"Everything small is just a small version of something big. I understand everything!" - Fin the human

I burst out crying at the end of his speech out of all the gratitude that suddenly washed over me when I realised just how incredible, how magnificent, how wonderful and mysterious is this Universe and I have been given a chance to be here to experience it and appreciate it. I think it was that tune at the end, it moved me ❤ thank you.

"God knows I'm aware of the fractal nature of speech because I'm always in the same place saying the same thing but it's always a little different."

Once on mushrooms me and a friend needed to walk across a small town to get to his house and we really couldn’t handle bumping in to anyone so we scrambled about across some fields and then around the back of an abandoned warehouse at night time. The fractals were so bright and vivid in my vision I literally could barely see where I was going

Mushrooms containing psilocybin saved my life. They aided my benzodiazepine withdrawal allowing me to quit illicit pill addiction after three years of heavy daily use before it would’ve become medically dangerous to quit. It has also helped me survive depression.

Certainly my own psychedelic experiences would suggest that the universe is fractally organised. As I understand it.. it is this fractal construction and it's underpinning iterative mathematical basis that gives rise to its infinite nature. William Blake to my mind had it right. Great channel by the way! I was privileged to briefly meet McKenna following a lecture at Quaker House in London in the early 1990's. It was apparent to me as a young raver that I was being exposed to fundamental truths and the most important information I was ever going to hear. A truly brilliant human being and a massive influence on the direction of my life. Rob.

I remember seeing the Madelbrot Set for the first time and thinking, "Oh, this must be what God sees." After many trips into the void, the fractal nature of our existence is has become as obvious as the wetness of rain. On a side note: I FUCKING LOVE THIS CHANNEL!

"Syntax is fractally organized. The act of creating language is the act of running a fractal generation program in the human neurological system."

I snorted some DMT and decided to meditate, but my attention kept being dragged back to the furious pain of the drip down my throat and so I decided to let that be the centre of my focus, and as I did so I began to understand pain. I seen myself as a fractal, and the pain also an identical fractal, and the swelling of compassion was so great that I became numb to the pain through my understanding of the pain being only me.

I did mushrooms 2 days ago and went on a guided meditation with headphones. This is exactly what I saw. Fractal energies in many dimensions. the simplest energy of infinite creation. Always there, and everywhere. That's the best way I can use language to describe it.

Studies show that By the age of 3, children begin noticing fractal patterns in nature and appreciate them. Fractal patterns found commonly in nature have shown to reduce stress up to 60%. Studies are also showing that perhaps an evolutionary mechanism optimizes our visual system for processing fractals. Amazing.

"I maintain that these kind of theories give permission to abandon anxiety. It isn't riding on the egos of civilized people. It isn't up to us to control and understand. We are part of a system, but it's the system that's in governance of the situation. It is not running out of control, it has not escaped its traces, and isn't somehow in a malfunctioning state. It's just that it is a process of winding things up in order to condense them down in order to push them into another dimensional domain where everything [...] is at equilibrium and completion." What an elegant position to hold. As essentially being a metaphysical axiom I believe it reaches passed what's necessary for ethical enlightenment, completion of holy living, and liberation from suffering, self, and subjectivity in phenomenological experience, and thus is a point of view of a putthujjana; but that doesn't mean it may not carry some validity in regards to its own ambition, he certainly has a novel way of seizing his existential situation, not in a way that resolves it, but not in a way that creates much conflict either, which is impressive in its own right.

everything now is shaped exactly like everything that comes next, just elaborated iterations all the way up, down and through

Was impressed, how I would occasionally look away from my computer screen, only to see a large picture frame or part of my room shrinking, pulling away... without being On anything... what a cool trick of the eyes.

Nice to see McKenna was on this wave as well, I’ve been studying physics and mathematics for some years now and my research into the natural world has been pointing me more and more towards fractal geometry as the way forward. Calculus implies that as you get infinitely small, curves more and more approximate straight lines, but of course that need not be the case! A continuous function which is nowhere differentiable requires a whole new toolbox to describe, and I intend to describe it someday

Om Shanti Om!

understanding fractals has helped me more firmly grasp infinity in all its different versions, ever since I was a wee lad, I've been enamored with comparisons of scale, I had always thought there is such a strange correlation between big and small. Ant colonies are similar to human civilization. Stellar orbits mirror even vaguely the arrangements of atoms, how the neural network resembles the cosmic web, It's bold but I have to assume that this fractaling carries on into dimensions beyond our scope, do you consider the universe to be infinite, because objectively it is, but what about whatever our universe is nested in wouldn't that be infinitely more infinite.

An ancient native American description of matter : "Everything is made of spiraling circles within spiraling circles "

And now, may I introduce... "Procedural Generation". Exactly what Terence spoke of nay 30 years ago. This was actually based upon his experience with Microsoft Flight Simulator (Terence was an Apple nerd. We used to bump into him at the computer store in Kona when I was but a wee lad). The MS flight sim was an early commercially-available example of this technology used to build out mountain ranges. The feeble computers of the time were unable to render miles and miles of virtual landscape in real-time so a developer came up with this idea based on his knowledge of fractals. It was later used by George Lucas and his ground-breaking studio by the name of Industrial Light and Magic. The history goes on and on and on and on... (see what I did there?)

Very thankful for this channel..I'd say it's probably one of my ten or so favorite channels on YT. How lucky is it that Terence left so much recorded material?

if you stare at the center of the fractal from around 17-18 minutes then look away, the world literally starts warping around you its really trippy

I'd love to see this video reuploaded in 4k so that we can enjoy a higher bitrate so the fractals don't look as blurry and blocky. These fractals are truly beautiful

I imagine McKenna would have been delighted by some of the incredible 3D fractal art being made today!

i have HPPD from lots of psychadelics. i see trippy stuff all the time, in everything. i love it. but i first really started noticing the fractals in everything if i bothered looking for them after my first 1/2 tab acid trip... i've come to many of the conclusions in this talk on my own over the past 7 years and its really validating to hear someone else say it. my boyfriend talking me through it with fractals is what helped me understand finally that we are the universe. talking to itself.

I was in a time fractal once, it was like every branch was a different past life. I could zoom in and out, and live different lives in a matter of seconds. It was more like a never ending spiral everywhere I looked, with short fractals/family trees coming out of the spiral.

"...in the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.." Sums up today pretty well with social media

14:23 - 15:13 Pretty sure this explains hallucinations like fractals, geometric shapes and patterns, basically during these experiences a certain part of the brain is activated and is revealing to us how our minds, eyes, are processing the world and/or how this world is arranged. Amazing insight!

Peter I have been thanking you for years, as soon as your music started playing my eyes began to water. Thank you Peter! What a joy it has been

Came up with these ideas after tripping on LSD and noticing the fractal nature of everything. Tried to explain it to some friends at the time but I couldn't put the concept into words.

If anyone here is interested in tool and in the right state of mind, lining this up with the start of Pushit off Salival and letting the album run from that point makes for some incredibly synchronized visuals.

This made me think of the recently released pentagon UFO video where the air force pilots were saying that the UFOs would predict where the pilots were flying and show up there before they got there, like they were reading the pilot’s mind. I’ve certainly had experiences with psilocybin that were deja vu like events where I just knew what was happening before it happened and was very strange and trippy…

If you stare at the fractal for a while and look at the comments you'll have a small visual hallucinations.

Super deep... I love u and miss you Terrence. I wish I could have know you but perhaps I already do my friend. You have confirmed some of my speculations and taught me so much more than I knew. I'm glad you made it home!!

As above, so below; as within, so it is without. Absolutely phenomenal video, thank you for sharing.

Beautiful on many levels. You can almost feel your mind expanding while watching. McKenna is a shaman.

Loving the visuals

As above so below. The universe is one complex almost imperceptibly subtle and sublime fractal that we take for granted as part of the construct and manifestation of manifold cosmically autogenous perpetuating patterns and those infinitely nested within themselves. We may be reminded of this when contemplating the golden ratio. Pi, Phi, fibonnaci's fractal as well and the infinitely repeating patterns generated through nature. Crystals are fractal, the macro detail and design is based on the fact that the atomic structure of a crystal is exactly how the crystal will grow and it's shape towards maturity as it reaches our level of perception as it grows.. Salt has a square atomic structure. In larger grown crystals the entire shape makes a square (just an example I do not technically know what shape a sodium chloride crystal assumes but to me it looks square and for purposes of explanation I will refer to it as such..) The micro reflects the macro and vice versa. Even though general relativity and quantum mechanics don't align in a harmonious "grand unified theory" paradoxically they reflect one another and it is true in a generalized context "that which is above correlates to that which is below to accomplish the miracle of existence and reality as known to the individual" disclaimer: I believe in what I'm attempting to explain however but it should be put out there that these are my beliefs and what I also Know to be true by experience and perception of nature's fractals which are infallible in terms of nature's perfection. Nature cannot lie nor is ever false or untrue.

Honestly I came to this conclusion when i was 14. Around the time i saw picture models of the universe, and then pictures of microscopic images. They reflected eachother and from then on I knew that we are soooooo much smaller than we think we are. We most likely are within at least one other giant organsim(our universe, that is), and also very likely that we are a created simulation ourselves, of an incomprehensible magnitude (it could be a mix of mediums, such as mediums we know of such as electrical, biological, mechanical, spiritual etc.). One thing to note that he almost said here but didn't specifically state, is that there is no such thing as "true" freedom of choice. Everything has been pre-determined since the beginning of these fractals first began. Everything that has led you to this point in life was destined to be from the first seed (or seeds). You may choose to make decisions based off of doing what the opposite of what you think you should, and you may call that control over your life, or free will, but you were destined to make that controversial choice as well. I think it's all super fucking cool. Speaking about it as fractals is something i hadn't really put much thought or weight into, but he articulates it well and it makes sense. Typically when i explain this concept to people, i just explain how it's all one giant complex math algorithm, minus the fractal part.

Permaculture is big on patterns, which ties in nicely to fractal structures. The great architect has a thumb firmly pressed on the pulse of aesthetics.

The fractal in this video is superb! Wow.

"I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many of the irregular and fragmented patterns around us, and leads to full-fledged theories, by identifying a family of shapes I call fractals." Benoit Mandelbrot "History is fractal. The closer you look, the more complicated, yet always repeating patterns." Ted Nelson

Fantastic patterns. Wow!

The passion, the knowledge, the insights, the eloquence:. truly fractalicious

Thanks for editing in the wave when Terence talked about, really helped me understand what he was talking about

So sometimes you zoom in on a fractal and zoom in on a point and after that there's nothing... But if you push forward long enough something new will emerge. So I wonder if there was really nothing before the big bang or if you pushed past the nothingness long enough that something new would emerge.

Everytime I thought I heard em all a new one makes my day !👍

Wow wow wow… this hits deep and feels so clarifying in so many ways. Ride the wave.

The logos tapped me on the shoulder...

In an ancient pre Christian tradtion from Europe, it is taught that hidden knowledge is contained in the spaces between the obvious things we see.

Wow! This is huge breakthrough! The fractal reality!

I think Terence McKenna has blown my mind every time I’ve listened to him so far 😂. Much love, thanks for the good content ❤️

I could listen to that music with Terences voice for hours 😀

I love the music towards the end on your videos 😍😍😍

19:20 I love this music so god damn much. It makes me feel nostalgic because I've listened to it so many times when first listening to mckenna

No wonder I love looking at waves for hours.

Love you for uploading these. Ty ty ty.

Hearing this has caused a vast amount of lightbulbs to go on in my head. It's like a lightning storm in my brain, so many different things make sense. Truly breath taking.

i love looking thru trees while on mushies, the patterns are so beautiful.

Terrence Was definitely dialed into the notion of the path of least action and the repeating self-similar nature of nature across scales which is at this point in the development of science is the one central truism that has rung true across virtually all scientific fields.

Thanks for the upload!!!

When I was a little kid I remember often experiencing this in my bed at night, I wasnt exactly seeing it but rather feeling it, its hard to explain

I could watch this all day on low volume!

Oh, by the way, fungi that eat plastic and glass sponges developing in the substructure of the polar icecaps.

Thank you so much for creating this.

Thanks for the Fractal itself as your background.

This prooves to me that reality has unlimited possibilities because every fraction of life, of something that is concious, contributes to an even bigger multiverse of possible choices, uninevidable situations which on their turn are all small fractions of something even more bigger.

Mesmerizing fractal patterns to go with a fantastic talk. I couldn't help but think of my favorite theory of reality, The Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe, which describes reality as a "self-simulation" -- something like a self-containing fractal arising from unbounded ontic potential. Enjoy your trip

"God made man in his image" could be a crude description of fractal holography as an organizing principle of divine nature.

"Local information has global implication" ... the sound of fractals!

The concepts you discuss here are more foundational to our multiverse than can be described. I look foward to merging our worls

terrance mckenna just makes me want to text everybody i love and tell them how much i love and value them

The visuals in this video are so accurate

since the 90's Terrence is my favarate i love listening to him

this is beautiful!

When Problems arise, its the realization as new as it seems, I’ve already solved it before! Unwittingly, slightly different each time yet knowing it will reoccur again and again no matter how unique brings peace to me because I know that I’ve already lived it before. How much more creative can I be on this go around???

Technically, most fractals are not actually self similar, strictly speaking, but contain an unbounded number of slightly distorted versions of themselves. This is true for the Mandelbrot set or for any Julia sets, for example. Furthermore, all fractals generated from polynomials of complex variable are ultimately constructed of [only] slightly distorted copies of themselves. That is to say, no matter what point on a fractal boundary one zooms there can never be any region that a copy of itself cannot be found. What you also may finding intriguing is that every fractal generated from a complex number polynomial (assuming it is not a Fatou dust) always has a [boundary] whose dimension is 2. In essence, these fractal boundaries are the most folded up they can be. For the same reason a Mandelbulb, which is generated in a Euclidean space of complex variable with three spatial axis' (again, assuming it is not a Fatou dust) has a [surface] boundary whose dimension is 3. So, should one try to crinkle its surface more, one would be unable to do so. Personally, I find such properties to be quite remarkable.

Man, this is just what I needed todays lunch break. I have for years now, been tracing deeply into the fractal wisdom of the you'n-i-vurse, even been lucky enough to have a physical experience with "Ether" actually existing as a crystaline substance, that stuff we call air in our field is actually technology programming written in some type of crystal "dust". To think we are freely moving through the open scape could be illusionary to the fact that we are just thought processing with the aid of crystal substance, like chip programming but with primitive crystal rock. Id love to to be able to spend a week with Terrence in the woods.

Great visuals, especially the closing🔮🤲🤲

"The human imagination is the holographic organ of the human body, and we don't 'imagine' anything. We simply see things so far away that there is no possibility of validating or invalidating their existence"- Terrence McKenna

The fractal animation is amazing ! To me it it look like an infinite pulsation of waves from everywhere all dancing together perfectly in peace ☺️💓⚡

It's amazing that this is the same pattern you see when using hallucinogenics. It all ties in to the real truth that we haven't figured out yet.

Incredible to hear about the technological predictions and seeing them come to fruition now.

I would do love him to see the world today and give his views he had such a great way of understanding the world ❤

Nice Music !

We love You, Terence. Thank You so much! :)

What an incredible gift Terence was...just incredible

Fell asleep listening to this on the acid come down and it was the best thing I’ve ever heard

I’m a simple minded drug addict and Terrence McKenna is my hero!

He had me at “febrege”.... dude got it, really enjoy his insight

14:21-16:00 amazing. & made me think of joyce 'in the particular is contained the universal'

How do you find these lectures? Id love to listen to all of them

I haven't heard this theory before and it blows my mind. I started trying to day trade in the pandemic, and became addicted to looking at charts. I am mesmerized by the way the charts are the same on all timeframes nested inside each other from the second to the year. I am told it's the collective mind of all participants that create these patterns. I must spend 50 hours a week staring at them and I continue to find things that amaze me.

We are all fractals of each other. Love this channel!

I very recently learned what fractals are and goddamn I'm excited. In the peak of this excitement, I would dare say that fractal study could derive knowledge more important than last-gen holy books

Woah, I was listening while working but got sucked into that awesome fractal assimilation you got and went to look back at my work computer and notice my screen was still fractaling LOL!

Fractals are very applicable to everyday life because it illustrates the notion that even the universe has an infinite central depth and it’s this depth that actually defines its outer area. In other words, everything you need is right before you.

Very cool I'll watch later. Mr. Rodgers.

I’ve been waiting for this video and didn’t even know it

I’ve seen exact patterns like this. The last time I’ve tripped. I had my eyes closed and what I would describe as the inside of my minds visual cortex was this.

A fractal is generated using a recursive equation - outputs become inputs for the next iteration. In same way, the present state of our reality is an output which becomes the input for generating the next moment of our experience. Hence, all experience, reality, is intrinsically fractal. Where it get really interesting, is that recursive equations are not always predictable, take for example the logistic equation which becomes chaotic and used for pseudo-random number generation.