I served him daily at a cafe In Hawaii and I had no idea who he was at the time. All I knew was his energy was radiant and free. As a person living with extreme anxiety I felt nothing but love and acceptance from him. I saved the best fruits for his smoothie and naturally made everything he ordered with absolute joy and love. Someone finally asked if I knew who he was and introduced his books to me. I never felt comfortable with anyone except for him and only a handful of people I’ve ever met. He is a rare gem 💎 of a soul. I’m blown away by his work and having had the honor of interacting with such a multidimensional adept. ❤

I've been addicted to heroin for 11 years, after trying out psilocybin treatment I will be 2 years clean

"Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds arount." I love this idea.

"I'll try to be around and about. But if I'm not, than you know that I am behind your eyelids, and I'll meet you there." - Terence McKenna

Psilocybin containing mushroom saved my life from depression and addiction to Crack.Never had a bad trip.

Psychedelics is a tool in which the universe uses to connect with us, we understand without words We listen without distractions,we agree without arguments.

Psilocybin mushrooms healed me . I can't explain it but my experience has been spiritual and eye opening . I also started micro dosing . It really helped me get rid of depression and anxiety .

"Culture is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviours are acceptable."

Terence repeats many things that Leonardo da Vinci wrote about in his codexes - the importance of immediate experience, mathematics, the fundamental importance of nature, etc. He is truly an Immortal Mentor.

Sometimes I don’t understand what he’s saying but when I catch something it just clicks. I love his vibe

I’ve found psychedelics have helped my PTSD from Iraq become almost irrelevant. This after being prescribed over 26 medications per day by the VA. I no longer need them. I’ve found myself also seeing everything much differently now. I analyze current events and society, as well as life in general totally differently now.

He could talk like this without notes.. for hours and hours. It's mind boggling. A preacher. A prophet. Touched by God.

I made researches and found out that shrooms are very helpful, it has really helped to reduce anxiety and depression and some other mental health issues.

Depression haunted my life from a very young age, and I was put on a bunch of SSRIs as a child in attempt to deal with it. None worked.Psychedelic mushrooms was brought to my attention. It was the first thing that actually had real effects. They should only be used with great care and respect.

Terrence was a physical embodiment of the human spirit in a single organism. A saint of our times, and wish we still had him today.

The A.I. art has identified Andy Serkis as the most appropriate actor to play Terrance’s role in a biopic.

Hes a once in a century soul and mind. Like on a level of prophetic. Genuine and lived for others. What this man exoerienced to help better understand and help everyone and save society and evolve it.

" Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around". Priceless. If ever there was a true ludic genius of our age who had real clearity of the moment we live in it was Terrence McKenna.

Terrence was one of the greatest minds of our time. His whole theory of habit and novelty still blows me away to this day. I've never heard anyone quite like him.

I had so much Terrence McKenna on my Ipod in middle school and high school. It was about 60 hours worth of lecture. He was a major influence.

I was very into McKenna in the 90's even though I understood maybe 25% of what he was saying. Funny how much more it makes sense today. I think I understand 27% of it now. Actually it makes a lot of sense and reminds me of ways of thinking that's mostly lost to me these days unfortunately. I truly hope future generations can gather together under a unified vision for life on earth. I doubt I'll see that. He remains the only person I've ever heard use the word 'concrescence' 😊.

When I was a child, I thought McKenna was absolutely bonkers. Now as an adult I see how prophetic he actually was.

There have been prophets and wise men all through human history, and it's fascinating to be a contemporary of someone like Terence McKenna, Graham Hancock, Alan Watts, Eckhart Tolle....just to name a few, who are deeply concerned with helping us finding our true nature. It's equally fascinating to see the majority of human beings living in ignorance and hostility, especially the ones holding power, trying the best they can to destroy this planet and our wellbeing.

I wish this man knew how much his words helped me understand my own experiences Bless you Terrance wherever you might be

Such an immense mind, and the clarity of thought 🤔 is beyond compare... Never tire of listening to this incredible mind/soul ❤️

"It is a cliche of modernity that the city is a jungle. The problem is it isn't jungle enough." Wow!

I want to help humanity as a whole, I feel as though there is only so much I can do. I know I'm not alone in this feeling and I would like to encourage everyone else on this journey of healing

My god such a genius. Never listened much to him but blown away.

A truly prescient talk, we miss you man 😢

The artwork is beyond beautiful. I hope you have that peace now Mr. McKenna!

We have his words, no one is going to turn this place around for us. We must do it one at a time, in our own lives. Life will change when we change what we value.

Isn't it interesting that shrooms give many people the same trip? That we are all part of a super-organism, all connected to each other, and all ultimately going the same place? It's as if mother nature is giving us clues to survive.

This guy has done soo much for me, beyond grateful.

Once I tried shrooms, I said the whole world needs this. This will help us heal ourselves and the world.

Terence McKenna was surely one of the great humans of the 20th Century in my opinion, although so many people still haven’t heard of him. He was a serious intellectual who wasn’t afraid to question scientific reasoning or religions. Thankfully the wealth of knowledge he conveyed to the world through research & direct experience of psychedelics has been captured on videos like this one.

Whenever I have felt disconnected from society I find sitting on a beach with my eyes closed and just listen to the sounds of nature helps ground me.

These psychonautic travels are amazing themselves, but the way he’s able to articulate them is what i really appreciate, the writer in him. He is the reason why i started exploring the unknown, entered into those ”spirals/portals” that took me places i could never imagine. Inspiration is the best gift we can give to one another, or a fat joint, that’ll do the job too.🐸 Anyway im too high for this…

Incredible how he could speak like this for hours with no notes or teleprompter.

Balance. We lack balance on all fronts.

EVERYONE SHOULD HEAR THIS ❤

when I eat mushrooms my favorite thing to do is sit in my peaceful room and know i am blessed and I appreciate Terrence since the 90 s when I bought archaic revival

One of his best talks. I really enjoyed the brief time I spent with him. Listening to this reminds me just how brilliant he was and how eternally relevant his message. ❤

This message is proof that our fate is sealed for the worst.Huxley started the conversation,Leary was persecuted for speaking,but TM was the last gasp.I am 70yrs and would rather not be here due to the madness I can no longer tolerate.

Sad thing is, he could've preached a message like this 2000 years ago and it would've been just as true as it is today. Humanity has never changed, only technology has.

I love this man. See you in hyperspace 🥰

What can be said, nothing. Just listen. His understanding and ability to communicate such abstract concepts is astounding. He has thought, seen, experienced and articulates everything with such exact precision. His conversations never leave one with a feeling of confusion or inferiority. He is both complex and simple and expresses his love for life and radiates the beauty that are woven through his knowledge and understanding. His contributions are essential to help humans adjust and understand universal connection and growth

this video found me..I honestly feel overwhelmed by the emotions I am currently processing here. Be good to one another.

The reason we can't learn from nature is we believe we can think our way to wisdom.Nature's intelligence operates without thought."Truth is action without thought." J.Krishnamurti

This guy underestimated our ability to lie to ourselves n deny reality

I graduated in '95; I wonder what he would think about where we find our society today, and would he be like "See? Called it!" I'm sure he, much like Jesus Himself, would be absolutely horrified by the "mess of politics" as he put it, that we've let run amok.

i'm so grateful to have terence's wisdom on youtube, learning so much

Holy crap this man has a beautiful mind and soul! 🙏

I can feel the intense energy in his voice

2024..and here i am just now finding him through what i think i know..everytime before i go to work and after work...i listen to him..its soemthing im so interested in and not for recreational use but for wisdom..he is our Gandolf of modern times...more people shouldve had known about him more..he is showing us through KZfaq...pls listen because we are blinded through things we dont have a clue of and as one movie quote says that has been stuck with me to those who know this.."there is more than meets the eye".

At 14mins, his joke about plants and seeds😂. Genius comedian that has such high intellect that its easy to miss his comedy.

I was thinking today that we can't solve our problems by the same (linear, analytical) mind that created them when hearing people talk about Elon Musk. Terence McKenna had that other sort of mind and I'm so glad he shared so much.

This intellectual was far beyond his time 💚

I love hearing this beautiful man❤ although, Ive just recently discovered him. I've been on my spiritual journey for quites some time. I took the sunglasses off to see. Now that I see, I'm finding what I can do for all of us. For all life. Not just people. Animals, air particles, blades of grass, rocks, other planets, all minerals, everything. I think if we all set our intentions towards harmonizing and loving the all, that we could help in a very impactful way. Just 2 minutes before you sleep to spread that love and light we all have. I love you all dearly❤

Some of my key moments from this: Terence McKenna quotes: On Capitalism: “There’s a lot of kind of self-congratulatory back-slapping going around these days, over the fact that communists everywhere are in hot water and have to admit that they did it wrong, and that gives a lot of satisfaction to people who feel that means we did it right. We didn’t do it right. They did it wrong and now admit they did it wrong. We do it wrong and have yet to raise the possibility of turning away from what we’re doing…” On Culture: “Our culture is in trouble - not in trouble - we are at a terminal crisis, a bifurcation that can go only one of two ways. Either horror beyond your wildest imagination or breakthrough to dignity, decency, community and caring beyond your wildest imagination. Now, where do you look for models, where do you go? The answer is so obvious - you go to nature. Nature has been playing this game for 2 billion years on this planet. Nature has an economy. An elegance. A style, that if we could but emulate it, we could rise out of the rubble that we are making of this planet.” “Culture is a garment which you put on. Medical systems are pieces of jewellery which wrap around your throat or neck. Religious ideals are like objects which you push through nostrils and earlobes. If we cannot come to terms with that which allows us to give birth with these. To die with dignity, and to live in health, then what kind of a future do we have? No. Future. At all.” On our abstraction: “Abstraction is the knife poised at our hearts. We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames, we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat. That’s the level of disimpassioning that abstraction has laid upon us.” On psychedelics: “The only thing I can preach is the felt presence of immediate experience. Which, for me came through the psychedelics. Which are not drugs, but plants. It’s a perversion of language to try and derail this thing into talk of drugs. There are spirits in the natural world that come to us in this way. And as far as I can tell, this is the only way that they come to us that is rapid enough for it to have an impact on us as a global population.” On fear: “History is a kind of horrified realisation that something has been lost. That there is an itch hard to scrath in the civilised context. That we have out of fear really, descended into patterns of domination of each other, of the environment, of our children, of our social relations with exogamous groups. We have descended int o a dominator pattern that is basically based on clutching on fear…” On why there is a feeling of dis-ease: “This is the consequence of ceasing basically to do enough hallucinogens in the diet. From around 100,000 to about 15,000 years ago, human beings were in a flirtatious situation with a symbiotic relationship with this mind, resident in vegetable nature.” He relates it to the relationship between a fish and a sea anemone. “If you take the little fish away from the anemone, it doesn’t die. It doesn’t go into an immediate physiological crisis. No, what happens is it simply has a low body weight and a short life-span. In other words, it is under stress.” “I believe that the lost secret of human emergence, the undefined catalyst that took a very bright monkey and turned that species into a tormented. self-reflecting poet/dreamer. The catalyst has to be sought in these tertiary alkaloids in the food chain that were catalysing higher states of intellectual activity.”

Amazing wisdom, thank you for sharing this gem with everyone ❤

Beautiful message and artwork! Community is necessary component. Albert Einstein said, “We cannot solve our problems with same thinking we used when we created them.” We created an legal system which is adversarial by nature, a winner and a loser. We created a competitive economic system and educational system creating corporate slavery. Our economic system is fueled by the insatiable appetite of consumerism depleting our Earth’s resources faster than they can be replenished. Einstein also said in reference to Nuclear energy, “Humanity hasn’t evolved enough to use this energy for only peaceful purposes.” Personally, I dropped out of society and into a spiritual community, a communal living society thinking that was part of the solution at that time but I experienced the same nepotism, control, manipulation, dogmatic and judge mental attitudes of society at large. My current thought is that humanity hasn’t evolved enough to live that potentially egalitarian peaceful way of life of selfless service to all. Many communities exist but by necessity live isolated to one degree or another from main stream society. Today I live alone and I am free to practice meditation but I am still contributing to the depletion of our collective resources. However, I am not giving up my optimism for a quantum leap in consciousness for all of humanity. In the meantime keep working on changing myself to express Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self control. As Dr. Joe Dispenza says, “When we change ourselves, we change the world!” -- I am remaining alert for community operating from a “higher resonance of reality” vs living in an alienated society of dog eat dog.

saw him in my hometown, he gave a speech for 90 minutes & stayed for music & some weed. Dude might have been in the CIA but was chill AF

He has such a beautiful way of speaking.

Beyond brilliant…. A true sage/prophet of the 20th century… still every bit as relevant in 2023

He speaks just like Mr. Rogers. ❤

Plant wisdom is one of the highest forms of intelligence and love.

My man Terance, the guru/shaman of our time. Where would we be without him. 😢

Giving the artist heart felt kudos. Terence is a planetary treasure ❤

Slowly but surely people are finding out that Terrance has so much wisdom to offer in the approaching age of AI.

These recordinga are golden and I thank those who were orginally charged with dividing and putting these into web interaction seeing the spreading of his message and brilliance to those of us who knew him then, and those who are now part of the ongoing awakening. His recording of, however it happened was a treasure chest revealed. The importance of the "felt presence of experience".

It takes an extreme idealist to live with the amount of contradictions that Terrence had. Nonetheless I appreciate that it was coming from a place of geniune compassion for the world.

This is a well-done tribute to McKenna's life work. The artwork is beautiful and totally suits everything there is about that man. I see his work is becoming popular once again after a couple decades, especially will all the reposts of his work. Although, the style of the author of this video is top notch, so thank you.

Terry was and was a brilliant man. He felt what many people tried. My understanding of him is one of a kind. My feelings 😪 throughout my life time was harsh . I am still here,whether I want to be or not. Trees are special to me, I heard them say once, we will take care of you. All creations are alive . Red is clear. Clear is red. Black is white, white is black. Red is black, black is red. Clear water is Red like blood. You might think I am out there somewhere, I am. One morning, I took a shower . My shampoo was red. I thought to myself, oh cool. It was clear. My friend came out of the shower and said to me, "I never seen Red shampoo before." I said, "Look again in your hand." In her surprise, the shampoo was clear. The shampoo was telling us what you think is not what is. I know all life love us in their own way. 😊

Merci pour ta sagesse, Terence. Grand humain, grand ami et défenseur de la Vie.

I feel blessed by the light when I listen to Terrance. ❤

Funny he mentioned "Animals were invented by plants to move seeds around"... there is a old Italian legend about Bees being "Birthed" from Flowers to help them Breed and live,it talks about the 1st bees being stiff,ifeless and only got around on the wind ... got me thinking

One of the most gifted thinkers of our time.

Infinite thanks Terence, for the sanity and the telos! ❤

Thank you so much! Its reassuring to hear someone else talk about this. Especially 3 years before i was born. Ive always seen this but i was taught that i was crazy. Best meme all time

Beyond brilliant! I challenge anyone to find his equal on this planet! Thank you! I'm so grateful for this post!

I 100% agree that there's not enough greenery in city streets

Taoism is the closest philosophy to nature that I've discovered.

One of the most lucid speeches I’ve ever heard

thanks to the dogs in the background you gave me a idea for the music im working on.

Enlightenment and Shunyata is precisely peace of no-mind. The mechanical mind evaporates. So no let’s not forget enlightenment it’s really our only hope. But it’s not a collective enterprise. It’s an individual experience.

Listened to this while on shrooms. Highly, highly recommended. Holy fuck.

1995 was just yesterday, it stands true because nothing changes as things consistently reverberate throughout history

The loss of much of his work in a fire is similar to the burning of the library of Alexandria that he often talked about, in a way

This man is extremely wise

After like 2:30 seconds in he said the IMF and other world bank entities are trying to stop deforestation,I was DONE with this….

Mr Terrence McKenna has done so much for my peers. Now its my turn.

His words unfortunately illustrate what is happening in the world currently. Once he mentioned that civilization is a race between education and apocalypse, which I cannot agree any more

I wish I could articulate myself in this manner

This man understood how to express himself linguistically and I love listening to him to calm down or if I want to think of possibilities. I find myself out loud saying “right?!” He just was way ahead of his time.

I love how this hits after a recent trip, not tripping right now, just makes sense lmao I had a short moment of total peace in the now and it made me realize I'm not at peace normally

if the modern AI does not include Terrence McKenna then I want no part of it.

“We have not awakened to the depths of the crisis that surrounds us.” Equally true in 2024! It’s up to each of us to inner-stand what’s going on inside of ourselves, rather than seeking to under-stand what someone else is saying is truth.

He featured on the boss drum album by the shamen and it blew me away as a teenager.

just imagine if someone like Terrence was in government/ president

I smoked DMT the first time in '99 in Palenque MX at the Visionary Entheobotany Seminars put on by Ken Symington, Terence McKenna, Rob Montgomery, and Jonathan Ott at Hotel Chan-Kah. Life-changing