”I think that what we want to do is make our way back to the alchemical garden. That's where our roots are. That's where meaning is. Meaning lies in the confrontation of contradiction-the coincidencia apositorum. That's what we really feel, not these rational schemas that are constantly beating us over the head with the "thou shalt" and "thou should." - Terence McKenna 🗝 Support Agrippa's Diary: patreon.com/agrippasinnersanctum 📘 One-time donations via PayPal: www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=64GVXNWU9FHVY ☕ Donate a Coffee: ko-fi.com/agrippasdiary 🎦 Subscribe to VoxOcculta: www.youtube.com/@voxocculta 📱Follow Agrippa's Diary on Tik Tok: www.tiktok.com/@agrippasdiary 📷Follow Agrippa's Diary on Instagram: instagram.com/agrippasdiary/ 📚Agrippa's Library of Occult Wisdom: www.notion.so/agrippasdiary/Agrippa-s-Occult-Library-7d915b32493a4816a8f51019245594d7?pvs=4 🗏 Link to the transcript: www.patreon.com/posts/terence-mckenna-97231706?Link& This video was made possible thanks to my Patreon supporters: 👇 Masters Of The Mysteries: Frater Incognito, H. Qasem & Pamela Billen. Magisters Templi: Big man, Shaneel Kumar, Rudi Rahmani, Ken, Tim Berry, Uizado_fx, Oscar, Angela. Hierophants: Evan Mooney, Michael Perry, Jim Smith, Paul C., Tyler Wittreich, FroggLessuer, theo, David Levinson, Joe Reorda II, Jay-Alexander Elliot, Josh Volker, Christine VanPool, Alonzo Boschulte, Alchemical Room, Beavswanee, James Webb, Levi Voorwinden, Asch, Vre Runel, Zelenko Girl, n nn, Harrison King, Jeremy, Alexander Winter, Mark Overmaat, Joey Davis, Joel Teixeira, Tyler Sullivan, Marquasious Gaines, Anthony R Castro, Leo Schuman, Monica de Melo Pieroni. If you want to support this project consider becoming a Patreon member. The link in the video description! ❤🔥
@@InspiritedBean The link to the original audio: psychedelicsalon.com/mckenna-alchemy-the-world-today/ The link to the text: www.mysterium.com/tmalchemy1.html Idk why so many people have something against a tool that finally allows us to listen to this information in high quality… If you prefer the old and crappy sound of the lectures it’s fine but don’t accuse me of deceit when all I am trying is to spread this information out…
@@InspiritedBean actually the video states this very fact in the first 15 seconds. Besides that the original sources were in the video description this whole time.
But why did you change the person who does the narration? I think this would have been better done in the voice and the British accent of the one who did the other videos. That voice and accent is so beautiful!
or the understanding of the contradiction we cannot know the light without darkness. this world is the darkness...WE are the darkness inside, with the light inside also. our selfishness and self centered-ness is the separation from DIVINE LOVE that requires 'salvation'. you believe you can provide your own salvation from your darkness, but you cannot...that is what God is demonstrating in each of us. only by trying to be our own 'god' can we find the true God. this is the real meaning of the 'tower of babel'...we think we can build our bridge to 'heaven'..."back to the garden"...but we cannot. and we will not. we will find the more we try the farther we get. the bigger they are the harder they fall. "if i have all the knowledge in the world, and can understand every mystery, but have not LOVE, i am but a clanging gong" that's what i hear from this video...a very loud self assured GONG!!
@@ochaiogbe1936I agree completely. Do not fear to ask questions or to voice opinions. Constructive criticism has helped me grow as an individual. An outside view may be upsetting at first but emotions aside it will lead to true growth.
This is beautiful on so many levels...Terrence knew exactly where we were headed...and where we must return to in order to take our next evolutionary step...we are at the crossroads once again...
@@kristinetravis-ot6bb It is McKenna. It is part of "Terence McKenna--Lectures on Alchemy" There is both original recordings and transcriptions. Here, obviously an AI is reading the transcriptions from the lecture. I dont like the AI thing either, so I am heading to the original. It is word to word. I bet unfortunately soon "new lectures" will appear that will be generated completely by AI - both voice and text/meaning. Creators need to put visible disclaimer...
@@kristinetravis-ot6bbread the first 6 seconds of the video. I know it's hard on a platform that is not intended for reading, but it will give you what your ego is asking for.
This channel is truly so great! Every video has been a masterpiece that puts the final touches into the great work of the alchemists. You have carried the flame so far my dear brother 🙏 You are eternalized alongside those who bore the torch before you.
That's not McKenna, idk y they're presenting it as him, no clue what their goal is, but misrepresenting this as Terence makes them questionable at best.
having read an listened to a shedload of Terence McKenna and straight away i can hear the lack of Terence's persona an character and passion that comes though in his real work, this is defiantly A.I . This is just an observation, not to criticize this new work, as i feel it has it place. also i feel TM would have loved being immortalized by A.I great work Agrippa's Diary
I agree that I dislike being misled. It destroyed my trust in the channel. Like McKenna, I'm a hard-core skeptic, I wish they had been transparent about it not being McKenna. The subterfuge is inexcusable imho.
They’re his words read by a guy with a high end voice modulator that sounds like Terrance. TM probably would’ve gotten a chuckle out of the absurdity of all of it. What a preposterous way to spend the scientific currency of not only rudimentary AI but also this platform and its capabilities. But he also saw the internet as the great liberator, equal to psychedelics, in the way it would modify human society. In a way this is one of the most TM things I can think of.
Yes. This is AI utilizing his voice. This AI makes numerous mispronunciations that Terrance would never make. Nevertheless, I appreciate this material being made available on RU-vid!
I appreciate your efforts to make this available. However, I would much rather hear the original recording of Terrence McKenna, annoying background noises and all. Terrence’s voice, his pronunciation, his tempo, are all part of the magic. Listening to Terrence - without the interference of AI - is genuinely healing.
It's weird to hear an AI basically mimicking Terence McKenna's lecture. In the original you can hear the natural inflections in his tone of voice. This sounds more flattened, but not necessarily bad.
Thank you! How wonderful to hear someone talk so very lucidly about matters that are very hard to put into words. Just fantastic! And I could care less that the voice isn’t that of a human being. Excellent presentation!
Does it tho? I mean it sounds like him…but i feel like it’s Ai or something. It’s weird, I’ve listened to so much Terrance, this def his voice but the pacing and phrasing seems weird. Like AI, or maybe I’m just paranoid everything is a robot! Ha! Def sounds like something he’d speak about, it just doesn’t have that classic Terrance flow.
@@SlumberBear2kI wouldn’t have known it was AI until he mispronounced “lead” as the verb rather than the noun intended, and maybe one or two other instances.
The Philosopher’s stone I believe is materialisation of the imagination , Imagination is the Supreme power, it probably takes some training, but there again I’m probably wrong ☺️
This is not far off from what Jung was saying about the Philosopher’s Stone, though he would’ve replaced your use of the term “imagination” with the phrase ‘the creation of consciousness’ or the term ‘the Self’. Jung explained how the Philosopher’s Stone represents ‘the Self’; the ‘wholeness’ or ‘oneness’ archetype of the human psyche, which is perpetually attempting to move your psyche’s patterns of behavior toward balanced wholeness as you reconcile the chaos and disorder of opposites within. Jung didn’t use the term ‘the Self’ vaguely; he explained how, just as the stomach is a mechanism for breaking down what enters the body, ‘the Self’ is a mechanism in the psyche - the mechanism responsible for constantly seeking out wholeness, and, ultimately, higher order and truth within yourself and with regard to the outside physical world.
If you tell yourself you’re wrong hard enough you will be! Have faith in your hypothesis. I think it makes perfect sense, it is a fundamental operation of nature after all! The process whereby static Mind is converted into dynamic Thought and expressed as objective reality. Appreciate the jungian insight from the guy above me too. This community is great
This is important stuff you’ve picked up on. I get a vibe you might often tell others around you (work colleagues, family members, people at school or university) about your deep insights and their response is typically “what are you on about”. Absolutely trust in this power in you, take that walk across the bridge where most dare not cross and have faith in yourself.
It's a shame TM dismissed the Atlantis myths. I feel like he's missed a trick there. But I guess Gobekli Tepe and Gunung Pandang hadn't been uncovered back then. Surprised he doesn't mention astrology either. Hermetic alchemy doesn't make much sense without astrology. But maybe TM considered that to be malarkey as well? He's much more convincing when chatting about psychedelics
I agree however without the ancient sites being discovered there was little evidence therefore it would have made his conclusions with psychedelics less convincing.
@@TheKBC14 Maybe. It's amazing to think that ideas that were too fringe even for TM are now the most plausible explanations. Do you know if TM and Graham Hancock ever had a recorded conversation?
The purpose of the magic is always changing, as the cosmos is always ticking. Terence’s conclusion fits in very well with the fact that we are entering the ascending Kali Yuga, or ascending/redeemed iron(dark) age. Shamanism, and spirit must be used to redeem an ancient natural nobility, a connection to the earth, and a fostering of a new humanity and world order.
@@jerryrikki9466 The link to the original audio: psychedelicsalon.com/mckenna-alchemy-the-world-today/ The link to the text: www.mysterium.com/tmalchemy1.html
Terrence McKenna was amazing. But in one respect he was wrong. 10,000 years ago we were not just cave men with Flint. Gobekli tepi changed that idea. We don't know what we were at best. But we had more advanced understanding than we once thought
I think Terence may be slightly less enthusiastic than you assume. AI can be used to destroy his ideas, just as easily as promote them. WIth AI, motive comes first, not content.
Where did you get this recording? Was it cleaned up with AI or something? I've never heard a Terence Talk with the clarity before. And I've heard this exact talk, but sounding like a tape recorder was 10 feet away. And I've never heard him pronounce Marik Casaubon that way before.
It is AI, as it was stated in the video notes. There were a number of mispronunciations in the video- something McKenna would never do. Where did you hear the original talk? Can you link it here?
It's AI. I'm still hoping to clarify the exact source material. Some say they have heard the actual lecture in this feed. I'd also love to know where and when it was.
@@TheNoSuchThingPodcast I'm still trying to get a straight answer about what exactly the creator of this text did. It is a AI voice- as stated in the notes of the video, but if this was ever an actual lecture that McKenna gave is unclear. My current guess is that it is compiled from McKenna's writings. My concern is to find out if the text is actually 100% McKenna or not. It is obviously based on his work, but if it is edited by a third party (my guess at this point) it's authenticity is not guaranteed. Actually, there is no way it could be guaranteed, in the world of AI. It might be a "lecture" by a third party using McKenna's ideas as content. A remix, of sorts. I'll be happy to find out.
I disagree with McKenna when he says that science has separated the mind from nature. Christianity has always been the tradition that separates mankind from nature. Science was the first to say that man is an animal, and is cousin of the apes. Science tells us we have an effect on our environment and need to be careful with what we are doing to it. I do agree that science is a spiritually neutered philosophy, alchemy has always fascinated me with it's marriage of the spiritual and material as one. I think we could change the world for the better with alchemical magic.
I have Dame Frances Yates' book (mentioned early here, as essential reading), "Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition" in a handsomely produced, large, glossy, black paperback, - but there are many passages, in Latin and various, other tongues, which the editors have neglected to translate into English, to the tune of $35, for whatever reason; probably, the exact sort of academic posturing against which Bruno inveighed, with such characteristically flamboyant candor. I thoroughly enjoyed a shorter work of Dame Frances Yates, "The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age". A third, "The Rosicrucian Enlightenment" looks promising, as well.
I miss when you would narrate the opening quote I wonder what he says about the psychedelic community kind of opening up a space where buddhist language could take hold says about the origins of buddhism itself.
Excuse me, what is the source of this lecture, why does the voice repeatedly use words that aren't quite the right words (image instead of imagine), and why do you say the voice is AI generated? Is this or is this not a Terence McKenna talk? Where and when was it given?
@@InspiritedBean The link to the original audio: psychedelicsalon.com/mckenna-alchemy-the-world-today/ The link to the text: www.mysterium.com/tmalchemy1.html Idk why so many people have something against a tool that finally allows us to listen to this information in high quality… If you prefer the old and crappy sound of the lectures it’s fine but don’t accuse me of deceit when all I am trying is to spread this information out…
Dude there are multiple videos here on youtube of 4+ hours lectures of Mckenna on Alchemy and the Hermetic Corpus..maybe learn how to do a simple online search..@@InspiritedBean
Too bad he is not alive to continue the conversation, because I would love to ask him, that despite his prosaic and astute analysis, whether it is even theoretically possible to attain the high magical perspective of the ancients via Any language model....I myself Conclude that any and all language models will forever fall short of attaining prime Core experience
This is brilliant.. I am already doing what you have recommended & wow it’s very interesting my specialty is the Feminine.. the mystery school teachings ❤
C'mon people, yes the voice is AI but what's said in the video does belong to Mckenna. Just cause the voice is artificial doesn't mean the rest is too. Do a quick google search and you'll find the lectures from Mckenna on Alchemy and The Hermetic Corpus.
It’s literally stated in the first 15 seconds of the video that the voice has been remastered using AI technology. The original lecture(audio/text) that was used to create this lecture is also in the description and in the pinned comment. The degree of superficiality is outrageous. Sometimes I wonder why I even bother to bring this content to the light when I receive such comments.
I found the knowledge of his thread interesting. The notion that psychedelics preceded Buddhism I would think is disproved by the Theosophical society. Psychedelic's can open your mind and remove some debris but also will illusion the participant over time. Alchemys value is in a symbolic system for the mind that has a tradition of seekers searching for their highest purpose. I am not aware of any great practitioners of the Alchemy Arts in the information age. But I assume a few exist.
It's interesting that McKenna recommends Francis Yates' book on Giordano Bruno for a primer on alchemy, when that book has not the slightest mention of it. Indeed, Bruno never made any reference to alchemy in his work, as far as I know. But the link is that Hermetic thought grounds both the Alchemical work and Bruno's theological polemics. Hermeticism has supposed links to Thoth, and Alchemy suggests the ancient land of Kemet. And yet, the prevailing scholarship, which McKenna cites, only dates these schools of thought to 1st-3rd CE. Such a conundrum!
For whatever reason I always hear a phaser effect on Terence's voice - even the a.i. version of it apparently. This would be one of the few examples of the good use of a.i. voice-overs. Unfortunately, an avalanche of a.i kitch and torpor in coming.
I wonder what Terence would think of artificial intelligence giving a lecture on hermeticism with his voice? I think he’d be chuffed at the novelty of it. Is the text his? Was this from an actual McKenna lecture?
i could take less and less of this as i realized it was bot generated. . . the butchery of sentences and sometimes words and the irregular cadence through out made it harder to listen to than read. . . shame because usually you guys do pretty well.
I know you're just lending a voice to Terence's words, but something tells me he's be really against all this AI voice mimicry stuff, regardless of whose likeness you're emulating.
Please consider using original source material only. This is clearly an AI version of Terrence McKenna as is evident by the pronunciation of words like 'lead' and 'pseudo'. 🙏🏻
