Terence McKenna on language (extended version)

[whey80]

great great speech

[TehAlexJonesChannel]

TERRENCE MCKENNA HAS SUCH A SMALL BRAIN, IDIOTIC, CULTURAL MARXIST, PREACHING PSEUDO-SCIENTIFIC, PSEUDO-RELIGIOUS BULLSHIT

[selubria]

@TehAlexJonesChannel Everyone who reads this knows that your dumb ass because first of all you're pretending to be Alex Jones and second of all you wasted your time to come to page with a video of someone that you already knew that you didn't like. You're statement is nothing more than your pre-conceived notions. He is far from marxists, he speaks of gov't but just trying to get people to love each other and work together again.

[TehAlexJonesChannel]

@selubria He is dead you idiot.

[selubria]

@TehAlexJonesChannel Yes I know this, and?

[whey80]

what a great speech! =))

[zero021one]

What you are listening to is pure genius. There is only one Terrence McKenna.

[mustbeburtreynolds]

well in his defense the chandelier does look like an alien octopus.

[mckenna250]

he is an alien, i believe.

he came into the world to tell the truth about everything.

[Lookagainz]

@mckenna250 I wouldn't doubt it the good aliens are trying to tell us the truth without being exposed :)

[TEARDUCTER]

is he saying Metal made flesh and we are going back to metal again?

[popstone1]

does it not occur to folks who put up these videos of mckenna that you are promoting drug abuse to children? but you don't really care, do you?

he wasn't "full of truth", he was full of lying death that you are internalizing by listening to him and following him.

[Liutenica]

@popstone1

Go to church and go to bed, little grasshopper.

Intelligent and wise people are speaking.

No place for baseless fear of the unknown.

[TEARDUCTER]

@popstone1 Let them follow if they wish we are over populated as is :))

[BobBurnnquist]

This fucking guy is full of truth.

[sneaksuit]

People with psychological problems, anxiety, or neurosis should never take psychedelics. If you follow the research done by ethnopharmocologists, it backs up my claims that I do not have the room to prove here. Second, any psychedelic explorer will tell you that psychedelics dissolve cultural filters. That is what they do. People that do not use psychedelics may not know this, hence should reserve opinion on something they have little experience with.

[sneaksuit]

@lourak Lastly, in regards to the safety of psychedelics, they have a history of use in the tens of thousands of years at least. That is, they have more data that supports the fact they are not harmful more than any other class of drugs. Even LSD which is in part synthetic has been shown to be harmless, contrary to the rubbish propagated by the government in the 70's.

[lourak]

@sneaksuit It appears you are not quite up to speed on the most current research with respect to the health dangers of these substances. Most recently, widely respected studies have shown that moderate to heavy usage of hallucinogens increases the incidence of early onset schizophrenia (if I recall correctly) by as much as 10 fold.  Put that in your pipe and smoke it!

[muchdeep89]

and?

[XANSEM]

a wise man for sure

[epit0me]

look at that hair lol =)

[KalterStien]

GENIUS ! THIS WHOLE THING !

GENIUS

GENIUS

GENIUS @!!!!

[888finite888]

if kids begin their education using a globaly unified sign language on top of their primary and secondary language studies, it may turn into something later down the line.

[natmanprime]

@888finite888 interesting name and comment...

[5147848amp]

@888finite888

That is a great idea, man. Broad ripples.

[lourak]

McKenna was a brilliant guy, but unfortunately, probably due to the heavy use of psychotropic drugs, he was unable to develop a coherent idea with any philosophical veracity. His ramblings are a kind of stream-of-consciousness with a pseudo-philosophical veneer. A real shame, as his discourse reveals a formidable mind capable of expressing itself with elegance and profundity.

[01greenbud]

@lourak Without psychotropic plants, Terrence would not have been who he was.

[lourak]

@01greenbud You are very possibly correct, but perhaps he could have been....better, more coherent?

[LeafFreedom]

@lourak Who has been more coherent then Terence Mckenna? I dare to say he was one of the most coherent people I have ever had the pleasure to listen to.

[sneaksuit]

@lourak Terence's "heavy use of" psychedelic drugs is what let him think through cultural conditioning. Psychedelic drugs are NOT damaging to the brain. If MORE people used them and used them properly, high doses to catalyse thinking, many of the worlds problems would disapear. We have enough philosophers who do as they're told and think inside their cultural boxes.

[lourak]

@sneaksuit PART ! - Thanks for responding to my comment! Well - you seem like a bright guy, but I really don't see any good reason to accept your comments as being true. As for "thinking through cultural conditioning" - well, I don't necessarily see the value of that, per se - it depends on what aspects of our culture you're talking about; whether these drugs are damaging to the brain - here too my meager research tells me differently;

[sneaksuit]

@lourak Ofcourse you shouldn't just take my claims to be true. Please do the research about the benefits of psychedelics. Additionally, serious academics in any field will tell you that cultural conditioning ALWAYS adds filters to peoples perspectives. In other words, one must step outside their cultural operating system to see the world with clarity.

[lourak]

@sneaksuit PART 1 - OK - just one more response and then I really have to go. Firstly - that such a phenomenon as "cultural filtering" (your term) exists, seems a reasonable enough claim, but do you think perhaps they exist, (at least sometimes) for a good reason, to be protective of society)? Now, if you say: "yes, but sometimes they exist to the detriment of society" -

[lourak]

@sneaksuit PART 2 - well, I would say: "perhaps, but why should you think that a drug induced state is any more a guarantor of objectivity than a normal state? Again - where is your data? Here too - your claim that the drug induced perspective provides "clarity" is overly ambitious. As to the "serious academics in any field" - well - it goes without saying that I don't accept that claim either...

[lourak]

@sneaksuit PART 2 - Whether the worlds problems would disappear with more use of psychedelics by more people - well, that I think is and overly ambitious claim. You would have to provide some evidence for this. I am also not prepared to accept your overly broad premise about the value of thinking outside ones "cultural box". You can have the last word - thanks!

[flipmandem87]

i can see this guy as part of the bee gees

[zahropit]

6:46 the cameraman was high as fuck

[BeavisNacho]

@zahropit Whoa, whats that cluster of UFO's on the ceiling ??

[TEARDUCTER]

@zahropit hehe

[visionelove]

He is so precise in his illustrations of communication. It's really stimulating to understand on a, what feels like, an atomic level. Where words become a wave and understanding is more complete. it broadens perspective of what we really stand for as a species. We're at the brink. It is time for this kind of communication to be primary in our list of focuses.

[visionelove]

He is so precise in his illustrations of communication. It's really stimulating to understand on a what feels like atomic level. Where words become a wave and understanding is more complete. it's roadens perspective of what we really stand for as a species. We're at the brink. It is time for this kind of communication to be primary in our list of focuses.

[BanisteriopsisCpi]

Very Heideggarian... Read Parmenides by Martin Heidegger, he's saying essentially the same idea about language. Being and Time talks about the guiding image/ moment of vision. See, Martin Heidegger

[hippi28]

nice :D

[mellowmushgrapetripp]

fuckiing legend!