These Checkmate Lincolnite episodes are getting weirder with every one.

@TheEscapeDiary9th

3 күн бұрын

Cant wait for the next one.

@user-gp2nc2lx5q

3 күн бұрын

Grant to Meade, 1864: "Gord, duuude, we'll outflank Lee's trenches at Petersburg METAPHYSICALLY........These Spencer-equipped dragon cavalry are some kick-ass shit".

@desdenova1

Күн бұрын

@@user-gp2nc2lx5q "Send in the machine-elf brigade!"

after having watched this, i believe terrence shouldve written a dope ass novel rather than trying to make serious hypotheses

@AtunSheiFilms

3 күн бұрын

He would have been an amazing sci fi writer. He also probably wouldn’t have been nearly as influential though.

@Blashswanski

3 күн бұрын

@@AtunSheiFilms While I agree, I think that would have sentenced him to being a second rate Phillip K Dick... or a first rate Robert Anton Wilson... As broken clock gurus go, TMK is a gem. I feel sorry for kids today, trying to piece together weird ontologies out of the broken ramblings of Brett and Eric Weinstein and whoever was on Joe Rogan last week.

@EphemeralTao

3 күн бұрын

@@Blashswanski RAW certainly stole a lot from McKenna. And PKD for that matter.

@heressomestuffifound

3 күн бұрын

@@EphemeralTao I think it's more accurate to say there was cross-pollination between all these guys. I'd add Timothy Leary to the mix and a host of other lesser-known underground writers and thinkers.

@EphemeralTao

3 күн бұрын

@@heressomestuffifound Nah, RAW was quite open about lifting a bunch of stuff from McKenna (and Leary) and quotes from him quite a lot.

Everyone knows you for Checkmate and Witchfinder, that much is undeniable. But my favorites from you have been the weird ones out of left field. The Hotel, Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect, and this. I’m glad you’re comfortable enough to jump high out of the potential rut often and give us some real gems.

@DopaminedotSeek3rcolonthree

3 күн бұрын

I genuinely appreciate his perspectives on these somewhat niche cultural facets, and hope he'll keep doing them! Even if 40 years passed, he'd still most certainly keep my interest with this weird stuff :P

@MatthewTheWanderer

3 күн бұрын

Yeah, I am genuinely surprised he came out with such a long video so soon after the epic finale of the Checkmate series.

@jeffreygao3956

3 күн бұрын

So, arya ever going to book a room at the Blackburn Inn and Conference Center just to live in a haunted hotel?

@AtunSheiFilms

3 күн бұрын

​@@MatthewTheWanderer I largely finished editing Checkmate in early May. I was researching and writing this one during the month or so that the composer and VFX artist were putting the final touches on the finale :)

@AtunSheiFilms

3 күн бұрын

Oh and also, I’m glad you like the out of pocket stuff! I enjoy making it.

A feature length documentary not a single person asked for, yet we are all delighted to see? Never stop doing what you do, Andy :)

@angelachouinard4581

3 күн бұрын

One Step Beyond, Fitzcarraldo, that amazing jacket and mushrooms, I feel like Alice down the rabbit hole!! Major heat wave great to sit in front of the fan & watch this.

@meemo32086

Күн бұрын

Best thing I've seen this week!

TLDR: "Atun-Shei had to take shrooms to understand Terence McKenna"

@JonPITBZN

3 күн бұрын

I'd imagine most people would

@aubreyjane7536

2 күн бұрын

​@@JonPITBZNyeah like that's the whole point of McKenna

@Hasshodo

18 сағат бұрын

You have to take shrooms to understand shrooms. Psychedelics are a limit experience

"I've met and spoken to entities that were not human." Yeah, a lot of people have done that here. Most pubs do welcome dogs, and the dogs often snuggle up to other customers, who then talk to them. It's cool.

@menschman1464

3 күн бұрын

I’ve told annoying flys to go f$&k themselves. Another transcendent experience

@AlbertaGeek

3 күн бұрын

*Glendower:* I can call the spirits from the vasty deep. *Hotspur:* Why, so can I, or so can any man; but will they come, when you do call for them? - William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 1

@IvanIvanoIvanovich

3 күн бұрын

I had a couple friends trip sit me on a hike (nothing physically strenuous) and they wouldn't believe me that a spirit was watching us. Imagine their shock when they saw a mountain lion watching us from behind a tree.

@menschman1464

3 күн бұрын

@@Sableagle my original comment about saying the f-word to annoying flys got removed. Sorry KZread far be it from me to cuss in the comment section of a video about drugs

@nandayane

3 күн бұрын

I talk to my cats all the time.

I think as a mythological sceptic, you’d love the novel “Foucault’s Pendulum” by Umberto Eco (the Ur-Fascism guy). It goes deep into the esoteric and the realm of ceremony, building up an all-encompassing theory of the sacred and profane throughout history, before unceremoniously tearing it down to reveal the post-modern lie hidden within. I loved it 10/10.

@johannesdecorte434

3 күн бұрын

Duuuuuuuuuuude read "The Illuminated Trilogy" by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. It's amazing. They were basically 2 hippies who worked for Playboy Magazine and kept a file of letters by conspiracy crackpots as inspiration for their SF novel. I believe they were friends with Terrence McKenna too.

@LarsBlitzer

2 күн бұрын

@@johannesdecorte434 I wouldn't be surprised if they weren't. The companion books I'd recommend are the Principia Discordia, and the Book of the Subgenius. Both classics, both very well known, and both worth the read.

The thing that people get wrong about 'survival of the fittest' is that fittest does not mean strongest.

Plants and fungi everywhere: "You bite me, I'll mess you up! I'll change your heartbeat! I'll burn your tongue! I'll make your teeth tingle! I'll make you blush and sweat! I'll make your skin incredibly sensitive! I'll stop you feeling anything above the neck! I'll make you taste rectangles and hear magenta! I'll mess with your whole nervous system until you don't know what's even REAL!" This one species of ape, every wretched time: "Cool! Can I grow you at home?"

@warlordofbritannia

4 күн бұрын

No wonder we’ve been enslaved by catkind

@frenzalrhomb6919

4 күн бұрын

Always wished I could successfully grow them at home. I've grown ordinary mushrooms 🍄 but, er, never pretty red ones!!

@warweasel2832

4 күн бұрын

What does it say about sapience that our favorite activity throughout history has been numbing, intensifying, slowing, quickening, and modifying our own consciousness whenever possible?

@noah4822

3 күн бұрын

elephants dig up fermented roots for alcohol, lemurs chew on poisonous centipedes for a buzz, there was a flock of geese that got addicted to opiates grazing a poppy field, they all had to be detoxed at a animal hospital

@Sableagle

3 күн бұрын

@@noah4822 Aug. 19, 2004, AP: When state Fish and Wildlife agents recently found a black bear passed out on the lawn of Baker Lake Resort, there were some clues scattered nearby - dozens of empty cans of Rainier Beer. The bear apparently got into campers’ coolers and used his claws and teeth to puncture the cans. And not just any cans. “He drank the Rainier and wouldn’t drink the Busch beer,” said Lisa Broxson, bookkeeper at the campground and cabins resort east of Mount Baker. Fish and Wildlife enforcement Sgt. Bill Heinck said the bear did try one can of Busch, but ignored the rest. The beast then consumed about 36 cans of Rainier. A wildlife agent tried to chase the bear from the campground but the animal just climbed a tree to sleep it off for another four hours. Agents finally herded the bear away, but it returned the next morning.

There's an older man that lives in my apartment. He has a lot of chronic terminal health issues and in all honesty is actively dying. He said he did a 6 mg mushroom trip over the weekend and was able to find a profound sense of peace through it

@turtleofpride4572

3 күн бұрын

I had done them after a pretty bad diagnosis. I confronted a lot of my issues and found some peace in it.

@therideneverends1697

2 күн бұрын

I think that kind of ties into the whole thing, psychedelics are very often cognitively damaging they have the ability to convince people they have experienced some profound connection with a greater power and many maintain that feeling after takeing it. thing is if someone is dieing, or has life impedeing PTSD thats actively useful in provideing quality of life. does not however mean its a good idea for most people. Just do MDMA or something

@noahhultgren193

Күн бұрын

Hey I studied this stuff for a few years while I was in college and in case anyone is wondering there is ample evidence of the physically damaging effects of MDMA as it acts basically like meth in realizing such huge amounts of serotonin quickly. It doesn't mean it can't be done safely, but if your being careful around traditional psychedelics (which can cause psychotic breaks, but don't appear to cause psychical damage) than you should avoid MDMA which does cause physical brain damage based on actual data, and can still cause psychotic breaks.​@@therideneverends1697

@siobhanomalley1968

4 сағат бұрын

​@therideneverends1697 the active ingredient in certain fungi has actually been repeatedly proven in studies to be the opposite of "cognitively damaging", increasing neuroplasticity, healing emotional trauma to brain pathways and curing depression and ptsd. It can aid with a range of issues from mental health disturbance to simply boosting creativity.

I had an ex boyfriend who EXCLUSIVELY smoked weed in his old hand-me-down D.A.R.E hoodie. Said it was his way of sticking it to the man. I miss him

@TheEscapeDiary9th

3 күн бұрын

So many people did this, like my bro! xD

@pr3historic647

3 күн бұрын

A wholesome, simple man. Love that.

@julius-sumner-miller

Күн бұрын

That’s cute 🥹

@billcook7285

6 сағат бұрын

So, why don't you holler at him? if you miss him, y'all get back together.

@VersusArdua

Сағат бұрын

​@billcook7285 yeah I'm sure that thought never crossed their mind before this comment

I feel it necessary as a sort of PSA to remind everyone: DO NOT USE PSYCHEDELICS IF CURRENTLY TAKING LITHIUM. This can cause SEIZURES and other harmful effects! It is strongly advised that one avoid use of psychedelic substances while experiencing severe depression, anxiety, or other negative emotional states, or if one has a genetic predisposition towards schizophrenia. It is highly recommended that one test any substance to ensure its quality and safety before ingesting it. It is also recommended that there be at least one trusted and reasonably sober person present to watch over one if they do decide to take such a substance.

@rvanderjagt5944

3 күн бұрын

Exactly why I've avoided them. With how I'm neurodivergent, I don't want to open a door that can't be closed. 😕

@t_ylr

2 күн бұрын

100% agree. And I'm saying this as someone who kinda thinks psychedelics cured my depression. I don't really recommend anybody take them tbh. I've seen too many ppl have bad trips or get lost in the sauce. Also while I think I've definitely had insights and breakthroughs while on acid, but a lot of those profound feelings are fool's gold. I remember watching 2001 and having a cool realization about structure of the film that probably wouldn't have had sober. However, every time I've ever tried to journal on acid I just wrote utter nonsense lol. I think the boring truth is that whatever you're looking in these chemicals is already inside you. They just lower your inhibitions and shuffle your neural pathways. Treat them like prescription drugs. Do actual research from authoritative sources. Anecdotal experiences and non academic resources can also be helpful and even save a life, but take them with a whole salt shaker lol

@MrGksarathy

2 күн бұрын

Thanks for the warning. Am currently taking lithium, but was also mildly interested in taking these just to see what the shining world of the gods might have been for my ancestors.

@annaclarafenyo8185

2 күн бұрын

This is a poor warning. The correct warning is as follows: all classes of psychedelics, in normal use, without exception, will gradually damage the brain, and with continued use, you will diminish in your powers of analytical thought until you are no longer recognizable. This has nothing to do with set and setting, or with any predisposition to schitzophrenia, rather, it is a product of the action of the drugs themselves.

@komrookmetmy465

2 күн бұрын

@@MrGksarathy I'm glad you got this information *now* and didn't have to learn it the hard way!

Atun shei doing shrooms in the Pennsylvania woods while dressed as a pilgrim is the most "yeah that tracks" I've ever said about a youtber

Wow. Every night for the past year or so I search KZread for "terence mckenna" and fall asleep to one of his lectures. Last night I made my usual search and this video came up. This is the first video of yours I've ever seen. I'm in my late 30s now and have all but given up psychedelics but there's just something about his voice and thought process that keeps me coming back. Over the years I've given a lot of thought to his theories and musings and have come to pretty much the same conclusions that you did. Especially the one at the end about the transcendental object at the end of time, the eschaton, being death itself. Death sure is transcendental after all. What a wonderfully thought out video man, great job. I feel like you're the only person in the 21st century that has talked about Terence as a historical figure and summed up his life in this way. Extremely well done sir, thank you.

@thomaseriksen6885

16 сағат бұрын

We plants are happy plants

“It is 2024 and history, much less the world hasn’t ended” Well someone clearly hasn’t been reading enough of Francis Fukuyama

@warweasel2832

4 күн бұрын

Fukuyama was so wrong it is almost hilarious to read his political/economic theory. He never considered that the human ego and thirst for power can’t be tamed by stable upbringing or commodity. Even more naive than the most sheltered bookish Marxists I know.

@randomchannel-px6ho

4 күн бұрын

@@warweasel2832 actually people are really disingenuous for the haven't read his actual words, he was hardly arguing the triumph of the western neoliberal system and the cessation of societal development was a good thing. he was arguably just describing 'capitalist realism' which is very apt about 2024

@antlerbraum2881

3 күн бұрын

Yeah wdym, OBVIOUSLY history ended in the year 2000. Everything afterward was all a dream.

@tedpop

3 күн бұрын

@@randomchannel-px6ho While you're sort of right, it's hard to deny that his work is part of neoliberal apologia.

@realevilcorgi

3 күн бұрын

This is the most psudointellectual comment I’ve ever read. Like “hey guys I know who came up with the end of history thing!! I know the guys name!” Like bro you are not smart and also Fukuyama has largely disowned that theory

Video: "They took mushrooms and saw visions, and these visions felt so real they kept believing in them once the effects of the mushrooms ended." My Neuroscientist Friend: "This feels like they are giving themselves psychosis" Dennis McKenna: "In hindsight, that was psychosis" My Neuroscientist Friend: "Well it's good they realized, eventually"

Here I am; wallowing in selfpity, after my girlfriend of 6 years broke up with me - and Atun-Shei Films drops a feature length distraction. Thank you good sir; I sure need it!

@typo4859

3 күн бұрын

Gl buddy

@padraigmaclochlainn8866

3 күн бұрын

The devil sing to women for they can be easy musha ringa doodle da

@HEAVYDIAPER

8 сағат бұрын

Eat well, start swimming a few times a week for your cardio, do power yoga, and eventually cycle on some weights in the week. Fuck her! You don't need her. What's important is that you MOVE FORWARD.

Really looking forward to watching this!

@bobcatfish2796

Күн бұрын

The Sledgehammer is with us!! Love your channel, Sir.

Excited to see my favorite living weirdo talk about my favorite dead weirdo!

54:50 Charles Darwin wasnt a social darwinist. He offered a descriptive model where those who fit the environment survive. Not necessarily at all those who survive a battle royale. His famous galapagos finches dont survive by killing each other nor by stealing from each other, but by having beaks useful for cracking nuts. There isnt a need to further conflate the two separate ideas more than social darwinists already have.

@lucyinchat

2 күн бұрын

Correct, the beliefs came to be before the term Darwinism was even coined, from what I’ve gathered.

@eazy8579

Күн бұрын

He was in fact horrified by the concept, as it came about in his life time, and while he wrote extensively against them, he was sadly unsuccessful, and these horrific corruptions of his ideas were able to take hold and justify the many crimes of the 19th and 20th centuries, despite his his own beliefs and his attempts to fight them

@kidsyx

12 сағат бұрын

Calling Darwin a darwinist is like calling jesus a Christian. It just logically does not follow 😂🤷‍♂️

"NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE."-Death, the Hogfather

@jon-paulfilkins7820

3 күн бұрын

GNU Terry Pratchett, may his name and words live on.

@alexandermarquardt597

3 күн бұрын

@@jon-paulfilkins7820 as long as someone knows to write GNU Terry Pratchett, I know there are still humans in this world.

@jon-paulfilkins7820

2 күн бұрын

@@alexandermarquardt597 There is a few of us, but we do feel outnumbered from time to time. ;)

Amazing video. I knew basically none of this but found it very fascinating. Essentially it feels like Terrence was right along the same lines as countless others, not that different than say even Graham Hancock. Starting with a conclusion and then finding anything to meet that conclusion. With that said I certainly appreciate Terrence's sensibilities and motivations far more than many others. As a an atheist former Christian (like so many of us out there) I certainly can appreciate trying to find an alternative objective "truth" out there to rival that of the western patriarchal Christian world that many of us dislike so much in so many ways (now at least). Though I think essentially it's applying the same mindset and tactics as that same world just in the inverse. I always go back to Francis Bacon: "If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end with doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties." Likewise despite my innate skepticism to psychedelics (and everything) I tried to watch this with an open mind and was glad to see you apply your same sort of rational application you do in other forms to this. I certainly could understand how having such dramatic experiences might convince someone. Though in the end it's really not all that different than the religious experiences people have. Even myself as a Christian I believed 100% I experienced the supernatural at bare minimum twice during my life before leaving the faith. Of course now I realize and understand the massive body of data pointing to how horrendous human perception is at a measure of nearly anything. My wife, before we met, went through a period of great stress and had hallucinations, very real and vivid (of blood being all over hands when she worked as someone who cleaned hospital rooms, but in this case there was none). She was on no drugs. Then when she got prescribed waaay too many drugs like anti-psychotics (good ole 90s and early 2000s and kicking out drugs like candy) she got even worse. Likewise she also experienced things she thought was supernatural. Now like me we both think different. Our world views dictated what we expected combined with fragile human perception and mental states. Now I can imagine throwing psychedelics on that fire would probably crank all these 100 fold. Though there may be some metaphysical or supernatural connection or reality out there the reality is we have no reliable data or evidence of such and in this day and age we would expect to see quite a bit of it. In this case I think Terrence might have been right partially like you expand on. With the advent of technology and the internet it has indeed expanded our perceptions in ways. I think in an age where so many people have literal cameras in their pocket and are trained to record anything interesting. The fact we have no reliable recordings of miracles or God (or deities in general) stands as the absolute strongest evidence that none exist. We would expect tons of reliable data at this point. These same capabilities have helped us reveal a world of Karens, of police brutality, of countless injustices and human behaviors. Yet not a single piece of reliable data for the supernatural tied or not tied to any religion at all. That's pretty massive when you think of it and I think will lead further and further to the shifting away of the Christianized Western world view and sort of to some of Terrance's aspirational predictions that go with that. Until now and what the internet and related technologies provided this was just not possible. Also yeah there's a pessimistic side of me that looks to stormfront and the internet allowing those nuts to circle the wagons and unite and fight stronger for themselves. Though in a lot of ways these feel like a real last gasp, that surge before the death cry, much like that of the Lost Cause. I spent years on a Civil War forum where nearly every week or two someone new one come out spouting Lost Cause mythos. Myself and others would challenge it with data, quotes, and references. Now we have years of your videos and countless others repeating the real historical material over and over. In the end progress is inevitable and two steps forward is often followed by one step back, but to put it as my 2nd great granduncle Miles Ledford Langley put it in the 1868 Arkansas Constitutional Convention "Progress is an unchangeable law of nature. This is an age of improvement. Reform is the order of the day. We are passing through a crisis unparalleled in the history of the world. We have just struggled through a gigantic war, and are inaugurating a new era in the history of our' national policy. We must reconstruct the government of our country on radical principles-universal freedom, impartial suffrage, and equal rights. We must be governed by natural justice and scientific principles. Scientific truth must be our guide in ethics, in religion, in politics, in social life, and in legal matters." He was imprisoned, shot, and beat in Arkansas during the Civil War for being a southern abolitionist preacher and then in this convention he was laughed at (by both parties) for arguing for women's suffrage and rights here. In that time someone so ahead of their time and era in progressive thought had to seem to be arguing impossibilities. Sure it took about 50 years but it did in fact become a reality. You can't fully stop progress IMHO.

I like your usage of the term bio-prospecting, I had never heard it before. People are very aware of prospecting in the conventional sense (mining) and the effects it can have (environmental, social, economic, etc...) on local populations, the positives and the much more daunting negatives. But it's good to show that open lithium mines of Spanish gold sickness aren't the only kinds out there. Prospecting for psycchodelic fungi and plants can destroy local communities, as you very much show in this video, but also historically has fueled a great deal of colonialism (and plenty of other fuckery).

@MatthewTheWanderer

3 күн бұрын

I had never heard that term before, either, but it makes sense. A lot of modern medicines originally came from substances found in plants, many of which were discovered in rain forests. That's one reason some people find the destruction of rain forests so upsetting, because we could be missing out on new undiscovered medications and cures. So, bio-prospecting can be a good thing, if done carefully and respectfully.

The Philip Glass in the background was such a nice touch! *chef’s kiss *

@EthelredHardrede-nz8yv

3 күн бұрын

I was wondering who that was. I thought I had heard some of it before. I am not really found of Glass in large doses. To repetitive. Background or in small amounts is OK.

A very great video uploaded in the middle of psilocybe subaeruginosa season. Excellent work and excellent timing

I love the use of Philip Glass’s Opera, Akhnaten, as the background music. It's like flying through the night sky towards the Milky Way and it fits the theme psychedelic transcendence well.

by the way the neanderthal was much more intelligent than must people give them credit

@ihatethisuser1

4 күн бұрын

Nuh huh they dumb-dumb me smart-smart. Closed case

Minor correction: at 21:00 you say ayahuasca is made of B. caapi, containing high amounts of DMT. Ayahuasca contains DMT from other plants, but B caapi contains harmala alkaloids, not high amounts of DMT. Not sure if its a mix up or just ambiguously worded. Love the work!

Hugely enjoying this. However at 55 min you use a common misunderstanding of the term ‘survival of the fittest.’ It does not mean the largest or most fearsome. In this context the fittest individual is the one best adapted to the surrounding environment and their place in it. E.g better camouflaged, better at collecting pollen or better at working as part of a cooperative group. Remember, natural selection can only select for or against a trait if it has an effect on passing on the organism’s genes.

@AtunSheiFilms

3 күн бұрын

Username checks out. I was mainly referring to the common understanding of the term but yes, you are absolutely right.

@MichaelMcgill-ik3mp

3 күн бұрын

Fascinating story, well told​@@AtunSheiFilms

@jeffreygao3956

3 күн бұрын

So like how Otodus megalodon was outcompeted by the Great white shark due to the medium sized baleen whales like cetotheres going extinct and replaced with dolphins and porpoises the great white was better at hunting despite the fact Otodus megalodon would've destroyed a great white shark in a fight?

@joegibbskins

3 күн бұрын

That’s not entirely true. Evolution selects the organism that is most fit for survival. Traits get passed on that are irrelevant or redundant. Traits even get pass on when that make survival harder. None of that matters if the organism is itself is the most fit for survival.

@ADudOverTheFence1

3 күн бұрын

Yup. Darwin's theory was only meant to describe the physical attributes and evolutionary mechanisms that species experience in order to adapt to their environment. Anything else being extrapolated from that to anything social related is Herbert Spencer's pseudoscientific Social Darwinist dribble.

My coworker has been hounding me about Terrence Mckenna for the past 2 weeks. It's all he talks about recently. Then you go and drop this. I CAN'T ESCPAE THE MUSHROOM MAN Edit: accidentally typed Howard instead of Mckenna

@suddenwall

3 күн бұрын

"Terrance howard" did we watch the same video?

@dontron6992

3 күн бұрын

Different charlatan sir

That Hamilton Morris quote at the start really sums up my experience with McKenna. I accidentally picked Food of the Gods off a library shelf when I was 14, and I've recommended it a thousand times since not because of its rigorous science but its ethical mindset. It gets at personal and cultural evolution we can undertake.

You know the video is gonna be a banger when you have absolutely no idea what the title is talking about...

I had such a fascination with psychedelics after my first serious experiences. I'm lucky enough to be the kind of person who can hold on tight to their sanity during even the craziest trips (even during ego death, to some extent), and I found it endlessly enjoyable picking apart the changes in my psychology and senses. It was like looking into my brain's code, which I'm sure is what scares most people. Buuut, there's definitely a limit to their usefulness. They helped me realize that cigarettes and booze were disgusting and unhealthy when I was in the middle of addiction. They highlighted areas in my life that I absolutely needed to improve upon. And yet, they didn't DO these for me. They just indicated their importance. At some point, I realized that psychedelics were amazing at highlighting and recontextualizing problems and ideas, but you still need to act upon those changes in your everyday life. There are plenty of people who are already great at doing that, but I was never the type of person who did great with "doing," even if I've always been a planner and a thinker. And as a side note, I also used to believe that anyone could benefit from psychedelics, but after a friend had such a bad breakdown that they called the cops under the psychotic notion that my friend and I were going to rape and kill him, I've reevaluated my stance a bit. We were playing Smash Bros and talking about college, so this wasn't a scenario of bad settings and trip sitters. He just couldn't take the reins and ended up getting lost in his neurotic thoughts.

If you where a teenager in the 90's Terence was everywhere.

@martinsriber7760

3 күн бұрын

Not here, in post-communist Europe...

@woocashP

3 күн бұрын

@@martinsriber7760 what was in post-communist europe xd

@Glownyszef

3 күн бұрын

@@woocashP Economic turmoil and a lot of alcoholics and criminals (at least in 90s Poland)

@woocashP

3 күн бұрын

@@Glownyszef było to pytanie retoryczne

@Merble

3 күн бұрын

@@woocashP No it wasn't. His answer was better than whatever you failed to imply.

"why dont you back that up with a source" Terence McKenna: "it came to me in a dream"

I just have to shout out the use of Akhenaten by Phillip glass, I play that shit every time a supervisor gets fired. The guys call it the sacrifice music. OPEN ARE THE DOUBLE DOORS OF THE HORIZON UNLOCKED ARE ITS BOLTS

that's one big mushroom or mushroom kingdom here we come

@thesnowmiser6728

4 күн бұрын

DYNAMITE! DYNAMITE!

@dragoninthewest1

3 күн бұрын

It's a giant mushroom! Maybe it's friendly!

@orgluzman561Peace_IL_PS

3 күн бұрын

@@dragoninthewest1 okay that's a good one

Assigning psychedelic experiences to entities outside of ourselves lessens the experience for me. In the same way that a supernatural creator is a less impressive, and I would say less spiritual, than scientific cosmological hypotheses. Acknowledging that the "I" is merely a drop in an ocean of mind, where seemingly discrete entities can not only be communed with, but present themselves in ways that confound expectation... that is where the magic lies for me.

@therideneverends1697

2 күн бұрын

I think thats the healthier way to process it.

@lococomrade3488

2 күн бұрын

You don't like the Machine Elves? /s

@crono3339

Күн бұрын

I understand the way you feel. I never had a clue that the entity experience was part of psilocybin, it just happened to me while alone under the moon. I can see some of them as actually being parts of myself that were unexamined, forgotten or unsuspected. But I've had (like a lot of people) what seemed to be downloads of extremely complex information that I couldn't trace back to my own thoughts or obessions. But I can't prove it nor wish too. It can hurt the psychedelic community when people come out as zealots preaching in the streets about their newfound enlightenment given to them by hyperdimensional beings. It comes off as obnoxious and puts them right there in the same category of other zealots. I did the same thing myself for awhile until I realized what a huge miscalculation I was making. If these entities are just part of ourselves I'm totally fine with that and we have a whole lot of self reflection to do!

@lococomrade3488

Күн бұрын

@crono3339 "downloads of extremely complex information that I couldn't trace" Nope. You were just really high on a psychedelic. There's no truth to making up bullshit. Just accept it was a drug. You were on drugs. It's OK to have fun on drugs and NOT take the hallucinations seriously. None of it was real. You were high. End of story. No need to prove anything. You never would be able to: because it wasn't true. There are no magical entities. They're not "part of you," they're your hallucinations. Nothing more.

@timdarwin1171

13 сағат бұрын

I think it’s the same thing kinda ? I personally don’t see the difference with how you are describing it. Either way they would still be there and so would we. It’s just opening us up to it like you said in your second paragraph. ..also I would say any view of a “creator” is spiritual, cuz there’s no real evidence, but I think maybe I know how you mean that , either way I believe in something spiritual, and Terrance is a total legend and genius

I was gonna reenact Gettysburg But I got high

@Vacuumorph2

3 күн бұрын

oooooooooo

@bageltortilla4057

3 күн бұрын

I was gonna get on my horse and go But i got high

@andrewjuby6339

2 күн бұрын

Now I missed the fun, and I know why

@MrZauberelefant

Күн бұрын

Because I got high, because I got high, because I got high

“The Mushroom won’t talk to you if you’re sweating whisky ginger “ is sage advice.

I see our favorite homosexual liberal has climbed forth, eager to present us with content.

@toddellner5283

4 күн бұрын

You spend a lot of time thinking about gay guys and the filthy, nasty things they do. I'm sure you could find one who would be happy to do those things to you if you'd just be honest about what you want.

@warweasel2832

4 күн бұрын

*Second Coming of Hippie Jesus

@Anonie324

4 күн бұрын

Huh, I more thought he was bi.

@MistahMan69

4 күн бұрын

@@Anonie324I was saying it jokingly, he is married to a woman after all

@A10warthoglol

4 күн бұрын

​@@MistahMan69wait he's married?

my biggest problem with drugs is that drug culture is extremely cringe

@randomchannel-px6ho

4 күн бұрын

there's no monoculture though, they're so widespread... you might be surprised how common they are in elitist circles

@MrNateM

3 күн бұрын

@@randomchannel-px6ho But there's a difference between having a bottle of Tapatio in my cabinet and being a "hot sauce guy."

@AnimatedTerror

3 күн бұрын

Oh definitely. I recently got a cannabis card and was suddenly overwhelmed by the number of stoner magazines I got in the mail and it’s all so cringy. It’s like the worst aspects of 80s and 90s grunge anti authority cultures were blended together and then fermented for 2 decades and then got barfed onto print. I know some cool people who know how to talk about this stuff without it being their whole personality. But others… not so much.

@antlerbraum2881

3 күн бұрын

Unfortunately yeah, sometimes drugs can help in producing profound works of art and sometimes they can help in producing Rick and Morty rolling trays, which are also art in a way, I guess.

@projab

3 күн бұрын

@@antlerbraum2881 tbh i find the "i got this really cool idea while on acid" types also pretty annoying lol

What a fascinating coincidence: I just watched a video debunking Terence McKenna's Stoned Ape Theory yesterday, and I wasn't even searching for it yesterday or today. This one will surely be more informative (since it's much longer) and more entertaining!

One of the many things that I love about your videos is that you always take such care and thought about the music in them, it's never just generic royalty free lofi or the like. Another fascinating video Andy, keep up the good work.

Came for the Checkmate, Lincolnites - stayed for the magic mushrooms

Glad to see you still making bangers after retiring your most popular show. I'm interested in seeing where you go from here and if you keep putting out stuff like this you'll be just fine!

This one is real close to home man, I immensely appreciate your content and find myself recommending it to people frequently.

Thank you for a thoroughly engaging & well made essay. The quality of your content is impressive.

Drugs being an influence on Andy's style makes In the Wildwood make so much more sense

His theories about early humans are based way too much on the idea of "man the hunter woman the gatherer" popular in anthropology in the 60s. This was based on ethnography of h-g groups in the 20th century. We now understand how influenced those cultures are by western cultures. The more we understand about the past, the less water that holds.

I've noticed that psychedelic themes have appeared in your content in the past and am thrilled that you've now delved fully into this topic!

so glad to have found your channel. you make some of the best stuff on this site. thanks for the great video!

Well, this is my evening sorted.

Akhenaten is a great sound track choice for a psychedelic video

Absolutely great work. Especially the engaging cinematography as always in your videos.

Honestly i like these types of videos you do. This, metamorphosis of prime intellect, getting drunk and talking about vikings are some of my favorite of yours.

"Stoned Ape Theory" is a misnomer. It's more like "Stoned Ape Vague Hypothesis" as it is completely unfalsifiable.

Thank you, Esoterica, for sharing this video with me 😁 The music, the story telling, the special effects. Well done, sir.

I have basically only watched the intro but this is just so cool: it is like my worlds colliding. I am one of those guys who has heard EVERYTHING he ever recorded (literally, I have been searching for something new for many years) many times, but I'm also a history nerd who loves your channel. I did not expect these beams to cross.

I don’t like the way that suit is looking at me …

dude just cant stop dropping bangers

Videos like this are why I’m so glad to be following you. Well done

Me and my roomate, as well SWIM and SWIH who have extensive histories with moderate to large doses of psilocybin were quite amazed by how well this video's structure resembles a trip.

Ooooh that piece from Akhnaten there in the beginning gave me chills

The One Step Beyond intro is amazing!

I really love seeing this more freeform and earnest side of you and your material. Especially the trip report section. I've known people like you who are still totally sober materialists who also got a lot of perspective and love of life from psychedelic experiences, but you truly have a way of communicating it leaps and bounds better than they could. Bravo, sir. Looking forward to seeing more of this side of ya, should you so choose.

i opened it up to watch later, just to check it out. was immediately sucked in by the extremely well written script, fantastic delivery, and just your approach to the whole thing. so refreshing to hear an open-minded, but sober (and also not toooo sober) perspective. fantastic stuff as always.

From the epic end of the Johnny Reb saga... to Terence McKenna. How can you make me love this bloody channel even more? THIS is how. 😍

Ah yes Terence McKenna, Big Bird made flesh.

@Cherem777

Күн бұрын

I can't unhear it now

I love the breadth of topics on this channel. Really refreshing.

I worked in a bookstore and spent the morning of December 22, 2012 putting 50% off stickers on the Mayan 2012 Apocalypse books.

Honestly, I won't be brash and say its your Magnum Opus, but this is a really engaging video. Delving into our expierence of reality itself. Great work! - and I'm only at the damn beginning. Well done.

It's a shame, I am incapable of experiencing all these crazy things, took a bunch (my friend called nearly a "heroic dose") of these mushroom chocolates and only ended up with a stomach and headache. No change to perception.

@AtunSheiFilms

3 күн бұрын

Depending on the temperature that your friend baked the chocolates at, they may have burned the psilocybin out of the mushrooms. It can't survive above temperatures of around 200 degrees F.

@EphemeralTao

3 күн бұрын

@@AtunSheiFilms Or it could be they're just largely insensitive to psychedelics. I personally know people who require far higher doses than others to achieve the same effect, including myself. It just depends on individual brain chemistry. Prescription anti-depressants can also have a supressive effect on the psychoactivity of these drugs, requiring larger doses in order to even reach threshhold effects. For me personally, I've never experienced "seeing G-D" or "understanding the mysteries of the universe", regardless of the dose I took; only a sort of "sparkly high". The few times I've even come anywhere close to that required combining psychedelics (LSD or psilocybin) with cannabis, which has a potentiating, synergistic effect. Even then, it was always clear to me throughout the trip that my experiences were entirely internal, purely psychological and physiological and not any sort of outside influence (supernatural or extraterrestrial), and in some ways bore a strong resemblance to migraine aura. Mind you, I am also profoundly neurodivergent, and people I know who have had similarly reduced reactions to psychedelics have also been neurodivergent; but I don't know enough about the mechanisms involved to say if that may be related or not.

@Smile4theKillCam456

3 күн бұрын

@@AtunSheiFilmsallegedly

@oatdilemma6395

3 күн бұрын

Basically, you aren't superior enough to ascend to our level, pleb.

This is a trip back into my 20's and 30's. Thanks for the conversation.

Over time I’ve realized psychological reality and intellectual reality are intrinsically connected. I just dislike how Terrence tried to make the psychological truth he experienced with mushrooms, to be forced to fit within an intellectual framework, when sometimes things are only true in one of those ways.

oh damn, I just looked up my favourite terance meme " take it easy dude, buy take it" thanks atun shei!

This video ought to get him on the Joe Rogan show for sure...😅

What an absolutely wonderful video I have experienced. Very well done, Sir. I will reference back to this as I contemplate what steps are next in my art series.

@MikeFromOz

3 күн бұрын

It's so good, I am rewatching it immediately.

Dreams can be surreal and extraordinary, but we rarely think of them as actually happening. Psychedelia is likely more akin to wake dreaming.

What Bill Hicks would call "an Atun-Shei upload".

thank fucking GAWD I now have a reference video about Terrence McKenna, to pass to the curious, that doesn't come from a certain toe-headed podcaster...

I really appreciate that at the “2012 and beyond” part, the shots look as if the “trip” is beginning. Great work as always.

I'm a philosopher. I've studied the weird and the wonderful, and I appreciate the openness to "new angles", but my conviction concerning any esotericism I've ever encountered (and some of it is inside the philosophical "canon") is this: If you need to read a text again and again, and it says nothing at all at first, and some 'meaning' arises only after reading and reading - then it is nothing more than a foil for your projections. There is nothing wrong with that, but it is not "true", or indeed, truth-capable. The irrationality inherent in a thinking practice like that sooner or later leads to bad things. Much the same goes for what is usually called mystical experiences: They're great. They can be real and substantive advancements for you as a person. But they lose their value if they pretend they are "true" in the way that falsifiable, logic-accessible statements are.

My favorite historian is now covering a different topic that i... um... have had some experience in. I feel seen.

I ran into McKenna’s work looking for sources on a research paper about potential use of hallucinogenic plants in early modern and late medieval folk magic. The paper quickly became about how wacky Terence himself was

@hoenheim94

3 күн бұрын

Out of curiousity, if you still remember, what psychoactive plants or fungi were available to europeans at the time (Im assuming youre talking specific to europe because the term medievil isnt really used as a historical marker for other regions, if that is an incorrect assumption let me know, but Id still be curious about the information from the paper). I know rye was a common cereal grain, so ergot (and thereby ergotism) would have been around, but the only other plant I can think of that produces hallucinogenic compounds from the region are some species of acacia bushes which produce DMT. However, that wouldn't have been active orally without eating massive quantities unless consumed with another plant that could inhibit the first pass metabolism of the DMT, which seems unlikely to have happened.

@EphemeralTao

3 күн бұрын

@@hoenheim94 Psilocybin-containing fungi have existed on just about every inhabited continent in the world. In the northern hemisphere, muscimol-containing fungus such as Amanita muscaria is also widespread. Various other substances, including harmaline, atropine, scopolamine, ephedrine, DMT, and opium were also commonly used, and we have both historical and archeological evidence going back millennia. While most these would likely not have had the same kind kind of psychoactive effects individually, we do know that many of them were used in various combinations, where they can have synergistic effects. And yes peoples in ancient Europe and central Asia did use understand the use of potentiating combinations of drugs like DMT in order to enhance these effects; which, again, we know from archaeological evidence like pottery (as grave goods) and hair samples.

@Ryan88881

3 күн бұрын

The plants that were used in early modern and late medieval magic and sorcery were atropa belladonna, datura stramonium, henbane, scopolia and mandrake. Ironic that you call him "wacky" though considering his phenomenological hermeneutic approach and general exegesis of particular hallucinogenic plants and fungi at the archetypal level were his most accurate and self-testable assertions or models. And those same archetypes were the literal etiological cause of the witchery and malcefium seen in the Late Medieval and Early Modern periods.

@Ryan88881

3 күн бұрын

@@hoenheim94 Na it was more about solanaceous nightshades and sorcery. The hallucinogens of Medieval Europe and even colonial times were not mysticomimetic psychedelics, but rather nightshade deliriants like belladonna, datura, etc. That's seemingly why the West has 'traditions' of witchcraft but not shamanism.

Amazing work! Keep it up

This was one of your best videos. A true masterpiece.

McKenna’s Mushroom Monolith reminds me of something Bart Ehrman said in an interview: When asked if he thought the Bible was inherently wrong, he said no, because, in the end, the Bible is poetry and doesn’t have an inherent moral message, it just has one ascribed to it a lot. You can justify both the death and existence of queer people, and you can say the Earth was made in a week or over many a millennium. The same goes for mushrooms: In the end, no one knows what the hell goes on when you’re neither here nor there, and no one can say definitively what a person can expect from them. McKenna thought he found the pattern of the universe from them, and with enough trying (or tripping, in this case), one could prove him either wrong or right. In the end, we don’t know, and the only thing wrong regarding subjective or unknown areas of science is to take your opinions on them and to try and make them facts.

Please do an analysis of Mary Shelley Frankenstein's monster and Dr Jekyll and Hyde like you did dracula.

Brilliant work, as per usual. Lots to think about.

This video was really good, one of your best imo

Fantastic video, taking a serious look at the first guy notable for taking a serious look at psychedelics and the kind of epistemology they bring out. I'm going to have to sit on the comparison between his apocalypse of the feminized and cooperative society to the internet, I don't think I fully grasp it, but the idea that the internet is a collective, memetic hallucination that breaks down social and personal boundaries is very compelling. I used to be a full materialist until I started having supernatural and psychedelic experiences, so Terence McKenna's way of thinking makes a lot of sense, he's like a brilliant hunter who blindfolds himself and uses the wind and smells to shoot at his pray. Of course, many of your arrows are going to miss and you get these Graham Hancock ideas about society

@Shakazaramesh

3 күн бұрын

I came out of my psychedelic phase an even stronger materialist than when I went in.

How the hell did you get Philip Glass cleared by KZread? Lmao.

@topgun2580

3 күн бұрын

@@utz2867 It's all from Philip Glasses music for the play "Akhenaten". You can find the whole thing on KZread.

@talkingtadpole3001

3 күн бұрын

Fr he's the most copyright-obsessed octogenarian besides Wendy Carlos.

Great vid!

ok finished. this was great! Love seeing new stuff from you! I stopped half way through and tried lsd for the first time. I went to space.

"Doesn't it reek of cope" No, it reeks of accurate understanding

I never understood why people do drugs, like from my point of view losing control of your own actions, is the most terrifying thing I can imagine

@50043211

3 күн бұрын

So, you never drink? 🤔And most of the drugs out there dont do what you are most terrified about.

@heiskanbuscadordelaverdad8709

3 күн бұрын

@@50043211 yes I don't drink it's stupid and no benefit whatsoever

@flyingfoamtv2169

3 күн бұрын

@@50043211i would assume this person doesnt drink.

@crono3339

Күн бұрын

Realizing that we are not in control of everything is part of the point.

@annehatter3319

Күн бұрын

When I drank, I was trying to avoid my own thoughts

Aguirre clip spotted, let's go. Best channel on youtube. Aaannnd straight into 2001. We are operating on the same wavelength.

Great video!

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