mixerD1-]

🤣

[@PJ-ns6um]

"For men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad amounts to another form of madness." -Pascal

[@MuhammadAli-ox6tj]

so basically we are all fucked up...or shall I say...we are all PASCAL

[@Jason-ms8bv]

Are great minds mad, or do they just scare the mundane?

[@Finkelfunk]

With great minds come great reflections. Great minds rarely stop inquiring more information about themselves and their world. Unfortunately, the fate of great minds is also that they are great, they have the capacity to perform these inquiries. An ever deeper dive into your mind and an ever deeper understanding of yourself, and the capacity to do so, will drive anyone mad.

[@TheGerogero]

Scare the mundane and are called mad by them who cannot differentiate. Geniuses and crackpots both operate outside norms, but the first has a grasp on reality and so their life flourishes, while the second's operation outside the norm does not conform to reality and, well, they end up sitting in an asylum for the rest of their lives, producing nothing but concern and puzzlement for the few that know or care that they are there...

[@gareth173]

I'm not mad because I make the mundane feel uncomfortable!

[@SJ-kc6et]

@@TheGerogero Nietzsche was a genius, his life did not 'flourish'.

[@brigadierharsh1948]

The mundane just don’t understand the great. Greatness is largely ignored, precisely because it isn’t easily understood, up until the point that the mundane realize it can be made useful or it challenges what they perceive as necessary or absolute.

[@aman11337400]

A Joy of Eternity indeed! Thanks Team Academy of Ideas, great, deep and illuminating work.

[@Dgoc813]

Filled with “the spirit of the times” as we are, we consider “driving yourself mad” as some kind of romantic or insulting idea. But it actually happens every day. I am a social worker & a drug addict, and I see first hand how people can develop fixations, obsessive behaviors, and then let them grow until they are overwhelming. It is easier to go mad than we think; for most of us we just have to lose everything.

[@Journey_to_who_knows]

Or some just come out wrong. I've been insane for a long time in my life, somehow I regained just enough sanity for the low amount of self awareness and reflection I have now. It's been a decade but maybe my sanity will go away again. Insulting it is, to memorise it. I hope if I lose it again, I won't come back so there will be no sane period, where I have to come to terms with me having no control over myself or whatever dumb shit happens.

[@theimperfectindividual]

Nietzchse may have been set on the road to madness, if indeed he was mad, by understanding on the deepest of levels the sheer insanity of people generally and simply being unable to relate, let alone cope. What would he have made of today's society?!

[@Time_Travelling_Brother_Louie]

One mans madness is the result of others refusing to be free and conforming to the madness of society .

[@thothheartmaat2833]

the funny thing is the madness or order of society doesnt really exist. they all just pretend to be on the same page but no one is. if you call them on it they dont know what to say.. but now it seems like everyone just admits to being crazy and says theres something wrong with you if youre not..

[@marcin8865]

@@thothheartmaat2833 Well order is simply made by people and it does exist, we have a police and army to defend ourselves. That was easy one.

[@kubasniak]

No. He went mad because he was possessed by Legion. He rejected Jesus Christ and for that and all blasphemous ideas and sins he went down bad. He never lived the life even remotely to the ideas he promoted. Unfruitful edgelord he was. His works only bring confusion and life full of sin. It's a bad apple and a lie.

[@Time_Travelling_Brother_Louie]

@@kubasniak this is one of the most stupidest replies I have seen. The so called rejection of God and Jesus! There is over 2000 different religions and assuming before he rejected one of them (I am guessing you do worship God as in the Christian view) suggests that someone who does believe never goes mad.

[@Time_Travelling_Brother_Louie]

@@marcin8865 police are there to enforce the law. An army is either defense or attack. It can’t always defend as no wars would happen.

[@KENBECKERART]

Another great exploration - thank you! I always appreciate the equal consideration you put into choosing the art, but I think you really took the art selections to another level. You paired the topic of madness with an array of imagery, the reactions I experienced ranging from vaguely unsettling to flat out disturbing. This one will stick with me for a good while (in the best ways) Props!

[@sashawhitehead7378]

Until we learn to look outside our own 'maddness of mindset in conformity', we can really hold no accurate perspective on someone else's experience of maddness, only make observations. On certain levels of consciousness , the premise of what is called sanity in this world is actually mostly insane with sprinkles of sanity, here and there. You have to become freewheeling enough to broaden understanding how energy works.

[@nanore5116]

Before the membership video and now double video on Nietzsche this month! We have been truly blessed. The slip-box really helps, can't imagine how yours is.

[@coinswaptrader2915]

In a crazy world, the craziest people will appear sane while the sane will appear crazy!

[@beydumnix8202]

All the things we are able to think, actually exist in our everyday life. This statement is 100% true and you won't realize it until you question and see it to be true You will in the eyes of the sane become crazy , but you'll find out who the crazy one is. Only question is are you ready to know?

[@matfish2]

"It is not a sign of health to be well-adjusted to a sick society" - Krishnamurti. Yet, it is next to impossible not to sucumb, at least at times, to self-doubt in the face of authority figures who lavish their "compassionate" diagnoses on the individual who dares to cross the invisible, yet palpable, line of social norms, which amount to a recipe for an insipid and intolerable life of conformity, of belittling oneself in order to please others. Self-belief is exactly that treasure that is so hard to find, the philosophers stone that turns base metals into gold. While this path can, as Jung observed, lead to ego inflation when untethered by a social role, it is better to err on the side that ends in divine mania, than sink down to the unimaginable depths of depression and taedium vitae one is bound to experience when he loses trust in himself

[@satnamo]

This sounds like me.

[@alexjones3556]

Thanks

[@TechTins_Projects]

That sums up the world at this moment in time.

[@rileywallace1132]

I relate to this man on a close level. although it stems from a different experience. My decent into the depths, exploring my unconscious and integrating my shadow had probably been a more optimally guided experience given our resources we have and the great philosophers and psychologists that lived before us. Im very grateful

[@Automedon2]

Though I'm no Nietzsche, I do have manic periods where I can't sleep for the non stop thoughts running through my head - analyzing and re-analyzing everything I do, examining my ethics and how to improve them. Fortunately my mania is always in a positive direction, but I can see how it can go the other way. Perhaps Nietzsche found himself in a constant manic state. It can only go on so long with me before I start believing I am completely insane. Actually, last night was the first in months that I got a real sleep and I feel ridiculously normal today.

[@returnoftheromans6726]

Good for you! I have unfortunately developed the habit of staying up really late to escape insomnia, random thoughts, and an active mind at night so that I am literally ready to sleep on the floor.

[@WeltgeistYT]

Great video as always. There is much left to be said on Nietzsche's mental collapse. The letter he wrote after breaking down are well worth reading.

[@bluehorizon7309]

I have experienced this state of psychosis. It was one where my walls gave way, and laid down before me were items known to me. It all started when I started practicing tulpamancy. I think in some cases, my psychosis was started by the will of a figure in my subconscious... if you let the subconscious form, it'll destroy you.

[@iChrisBirch]

I really love how much this channel brings new ideas into my mind to think about.

[@freddeyo6338]

You must loose your mind, to find your self. I believe that he found the one single "I", amongst the many. Thank you!

[@TheSare423]

Divine mania can be reached through gratitude. You experience exactly what he's talking about. You leave your body and become everything. To the extent of merging with God. It is the real reality. 🙏💓

[@theneutralgroundpodcast]

Lately, I've been thinking a lot about what it would be like to always be hyper-aware of one's being in the present--I don't mean being aware; I mean being hyper aware of the point where being, time, and consciousness meet. I think staying in such a place for too long would cause just about anyone to potentially go mad.

[@michaelrobertson8951]

Check out a video called? Star trek insurrection a perfect moment. Here on KZbin. When fully aware of a moment it has this effect. But the thoughts go with it. Not that stopping time can happen it's just the mind can get lost in it. I'm an artist & have always seen the world differently. & In answer to your question? Yes the mind will crack if you can't stop it diving.

[@СвятославПодлевський]

Дякую за Ваш канал - він надихає мене останнім часом. Thank you for your channel - it inspires me lately.

[@FinehomesofNewHampshire]

Thanks Academy! My favorite channel.

[@dad102]

This is one of the best channels on KZbin. Outstanding content.

[@nelsonx5326]

I know something about this. It's called soul searching. You take an intense look at yourself, relive every sin. It is horribly painful in the mind. Can't function. Consumed in anguish. It is meeting 'The Guardian of the Threshold'.

[@returnoftheromans6726]

I have done this. "Do some soul-searching," they said. "It will make you a better person," they said. I don't know. Seem to now have some sort of masked depression. All is nought, and nothing is to last.

[@edwardelliott5756]

While a young man I often spent my days inside myself. While in these days long moods or states of mind I would be unable, many times, to communicate in anything but short sentences. They weren’t very happy days and while I yearned to escape it seemed impossible to do so. There I was stuck inside my own mind. Now I think of those times as the most wasteful and extreme narcissism. The ONLY thing that brought me out of it was God. To finally break free of the self. What a great and wonderful God I serve, haltingly, error riddled but faithful to Him. I was mad and so was Nietzsche.

[@gertixhaka1071]

Please post more videos about -Heraclitus -Thales of Miletus -Plato -Cicero

[@stuntmusicgameshow311]

The paintings you use to illustrate the videos on this channel are so fantastic.

[@surality]

“But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can't help that, we're all mad here" replyed the cat. .

[@returnoftheromans6726]

My favorite quote. "We're All MAD Here!"

[@apollion888]

One of your best. Rarely has my world view been so pleasantly deflated and rebuilt. It reminded me of a line from the book I'm writing: "I don't mind being God. It's not my first choice but you can't have everything."

[@kennywelker4757]

Yes give me more Nietzsche

[@LVXMagick]

Epic video! This was great brother, Thanks!

[@agustinchristensen5201]

Amazing! Thank you so much for these videos. I would have never thought of the possibility that Nietszche's madness was something more than mere dementia. I was so gripped by your investigation, the way you layed out a path Nietszche truly might have gone down. I gasped when you read some fragments of his letters at the beginning of this video. "I am every name in history". The true question is from what point of view might Nietszche have spoken those lines. One can see where Jung was coming from when speaking of a possible ego inflation, yet to think that Nietszche's inner exploration might have been more spiritual than psychological, and led him to the wisdom of the many non-dual, mystical and Eastern teachings... That he might have realized the state of enlightenment (divine mania) in his own unique and individual way and discovered what few in history have: that our aparrent individualities are an illusion and we are all actually the Eternal One...I just can't stop smiling at that possibility! We'll never really know, but the thought of it is wonderful enough! Thank you for this wonderful content Academy of Ideas!

[@JuanApolinarioCReyes]

Thanks for this video. You are a gem to the world.

[@MrStefanuzumaki]

I had a psychological guidance person while i was slipping into madness that said that I really reminded her of nietzsche. Now I'm learning more about him years later I can really see why. I hope to find a bit of peace in everyday life nowadays, trying to "piece everything together" and trying to have the kind of life I want to have. The plan is to start kite-surfing, make music and hopefully find a wife.

[@kubasniak]

Submit to the one and only Lord Jesus Christ. Nietzsche went down bad for his blasphemy and rejection of The Most High. Trust me, read the Bible, confess, pray and wear Gods armor strong and righteously and develop virtues based on Love. Ignore hate, confusion and division, those are snares of the devil. Introspect and meditate on those and live the Faith and you should find a good wife and prosper according to Gods Will. Don't worry about the world going against it or hypocrisy going on in Church or it's people. Take care of a relationship with God and he will straighten your path. God Bless 🙏

[@williamkoscielniak820]

​@@kubasniak One can learn much from both Christ and Nietzsche. You may think Jesus Christ is the one and only deity but that doesn't make it true. If Christ works for you then that is great. But not every path is meant for every person.

[@afroking2935]

@@kubasniak What a shallow assertion! 🤦🏾‍♂️ One of the stuffs that makes me cringe about Christianity.

[@whataboutit1430]

A better plan would be to find a wife first, then take her kite-surfing and then you won't have to make music, because your life will play like a symphony. Good luck!

[@inbillsmind3048]

When you reach such a place people are distant from you and there is not enough time to go back so there is only one conclusion, I admire this man greatly

[@kevinbeck8836]

Consider Nietzsche's letters and the degradation of his penmanship. Does that really seem like a descent into the unconscious?

[@nathanaelarnquist]

yes, it does. What would it look like otherwise? The unconscious is unspoken, unseen, and in some ways--or in all--completely unreal. What better way to symbolize such a descent than to begin to lack symbol--to un-symbolize--particularly the great human symbols found in language?

[@charlesbogle6544]

To go back to the simplicity of our roots as creatures without symbolic language and writing seems more like peace of mind rather than madness...

[@RicardoPicena]

All three of y’all right in a way...that’s the paradox of life 🤣😂🤣 so unconditional loved that we are allowed to believe we are not...to this extent & every reality so far perceived & created.

[@lordvoldemort4242]

I love the music and other arts you use. Plus your voice is amazing and the content…powerful.

[@rogerpetronius]

To be considered Sane in an Insane world is Insane. The future belongs to the mad ones.

[@PresidentHedgehog7956]

The future belongs to Christ's ones.

[@pluviophile5996]

@@PresidentHedgehog7956 oh come on!

[@ThePhoenix109]

@@pluviophile5996 he is right though

[@PresidentHedgehog7956]

@@pluviophile5996 What ? You don't believe in the Savior? May he have mercy on you on his 2nd coming which is very near. Repent and seek eternal life through A relationship with Christ!

[@rogerpetronius]

@@PresidentHedgehog7956 kkkk. You're madder than Nietzsche

[@lexingtonconcord8751]

While I absolutely love your beautiful musings regarding the human psyche, I cannot under any condition believe that a person being incapable (or unwilling) to care for oneself, as Nietzsche appeared to be near the end of his life, is a sign of enlightenment.

[@cornelia7889]

of course it's not. you are right. it is just that there are people (especially in these comments i was), that can relate to the misery he was in and want to delude themselves thinking they are "as enlightened as he was"

[@daniell0909]

I finally realized that Nietzsche was enlightened. He reached the state of Enlightenment

[@theolucas5858]

What a beautifully crafted video! This is the type of stuff that restores my faith into KZbin and reminds me that not all people on this platform are half witted nimbs making content for 8 year olds. Please keep stimulating our minds as you have done in this episode!!

[@Goyaboyayoga]

I had a cousin who was so spiritually aware, extremely physically fit too to the point where he was a acrobatic monkey and really smart too. He went on this deep search within for more wisdom and more self knowledge, that whatever he stumbled upon has permanently taken him out of reality he has been bed ridden for the last 10 years or so. In a vegetable state. Doesn’t speak. He barely says anything. He just stopped living. He was my hero and I to this day I try to embody some of his habits and lifestyle before the fall. His name is Augustine.

[@JoBlakeLisbon]

Self-knowledge is overrated at times.

[@kensmechanicalaffair]

@@JoBlakeLisbon Knowledge of self is vain.

[@nahbetternot]

It feels like your other videos on Nietzsche and Jung preluded this here series. Thank you for letting the narration unfold slow and natural...

[@miss.apprehended]

Madness can result from mold exposure.

[@FinehomesofNewHampshire]

😄

[@michaeljordan215]

He needed a hug from the right person.

[@PoltergeistHC4L]

"the fruits of knowledge is so sweat, but its roots so bitter"

[@OscarCuzzani]

Thank you for a wonderful research on Nietzsche’s ailments Even today I have to argue with well renowned medical scientists that likely was not syphilis. But the herd that wants to put mud on gemstones is still alive and well! My sincere appreciation for a work well done!

[@christiansather8438]

amazing pictures and paintings!

[@Doesitmatter_01]

Beksiński made some beautiful and haunting stuff. It goes well with the topic.

[@caspos1987]

Thank you for this channel bro. You’re videos have been a big help to me and I appreciate it 🤙

[@harshavikram3596]

Actually, you can find this same idea in Japanese culture as well. Sometimes Monks go crazy and start dancing and singing crazily and during that process, they ascend to heaven.

[@shishishio]

Thank you for your work. Simply superb.

[@DiegoAndrade-ig1qs]

Beksinski's paintings were paired perfectly with the theme of this video.

[@olivierdube8110]

Right! No one mentions it

[@hoomanot]

@@olivierdube8110 Don't worry, I did. Beksinski deserves more, and ALL the attention.

[@andrewcollins5388]

Phenomenal video once again. The choice of topic, cited content, deft narration; outstanding man. Bet you are an interesting guy to talk to.

[@BlackestSheepBobBarker333]

When you stare into the abyss, it stares back.

[@MJ-ix7wm]

Damn right, I took a look at that sucker myself. I got scared and quickly turned away. Also take care in your battles with the monster, lest you yourself become a monster in the process. Not an exact quote but I believe the gist of it is intact here. Thanks Mr. Nietzsche for going to "that place" & then taking the time to write it down so that I, and many-many others, might learn. Or better still gain a bit of wisdom!!!

[@joehera8311]

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR WHAT YOU DO FOR US REGULAR PEOPLE. YOU GIVE US HOPE AND STRENGTH TO MOVE FORWARD WITH ADVERSITY. SHEER WILL TO KNOW THY SELF

[@alexjones3556]

"A mask... A second mask!" -Nietzsche

[@itechnwrite]

Fauci’s virtue signaling predicted!

[@IIMANIXII]

Just wanted to say you/your channel and Jordon b Peterson have really helped me - Thank you so much...

[@monakw]

We're never gonna get by unless we get a little crazy SEAL

[@robrick9361]

SEAL also liked to get kissed by a rose and stand in front of the batsignal with his shirt half open..........which is pretty crazy.

[@veritasaequitas4100]

A seal is a special kind of crazy. A 100 percent control of rage.

[@NaomisNews2]

I have always had an affinity with Nietsche, drinking the flames that break from me.... & wish very much to find reason!

[@craigross341]

After the year of Covid it would take a genius to decide who's mad.

[@returnoftheromans6726]

Amen!

[@TuxedoTalk]

He saw what was to come and saw that nothing could change it. Imagine living with that.

[@DipayanPyne94]

Nietzsche, Hegel, Carl Jung, Schopenhauer, William James etc etc (probably even David Hume and Freud) were influenced quite a lot by Indian Philosophy. So, it's quite possible that one or more of them realised some deep facts about the Nature of Human Beings, just like some Ancient Indians like Buddha, Yajnavalkya etc.

[@RicardoPicena]

Their western versions of it? I can dig it. & as we evolve & crate the language that will help empower each individual to be able to grasp their true nature...that will also be a huge paradigm shift

[@RicardoPicena]

@@zciliyafilms5508 I have actually but not in depth as I have with Alan watts philosophy. Thank you . I shall dive deeper 🙏🏾❤️

[@DipayanPyne94]

@@RicardoPicena What do you mean, brother ?

[@RicardoPicena]

@@DipayanPyne94 speaking with intention, since how we perceive language creates our reality. 🙏🏾❤️

[@DipayanPyne94]

@@RicardoPicena Oh yes. Intention matters. Buddha redefined the Sanskrit Karma in the following way : 'By Karma, I mean Intention' ...

[@MJWynn]

Hey dude, currently gfetting my masters in philosophy and religious studies, and even working on my masters thesis called, "Nietzsche's Religious Life," and I just want to say that this video was phenomenal. I am astonished at how pliable you were to find all of those letters and writings from Overbeck and the like. Nevertheless, seriously well done. I have tasted only a parcel of what it is that Nietzsche and Jung experienced.

[@HeroicIdeal]

⚡️He was lightning. He was dynamite. A bright flash and then smoke. A violent thundering, then silently back into the cloud. ⚡️

[@leomichelson7254]

I bet you guys have one heck of a library. Keep up the great work!!