And now we have Avatar 2.

@ethanholgate2512

Жыл бұрын

Yes indeed 😁😁😁

@DigitalSniper18

Жыл бұрын

I ALWAYS had my suspicions. James Cameron was a psychonaut. Avatars feminine, psychedelic, nature, art, science fictionc consciousness transference, this explains everything! Even the goddess of biology which you see on high doses of psilocybin

@tronam

Жыл бұрын

@@DigitalSniper18 So true! I accidentally stumbled across this video and everything is finally clicking together.

@systemofadown945

Жыл бұрын

@TheLastWampa femenine???? Wow dude so because they give af about the environment thats femenine?

@DigitalSniper18

Жыл бұрын

@@systemofadown945 why do you think they call it MOTHER nature. Throughout history, pagan religions and mythology, Nature has always been seen as a female/feminine entity.

This is what KZread was made for

@evm6177

Жыл бұрын

🍷 Amen brother..

James Cameron: "The idea for Terminator came to me in a dream.." Uhuh... sure James, sure..

This is greatest LSD ad I've ever seen, after watch this I want to use LSD right now!

@nightshadegatito

6 ай бұрын

I'm sorry to let you know, but it's completely non-toxic and also anti-addictive. You couldn't really get hurt on it except emotionally if you do it in a disregarding sort of way. Maybe due to these negative qualities, it is extremely criminalized and very often carries felony charges for simple possession. Makes sense, when alcohol, which is dangerous, harmful to health, longevity, and addictive (these must be the positive qualities that save it in the eyes of the Law) , is given the government's blessing for all adults to use.

@xxevilellisonxx

Ай бұрын

Respect the tab. All I have to say.

He's such a good storyteller, no wonder he became a famous film director!!!

@purefoldnz3070

Жыл бұрын

he probably stole this from Harlan Ellison too.

@aus_liam444

Жыл бұрын

@@purefoldnz3070 stole what?

@purefoldnz3070

Жыл бұрын

@@aus_liam444 its a joke. Harlan Ellison sued him for stealing the Terminator story.

@aus_liam444

Жыл бұрын

@@purefoldnz3070 yeah I know, he sued him for the similarities in one of the "outer limits" episodes as I recall but I just wasn't sure what you were referring to from this interview in particular with him "stealing" anothers idea lol

@purefoldnz3070

Жыл бұрын

@@aus_liam444 thats why it was a joke.

One of the most iconic directors of all time was millimeters close to getting plugged by a campfire made by his wife with his own hunting ammo while high off his ass with acid even before making a single movie. That's wild.

@Skrenja

Жыл бұрын

He was just tripping balls. .22LR in a fire isn't going to have that effect. Just heating a small caliber like that alone isn't going to provide enough pressure to send a round flying like it does from out of a gun. Worst that would happen is someone close to the fire getting burnt or losing an eye from exploding brass shrapnel. Just scary firecrackers, really. 🤣

@sprafa

Жыл бұрын

@@Skrenja Losing an eye might not sound like much until you're the one losing the eye.

@pseudoname3159

Жыл бұрын

@@sprafa That's true.

@lukess.s

Жыл бұрын

@@Skrenja motherfucker can you stop for three seconds and consider the reality of ACTUALLY LOSING AN EYE???

@ToiletClogger1945

8 ай бұрын

@@Skrenja losing both eyes would have meant he can't look into a camera or watch playback of a scene, thus completely incapacitated to filmmaking. and then we all suffer lol. but true and well said. it was the PEWWW that scared me

Never forget the unsung hero of these stories, his wife at the time, Sharon.

@nedrobinson7490

Жыл бұрын

Yep. Behind every great man there’s a woman who builds a campfire with live ammunition 😄

This entire video is an absolute gold mine. Thank you so much for uploading this. I always wondered if Jim was influenced by Terence McKenna and/or the psychedelic experience. This confirms at least the latter part!

@newpalacefilms

Жыл бұрын

You're very welcome!

@roger72715

Жыл бұрын

What's with men like Steve jobs , Jim Cameron and LSD? Well now i know.

@mkphotofilm

Жыл бұрын

@@roger72715 it was popular in the 70s

@Inertia888

Жыл бұрын

@@mkphotofilm It was pretty popular in the 1990s, as well, but I hear more from people of Jame's generation.

@bostrickland4970

Жыл бұрын

Exactly

Holy crap! Can James Cameron just put the Avatar sequels on pause for a wee bit and give us a blockbuster movie about tripping balls? It's been too long since we've gotten a good one - I'm looking at you Fear and Loathing - and the special effects are actually up to snuff now. I really want a movie that captures the visual hallucinations, the broken sense of time, the sudden epiphanies and connections that come about, and the ego dissolution that emerges with more extreme doses. This dude knows that experience and is an excellent storyteller... he could take us there in film!

@danteimage9214

Жыл бұрын

Look up Enter The Void

@def0rm0

Жыл бұрын

Enter the void had the visuals but the storyline didn't grasp me... It was weird. I know that it was based off the tibetan book of the dead but some parts were weird.

@theterminaldave

Жыл бұрын

kind of like revisiting the movie Altered States, but incorporating current technology maybe?

@nightshadegatito

Жыл бұрын

He’d b givn a prmnt vacation for that..

@Hejirah

Жыл бұрын

you want the entire world to get high as a cause of that? might not be that bad of an idea, actually WCGW?

I fucking knew it!!!!!!! He is one of us. The Psychedelic Community.

@DrAutoflower

Жыл бұрын

Lol pretty much my reaction too

@martind.5257

Ай бұрын

I actually searched for this just now! I thought: he must have said something about psychedelics at sine point! The way nature and spirituality is depicted in Avatar just told me so! Beautiful 🙂

What a unique and uniquely grounded individual.

@TechnologicallyTechnical

18 күн бұрын

the way he talks in this interview is literally the same way every LA hipster talks

Even the explanation of his acid trips are art

The most laid back I have ever seen him in an interview. But still very eloquently analytical.

My friend had a boa constrictor, that always just stayed still in its tank. But every time, maybe three or so trips, we sat in the same room with the snake, it would rise up, and move its head toward either of us. It would look directly at one of us, or in turn, some of us. It certainly seemed to be responding to us, and only when we were tripping on acid.

@tylerrosser3687

Жыл бұрын

That's wild. Like you were tuned in with senses you normally wouldn't experience and the snake sensed that too. Like you guys were on the same wavelength of experience.

@surajmandal777

Жыл бұрын

I have always though that lot of experiences that i've had has a characteristic to it which can only be described as "serpentine". Reading your comment was relateable and also mind blowing at the same time.

@theterminaldave

Жыл бұрын

Makes you wonder if psychedelics involve more of the "lizard" brain that we have, and which might have some kind of telepathic properties. I'd thought I'd heard that science still doesn't have an explanation as how large reptiles like alligators communicate (other than their unique vocalizations).

@dl2one

Жыл бұрын

Wtf lol

@rosierose111

Жыл бұрын

Who would trip in a room with a Boa Constrictor!!!😮

He is such a good storyteller

Well I'm 40 and still too scared to ever try acid. His description is good enough for me.

You know, I was expecting the context for the clip featured in Noodle's King Kong video to be disappointing. I wasn't disappointed at all.

He even did psilocybin mushrooms. FUCKING LEGEND

@reccct

Жыл бұрын

whats so special about it?

@User61918

Жыл бұрын

@@reccct nothing . but def worth trying if you’re curious

@nightshadegatito

Жыл бұрын

@@reccct it’s interesting but if you’ve done LSD… not… that interesting. ig snacking on psilocybin mushrooms throughout the night while also high and drunk (i.e. crossfaded) af is pretty good.

@SamirJzVFX

Жыл бұрын

@@reccct uhmmmmmm for me is special because I can't take psycodelics without bad trip, I admire the people who can (all the world)

@Lucky-sh1dm

Жыл бұрын

@@User61918it’s literally one of the most incredible experiences a human being can experience I wouldn’t call that “nothing” Lmfao wow bruh. I can see they had absolutely no effect on your npc dumbass Lmfao

This is better than both avatar films

this man has lived one thousand lifetimes

@KerioFive

Жыл бұрын

Not even one actually

@brunoarnabar7450

Жыл бұрын

@@KerioFive what do you mean

@KerioFive

Жыл бұрын

@@brunoarnabar7450 cause his life isn't over

@cjhoward82

Жыл бұрын

@@KerioFive 🤯

@caseybald5482

Жыл бұрын

Everyone fits a million different ones into one.

Saved to various personal playlists: Spirit, Aliens, Favorites, Avatar, Watch Later

I was just watching a new 2023 documentary on “Titanic” and listening to Cameron talk about how the movie was conceived, I thought, “he talks like he’s done psilocybin,” then I found this video. It all makes sense now. Thanks for sharing, guided psilocybin therapy changed my life.

It's one thing to imagine what inspired the world of Pandora, it's another to hear the stories that led up to that inspiration. I've known about Jim's youthful exploits for some time but this video is a real treasure. I doubt I'm being bold to wager that the deleted psychedelic ritual sequence from the first Avatar will find new life in the sequels. Thanks so much for sharing this.

@AlexGarcia-ze4yg

Жыл бұрын

Yes! I've seen that unfinished sequence. Hope to see it completed someday.

@DashingZak

Жыл бұрын

That specific deleted scene certainly indicates that James ultimately did have a mystical experience; probably with a shamanic plant like Ayahuasca. These plant medicines provide a much more organic experience that gives us an insight into the Gaian mind, as opposed to LSD that is more psychological/mental.

@iggiryjoff

Жыл бұрын

f...n addicts

When Cameron talks about the feeling of being a 'tube' that ingests and excretes really hit home: I was at the end of a 10 wk meditation workshop, during an 8 hr meditation, I found myself as a mollusk, a small shelled thing sitting on the edge of an ocean, breathing in and breathing out -- nothing but the breathing - reduced to breath flow as a mollusk on a sea shore. I've done acid (decades ago) but that was an exceptionally vivid and tacit feeling that blew me away.

@mavis3916

Жыл бұрын

8hour meditation? 😆😆😆😆

@phoenixj1299

Жыл бұрын

Don't compare meditation with cheap LSD, DMT.

@pandemicentitlements5198

Жыл бұрын

@@phoenixj1299 why? Did I break some cardinal law?

@lastnamefirst4035

Жыл бұрын

@@mavis3916 You don't understand meditation

@mavis3916

Жыл бұрын

@@lastnamefirst4035 enlightened me then

incredible. brilliant, humble, scientific storyteller

Thanks for this man

Thank you for sharing this !!! This is amazing !!!

So this is his secret to becoming the best director of all time. LSD

Awesome video... Thanks for the upload.

Wow! What a gem. Thanks for uploading this.

This is amazing footage!!

This is fantastic. Thank you for this upload.

WHAT A FUCKING GEM OF A SOURCE. THANK YOU

Love this !

"The fire is shooting at us!" /Andy Bernard/

This was fascinating to watch.

Wow what a find, thank you!!!!!

James Cameron: "The fire is shooting at us!!"

Wowwwwww this man🙏🙏🙏

Lmao the thumbnail, how dare you 😂

I love how he took creative license with the events surrounding his acid trip “Don’t ask”

Thanks for sharing this, really interesting to listen to Jim talking about this subject.

These are great!

This is one of the best videos I've seen, wow!

Someone needs to put animation to these stories.

The magician🙏🙏🙏long live n love u deeply ever💓💓💓💓💓

Blast from the past. James Cameron became James Cameron from here.

thank you sooo much

@newpalacefilms

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

It’s interesting how many of our most creative and igneous minds, the greatest artists, musicians, CEO’s, filmmakers, etc etc..all have crazy stories of some kind of experience with LSD. The Beatles were the clean cut, fab 4, mop tops making pop hit after pop hit…did LSD then morphed into the greatest songwriters and biggest and most influential band of all time. Also interesting to note that LSD and the Atomic bomb were both discovered around the same time. One being the greatest explosion in the world, the other being in the mind.

@TrggrWarning

Жыл бұрын

Giving drugs credit like that is strange. Mostly because that credit exists someplace between unfortunate and untrue.

@AT-yg4nk

Жыл бұрын

@@TrggrWarning If it’s described as a “drug”, as in it fits in the same category as say Heroine, Crack, Meth, many Opiates, PCP, Cocaine, etc..that isn’t what LSD is. All “drugs” are normally toxic, addictive, have no health benefits of any kind are harmful, have no benefit other than for “pleasure” and escape Psychedelics are not that. They are non toxic, non addictive, are derived from fungus and plants and are natural. Can they be dangerous? Absolutely!!! But if done responsibly if provides one of the most important and influential experiences a human being can have. It’s up there with getting married, or having a child. People that have a full-blown psychedelic experience normally state it being one of the most significant experiences in their life. I know it was for me. I don’t consider LSD a “drug” It’s a tool and an access to your higher self. Your spiritual self. The “real” you. And those that aren’t in anyway prepared to experience that, or had some naive idea of what they were going to experience, are the people who have the “bad trip” and give psychedelics a bad name. It’s a full-blown spiritual journey…not some “party drug” that you just take on a Saturday night hoping to “get high.” It’s not LSD’s fault. It’s the persons fault and ignorance towards the substance. The insights, ideas, the creative energy it provides will drastically alter your perception of reality and provide you new insights opening an entire world of imagination. To credit LSD as the “main source” for many of our creative minds creations? No. To say that it didn’t have an impact of influence? Also no. It’s a combination of the individual already being a “creative” person. The LSD just took it up to a whole other level.

@D-Fens_1632

Жыл бұрын

It's a nuanced discussion. Too many people give too much credit to psychedelics for changing everything from art to politics, while at the same time others refuse to recognize their very real impact on society and if anything call them only harmful. Truth lies somewhere in the middle.

@knowthycell

Жыл бұрын

To truly appreciate psychedelics one should record them self while high to see how stupid they act.

@petecarter5170

Жыл бұрын

One being the greatest explosion in the world.. The other being a bomb.

Watching this you get the sense that Mr. Cameron could've ended up telling these stories to random people at a McDonald's in Hamilton.

This is so insanely epic

"I have no idea where I got the bucket (don't ask)" 🤣😆😆😂 💀💀

I feel like this experience as well as tribal influence inspired the dream hunt scene. Wish they kept that in as well as many others in the movie!

This explains a lot actually.

I relate to that being able to remember former tripping-territory better when you trip again, but for me it happened in a scary/daunting way when coming up on mushrooms, like "oh whoahhhh here we go again... how could i forget how bizzarre, serious, and frightening this strange rendezvous IS?" But then maybe that is just coming up against my own entanglements, which the mushrooms are trying to undo, even heal. They always seemed to land me peacefully/gently and in health, regardless of the intensity. Still I fear them now. Also, the part at the end about animals seems to be a thing for sure. Even just in core/central shifts of the individual. Like, dont crystaline matrices grow outwards, but the pattern can be altered by something at the center/origin? Anyway, my body jas definitely seemed to change on mushrooms in various ways, including inter-cellular integrity. I.e. subjectively described as a soft vibe. One glowing mushroom experience ended up in a really peaceful state in friend's room and she gave me her snake and he coiled up in my hands and we were in a deep stillness, and (I like to believe at least 🤣) in serious appreciation of each other and the moment 🐍🔮🌠 another time a friend's cat raised fully and hissed in fear (kind of made sense by my inner state maybe). People and other animals can become extremely sensitive to, and aware of each other. Some internal states or vibes can be very hard to "hide". Mushrooms can certainly melt a lot of boundaries and leave us naked... you know how ink is the only way for an octopus to have a private moment/thought, as they are like an ongoing physical expressions of, I guess, much to all of what they are, including their "inner state"? I think Terence McKenna made that same kind of analogy. Some of us are trying to grow boundaries again... we know where the melt-button is 🍄🙏

13:50 what's interesting is that that also applies to meditation, where you also build up upon your previous experiences and basically sort of hop on the train of where you left when you stop and do it again.

Awesome upload man, I'm amazed this has remained hidden for so long. Love to hear articulate people talk about their psychedelic experiences. They are important tools, and it's a shame we are too scared to explore our own consciousness. The true final frontier will be the mapping of consciousness via the use of psychedelic compounds.

@diaz6884

Жыл бұрын

Funny because humans discovering Psychedelics was one of our first frontiers

@TickleMeTimbers

Жыл бұрын

What do you mean by the "mapping of consciousness"?

@mrmookypooky

Жыл бұрын

@@TickleMeTimbers We humans love to map things. We map our genome, we map our earth, we map outterspace. By map I mean understand.... It is currently illegal to explore consciousness via psychedelics. This should change so we can explore and map the mind. Have to start somewhere.

Makes so much sense. Both of the movies really resembled my own personal experiences on shrooms/acid. Especially the Kiri scenes.

This is an amazing find. The first story feels like it could’ve fed into his dream for the image of the Terminator.

@D-Fens_1632

Жыл бұрын

And let's not forget Ripley tosses an ammo belt into the fire in Aliens.

@filmmaker610

Жыл бұрын

@@D-Fens_1632 Oh yeah. Such a weird connection. 😄

@phoenixj1299

Жыл бұрын

Weaklings look for miracles and shortcuts.

1000% some of this imagery is in the next avatar films

My faith in James has been restored by seeing this, even after his recent unfortunate utterances on social media..

@astronautadejakku9699

Жыл бұрын

what'd he do?

@vb8428

Жыл бұрын

@@astronautadejakku9699 Don't even care. People whine about everything and everyone on that site

@cliddily

Жыл бұрын

​@@astronautadejakku9699 In a recent Avatar 2 promotional interview he stated that his best works in the 80's were driven by 'toxic testosterone'. A virtue signaling, unnecessary political, and alienating statement imo..

@omegasalmonfish

Жыл бұрын

@@cliddily oh that’s actually cool

@greenfeather50

11 ай бұрын

​@@cliddilyI think he knows his own mind and past motivations better than you, a random internet person. Virtue signalling would be him saying something he doesnt really believe just to score points with a certain group. You seem to be assuming that's not simply how he feels, because somehow you are "triggered" by his use of "toxic testosterone" and feel the need to be reactionary and contrarian about it

Really amazing how articulate he is about this subject. I am a tea-totaller and I approve of this video 😅

So interesting!

25:00 Reminded me of the scene where Jake Sully encounters the Pandorian dogs while being lost in the forests of Pandora in his Avatar body.

Explains his mastery of visuals.Good lad Jim

So many things make sense now.

James should get himself an isolation tank for his home, (if he doesn't already have one.) Lord knows he can afford one. If he enjoys tripping as much as it seems here, he would REALLY dig having his own tank. Those things take you into an entirely new dimension.. without any substances needed whatsoever.

Holy smokes have never see this side of Jim. Thanks for posting!

@newpalacefilms

Жыл бұрын

You are welcome!

If there is an interview of James Cameron talking about screenwriting and film making and his struggle in the industry this intimately, I'd love to see it.

@artofsam

Жыл бұрын

Agreed, I feel his life pre-Terminator is shrouded in a fair bit of mystery this interview was actually quite a surprise to hear his experimentation with drugs, but for me I wish he talked about his entry into the movie business particularly his days with Roger Corman, directing Piranha 2 etc and how he managed to fund Terminator.

@DrAutoflower

Жыл бұрын

@@artofsam this is far more interesting

@artofsam

Жыл бұрын

@@DrAutoflower I can only gather that you haven't heard of any of the stories from making The Abyss to know that is simply untrue, tripping on LSD... sure, still an interesting insight into the man but frankly if Cameron was known to be difficult at the height of his career god only knows what he was doing on productions pre Terminator.

@luisrizo8813

Жыл бұрын

Find that "Blockbuster" podcast.

@transcendmeta

Жыл бұрын

He has a course in Masterclass I believe.

Absolute gold mine!! Where did you find this OP?!

@DrAutoflower

Жыл бұрын

Exactly! This pretty much solidified my theory he set out to create the greatest psychedelic Saga ever made

I have been to that dark place, where there is nothing. It was quite liberating. It happened when I was given a visual/sound show my first trip, it just went blank, when I focused eventually I saw the girls hands come back. She was swirling them while the man made noises behind me.

That weird tv experience was when the Navi ppl communicated telepathically and giving you all the necessary experiences to make their story!🙏😉

Jeez, man!

12:44 Eywa

I love this dude

Big kudos to him for talking about his experiences. More people who use drugs should have the courage to talk about it openly.

After seeing The Abyss, I knew this guy had to be a psychonaut.

I wonder how many Yes albums featuring Roger Dean paintings he was listening to and looking at during this time.

Wow, what a really interesting and intelligent guy he is. If taken responsibly for the first time (set and setting), psychedelic experiences can be safe and powerful for most people.

He reminds me of these baby boomer hippies that end up as college professors. He is definitely one of the coolest dudes to ever make it in Hollywood!

@D-Fens_1632

Жыл бұрын

I was lucky to get one or two in college in the late 90s. Feel luckier now to have gotten in an out of college before the university system became the woke hell it is today. Plus we actually learned a few things, real subjects were still required, no BS gender studies courses and all that.

Ladies and gentlemen. James Cameron!

“like a locomotive at this time”

@nightshadegatito

Жыл бұрын

I’ve been laughing out loud for like two days watching this video. It’s so good.

"Whether the guy was there or not, I'm not really sure" 😂

Now it makes total sense why he's so obsessed with Pandora and explaining all the world building stuff with obsessive detail.

14:10 much like the feeling of revisiting a familiar world, whilst dreaming.

Oh wow had no idea Jim experimented with acid back in the day shouldn't surprise me as he's always been about and heavily interested in exploring curiosity as a famous quote from him on the Ted talk he did years later but I loved this interview its always awesome to discover and check these ones out interesting thought from Jim as always great interview find was this off a vhs recording you had from years back or was this a deep dive find online? Cause wow 👌

@newpalacefilms

Жыл бұрын

I transferred an old VHS tape that contained this interview from my filmmaker friend who was Jim's pal. :)

@ethanholgate2512

Жыл бұрын

@@newpalacefilms no way that's awesome 👍

So we were one acid trip away from having all these great movies Cameron has made never happening.

it makes total sense he made avatar!!!!

This is really a great testimony/interview. Perhaps he was fresh from the nightmarish Abyss shoot, seems like late 80s or early 90s

@newpalacefilms

Жыл бұрын

1985.

@D-Fens_1632

Жыл бұрын

I wonder what the purposes of this interview were? This was Reagan era War on Drugs, people weren't trying to hear all this stuff back then. Kinda ballsy of him to be so candid about drug use and legality, that could have cost some their careers.

God I love young James Cameron, his enthusiasm and witty charisma is so damn attractive ngl. I can see why the ladies liked him so much back in the day hahaa 🤩

Kubrick never took acid but his movies are trippier than any of the movies this guy did

How did you find this video? what is the source? when was this taken? can you guys please give some context? this is amazing!

Yo. His describing Jake Sully in Avator 1.exactly when he was fighting the monsters at very beggining.

Go Cameron

beautiful story by Mr Tarantino

Why am I just seeing this now !?

This is unbelievable

Last 3 movies from Cameron. 7 Billion dollars. I rest my case.

@Skrenja

Жыл бұрын

I love Cameron's films and he's an amazing writer/director -- but box office returns aren't indicative of a movie's quality _at all._ There's great movies that make no money and terrible ones that rake it in. It's just like how McDonald's being the most profitable restaurant in the world doesn't make it the best.

@cyclingninja6780

Жыл бұрын

You are missing the point with this comment. Point= LSD won’t turn you into a raging lunatic, like the government wanted people to believe. And don’t shoot rabbits 🤘🏼

Too funny. There's "420 Comments" now 421... This is the stuff Cameron doesn't talk about ever and hasn't since then. Thanks for the upload, it's pure GOLD!

More likeable fellow than I thought he was. LSD is not for everyone though.

@taylorjeremy71

Жыл бұрын

Yes it is

@willpeony5534

Жыл бұрын

@@taylorjeremy71 Maybe so but not when milling rough lumber.

@taylorjeremy71

Жыл бұрын

@@willpeony5534 Milling lumber? Talk about moving the goalpost.

@willpeony5534

Жыл бұрын

@@taylorjeremy71 I can tell you're smart, smart enough not to have taken the vacks ine!