Terence Mckenna - Optimism and Complexity

[DamonBoykiw]

@Jamored the psyilocybin magic mushroom grower's guide is his first book, written when he was in his 20s. You can track his evolution. He is young and really inspired. EVERYTHING in his other 4 or 5 books is covered in these video-recordings.

[brianz1214]

The big bang is simply a fire work like explosion that just keeps expanding and getting more complex as is does. It will burn out eventually maybe it will happen soon.

[ganjamerch]

@Jamored "food of the gods, that's like THE book of Terence Mckenna

[entwisenva]

why shoot him for leaving out a damn word... SUCCESSFUL complexity carries on!!! Jesus Christ Almighty!!! Could we stop roasting others for OUR OWN inadequate imagination at best!!!????? WE WE WE WE WE ARE SUCCESSFULL COMPLEXITY!!! FUCKING CHRIST!!! No wonder you idiotic Pseudo-Sci-Religious nut cases burn everyone at stakes! Don't worry more of us are waking up and will show you fucktards first hand! This body can DO lots more than we think it can, the instruction manual is just hard to read!

[moll6743]

@Jamored try to trip on something man. then read his work. changes you man.

[xerinx24]

@Jamored You should get "True hallucinations" its amazing! 

[ElectricIndica420]

this blows my mind

[bmxcanada26]

Explosions in the Sky in the background around 4:50

Very nice :)

[Panopticonable]

As below so above and beyond I imagine.

[Unlocalist]

One of the most inspiring videos I've ever seen.

[4obla]

this should be thought in kindergarden, or for gods sake, in pre school

[MrNiceHk]

Thee most intelligent mind I have ever come across

[hejjagheterpal]

@MrNiceHk Then ur intelligent too, only intelligent ppl enjoy mckenna :)

[MrHateregistering]

I always used to listen to a lot of Mckenna, thanks a lot! I do have to say that I prefer em with no music added. Just saying.

Thanks for the upload!

[DanielStacy]

i like this. the universe is progressing and growing through everything. i had these thoughts in meditation but i didn't have all of the scientific evidence to back it. Terence was a genius but we gotta realize that our growth is inevitable and judging the people who are ignorant and feed us all of this garbage also separates us. We have to realize that they are a part of this ever evolving universe they are just evolving slower. so they aren't bad people they are just slow.

[jsltm888]

This is so wonderful; everyone please share this man's teachings, and develop your own and spread these too. Don't follow, but lead.

[amusingisthedawn]

7:55 Thank you Terence for spreading Light at the speed of Light. We all appreciated it, and will continue to.

[autotone1219]

does anybody know what talk this is from? i hate that they cut him off...and i would really like to finish this....thank you.

terence mckenna will be looked back at in history as one of our greatest philosophers, his ideas were challenging, and revolutionary...and hit you with a since of awe and inner knowing. sadly he had passed before i ever discovered him, yet still he remains one of my greatest teachers. he ignited the revolution inside of me. thank you all for sharing his message here!

[alexmigda]

Sort of sounds like he's talking about entropy, the tendency toward greater disorder. Disorder = complexity, maybe?  The guy is thought-provoking, but he's obviously in over his head here.

[bergweg]

would not the cooling of the universe after the big bang need a force that existed before the big bang?

[mantanova]

@bergweg not necessarily, as you might know, when things spread out, there's less energy per cubic meter or whatever, so it cools off. it doesn't need a thing to pass the energy to, if the energy is just being spread out inside it.

[bergweg]

@mantanova So you mean before the big bang there was already space, into which the matter created by the big bang was spreading and cooling?

[mantanova]

@bergweg how else would it have happened? space is devoid of anything apparently, and yet things can move through it. i don't see why this concept should be trashed just because the universe hadn't gotten as big as it is today.

[JiubLink]

@folkmusic1991 I don't know about the the "taught to smoke weed" part but i like what you said otherwise.

[mrrtsno]

why cant he talk wiyhout music...

[christuimbirek]

work is not neccisery

[Feralkiss]

It is awesome to see that there are this many people looking up Terence and talking about his ideas. These people are probably also coming up with all sorts of ideas on their own. The internet has made it more likely that more and more people will come upon this knowledge and way of thinking, and the numbers are growing. It is only a matter of time, folks. Evolution is not that far away - it's happening all the time.

[CantWeedThis]

I love how mckenna talks the real talk. He speaks reality. The thing most people are either scared of, ignoring, or dont understand. We need to use our consciousness to try to understand this shit so that one day just one person could live and die not trapped inside a mystery.

[borquetoe]

Explosions \m/

[ApexBozo]

Ask an evolutionary scientist what humanness will mean in 200,000 years and he will say that it'll mean the same as it does now because the human genome hasn't changed in the last 200,000. They're so concerned with genetic information that they haven't noticed that within that period the static human genome has facilitated the birth and evolution of the human psyche, civilization, high technology and all the rest including evolutionary science. "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts"

[WHOLETTHECATSOUTMEOW]

The only thing that doesn't sit right with me about McKenna's poetic waxings is how he talks about ideology and culture with such disregard. I mean I understand what he's getting at, and it is quite a beautiful idea, but I feel like if the roots never had soil to dig into how would the tree ever grow and be able to act in liberating transgression?

[Xziz10ths]

@WHOLETTHECATSOUTMEOW

the mixing of races and creating hybrids is what is called culture. its given a tag....a stereotype......humans DON'T need that. it gives the feeling of specialty...when we are all just equal human beings.

[WHOLETTHECATSOUTMEOW]

@Xziz10ths Good point, but I feel that culture is much more than race, religion or country of origin. I live in an area where culture differs from city to city, because like Terence says complexity is built upon pre-existing complexity.

One of culture's definitions is: "the tastes in art and manners that are favored by a social group " so then is this state of mind McKenna speaks of not a culture? His follows are all favouring one belief over another, ironically creating a transgressive culture

[WHOLETTHECATSOUTMEOW]

@Xziz10ths Don't get me wrong, I find myself believing just what Terence says, though I came to the realization on my own.

[jimmyhayers]

@folkmusic1991 Richard Dawkins isn't an idiot, there are some things that he says which I don't agree with but he certainly isn't stupid. Just as Terence wasn't right in everything he said, as much as I love him. If we all smoked weed nobody would get a fucking thing done, when I'm stoned I can't be arsed to find the remote to change the channel let alone develop quantum mechanics or string theory. Plus we would all die of lung cancer at earlyish ages haha.

[TRUESports09]

holy shit ive had this same concept in my head for the longest time but i COULDNT put it into words. terence mckenna couldn't have said it better

[bobbygnosis]

@TRUESports09 You are smarter than you think. I've had several thoughts hit my head that I later found out were famous ideas by "great thinkers". When I talk to people I find that they have similar stories. We are not as dumb as we're told. Think things through. I bet you'll be amazed how intellectually capable you are.

Peace, love and understanding.

[bobbygnosis]

He's surprisingly close to Pirsig's four layer system in Lila.

[absorbcreate]

Terrence McKenna was ultimately deluded, but he certainly was a compelling orator. I don't think there is a single video on YouTube of his that hasn't had me captivated.

[bobbygnosis]

@absorbcreate Yeah. Objective reality.

[xvlk77n]

@folkmusic1991 i swear i was JUST fantasizing about a college class all about TM, just, studying him as a philosopher, like there are classes all about Plato and his literature for example. Then I read your post haha.

[docrock80]

@folkmusic1991 I'm going to have to stop you from so freely criticizing Dawkins. For one, I (and many, many others) owe him a great amount of gratitude for introducing and developing my reverence for nature and disgust for organized religion. Secondly, I have never heard his opinion on altered states of consciousness. Can you link me up? I would trust that someone with a mind like his would not blindly denounce such states. Your point is a good one, but there are way too many better examples.

[arizona13ay]

Thanks !

[plustax50]

why is he trying to tie biology in with human consciousness. he's right about humans always going forward, but some of the "simplest" organisms are the most successful. Bacteria are still around after all.

Terrance is great though, and I'm not sure any of us are really getting what he is trying to say here.

[bodunchar]

it should be clear that in order to move forward, we can reject the system in order to develop a new one.

That we ALL ought to be allowed to CHOOSE OUR OWN SYSTEM.

There is a law of the universe backing me up.

Freedom of choice.

Violence is not required.

[wenaolong]

It's easy to suggest a continuum, but you have to make sure you have the poles of your continuum correctly identified. I don't think Terrence has done that. I think I have, but that is another story. In any event, I do enjoy the visuals, because it is fascinating to see the way information flows through matter by means of energetic expression.

[amusingisthedawn]

@folkmusic1991

perhaps one day schools will become true positive learning institutes. i never had a class that taught me about love, only hate.

[CantWeedThis]

@folkmusic1991

I laugh at people who say its not right to alter conciousness. If you have half a brain your laughing too.( Or begging someone to shoot you in the head).

How do you think we got here?( See stoned ape theory)

[TwinFlameify]

Out of complexity emerges greater complexity is true, for example for some of these complexities they gave then a name such as disorders or mith or the 6th sense adn so on...

Everything that a man can not understand he simply chucks it away and begins to rule it out of his existence. instead of trying to become aware of it and unerstanding its logical and illogical meaning

[BRUMARTUBE]

@folkmusic1991 I follow you on this. Today atheism is just a variant of christianism, and a bit more obscurantist one. Dawkins remains oblivious of our ignorance, and he put the interesting questions under the rug. Thanks to God there is weed and salvia divinorum to help us a little bit on our paths.

[leonardoperezs]

Bruvs. whats the music that sounds behind? Is it tristeza? Can you name me the band and the album title!???

Thanks a lot

greetings from london

lp.

[tomblack2112]

This was my favorite part of Easy Rider but I don't remember Nicholson actually saying some of this stuff. Was he still talking when "If you want to be a Bird." came on.  Or did this get cut out of the New Orleans stuff. Man, I do miss smoking a good joint on the open road. Hey, didn't Jack say something about UFOS here too. Good times, man. Good times.

[ZRadach]

@folkmusic1991 richard dawkins seems pretty legit on most subjects... he's just doesn't come off as friendly, kind, and compassionate as terrence does

[peterphilip]

singularity...bang...... thats what we are making.... a new...... most interesting thing about all of this.... babies and universes are the same.. in that they grew the most in their first moments...... but evolution is the exact opposite... it is absolutely insane that once we reach this singularity of our technological power doubling exponentially at our size numbers instead of tiny decimal places.... we will LITERALLY become something else.

[amanuscar]

I love Terence.... but I disagree with him on the whole science part of things. "This is a general law of the universe overlooked by science; out of complexity emerges greater complexity...." that's just not true. Isn't that the whole process behind the advancements in ALL modern technology? Isn't that how biology looks at things as well? Or am I wrong?

[LothairApoclyane]

Biologists do talk about the emergence of complexity in nature, but they wouldn't include all modern technology in that, or the evolution of the pre-life universe. And a progression or direction of evolution is denied by scientists. Terence wants to universalize the progression toward higher novelty as an unstoppable physical tendency of existence. Whereas physical science tends to insist on the unstoppable tendency of the universe toward entropy and an ultimate end in heath death.

[projectbeard]

@LothairApoclyane

i think you completely missed the point. machines are, on a molecular level, no more complex than other inanimate forms of matter, not to mention single-celled organisms and the organic systems which living life is composed of. to posit human technology, at least at the level it's at now, as the next step in the universal evolution of complexity is complete nonsense.

[ndaunt]

@amanuscar I think on the whole, science is pretty focused on coming to educated conclusions on subjects. It's commendable, but not exactly progressive.

[cheemooo]

I think you did not understand mckenna What he means about sicence overlooking the idea that the universe builds upon and condenses complexity is clearfor anyone to c if they pay attention.To try and put it simply the reason science is finding new advancements and so on is because the universe is a complexity conserving engine.This is what he means, he means that the complexity and novelty is already there but that it is reserved and discovered in higher quantities quicker and quicker!

[SloppyManwich]

@amanuscar You can't follow up a fact with a question. Well, you can but it diminishes what you state as fact. Mckenna is more correct than you are.

[amanuscar]

@SloppyManwich Questions are the only real way to understand reality. 

[bodunchar]

A wise man would say how could he possibly know?

[Glitch667]

@amanuscar You got marked as spam by somebody because your view differed from theirs. I bet said person thought they were an "intellectual".

[Wyrdmaven]

@amanuscar that's a pretty silly statement to make. In fact, I can refute it with one word: Fractals.  Thanks for playing.

[amanuscar]

@Wyrdmaven Feel better?

[bloodofhate]

@amanuscar What he means by that is that science generally doesn't take it into account. Science is well aware of this fact but they rarely ever mention it. Or well thats the impression i got at least.

[Qu4z1]

This man, is brilliant.

[FeelOfFriction]

I uploaded every Terence recording I could find into the 13Gb "The Complete Terence Mckenna Collection" to PirateBay! Please Seed! Love to all Terence Mckenna fans.

[CALVINION9]

@FeelOfFriction This is amazing and invaluable work! Thanks!

[MickeyLWalker]

@FeelOfFriction

please give me a link!

[10zen10]

Terrence always breaking it down to it's most honest form. Awesome.

[acebeaner]

I can hear what he is saying, and the synth in the background makes me feel good x]

[bigyster]

Terrance McKenna - The best . I got real Eargasm

[brianpadraic]

Bless you!

[RogueSilverback]

i consider Terence my personal guru, but i don't understand why you would bad mouth a brilliant man like Richard Dawkins, who's views are very compatible and overlapping with Terence's and is leading an incredibly important social campaign against ignorance and superstition. Dawkins INVENTED the idea of the MEME, a concept Terence completely embraces, Dawkins speaks favorably of cannabis use, speaks of the universe being stranger than we can suppose. He's the modern Carl Sagan.

[doctorjay1976]

except dawkins shoves his anti-god agenda down your throat. At least mckenna has the smarts to realize that we aren't just here by "chance," but by some unified universal intelligence.

[pimpsmitty22]

do you kno the music in this?

[swooop122112]

Sex,Rolls,& Tech-No

[blasticpuddhas]

Is the echo added to this? Cause if it is (which it seems like some of these videos has weird effects added) it makes him sound like Jim Jones on a PA in Jones town-- We don't need special effects!

[AdminDan]

The main problem is that cannabis is associated with cocaine and heroin.

Instead it should be associated with psilocybin, lsd, and dmt.

All psychedelics should be viewed as ways of obtaining new knowledge of things not visible in our culture. But in a society that tries it's darnedest to maintain itself, psychedelics don't fit in. Thats the drug war for you. It's preventing another generation of hippies, but humans have found a new medium for rebellion, the internet.

[superdiza]

Geat video, poor editing at the end though to cut him off like that.

At least link something to The Omega Point, which is the aim of his talk..

[Gaia1986]

Greeeeat video!

And explosions in the sky in the background - good choice

hail the word of terence!

[Krahl123]

this guys my hero.

[mikeweckstein]

amazing! we should all compile every last video that is on the internet of him and have a huge 30 hour marathon of all of his lectures and speeches. imagine how much we could learn from that. they should be talking about this guy in our schools, but we're all so dumb. the smartest of people are always the loneliest. Unfortunately I found that out the hard way. I don't reach many people like I wish I could. It makes me almost feel as if life is too difficult to shift. Life could be better

[mindaCat]

i love u

[mikeweckstein]

I'm high and I love you too! smoke weed! do shrooms! and then before you die when you're like 50 or older, do DMT! :D happy life :D dribbling beaded basketballs from different dimensions! lol

[Gaia1986]

I might do that!

[mikeweckstein]

do it!

[leapinlueschen]

@mikeweckstein move out of the midwest

[tudoralexe]

@mikeweckstein more like 300 hours..

[clearelite]

@mikeweckstein Dont worry man. There are still plenty of cool, intelligent people out there. Probably some 'round these parts, on the interweb. They are just few and far between, maybe that's why some of us feel alone.

[un4g1v3n1]

@mikeweckstein "imagine how much we could learn from that. they should be talking about this guy in our schools, but we're all so dumb. the smartest of people are always the loneliest.

That's why the general public, such as school children, make fun of the intelligent kids. The dissuade others from cultivating their intellect!

And I think Mckenna would have told us to stop watching, listening to other peoples thoughts, even his, and use your own mind, through direct EXPERIENCE instead!

[Pr3lude9]

@mikeweckstein That 30 hour marathon should be ran on every tv channel, everyday, till the end of time.

[TMKchld]

@mikeweckstein I agree. The more intelligent one is, the more complex their thinking, the less people they can connect to...so much can be learned by listening to Terence because he had the blessing of being able to reach out, draw in, and convey his most intricate thoughts.He hit the nail on the head, in the most brilliant way. We are so fortunate to have his talks.

[Rockyzach88]

@mikeweckstein well there is a compilation of pretty much every video, speech, book that he has participated in on the internet. Also I have noticed since when I first discovered terence mckenna on youtube, the number of views has went up a lot in the last year and a half.

[CantWeedThis]

@mikeweckstein

68 of us are with you so far. thats one hell of a party. lonely? its hard and easy to forget but loneliness is an illusion.

[feztizieo]

@mikeweckstein

i said the same thing to my friend, that this guy should be talked about in schools, and he said to me "it cant happen, because Terence speaks out against a general system that schools are ruled under."

i strongly agree. ahhhhh what is to be done?? (sigh)

[Industrious420]

@mikeweckstein

Now now, school is to condition children to accept our capitalistic society!  Stop spreading such lies and rumors!

lol

[mikeweckstein]

@Industrious420 If you hate capitalism, fucking man dude, I got a god damn banging song for you. I gotta warn you, if you're high and you listen to it it'll send shockwaves down your spine like no song ever has. Enter Shikar - "Distabalise". I promise you if you watch the video from ambushreality's page you will jizz your pants straight onto the faces of those capitalist bijour fuck faced matrix pigs! :D School... I meant the internet!!!!! :D We all need to make a difference in the world... NOW.

[Industrious420]

@mikeweckstein

I listen to Shikari all the time man!

[mikeweckstein]

@Industrious420 Enter Shikari and Terence Mckenna are awesome.

[Industrious420]

@mikeweckstein

Two of my favourite things brotha, I can listen to Terence 24/7. You just want to listen to what he has to say, mostly because it's so far out there that you've never heard it before. I have to admit, at first I was reluctant to listen to some of his speeches...thankfully I stuck it out, because he is so far ahead of "mainstream thinking", his ideals are amazing.

[Zubav]

@mikeweckstein Amen, im with you all the way man. And I almost want to make a documentary on this guy

[thespacialone]

@mikeweckstein Loneliness is a pejorative, aloneness is a choice

[nomad4ever2345]

Fucking Genius!

[jamesarongray]

cool clip