McKenna, Abraham, Sheldrake: Chaos, Creativity and Imagination Trialogue
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- Опубликовано: 6 янв 2025
- Esalen Institute, 1995
Rupert Sheldrake, Terence McKenna and Ralph Abraham examine chaos, creativity and imagination in nature, life, Gaia, mathematics and more.
More Trialogues are available on Rupert's website:
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Published as Trialogues at the Edge of the West
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The chaos revolution, chaotic attractors and indeterminism in nature. The emergence of form from the field of chaos. The formative process in cooling. Is the mathematical realm of the world soul in co-evolution with ordinary reality? The potential of mathematics to aid us in our own evolution by extending our language for dealing with complex systems. Visual intuitions and the Butterfly Effect.
The idea of an attractor for the entire cosmic evolutionary process. The role of the attractor in chaos dynamics. Motivation and attraction. The value of spoken language. Mathematical modelling. The relationship between mathematical models with chaotic behaviour and the chaos in life. Idolatry and models becoming reality. The feminine aspect of creativity.
"Give us one free miracle and we'll explain the rest" - Terrence McKenna. He nailed all those confident scientists in one sentence. What a treasure he was.
ive heard this recently directly credited to darwin
"We can transform ourselves no more quickly than we transform our language."
Nop. You are not defined by words, thoughts, feelings, nor anything you perceive. But you are free to try and experience the consequences.
@@AurelienCarnoy can you explain? Or hint towards what you believe ?
@@Nawaska210 I'll take a stab at it. We can transform ourselves to the extent to which we detach from language i.e. disassociate symbol from substance as equivalents. This is not mistaking the menu from meal or the map from the territory.
@@AurelienCarnoy I don't think he (Terence) is talking about defining individuals. More so he's talking about change in community, or even the human kind. We need language in order to transfer information with each other, and we need that shared information in order to conceive transformation. Definition has nothing to do with the idea trying to being pass here, given that transformation it's actually about changing the form something/someone/anything has, and therefore transcending the limitations of definition.
wut
This is legendary getting these 3 bahemoths together talking like this, everybody just chillin. McKenna is a cut above man, you can see how the other 2 get really inspired by him. His thinking and oratory skills are brilliant, what a blessing
*Behemoth - a great word to use to describe this trio! I agree about McKenna.
@@gozinta82 I knew I spelt behemoth wrong 😖 but yeah definitely, thanks 🙌💚
Who is the terrance McKenna of today? Is there one? I think the world lost a prophet and the successor hasnt shown up yet
@@AZ-vy4gl he was in a league of his own for sure. Imagine he was still around today! I'd love to hear his thoughts on things now. But I don't think we have anyone that even comes close to filling his shoes. I'm just grateful he was here at all.
@@AZ-vy4glNot to compare, I don't think there is anyone like him really, but The Ungoogleable Michaelangelo certainly carries some of McKenna's fire onwards
I once had a dream and right before it ended I heard a male voice calmly say the following “ The singularity flows into the plurality and the plurality flows into the singularity”.
Maria's axiom
Ties right back to, “Say what you mean, and mean what you way.”
“As above, so below; as below, so above.”
Ok, what does that mean ?
To me it means everything is connected and that is where our eternity lies. We are all just a part of one energetic cosmic soup. I could be wrong though🤷♂️
Chicken or the egg? Galaxy or the black hole?
I love Terrence McKenna's ability to communicate in the form of stories - thank you for posting.
These trialogues are incredible. I've been through most of the recordings you gentlemen have on youtube and appreciate these tremendously. Your combined contributions are such a gift. Peace
Love the way RS is able to connect and explain complex/abstract ideas in simple terms.
He is sheer genius. Love seeing him and the others when they were so young.
love it when terrence pulls out a string of words on the level of "feminine vegetable matrix of the planet"
i love Rupert chuckling away, enjoying himself so much
What a great trio! To have such perspective is a real treasure! Thank you for sharing this :)
Free thought, openness and creativity. So beautiful
This was awesome!
How grateful I feel for being able to see this Jewel!
Thank you!
Multifaceted depth and exhilarating meaning making. How splendid it is! Where it is nowadays? Why nowadays it’s so extremely rare?
I am so happy to be able to watch this
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As am I.
Yes we all are super lucky to not be dead right now. We could be under rubble being crushed by a large slab of drywall... But thankfully here we are, never forget. Namaste🖖
Me too... Much love
Yes!!
great talk! love the set up, the interspersed clips and the music. and love how you can see the crowd in the mirror, sitting back and drinking it in
A fascinating corner of our universe through these three, which is existing in a timeless physical dimension. It was a pleasure to be part of this peculiar and futuristic stream of energies.
Some things Terrence talked about are being proven through main stream research just in last 5 years.
This video and such convergence in our space is a glimpses of what internet could be once it is truly alive.
Someone download this and send it to space, in every direction please!
hahaha yeaah, why sending a tesla car when we have this genius
Woken One I’ll send it to Carl Sagan in the 4th dimension lol.
I did hence the pixels
@@weAreNotAloneHere clever, made me laugh a bit 😃
BRILLIANT!
Fantastic insights especially when he speaks about epigenetics in 1995 which has only in the last 5 years become more acceptable and less taboo in the science community.
The truly magical years of Esalen. Thank you Paul, RIP.
Noted by Alan Watts he says.... We are an aperture by which the universe is observing and creating itself....
Thank you for educating me and many others who wouldn't ordinarily know about this stuff or have any access to it.
I've never seen an audience lying on cushions before . This is from 1995 too!
Paul Senkans politicians should sit cross legged on cushions. They might agree on something for once lol.
It’s California
I thought it was ikea but I’m so out of touch with things
@@vanessasouthern1792 And the first thing politicians would agree on is, "Let's go to Ikea and get some damn chairs!"
Noone else saw that.
Just what it needed, some music playing in the background, thank you so much.
Awesome and we are appreciative.
I'll never understand why people think it's necessary to drown out the speech with weirdo music...or any music. It doesn't add anything. It only distracts from these wonderful people and what they're telling us.
I'm saying, this one is bearable compared to alot of the shit people post lol
i like the music and the way it enhances the experience
My goodness that was Fantastic
33:55 "time is the theatre of god's becoming" great monologue
Love intelligence that can’t be argued , more then just memorised words and plagiarism, valued !
The way Rupert says "Supernovi " and "Los Angeleees" are potential the best and most quintessentially British pronunciations i've ever heard in my life.
I like when he says 'cosmos'. He ends the word with more of a 'moss' sound instead of 'Moze'
This small space where intuition connects the sides of brain which our times has tilted too strongly towards literal meaning for it's security... love these explorations.. listening to minds in such explorations!
Spaced out! Thank you for uploading this. Love from India!
Fabulous..3rd time seeing this..gets
Better and better and clearer
This should be mandatory viewing in schools
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Thank you for this!
So amazing you knew Terrance
"Time is but the stream I go a-fishin' in." -Thoreau
i am working on a project in honor of McKenna. open source open data spatial computing project. just doing as he described; I believe AR on the desktop in hyperspace, based on open data/source is where the novel advancements can be made. its a ViT and CNN approach using array of go pro cams for near infinite ways to empower the artist and its ease of creation and sharing.
"It is hard work, and great art, to make life, not so serious." -John Irving (The Hotel New Hampshire)
I wonder how David Bohm would have added to these conversations. Bringing in his knowledge of quatum physics and spiritual take on it. It's worth thinking about 🤔
Bohm and McKenna - it is something to wonder about - maybe McKenna would have incited Bohm into wilder speculations, and vice versa.
Reminds me to have another try at reading 'Wholeness and the Implicate Order', maybe try and read 'The Invisible Landscape' along side it, see where that leads. :-)
I've been too bound up with politics and political theory recently. Thanks Michael :-)
@@okafka5446 It's safe to say McKenna knew of Bohm's work, i.e. Rupert has mentioned meetings with Bohm etc...
Science and Spirituality have been coming closer and closer for years - especially with Quantum and many of the obvious/logical ( say Teleological) outcomes. Tell me what insights you get after reading again. I tended to pursue Einstein, Tesla and Bucky Fuller who were all heavy on Imagination ( key word) as their guiding light and seems to be born out of/in Nature herself (I.e. laws are always subject to change regarding Nature). Finding Bohm ( Feynman too) more recently has been refreshing 🌲🙏💕
And J.Krishnmurti
Beautiful people. God Bless you all. That's all.Om Tom Sat
Great to listen in to Philosopher Kings.
Absolutely amazing!! Thank you life.
Idk quite what they’re saying but these mfers SPITTIN
58:30 till the end is possibly the most important thing I've ever heard in my life.
hey dude it's been 9 months come watch this video again
I have a farm full of cubes , natural, beautiful, awe inspiring
David Hawkins wrote something about how certain people's spiritual/intellectual vibrations are so powerful that, in essence, they hold raise the vibrations of hundreds of thousands of other humans, affecting the Earth itself for the better.
(Am paraphrasing from his controversial book 'Power vs Force')
Whether Hawkins' notion is true or not, this video could be a form of evidence in support of his theory.
Pax profundis.
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Taking us where we haven't been before 😊🙏👍👊💕
Is there anyone now having a conversation of this caliber? Who has taken up the mantle for Terence. Where would I look? Ram Dass and Alan Watts were the other 2 mainstays but I’m sure there must be more. Hopefully still loving voices
Oliver Sacks is a worthy contender as a practical philosopher, but I think he has recently passed away (maybe three years ago?). His humane work to help the afflicted was immortalised in the movie The Awakenings. Brilliant writer and medico.
tremendo maestro
44:14mins my daily Terrance mind blowing .. thank you namaste
Nice compilation Rupert. I was initially annoyed by the distraction of the background sounds but as things went on the flute made me wonder if it was an alto flute being played and in search of finding that out I discovered Gabrielle Roth! I must be about the last person to find out about her.
"Time is the theater of God's becoming" - T.M
Nicholas Porter love that quote!
think he is outside of it but its still a good quote
@@karkasnatschka5779 theater and theatre are the same thing. One is European spelling the other is American
"Atheism is god playing hide and seek with itself" that's another good quote. I believe Stanislav Groff said that one.
Right now it's more like '... of gods unbecoming'.
Looks like Carl Sagan is the reflection in the bottom right .
There is more than enough content - why trying this amplifiying with disturbing sounds and images?
What we are doing to the planet. It would seem that either we are complying with our programming or we have usurped said programming. Are we doing what we are supposed to, or are we operating off the reservation?
We are evolving still, moving forward, what is happening currently was always naturally going to happen at some point or another, personally I am terribly excited to see how things turn out, to be the audience of an incredibly intricate story of great beauty and ugliness, of chaos, it deeply excites me.
@@sen_-23 it is a strange but wonderful existence, isn't it?
@@sen_-23 I enjoy your music btw.
Has there really been anyone who's stepped in and filled his shoes ?
Jonathan Ince yeah. Nobody can fill his flip flops lol.
The trifecta of deep experience, deep learning and to me maybe the greatest is the wit, humor and story telling ability of a great Irishman.☘️
based on these replies, i dont think anyone truly has
mark p tru
mark p yep and its happening
O Caos é a substância primordial, a tal da "sopa"! O útero onde pomos as sementes da criatividade
Insane talk, holy banana-cakes, genius dudes
I love the added soundtrack and video clips...so awesome
In a parallel, and slightly more chaotic universe and where I was able to, I would get this shown on Netflix.
@@LeeGee good question, initially I thought it’d be good for this to reach a wider audience, but upon reflection, my logic is flawed.
Is “chaos”, in this case, synonymous with Ginnungagap (yawning chasm) spoken of in the Norse creation myths?
Watching Terence gesticulate is like watching a the wind in tree leaves.
The immense improbability that modern science rests on but cares not to discuss is this the belief that the universe sprang from nothing in a single moment If you can make that leap, it's very hard to see what you couldn’t believe. That is almost the limiting case of credulity. :) McKenna
Took me 12 minutes to realize there's a mirror behind them.
LOL :D
@@NOCOMPLYE Brain.exe has stopped working.
@@NOCOMPLYE It got me too :)
Didn't realize until u said it
Spoiler!
If and or when the mind can be use as a mirror (instead of an organ for thinking) a wondrous phenomena will occur. There are four faculties of the mind that must be used. These four faculties when used in a composite way, namely, imagination, will, feeling and knowing that can bring forth a new creation upon the ever on-going Creation. A new creation within the universe. In order to do this these four faculties must be cleared so that no thoughts or images are present. Just a kind of clear black mirror. Now this same mind will function as a mirror upon which the most glorious states-of-consciousness can be projected and thus seen and brought into being. Namely, we can be seen as already existing in the glory of the Kingdom of God. In short, Fully Ascended, alive and still on Earth. You'll like it once you get into the swing of it. "Why?" Because Death is no longer necessary. Transmission: A.T.O..M.
13.43 models that release us from a need for closure. Deep
I dig the sound effects.
I dig you mami 😍
I love this footage however I wish there was not an over riding audio added with the images.
seems to be a recording of well before 1995 most likely from the 80s ..
This mike
Can anybody tell me what kind of visuals are in this video the ones that look like The Game of Life was made into a trippy visual sorta
I could totally do without the sound effects throughout!! Their voices are all I need.
Totally
Thank u! Agreed!
u are nowhere in spiritual understanding if u mind the noise
@@jkws3724 ...And I take it based on your loving and compassionate statement here, that you are a fully realized and enlightened being...pleased and honored to make your acquaintance. Peace.
@@dancewomyn1 i work by challenging people in the most direkt manner i just said the truth and your mind wove a story around what wasnt there to interpret. what does enlightenment mean ?
I always thought that biologists were the most atheistic of the science world. RS breaks the tradition!
Paul Senkans LSD can do that for ya!
World's first podcast
I wonder if Joe Rogan saw this before he started his own podcast!
Thank you for this insightful discussion. It’s right in the alley of Itzhak Bentov, or even Nassim Haramein toroidal fractal universe theory. I really think the fungi analogy applies to all cosmic processes, and communicating to us in symbiotic ways. Namaste
When you look through a microscope or telescope how do you know it isn't looking at you and what is pictured is inside your head?.
DCsymbols as is micro, is also macro:)
When you look through a microscope or telescope, what you are seeing IS the inside of your head.
I realised this my first time on LSD at the age of 15. A similar thought occurred while staring point blank into my own pupils in a bathroom mirror.
how do I know that I didn't type this comment one year ago under a user name I forgot about
Connection! David Lynch talking about TM sounds like Terence McKenna! Same tone and inflection
Thank you
Everything is numbers!. Can you explain why you were born at the year you were born? Did you become concious then or were you always aware?
At one point Terrence mentions something about memes,which is term that Richard Dawkins is credited for making up.Does anybody knows when is this video filmed before or after selfish gene?
It would be very interestig if Terrence and Dawkins came up about that concept seperatly,but it would suck if Dawkins is now widely credited for that idea,but Terrence or someone else made it
I don't understand why everyone has to put trippy music in the background when McKenna speaks.. the quality of the audio is usually already bad enough, no need to make it even less audible xD
Please confirm 1995? Seems earlier.
Philosopher: Words?
People: Yes Please.
Philosopher: Words.
People: Amazing.
What?
Hahaha...
Good stuff!
great music, someone knows who is it playing?
58:28 - Start of the GOLD
McKenna is incredible in this talk. 'Trendlessly fluctuating' ffs. Beautiful. This is over thinking though. Who am I? Ramama Mararishi. Simplify. To the point.
pure gold
Love this conversation. But are you sure this was from 1995 Rupert? You all look younger here (particularly Terence) than in another of your Esalen videos - 'The future of humanity' - which is time-stamped August 1992.
Yes! Dear Rupert looks about thirty here, bless him
Corona brought me here. All so unreal. Must be a dream.
chaos revolution
rail.bandcamp.com/track/concussion-jam
yup this plandemic has woken up a lot of people in diverse areas/different stages of knowledge
Loved it. Thanx.
A discussion which left me in a state of Jacobs Cheddars & Laughing Cow Cheese.
He is the best
So deep!!!
What books would you internet strangers recommend to enhance my understanding of these topics and their background?
Archaic Revival by Terence McKenna. Autobiography of a Yogi by Yogananda. Center of the Cylone by John Lilly
Sphere by Michael Crichton. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton. The Holy Bible by God and co-by men of malicious intent.
Check out Brian Swimme, Satnislav Groff, Richard Tarnas, David Abram, James Hillman, Carl Jung, Christopher Bamford
Gurdjieffs life story is another good place to learn about alternate realities. See also the books Nature and Supernature by Lyle Watson. He also wrote the Romeo Delusion. Watson would have been great with Terence and Rupert as well! (He pre-dated all three of these guys)
I didn't know that Terence and Rupert used to hang out with George Lucas in the 90's
Really wonderful, but I wish there was no music when they start to get to the peak of the point if you will. Distracting
Wow. New ideas from the past
is that Stan Grof lounging in the background?
To Mystic Fire - This would (in my opinion) have been better without the added music (and visuals). Not because there was anything wrong with the music itself - someone obviously put a lot of thought into it - and not because they didn't make an effort to not over do it, but because it was, none the less, a distraction away from the sound heard and felt through the voices of the speakers themselves, which added to their stories and to many of the listeners' experiences with those stories. Would someone have gone into the room where the speakers and listeners were originally gathered to start playing music on top of everything else going on, causing a disruption, and then on top of that start imposing visual images in some form or another throughout the room? Of course not. For one thing, they would've been asked to leave. So why do that here? Unfortunately the Internet listeners are forced to endure the added sounds if they want to hear on any level at all what the speakers are sharing with their listeners. At least with the added video images, one can scroll down to avoid them, but there is no possibility of getting past the added sound if you want to hear the speakers' voices, to hear and feel deeply their oral transmissions which can open and widen one's awareness even beyond everyday language. This is almost impossible to experience though if other sounds having a different feel and vibration become an on-again-off-again distraction, which is what can happen here, and that's unfortunate. What is being shared by the speakers is living information. But the added sound is not generally in harmony with it except (at best) on a very surface level. A listener's experience with a speaker's words and message is very subjective and personal, and I don't feel someone else has the right to impose their own interpretation of it upon all the others in the room - and the Internet is a very large room. True, we can leave the room, but we have a purpose here other than the added light and sound show, so it can become almost intolerable for those folks sensitive to such things, and in a way that really matters. This makes it a rather big fail for some listeners, no matter how well or naively intended, and no matter how much someone thought they had the creative right to do this just because they could. The talk didn't need to be fixed or added to, it was perfect the way it was, and I have no idea why that was interpreted as an invitation to anyone else to use it as their own canvas to do with as they pleased. This was not the place for that. The original talk is exquisite art (among other things). Would someone share a Van Gogh painting by first adding a few splashes of their own bright color over his original brush strokes just because they thought it would be fun to play around with it? Or would they insert their own sounds where another musician has 7 minutes of silence?
Why not allow the listeners to control their own listening environments, giving them that creative freedom and basic kindness? And how about showing respect to the information itself that's being so generously shared by the speakers? I look forward to the day when those who feel a need will have the choice to erase added background noise - either visual or auditory, with a simple click that says something like "please click here if you wish to view the discussion as it was originally recorded". Then we can truly hear McKenna, Sheldrake, and Abraham speaking for themselves without any added flourishes and distractions. Not because these speakers would want to block others' creative efforts, but because they were invited to share their own personal thoughts and stories and assumed that what they were offering could be received by their listeners - either in the moment or in the future - as intact and unpolluted as possible given the tools at hand. And also because they are/were really, really, really good at doing so.
Is there a version without the music?
CloudCuckooAmbassador there is an audio recording of it on RUclips. Look up the cast of characters Terrence McKenna and you should see it.