_"Television is a forerunner of very insidious drugs to come, it's just the crudest and the first...it is an electronic drug."_ If he could see us glued to these insidious vibrant rectangles 6 inches from our face.
It also connects to Terence/Mcluhans thought about The medium is the message. We could be watching a coke commercial or this Terence video, still here We are, watching.
@@NiePieerdol This is a concept similar to avoiding conformity. Suppose you addicted to avoiding ruts of any kind which could turn into an addiction. You've kind of addicted to variety, obsessively never doing the same thing too much or even back to back. Although that might not be such a bad thing. It kind of reminds me of diversity whatever that is. Most people think of diversity as a homogenous mixture. But if thats all there is is one big homogenous mixture then there are no diversity of mixtures. There's only one thing. Real diversity is an impressionist painting. It needs chaos and order, pockets of organization and disorganization of every kind.
@@itsolivier We have those in the States, too. And they do good work. But should people have to reach the point of their emotional crises becoming literally life-threatening before they feel validated to seek intervention from the supposedly rational, compassionate humans around them? This is not any kind of attack on you or your comment, Oliver. Just a serious question for our society. Why are we not IN each other's emotional lives for the common good? Everyone has pain they are hiding and hiding from. Why must we keep on in this pattern of behavior when it for everyone becomes at some point untenable and self-destructive? Or as Elvis Costello said "What's so funny bout peace, love and understanding?"
Other animals get addicted as well,- it’s that we are probably the first animals to actually keep ourselves addicted on such a large scale. We live in a human based world, our cultures and habits are a product of our perspective, and our perspective there of,- but other animals live in their separate worlds. Like a waterstrider probably has no understanding of quantum physics, and no need for for human art,- but its world is not that different than that of humans, it’s all about perspective, it’s a waterstrider world. Humans are not separate beings from the rest of life,- life is life, there are no rights or wrongs, only what we created,- life is a novelty, which is nor good or bad, it’s new :) I do appreciate Terence, but his words are not life rules, I see what he says as philosophy,- cause no one can know, it’s only part truths and thoughts,- there are no person that knows, ideology never goes well. ;)
If it wasn’t the smart phones it would have been something else. We are sophisticated beings. We are able to look at ourselves from first, second and third person. Just be thankful that “we” are able to recognize this
"And then I realized: all the people around me, this is how they deal with emotional crisis, nobody wants to feel anything. I mean, the moment that an unpleasant emotion rears its head, people go take valium or something else and cut themselves off from feeling."
I feel like he was so close on this one but missed the mark. What if people become addicted to things because those things give them a little glimpse of the emotional state of being they really want to feel? He was heartbroken and wanted to feel peace and temporarily got it with Valium. Self-control doesn’t heal a broken heart, self-love does. Find that peace within and you won’t need to find it in a bottle.
@@jonmustang Well isn't that the point with psychedelics or drugs generally - you take them cause they put you in a state of mind that is better than your baseline one. They give you better chemistry. Frankly I know that in general things are better on valium or opiates, just how it is, they put your chemistry into a better state. Unless you live in some utopia like existence, you're being constantly bombarded with negative energies, even if you are rich and can buy a decent place to live that can still happen - lots of rich people buy some supposed luxury getaway then discover there's industry noise or logging or similar going on nearby etc. So of course you need drugs..
I met Terence McKenna in 1997-98 , in the big island of hawaii and spent about a month hanging out with him and some common friends !!! By that time he had been on the cover of " high times " a couple of times !!! Such a fascinating soul - he already had cancer by then but was working on healing himself . Blessed Be !!!
Punctuality is about keeping your promises. Added: and keeping your word shows your respect for all you have affected on. HOW TO FIX Being LATE, (ANY BAD HABIT) FOR SURE IN 28 DAYS! ONE MOON CYCLE! 1. OVEREMPHASIZE THE CHANGE. Be 10 minutes or more early to everything for 28 days. That's it. Do it for 28 days and you will never be late again. If you can do this simply by setting your intentions to self commitment NEED IDEAS? Put UP SIGNS ON YOUR WALLS. MMMIRRORS TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW OR TELL NO ONE!!! GET, AN IMPOSSIBLE ALARM app., Use multiple alarms and reminders. Rehearse tomorrow tonight, do it with a buddy and bet. doing these things adds to you attention give.it. ATTENTION AND INTENTION ATTENTION WHAT DO YOU GIVE IT TO AND WHAT YOUR INTENTIONS ARE ARE WHO YOU WILL BECOME. KNOW YOU INTENTIONS BY Set a reminder tone ever Punctuality is about keeping your promises. Added: and keeping your word shows your respect for all you have affected on. HOW TO FIX Being LATE, (ANY BAD HABIT) FOR SURE IN 28 DAYS! ONE MOON CYCLE! 1. OVEREMPHASIZE THE CHANGE. Be 10 minutes or more early to everything for 28 days. That's it. Do it for 28 days and you will never be late again. If you can do this simply by setting your intentions to self commitment NEED IDEAS? Put UP SIGNS ON YOUR WALLS. MMMIRRORS TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW OR TELL NO ONE!!! GET, AN IMPOSSIBLE ALARM app., Use multiple alarms and reminders. Rehearse tomorrow tonight, do it with a buddy and bet. doing these things adds to you attention give.it. ATTENTION AND INTENTION ATTENTION WHAT DO YOU GIVE IT TO AND WHAT YOUR INTENTIONS ARE ARE WHO YOU WILL BECOME. KNOW YOU INTENTIONS BY Set a reminder tone ever Punctuality is about keeping your promises. Added: and keeping your word shows your respect for all you have affected on. HOW TO FIX Being LATE, (ANY BAD HABIT) FOR SURE IN 28 DAYS! ONE MOON CYCLE! 1. OVEREMPHASIZE THE CHANGE. Be 10 minutes or more early to everything for 28 days. That's it. Do it for 28 days and you will never be late again. If you can do this simply by setting your intentions to self commitment NEED IDEAS? Put UP SIGNS ON YOUR WALLS. MMMIRRORS TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW OR TELL NO ONE!!! GET, AN IMPOSSIBLE ALARM app., Use multiple alarms and reminders. Rehearse tomorrow tonight, do it with a buddy and bet. doing these things adds to you attention give.it. ATTENTION AND INTENTION ATTENTION WHAT DO YOU GIVE IT TO AND WHAT YOUR INTENTIONS ARE ARE WHO YOU WILL BECOME. Let's.all not be later for 28 days, it creates new networks in the brain. Makes you smarter And night folks. I'm going Isaac Arthur's channel on space and futurim.and get comfortable and let him reel me out there til I fall asleep
This is the exact thing I needed. His experience with the loss of that relationship, I just went thru. The vonitting, literally sick to my stomach, shaky. Insane. Addiction to people is as real as addiction to drugs.
We need him now more then ever ...thank the stars for the audio ....I don’t have one true friend who is on board with this ..alone on a starship :) ..I am fine
You're not alone in your.. 😒aloneness 😂. I've embraced it. I live in the country with a woodshop and chickens and I'm very content. I'm waiting for a good rain so I can walk into the woods to look for "ingredients". Apparently we're never truly alone we just can't see it.
Existential Hangover ...your right and thank you for saying so . I have dealt with many many losses in my life and lack of a ton of things but I always believed : let me say that again I always believed !! .....”as above as below “
Same here, was just talking about this topic with the wife and I pop up RU-vid and see this at the top of my page....RU-vid been listening in mayhap lol
But taking something over and over because it's pleasurable isn't an addiction. It might be overall negative, because it depends what it is they find pleasurable and why. eg, say rabbits eat magic shrooms all the time because they enjoy them - well that isn't addiction. But say they eat creosote off fences etc - then that is, because it's actually a poison that kills them, or makes them ill, or otherwise debilitates them. Another example - if you smoke daily then that's it, you pay money and you smoke it into the air. However if you gamble, unless you overall win all the time!, then it's different because the pleasure part ONLY occurs IF you win. You don't really get much pleasure (beyond the initial possible thrill of maybe winning) for your money from it, if it was compared to buying smokes then the equivalent would be that you lose some or all of your smokes every time you buy any. Therefore if that one is your addiction then it's a bad one to have, the other not so bad from a purely money & trade off point of view. Animals don't addict to run away from anything or to block something else out. Animals will also keep on eating given the option to generally.
Terrance still lives on in our hearts and through The plants. God bless you and your wonderful service you provide our beautiful universe. Keep spreading the love!🙏💚🌍💫☝️🌈🍄😇
It's really weird with cannabis. When I'm smoking daily it seems difficult to stop it. Yet when I run out and can't get hold of any, after the second day I don't miss it anymore. Happened to me 2 months ago and I still don't feel the need to start again. At some point I'll probably get some again and the cycle repeats.
Its probably because you think more about it when you know you have it , so you end up smoking because you were thinking about it and it trigerred the feeling.
I get where you're coming from, I just started Sober September to test myself, first few days were hard since I wanted to smoke up everytime something mildly uncomfortable happened, but now I feel like I respect the plant more, I still intend to go all the way, but I now realise how much it helps and how most of us take for granted, a break genuinely helps get everything in perspective and see how I've been using it and how I SHOULD be using it.
Psychologically addictive, but the body doesn't necessarily need it. I find if I don't smoke as much though, I get irritable way easier, it's like at night I need that off-switch for my mind, to take a break from thinking. Lots of people have that problem but they are on meds for it instead - it's a pity that the medical people do not realise how useful cannabis is for that switching off and getting some peace in your head.
@@moonwatch7963 It's a good "off switch" in some ways (to relieve tension) but personally I find myself getting irritable during the day much more when I smoke cannabis. I actually feel more relaxed now that I'm on an extended break. I may still smoke it occasionally at some point but I'm very happy without it at the moment.
@@Axiomatic75 I very rarely puff during the day anymore, but it does the opposite for me there too. Recently I had some from a friend during the day and was amazed at how mellowed out it made me feel, everything was glowing and friendly after I left their place and continued on with my day (usually somewhat stressful as it involved shopping and getting trains). Weirdly though that has not made me start puffing during the day though...
The thought induced mechanism that we were "gifted" with (and the one that separates us from the world and everything else), is the culprit. Addiction is one of the (many) side effects it comes with.
For cannabis, if you’re locked in a room with absolutely zero chance of getting high, the acceptance feeling washes over you and you could care less. Now if you’re on the outside you have full choice it suddenly becomes much more complicated. At least how I feel about it.
thats right ! Just thinking about cannabis triger the feeling of wanting it but when you know you cant have it you think less about it and dont actually want it
"We give each other too much permission to be weak" This is such a pressing line, not to mention his call that TV was just a crude version of a far more potent version of digital drugs coming. The way society wants us all to ignore reality and let each other be overly sensitive today is ridiculous. I can't workout, yes you can your too weak to do it, I can't stop using this drug, yes you can you're too weak to do it, I can't resolve my issues with my parents or partner, yes you can you're both too weak to do it, people need to take a cement pill harden up and put in the work to resolve these psychologically difficult issues, hard things do exist, but even still the barriers we allow ourselves to build in the mind are the true challenge for us to overcome.
Yes animals addict, but I believe he means animals don’t addict like us humans. because we use addiction for escape, pleasures, desire, coping mechanism. They’re not tryn to escape their reality because they’re sad or depressed, etc
Addiction and its service to teaching us is no accident. Opiates are physically addictive and they are one drug its often easier to maintain than kick. Primarily because the physical dependence is so horrific to kick. So in place of punishment we should assist with desired detox or support the habit and harm reduce
The one for you doesn't take away from you if you did part. Some people manipulate others emotionally - they steal from your soul, like literally. And if you are tricked into thinking that is love, then that is where attachment problems can come from. It's like you have invested in them, in a future that involves them, and when that ends it takes away your investment - you are left with this whole future branch that no longer exists. There's also other ways to lose someone....don't take anything for granted ever. Most of course live out of the moment, and many that think they live in the moment are just talking about extreme-sports type of 'living in the moment' like you have to cram all this sh1t into each breath every second - which has nothing to do with what actually being in the moment is about at all. Just a general comment on the overall theme of relationships and ending of them.
molgan åberg , it’s truth, it’s fact. Us humans are addicted to these things. I saw this yesterday as well while on a trip and today I just found this video. It’s truth
Da Brainlessone I respect everyone’s opinion. And I don’t disagree with everything Terence says. Been listening to him for 8 years. So I’ve also learned that all he says either isn’t right. In my opinion. I have met the aliens. So I’m not talking rubbish
He's right...we are naturally addicted ...It's s a fact...except about substances that degrades us,as human beings and invariably,takes out the worst of us....Makes us down...down...down..in the DEGRADES...C2H6O😈. "To climb,GROW,evolve: COUNT WITH ME! To descend,DESCEND ALONE."Plato
Terence has clearly never experienced heroin withdrawal lol heartbreak is a walk on the beach compared to it. Definitely more vomiting, diarrhea and so much more.
@@moonwatch7963 i was addicted to smoking it but I made enough money to where I could afford it. I would've shot it up to make it last longer if i didn't and would've gotten to that point eventually if I didn't stop in time. I was on it for about 5 years. My best friend wasn't so lucky, he didn't have much money so he progressed to shooting up quickly until his veins collapsed and started shooting it into his muscle, causing them to break down, which also released toxins and damaged all his organs, but mainly his heart and when his heart stopped even though they revived him within like a minute his brain was too damaged from the oxygen deprivation which was very surprising considering the short time he wasn't breathing and he never woke up. His mom had to unplug him a couple weeks later. That could've easily been me. Addiction can happen to anyone who is given opiate prescriptions, I've even seen a police officer who for some reason got injured and doctors weren't giving her strong enough medication for the pain so she started using heroin. It isn't a moral failing, its just people who don't want to be in horrible pain, can you really blame them?
true true. Its the only time in all of his hundreds of hours of lectures in which he sounds uninformed. Good on him as it means he never had a opiate addiction. Never had vomiting but the diarrhea omg the diarrhea. Fuck opiates
I think you're missing the point. What he said was essentially: Addiction is in our nature and we need to control ourselves yet we shouldn't blame ourselves for our addictive nature.
So who actually said "your addicted cause your black"? Cause Ive never heard that in my life. What ppl do say is that Black ppl are systemically oppressed and marginalized which leads to poverty, mental health problems and drug addiction in a much higher percentage of the population.
Why do people believe he is a (somewhat) of a prophet? Been there, Done that but nobody listens to me. Egotistic, yes, but YOU have the answer in YOU and the answer is U
People already live as if they are in VR...generally speaking. They switch off to all the problems and make-believe none of them exist and we don't know what causes them.
Moon Watch Colourful metaphors aside, I really do think those VR headsets will take electronic addiction to the next level. Especially once we hook them up to full haptic exoskeletons, it will be as close to jacking into the Matrix as we're likely to get for quite a while.
hold on a second folks arent always responsible for the vagaries of poverty. you could say its somewhat useful since they should be responsible to organize and get involved to start socialist solutions to fix these situations. yes. and folks now dont do that enough, they just say what u gonna do when we should be the ones doing something about it. thats true.
thought those very words on my way to the shop, was just a bit chilly, got back inside, they're the title of this video, when you start comparing what is going on inside you it's very much a like to outside, one small part of this whole, where, diversity's darling, terrance mckenna ?
Well.. Definitely not TM's most lucid or mindful rant. I do enjoy the poetry with which T often speaks whether or not it really has any actual scientific merit (little of his particular brand of preaching does). However, this rant leaves me feeling a bit off-put. Equating the self-induced agony of a heartbreak to very real physical chemical addictions, such as the heroin he mentions, is just a total intellectual misfire. Withdrawal from something like heroin shares not a single common overlap with a heart ache (yes Terrence, withdrawal is far far far a greater pain than you have luckily never known). It minimizes or, at the very least, confuses the word. If he wants to claim we can be addicted to painting or addicted to socializing then we need a different word for what it means to be actually addicted, physically and mentally. This talk feels careless to me