The Immensity of Human Potential -- And My First Thoughts on Coronavirus
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2020
- Not an easy video, but these thoughts have been on my mind for a while…
By the way, the deer in the video were white-tailed deer -- which are about the same size and weight as human beings...
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Lots of people think they want to go to “paradise” or “heaven” after they die. Little do they know paradise/heaven exists everywhere on earth - beaches, mountains, chirping birds, flowers, ageless trees, amazingly beautiful biodiversity... if only they knew to evolve to higher consciousness, work through negativity, unplug from the matrix, appreciate nature, eat natural food, maintain good health... etc. It’s truly the most amazing gift we have from the universe - our life and this planet earth. It took me 40+ years to go from survival mode to now finally have the time and healthy mental state to really enjoy the simple things in life.
Exactly. Life on earth here could be heaven. Humans make it hell. I was scared when I learned there is no heaven because earth is hell.
That is the lie of religions and tyrants: that we only have to suffer through the oppressive societies/cultures and mindless wage-slavery in this life to ultimately enjoy a heaven after death. What a crock! We have allowed those religions and tyrants to destroy not only the common good and our community bonds but also the very environment that was once a heaven on Earth. Their ceaseless search for profit at all cost and perpetual growth has resulted in an overpopulated and sickeningly competitive world.
Life begins after 40!
Daniel, I admired that you never got sucked in C19 until now, and I’m relieved that you think it’s not as big a deal as we are being told to believe. It’s a relief to hear someone I respect not buying into the hysteria over it.
When you don't watch TV and read newspapers you're not so prone to the effects of propaganda.
Daniel, I’ve watched all of your videos and I just want to say thank you. Thanks for seeing things so clearly and allowing us to see this too through your videos. I’m a twenty year old psychology student and discovering your channel was an absolute gold mine when I was thinking of going down the psychotherapy route.Thank you so much!
I second that. Your videos have helped me deal with so much.
It is the most comforting thing to listen to you, even when you're talking about unpleasant things. Thanks for your intellectual and emotional honesty. Sometimes listen to your videos while sleeping at night.
I told my uncle once that I didn’t feel qualified to have kids. I guess what I meant was what you said here Daniel! I have a long ways to go before I ever think about bringing another life into this world.
Well the people who are certainly not qualified to even take care of an egg are having 10 kids, so buckle up.
I just watched My Octopus Teacher with my young sons. We cried and cuddled on the sofa together when it ended. How beautiful our natural world is, and yet we have never been so disconnected from it.
I pray for Mother Earth. I worry about the world my sons will be living in in the future.
I wish everyone was like you in your big thinking out of our little human box.
Well, I guess me & nature feel a lot alike because I too am not very fond of so-called "humanity" or what it has become. Good topic, Daniel.
I love your thoughtful and articulate take on things Daniel…
I would love to work on a project with you in someway whether it be musical or something on the creative realm.
On a sidenote though this truly is not a pandemic even based on the arbitrary pandemic status that the CDC and the WHO claim it to be...
I say this as someone that analyzes numbers and have been looking deep into this right from the very beginning.
Ages 0 to 19 have a survival rate from this of 99.99997% yet we’re closing down schools and trying to normalize temperature checks and other ways of scanning us and getting us used to the “new normal”???
There’s a lot of twisted individuals that have very strange world views that are going all out at this point...we need to stand up and I think part of that is being more connected with nature as you are doing.
Thank you for everything you do Daniel!!!
Always so great to hear from you, Daniel. Nature is sooo healing and full of wonder and wisdom. So much is disappearing because of humans and it is sad that we are taught to be separate fearful.
Animals have super senses and communicate telepathically. I've seen video after video of animals who show such compassion for other beings. Most people just aren't aware of it and don't have the capacity to see.
Thank you for appreciating Nature. Humans are very resourceful and have the ability to mitigate much of the harm they've created. Let's hope people wake up, deal with the immensity of human trauma and realize what an amazing gift life is🌟
"A self-actualised human being is the most beautiful thing in the whole natural world."
I totally agree!
100%
You have such a unique, grounded perspective with the courage, intelligence and creativity to express it (you could be a brilliant stand up comedian, if you chose to venture down that road). Thanks so much Daniel! It's such a pleasure
This is all so very true! I absolutely love the new setting for your videos dear Daniel 💚🌄
You are right Daniel. Thank you.
Daniel, are you familiar with the work of Lloyd Demause and the Psychohistory movement? Your talk about levels of consciousness and disconnection brought his work to my mind. I sometimes think you're drawing on his ideas but it might just be overlap with other thinkers (particularly Miller).
The arrogance of human beings. New subscriber , really appreciate the information. I feel like you are giving voice to the thoughts that keep me anxious and tired . Right on man , keep up the good work.
Thank you sir...
My thoughts exactly! You are so smart 🌸
Ah! There is the spirituality! A beautiful exploration.
Daniel, I am a big fan of yours!! And am very grateful that I met your videos....just recently! Very addictive to hear such an intelligent person about these topics!! Only...about destruction: are you a cooked fooder? A meat-eater/or Vegan?
Probably the first for sure! Talking about nature first law: ALL THINGS ARE (EATEN) RAW. Cooked food eating habits the first dis-connect from raw-uncooked nature, lowers all consciousness forever, and leads to all pollution and destruction. Our body, organs, all things in nature grow raw, and all animals seem to live naturally in alignment with that, all animals eat raw. All food grows uncooked on the trees. SO THERE is the GREAT FIRST MAJOR disconnect!! WHAT do YOU do about THAT? Are you unconsciously disconnected cooked and have false appetites feeding the false...or healing back to our raw uncooked state of high vibe sun foods and the consciousness and love (for nature) going with it!!to live our RAW NATURAL Human potential to the fullest!! An answer from you would be GREAT!! Love this vid also by the way!!!
I hear you Daniel - at the same time, I think a lot more people than we realise (especially, but not limited to, the younger generations) actually DO want to help and they DO want to prevent further damage to our climate and our planet, but they're simply stuck under unfortunate circumstances where they really can't do anything (e.g. poverty and struggling to even stay afloat, which doesn't leave them much room to care about the greater picture of our planet and leaving them stuck in survival mode). I think Greta Thunberg is an example of this (and she shouldn't even have to do this, I found it a sad reflection of our society that someone who's still very much a kid has to step up and talk about this because none of us adults will - maybe this has to do with what you said about kids being far more honest before they're traumatised by their family systems and society). And not only that - a lot of the large scale destruction to our planet isn't even caused by the average population because we just don't have that kind of power. I think a lot, and I mean a lot, of these issues are caused by corporations and political leaders, whom ultimately are the ones behind all of these terrible, destructive, polluting and greedy practices. That's not to say individual choices don't matter, but ultimately I'm not sure it's fair to place the burden on humanity as a whole and not the parties with the most power and control over these destructive processes. (That's not to say we don't have a responsibility to get these people out of these positions of power that cause such harm to the world and society - just some thoughts.)
This idea to have to fix yourself before having children..
I I just hope my children will grow and heal themselves despite of their childhood, I was once a traumatised child and then a bad parent now trying to get to know myself and heal.
Learning compassion
Thx daniel 💕
We can greatly minimize future zoonotic deadly pandemics and the planets ecosystems destruction and more importantly, the future superbug resistance that will make all pandemics seem like childs play.. but unfortunately, we can't do it in the conditioned state most of us are in.
yea i completely agree Daniel. I have been scared to say these things myself
bravo!
There is a selfishness, a competitiveness. I see it daily. How does that change.? Be an example of the opposite of those things. Acts of kindness. Allow someone to go ahead of you. Listen to others views and opinions and value them as much as your own. Stop always trying to get one up on everybody else.
But don't allow people to take advantage of it. Help yourself first, before you help others.
5:28 I definitely agree, Daniel. Unfortunately, we're at the mercy of corporate interests that own most all of our major media outlets who are more interested in ratings and their profit margins rather than unbiasedly presenting the data without the hysteria mongering.
I've been troubled by questions you mention here for years.
It does seem too late for trying to prevent a catastrophic epilogue of this culture's multimillennial abuse of human nature and consequently the abuse of everything surrounding humans. It was possible to do something about it a hundred or maybe fifty years ago, now it is too late. If we can do something, I think we should be doing it with this understanding - trying to imagine post-apocalyptic peoples and their troubles.
I would only like to emphasize that the problem is in this culture, not in "inherently evil human beings". There always were and there still are human cultures who have knowledge of how to live in accordance with our evolutionary needs without destroying the habitat.
For anybody willing to learn more, I would like to recommend a few authors who wrote extensively on these issues: Jean Liedloff, Daniel Quinn, Paul Shepard, Derrick Jensen.
Hi Daniel. I am wondering what are you thinking about 12 Steps ACoA program. I am familiar with your stance on AA and Al-anon. Do you have any experience with this program? What do you think about it? The steps are modified, to include abandonment, neglect and abuse issues. Although there are two versions of the program, modified and unmodified. And the second one also focuses on moral inventory and making amends first.
while the vast majority of the video is not about covid19 (which makes sense since the main topic is about the human potential), i think that in retrospect we can observe on humanity as it is from the experience of the pandemic.
Mainly, how selfish and apathic many people can be and are. How easily people gaslight and neglect others when it's comfortable to them, both consciously and unconsciously. How widespread are the trust issues of many groups to others, both understandably and illogically (related to the video you've done about people believing conspiracy theories). How cynically ignorant people in positions of power that used every opportunity to get power and fame regardless of the consequences of their actions. And Personally, most of these boil down to how disappointingly people refuse to cooperate on important issues.
As a partial transition back to this video, while i completely agree that there are so many problems in the world that are still neglected in their importance and urgency, the covid19 pandemic was quite serious. Obviously it's "small fry" compared to the level of climate change and ecological collapse or pollution or the exploitative structure of our society, or even other past pandemics (e.g. the 1918 spanish flu), but it doesn't negate or reduce from its own "merit". So, as "insignificant" as covid19 was compared to all other problems of the world, we as humanity kinda scraped by. if it were a graded test, at best we would get a C or a D as a society (and even then there was a lot of luck). a decently passing grade but surely we could do much better to really use and touch the immense depths of the human potential.
So for me, the covid19 pandemic, other than revealing some of the uglier parts of people, made the bleak future even bleaker. if we barely managed to work enough together for a pandemic, a thing that we have enough knowledge and historical expertise to deal with, how the hell will we manage to deal with the huge global problems that face us?
(as a side note/off topic: to expand on how humans hurt and pollute the planet, unfortunately it is expected that we'll have more disease outbreaks and potential pandemics in the future. simply out of how we use and treat animals and nature. both in the horrendous conditions of "husbandry", i.e. industrial animal farming, and destroying natural habitats that pushes wild animals closer and closer to humans. closer contact with other animals increases the risk for zoonotic spillover of diseases (like some flus have done and suspected of HIV), which the vast amounts of farm animals even more increases the risk. Together with the pumping of antibiotics to all of those farm animals, we're really playing with fire by effectively encouraging bacteria to become resistant to more and more of our medicine. i also view this as nature's mechanisms of fighting back at the destructiveness of humanity, which is really sad at the very least.)
Can relate.
You'd enjoy listening to Zach Bush. Hopeful is an understatement with him...
You're such a wonderful priest! Are you a Franciscan?
If it takes a near-lifetime for one to become conscious of one’s real self, wouldn’t that mean that casual determinism and non-intrapersonal observation is the most accurate way to discover one’s personality?
Also, I’ve always wondered what your thoughts are on the Five Factor Model of Personality.
It feels like Daniel has been re-reading a lot of Alice Miller lately lol
Very difficult topics,soooo sad cause we have this possibility to know and heal ourselves,to understand the nature of the inner world,and therefore the external reality . Emotional growing goes slower than intelectual and technology achievement,so we are here, just at the edge, when our eyes start to be open to see and perhaps ,a new conscience could make the difference in our behavior...We was the unique species that could see the beauty and the suffering of the world,but I think trauma finnily,ruin everything...
I don't think overpopulation Is a problem, we just don't know how to take care of ourselves
In some countries it is a problem.
The entire population of the world could stand on the state of Texas or the country of New Zealand. It’s capitalism, consumerism and materialism that is killing the world. We could all live sustainably and spiritually on the planet. He is 100% right about “Covid” being a false emergency.
I believe narcissism is really a moral problem. nParents feel threatened by their child’s truth and honesty.. by their innocence and pure sense of right and wrong.. the nParent needs to crush, corrupt and pervert it
Amazing soliloquy Daniel, worthy of Shakespeare. thank you
I’m losing faith that there is even compassion left in this world.
I’m terrified of having to be close to others in order to leave a toxic situation while having social phobia and fear of enmeshment. I’m finding the rare, RARE person is caring. Most people will take advantage of the vulnerable, and don’t care about anyone outside their circle. My fawning has been used to validate people’s ego forever. I’m afraid I’ll never stop being terrified of life, death, and other humans before I die now that the earth is dying. I’ve been suicidal from 5-19 craving heaven, then realizing this was all there is, this life of abuse, and that’s it. Now it’s fires everywhere. This is depressing. Makes me wish I was never born into this awful existence. This life is horrific. Humans are horrific. It doesn’t feel real.
My father didn’t want me to get married, have sucess, a job, career, anyrhing, and he got off on abusing me and terrorizing me and I’m JUST now coming to terms with this when I told an agency the truth and for gaslight, blames and extorted. Took my lisian, and now my therapist, to help me start validating my own experiences because they believed me and saw it as real. Not being believed and blamed by the people who were suppose to save me but instead smeared me. Extorted me when I gave my benefits. Too traumatized to function with a disability status for life and got evicted thanks to them, now that’s on my record, and I lost another oppurtunity. Life ruined, so in deep denial and almost got into displacing rage at anyone who brings it up (but I won’t.) knowing life could be good but it wasn’t and you’re going to die soon or you have to rely on others... in a relief home can’t get out my life feels ruined. I think it’s all dying. Called it.
@@gingerisevil02 You've obviously suffered immensely. So relieved you have found a therapist at least. Trust you will find other people who can help too, as well as, despite everything, your own ability to help others.
I wish you well - and you have a beautiful name.
Such an important video gets to little views - hair, fashion, clothes etc. seems more important to folks .... I've read about nature connectedness the other day. Most people seem to score very low as else pro-environmental attitudes and behavior towards nature would be different. This starts in childhood - parents should perhaps bring their kids more out into nature instead of shopping malls or in the room. But not to catch and kill butterflies but to develop a true appreciation and respect!
So wherein do we accept that people who maintain a state of mind that damages others is a natural phenomena, exist. Many males of different species will fight for mates. While us, humans, we have to respect our capacity for evil.
Can you make a video about how you think politically? How do socio-economic conditions such as class and race affect your views on the parent-child relationship?
I actually recorded a video on my point of view on politicians...and I'll probably be releasing it in a month or so. Greetings Aaryn!
Have you considered going vegan?
i disagree with the idea of an inherent state of the self. i think how we build ourselves is the interaction between each other and what we want. self has an individual aspect but is not unaffected. and never was.
also, religion plays a big role in making people "normal" and stumping their authentic growth... As in, it would be easier for a christian to accept the circumstances theyre in and just focus on the good things instead of having the courage to step out of the regulatory way of doing things that fits the societally accpeted narrative because "a good christian should be more understanding and ask god to intervene and not take matters on their own hands and try to find their own meaning in life".
ie. if you are married to someone but it is a very toxic relationship, a christian could easily believe that it was destined for them to be with this person and they are acceptive of their flaws. Which is in a sense a positive thing, but truly are you not then just complying with the easiest option, to just convince yourself that its all good. Imagine what it takes to admit that you made a BIG mistake being with this person and god didnt protect you, nor did god help the relationship progress...
I think I understand what you are trying to say, but your anthropomorphic view of nature is not based on reality. Trauma defines life throughout the animal world.
What other animal’s existence has been a direct harm to the planet like humans have?
Trauma is there, sure - but don't we see what might be called compassion (don't know a better word) as well.?
Aren't both present?
So haven't human beings the potential to address this, as we develop greater consciousness?
@@gingerisevil02 the planet is not a subject that can be harmed
@@gingerisevil02 humans are too well adapted, that's all.
Yes. We need to get in touch with our buried selves again. Now the problem is, we are running out of time in terms of climate catastrophe and connected crises. Though, politics, economy, media and most of the population deny the problem or it's urgency. In another video you talked about mass grieving which might occur some time. (How) could we accerelate this process in any way? And if we can't, then how to brace ourselves for the threats to come in the near future? I'm especially thinking about the rise of authoritarianism due to mass scale societal crises. People with unresolved trauma tend to cling to authority and violence, especially once they cannot deny the truth of a crisis and get disrupted in their business as usual. So how do we help people to react with empathy and intelligence instead of violence and oppression?
Daniel what do you think about the potential of the Artificial Intelligence ( AI ) to solve the problem in the future years
I think it is going to cause more problems than it helps.
Oh, because AI won`t be used for nefarious reasons at all.
Your baseline or source for discerning what is good or natural can be seen as a little underdeveloped from some perspectives. You cannot really - assuming you hold this belief (and you may not) - both reduce humanity to an exclusive product of 'nature' and then accuse it of being nature's enemy. This is incoherent. If the former is the case, the latter is meaningless. IF humanity is solely a product of nature then humanity is natural no matter what we perceive it's activities to be - it cannot operate in an unnatural way or be natures 'enemy' - this would make nature it's own enemy for producing us.
In your many musings on the human condition you touch on many non-measurable experiences and yet you resist what can be extrapolated from this and end up in an ecological version of practical materialism, with all of the same intellectual limitations and contradictions that this produces, be they of a consumerist or eco-warrior flavour. Nature may be broken and a poor guide. We may come from something else besides nature. This hypothesis would yield, both the intellectual honesty to stop eulogising nature and ignoring it's savagery and indifference to what you may perceive to be it's products, while providing headway in understanding the savagery and culpable ignorance of so many of us humans. You may not be thinking enough Daniel. You may not be honest enough Daniel. And don't worry, we categorically cannot fully understand ourselves or the world while alive - and that may not actually be the point - and that may actually be OK. We can, though, think a lot more than this. And we can be a lot more than this.
He needs to go to therapy with the collected works of Nietzsche.
First.
Sounds like Dunning Kruger.
Is there really no hope for nature at all? I think the Covid heavy handling made this all worse. This virus and climate collapse has made me believe I’ve lost all hope of ever being happy again.
do you know, when it comes to environmental destruction, the line has to be drawn somewhere. if we want a decent standard of living ->electricity, the internet, running water, heat, lighting, cameras to make videos, nice places to etc, a certain amount of pollution has to be produced. Extracting and using stuff from the earth to manufacture things and provide us with energy will always cause damage. You mentioned nuclear reactors -> yes, they can be problematic, but if we want reliable base load electricity, the only real alternative is fossil fuel in many areas. In areas with favorable geography, hydro is an option but damming rivers has its own environmental problems. Wind/solar has environmental problems and is intermittent.
The question we need to ask ourselves is, how much of the consumption really benefits us. There's an enormous amount of frivolous consumption and associated resource depletion/pollution -> done for convenience, done to make shareholders rich, done just for the novelty. (ie buying a new smart phone every year)
We have an economic system that demands continuous GDP growth on a finite planet and the people in charge believe cancerous exponential growth improves life for us - they believe that the economy can and must grow forever. In reality, human industrial society is like a tumor and if it grows too large, the host gets sick and dies; if the earth is an organism, it can tolerate a certain amount industrial human activity (tumor) without dying off and humans/the earth can co-exist peacefully.
Я согласна с тобой, Дэниел... Но во мне не осталось оптимизма, мне кажется, человечество вскоре вымрет, особенно в России. Катастрофа на Камчатке просто ужасна, в России просто жить запрещено
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Humanity is natural, so its products are by definition natural. So nuclear reactors are, by definition, natural phenomenon. Humanity is *not* an aberration. Believing so is caustic to the soul. You are wrong, Daniel.
y'all vegan yet?
💞vegan!
No
You're like a toned down Jordan Peterson. Love.
He is definitely smarter than Jordan Peterson.
it's funny, he has an old video critiquing Jordan Peterson
That'd be an insult to Daniel 😂
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