Terence McKenna Metaverse Interview (Virtual Reality)

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1. The difference between a good communicator and some of us is that they don't add "like, you feel me, you know" in between every word.

2. The beast is here

3. I don't wanna sound stupid so pardon my ignorance, but is this really him talking about VR? or is this an AI of Terrence speaking?

4. What if dmt is breaking into the artifacts left behind by an advanced virtual reality that we all experience.

5. He had no idea that they’ll figure out how to use it in a lethal way

6. "Radium or radio" Fuck I lost it there. The spectrum between those two examples is so vast.

7. Thanks for this!

8. "The moment has now come to bring in the playwrights, the artists, the deisgners, the architects…people in the arts both need to be informed that this is going on and they have to bring their insights into this community, otherwise…we're in danger of seeing it just turn into 3-dimensional computer games" This is what oculus and facebook have (purposefully?) missed, it's not a game and a place to have enhanced versions of real life interactions. It's literally a blank canvas for the imagination. Artists and dreamers are the ones who should be architecting the interface and dynamics of the metaverse, not technologists and more importantly not capitalists.

9. What do you feel? Today in 2022, do you think that virtual reality became « a force for our dehumanisation » or the catalyst for a psychedelic consciousness expansion as Terrence saw it?
   Are we collectively going thru a badtrip or not?

10. Terrence was awesome, I wonder if he was ever tempted to play Peter Dinklaga…

11. On point as always

12. Metaverse is a deadborn

13. He sounds like he gets downloads on his shamanic trips. Word perfect.

14. Nice slong shot

15. We should make a Terrence Mckenna AI. With deep voice and everything. Now that would be an AI I'd be willing to speak to. Alexa sucks balls!

16. My dumbass thought this was an AI interview of him at CES or something

17. Beautiful. I will share this video!

18. wow just wow… wish to see series like this… McKenna.. Alan Watts, baba ram dass… many more…. Perhaps we can contribute for funding each video so the team Cyberthon doc squad gets paid to keep making this 🙂

19. wow

20. Please don’t compare the utopian vision of a thinker like McKenna to the fucking Metaverse, a dystopian development if I’ve ever seen one. Zuckerberg wants us to have no choice but to work, socialize— engage in every aspect of our lives, through their platform while they record everything & co-operate with the NSA/CIA/etc. & profit off selling out data & destroying privacy & eliminating face to face, in person human interaction. McKenna wanted to bring humanity together through technologies that would actually be pro-humanity, healthy, socially beneficial… Even to the extent that there are some cool features on the fringes of this proposed “Metaverse” nonsense, as long as it is under the control of private capitalists who will use it for the same nefarious, exploitative, coercive purposes, profit-over-human-wellbeing purposes they always do, it will be nothing other than a The Matrix-like mechanism of control. Terrence McKenna was interested in technology— he wasn’t one of these venture capitalist tech bro CEOs, & he would’ve been horrified by what they’ve been doing since the time of his passing. -_-

21. Thanks, Universe. This helped me envision a new timeline. Everything, indeed, is about timing. Cheers! 👍

22. Virtual reality is the last straw?

23. I just love TM!!

24. Lol, I love the idea of evil dopamine corp making our new virtual world, “youll have nothing, and like it (and not criticize china or we’ll ban your soul/avatar)”

25. You heard the man, carry the meme.

26. 4:49 Why is the term virtual reality used both for reality that comes from biological forms (shamans, psychodelic plants, the brain, the senses) and for reality that comes from technology, even though it is created by biological form as humans?

27. Hey, thank you for continually uploading these videos for so long, and with such effort. I'm certain Terrence would be very happy to see sources like this on the web.

28. McKenna was a dopehead who stopped doing dope in 1990

29. For the most part humans have always been living in virtual reality. Religion, politics, science, education, media… on and on.

30. Terence is such a geezer.
    I speak of him in the present tense quite naturally.

31. I think the camera man should have zoomed in a bit more so we could see him better

32. Am I the only pearson who had to pause this video evry 5-7 odd seconds to digest and agree/disagree with every statement he made made so casually, whilst backing it up with social/academic proof… ?

33. No Man's Sky VR/Tetris Effect VR/Dreams VR. The Psychedelic Trinity.

34. Sooo…..When on Mars we will be living in the Metaverse ?

35. Thanks so much for this!

36. 1:30 he took a pausé to not say his phrase.. “the way to do this is :
    To take 5dried grams in silent darkness”

37. Ok, virtual reality not fuckin metaverse

38. Addiction and Mental health treatment providers are denying resources like this. I am in support. Know the best. Look at opening minded people to help guide you instead. Thank You for such an incredible share ✨🙏🏼💫

39. Love this man. The optics are spectacular. Thank you!

40. Wow.!! This guy was way beyond our thinking of even what tomorrow brings.!!

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