Reject Authority, Trust Yourself - Terence Mckenna

[Music] citizens don't take psychedelics because it's illegal neither do marionettes neither do robots none of these well-behaved and mechanistic reductionists images of humanity take psychedelics because it's misbehavin misbehaving is a great sin in fact it's enshrined as the first sin you'll regard that the psychedelic issue was there in eden and somebody misbehaved and then they got tossed out forever and their children's children into the chaos of history it's interesting to read in genesis why this was it was because they will become as we are says yahweh they will become as we are if they eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge i suggest to you that this is precisely what we should seek to do we empower our experience by insisting on our authenticity it's a wonderful thing to learn to be able to stand up and yell [ __ ] because so much is being slung and nobody is talking about the primacy of experience and the dignity of the individual the dignity of the individual we went a long way with this in america before we betrayed it and it wasn't only betrayed by the clowns in washington it's also betrayed by anybody who clusters themselves around the feet of some self-proclaimed naybob because the fact of the matter is nobody knows what's going on nobody knows nobody has the faintest idea the best guesses are lies you may be sure of it and so to pretend that one human being will lead another out of the dark night of ignorance and into the shining light of truth is ludicrous absolutely grotesque a product of this empowering of the human image that has gone on through several thousand years of dominator culture if you want a teacher try a waterfall or a mushroom or a mountain wilderness or a storm-pounded seashore this is where the action is it's not back in the hive it's not in the ant hill it's not knocking your head against the floor in front of somebody who claims that because of their lineage and whose feet they washed and whose feet they washed that you should give credence to them knowledge is provisional and we we are yet to approach even the first moment of civilized understanding the way it is to be done is by trusting yourself trusting your intuition reject authority authority is a lie and an abomination authority will lead you into ruin it's not real and it isn't don't get the idea that it's this liberal rap about how everybody has a piece of the action you know the jews know something the buddhists know something the huichol knows something nonsense rubbish nobody knows anything these are different kinds of shell games that have been worked out by priestly casts of people to keep things under control institutions seek to maximize control control control that's what they're into did you think they were in the business of enlightening you saving your soul forget it control is what this is all about and to the degree that we commit ourselves to ideology we are poisoned any ideology marxism catholicism objectivism you name it rubbish all rubbish what is real is experience what is real is this moment and so then what it becomes about is what are the frontiers of experience how much of that has been taken away from us by these dominators by these priesthoods by these cults by these philosophical shell games well a lot that's the whole story of history our growing unease our growing disease our malaise is all about the fact that we are kept from the wellspring of experience we are sexually repressed you may not feel it but look back a hundred years to a world where pianos wore pants you know we maybe we've made a little progress on the sexual thing maybe not maybe more or less than we think but we are repressed in all of these areas and we are particularly repressed in the area that relates to the psychedelic experience because it is it is raid to the dominator insect invasion they can't take it they can't stand it because it empowers the individual it dissolves the cheerful model of science it's just exposed as you know a nice story it enriches the accessible universe tenfold a hundred fold a thousand fold it makes the individual complete within his or herself and this completion of the individual is extremely destructive to the plan of the dominators which is that you will be a cog in a machine you will participate in the life of an organization not your life the life of an organization you will go to some [ __ ] job you will pour the best years of your life and your genius and your hopes into this you will serve an institution you will serve serve serve serve well it's a bad idea for free people to go along with this a much better idea would be to insist on the dignity of human beings to recognize that the freeing of slaves the giving of the vote to women the ending of public whippings that this program of political enlightenment must also then include hands-off on how people want to relate to changing their minds we are not interested in being sexually regulated by the state and we are not interested in being intellectually spiritually emotionally manipulated by the state the state should stand down in this issue the state is acting as the enforcing arm of the dominator culture specifically of fundamentalist screwballs who you know are horrified by all this by the notion that people would claim the authenticity of their own minds that people would stand in the light of nature and reject original sin and the guilt from eden and you know the sins of the fathers and all this rubbish which is handed down what the archaic revival is going to have to mean if it has teeth is a re-empowering of the individual and a consequent lowering of the of the profile of institutions especially government we need to think about these things because we have bought into the idea that we have to serve and behave and be enslaved else chaos will engulf the world we need to carry out our analysis of the situation to the point where we can embrace chaos and see that chaos is the environment in which we all thrive if we continue as we have then you know we're doomed and the judgment of some higher power on that will be they didn't even struggle you know they went to the boxcars with their suitcases and they didn't even struggle this is too nightmarish to contemplate we're talking about the fate of a whole planet why are people so polite why are they so patient why are they so forgiving of gangsterism and betrayal it's very difficult to understand i believe it's because the dominator culture is increasingly more and more sophisticated in its perfection of subliminal mechanisms of control and i don't mean anything grandiose and paranoid i just mean that through press releases and sound bites and the enforced idiocy of television uh the the the drama of a dying world has been turned into a soap opera for most people and they don't understand that it's it's their story and that they will eat it in the final act if somewhere between here and the final act they don't stand up on their hind legs and howl so this whole uh effort to bring the psychedelic experience back into prominence is an effort to empower individuals and to get them to see that we are bled of our authenticity by vampirish institutions that will never of their own accord leave us alone there must be a moment when the machinery and the working of the machinery becomes so odious that people are willing to stride forward and throw sand on the track and force a re-evaluation of the situation and it's not done through organizing it's not done through vanguard parties or cadres of intellectual elites it's done through just walking away from all of that claiming your identity claiming your vision your being your intuition and then acting from that without regret cleanly without regret thank you for tuning in to this episode of after school if you enjoy the art on this channel then you will most certainly enjoy our prints shirts and kids book the prints are all taken from some of the most memorable 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Keywords: terence mckenna, authority is a lie, nobody know what's going on, psychedelic, after skool, animation

Id: 1WXroiXWfcI

Length: 13min 5sec (785 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 27 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/Rocky87109]

I remember this being one of the ideas that hooked me on Terence Mckenna when I was like 20 years old.

That being said, it's also one of the ideas he has contradicted himself on multiple times. (And good, IMO).

The reason I say good is because this sort of attitude is taken up by relativists (although he denounces relativism in your video as well) and postmodernism and used for harm instead of good.

Here is another video of his speaking against relativism and advocating for the scientific method (which many uneducated people will call "authority" to push some other narrative, usually anti-science.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkgPwkCt2EQ

EDIT: As a chemist, one of the important things I have learned is that your intuition can often fail you. That is direct from my own experience, not from a guru.

And if that doesn't get to you, just think about social media, think about facebook, or many of the people who have encounted here on reddit, that are just completely full of shit. Why is that? Because social media has given people the arrogance and ego to think that their ideas are better than experts.

[u/NeeeD210]

Something that bugs me about his speech is that he is against the trade-offs that come with the creation of societies. It's almost like he is proposing we go back to when there were none, it's like he's proposing we turn back into hunter gatherers. Am I the only one that sees it this way?

[u/rodsn]

The most crazy yet somehow rational and articulated man, McKenna is great!

[u/TyCooper2010]

I see Terence McKenna, I upvote.

[u/2woke4u]

Trust yourself, yes, but know thyself first

[u/Sandgrease]

Experts are important too...but I think it's good to open your mind too

[u/gnasherknee]

I don’t know, putting blind trust in myself knowing how imperfect I am and being aware of the capability of evil that I can do and have done does not seem very wise to me.

[u/sunplaysbass]

Pretty fucking strong. Terrance gets poo pooed on here but I mean how can you argue with much of that? And the guy is just brilliant. That stuff just rolls off his tongue.

[u/Fizziox]

Wise words. We need to talk more about it