The Next Phase of Human Existence - Terence McKenna

Terence McKenna (November 16, 1946 – April 3, 2000) was an American ethnobotanist, mystic, psychonaut, lecturer, author, and an advocate for the responsible use of naturally occurring psychedelic plants. He spoke and wrote about a variety of subjects, including visionary experiences, plant-based entheogens, shamanism, metaphysics, alchemy, language, philosophy, culture, technology, environmentalism, and the theoretical origins of human consciousness.

Additional animation at 4.15 is from "IN-SHADOW - A Modern Odyssey - Animated Short Film" by Lubomir Arsov

[UnschoolingCOM]

“Society is splitting in two. People who are driven by FEAR who want to be RULED over, and people who are driven by LOVE and want to be FREE.”

[anonony]

It's weird that so many people seem to be having this spiritual awakening, as if we all feel that a major change in humanity is upon us. It makes me wonder if that's a result of our global, interconnected society or did past civilizations feel it coming also?

[ZafOsophy]

A true warrior of the mind, who put himself in great danger, to bring back extremely valuable knowledge to share with us. A great man. A true seeker of truth, knowledge and wisdom. When we pass, and the veil/curtain is lifted, to reveal the true nature of the universe/Matrix, our life will seem, as if we just tarried/slept under a tree for about 15 minutes.

[clickityclackity]

Nothing lasts, but nothing ends either. There's only a constant state of transformation.

Beautiful talk!

[LucidLivingLL]

It is clear that the light of the outside world is closing, and we must go inwards to project our own inner light. Materialism is disappearing, and we are choosing love and compassion over money and fame. The next phase of humanity will be highlighted by the need to free people from their own mind and to give them the gift of self-understanding.

Terrence McKenna understood there were deeper energies at play, and the mushrooms taught him that, and it is our job to journey into our own spiritual path and discover the truth for ourselves.

I wish you the best of luck,
-Much love from a growing YouTuber.

[ReynaSingh]

One truth told by so many different voices. The world will wake up one day

[fabledremedies]

YES. A truth of which we are all unconsciously aware and yet so easily led astray in our daily lives. My response to this video was a sigh of relief and a tuning in to the present moment. Thank you for your meaningful contribution to our collective awakening!

[Takuta_Kina]

Thank you! As a family physician I have delivered many babies and these drawings and McKenna’s narrative powerfully and accurately portray this sacred space of our birth and existence! Fetal demise is tragic and heartbreaking yet within this view it is a passage to transformation!

[thechancellor-]

To the *incredible person* seeing this, I wish you all the best in life❤ don't over blame yourself, accept things and go forward. Don't let others define what “success” is for you. Get up, learn the skills needed and get after it, all the keys to a happy life is in your hands. Keep pushing.

[Udit-oizi]

This is so incredibly powerful and gives me hope that even in a time when everything seems uncertain, somehow we are still in the right place, at the right time in the grand cosmic scheme of things. Thank you for your beautiful art and for sharing this.

[davidarundel]

There is life, after the death of the physical body - I got a reminder of this as a 9 & a half year old, when this vessel all but died . The place I went to, is remembered clearly, for the unbridled joy, the sense of being truly wanted and needed, and the unlimited, unconditional love, with no pain, as there was no body, just pure conciousness and white light, I had come out of shadow land, and Thad to return to it, as apparently, my work load had only just begun post returning to the physical body . It's been a wonderful vessel, to live life, being human in, this access to higher plains, helps in this world, with helping, or at least trying to help those who are willing to change, some aspects of their lives, and attitudes - those who chose otherwise, learn from their mistakes, often the hard way .
Namaste 🙏❤️❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️

[knova]

We can do real things to make a positive change. Build earthship and rammed earth homes, grow your own food, stop destroying forests to build more stores and parking lots, teach children ourselves instead of relying on someone else, stop just being a consumer, read old books, allow yourself to be bored, spend more time outside, stop trusting organizations that love money to do the right thing, experience life without guilt.

[workinprogress]

I don't know much about his theories. But what I DO know is that a small group of people on this planet wants most of us dead and people don't care.

[dmtdreamz]

I want Terence Mckenna. If you have something that you really want in your life, spend lots of time thinking about it. The more you think the more ideas will pop up the more creative your gonna start to get. Your subconscious mind doesn't care if your vision is crazy. It doesnt care if you dont know how to do it.
When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative "success mechanism" within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or willpower.
A different psychedelic from a different planet every nanosecond.
All sorts of dreams are possible.
The human nervous system cannot tell the difference between an "actual" experience and an experience imagined vividly and in detail.
Synthesize "experience, " to literally create experience, and control it, in the laboratory of our minds.
A vision is a very emotional image, the most powerful image that you can come up with for yourself at this time. This vision will become like a hallucination in other peoples mind and this could be the cause of them creating extraordinary things.

[alldayray]

I love the how the Eye of Sauron is always making a cameo.

[moistlaugh]

Glad to see Terence's work slowly dripping into the mainstream

[Saulgoodmane]

The illustrations and visuals in this video are simply amazing, it really makes Uncle Terry’s words that much more impactful

[RaniaRenderings]

I saw so many of these truths echoed by Alan Watts, Ram Dass, Terence McKenna, metaphorically in all the religious books, and so on come to me from within during many psychodelic sessions of deep thought years ago when I used to trip. With every trip came more clarity and revelatious epiphanies that at first left me feeling like I was crazy because what I saw was so undeniably real, and I don't believe to this day was drug induced. As years go by and you fall back into the story of your life, you begin to question the realness of those experiences. But as I started to meet more and more people who went inside and had the exact same revelations, you can't help but to think, "If other people can see the same thing that has come from within that I saw, then how can it not be real." So when in this video Terence mentions how, "...masses of human beings talking about getting in touch with the spirt... means we are very, very close to seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, it's a radiance the meaning and depth of which cannot be told, we being born into a higher dimension, " it resonates with me because we are witnessing more and more people waking up; if everyone finally wakes up to the same light, then it only makes sense to me and from what he is saying that source becomes one again. So everything IS as it should be.

Thanks Mark for bringing visual and cognitive clarity to these important existential topics, as well as exposing these great thinkers to so many viewers. Verbal conversations alone get lost and spiral out of control as we all know with these heady topics. You're hitting the nail perfectly right on the head!

[deehuntley]

Forgive everything, blame nothing. Infinite Love and Gratitude 💖

[nickmueller]

“We’re being born into a higher dimension” that is beautiful