Consciousness: The Fundamental Reality

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  • Consciousness: The Fundamental Reality
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    Consciousness. It's our awareness, our understanding, our ignorance. It's a concept that has puzzled humanity for thousands of years, but it's something we all experience every single second. What is consciousness? Is the Universe conscious? I honestly cannot give you a straight answer, but I have some ideas.
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  • @warrenkeystone5195
    @warrenkeystone5195 4 года назад +5425

    Your calmness is so weirdly entertaining you're like a Lo Fi version of Ted Ed

    • @accountsbyversha5847
      @accountsbyversha5847 4 года назад +107

      Warren Keystone amazingly put

    • @ahmadb7997
      @ahmadb7997 4 года назад +49

      Wow, exactly

    • @_InTheCosmos_
      @_InTheCosmos_ 4 года назад +15

      Warren Keystone listen to him to help sleeping

    • @NamelessToast
      @NamelessToast 4 года назад +14

      Yeah thats exactly why I watch him

    • @n0rman-
      @n0rman- 4 года назад +1

      ruclips.net/video/h6fcK_fRYaI/видео.html

  • @joeshirou
    @joeshirou 4 года назад +491

    "We are just the universe trying to understand itself" you had me once you said this.
    All matter is energy, and energy cannot be destroyed, it can only transform.

    • @ModernGentleman
      @ModernGentleman 3 года назад +37

      To think, for 13.5 billion years, you were something else. Maybe (likely) LOTS of something elses. And soon you will be something else again, and the energy that makes up you, will likely never make up you again.
      Make it count 😉

    • @juiceer3320
      @juiceer3320 2 года назад +5

      @@ModernGentleman that sounds fun and all , but it's the definition of misunderstanding the idea of you eternally being here , rethink it , consciousness is infinite and rises as there is a finite mind

    • @ModernGentleman
      @ModernGentleman 2 года назад +5

      @@juiceer3320 i made no mention whatsoever of consciousness.

    • @vendrickthegreat7774
      @vendrickthegreat7774 2 года назад +2

      Quantum Mechanics: WELCOME TO SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM!

    • @dawsoncarpenter2244
      @dawsoncarpenter2244 2 года назад

      @@ModernGentleman thats how i think. When we die we get aten by animals, ehich in return our matter gets turned into protein then into sperm, which creates a new being

  • @pramitharyan5167
    @pramitharyan5167 4 года назад +460

    Finally, THE Appropriate interpretation of EXISTENCE

    • @noegarcia7491
      @noegarcia7491 4 года назад +5

      peace leader sounds like you need to get back on your meds there bud

    • @InnerLuminosity
      @InnerLuminosity 3 года назад

      👌

    • @VirtusCorvus
      @VirtusCorvus 3 года назад

      I think ur thinking of fortnite

    • @n00dle10
      @n00dle10 3 года назад +16

      Before you existed, nothing existed. While you exists, everything exists. When you cease to exist, well nobody knows. Consciousness is the fundamental nature of reality

    • @InnerLuminosity
      @InnerLuminosity 3 года назад +1

      @@n00dle10 bingo! New sub❤❤👍

  • @OiMItzCait
    @OiMItzCait 4 года назад +269

    My new favourite quote:
    “We’re just the universe trying to understand itself.”

    • @happyrick-c1327
      @happyrick-c1327 4 года назад +1

      Nice

    • @jemand7488
      @jemand7488 4 года назад +7

      Pass the blunt bro

    • @Mark-zq1tj
      @Mark-zq1tj 4 года назад +6

      That's Alan Watts, worth listening to👌

    • @knightlc3448
      @knightlc3448 4 года назад +4

      Mark Carl Sagan

    • @Mark-zq1tj
      @Mark-zq1tj 4 года назад +5

      @@knightlc3448 carl is great but Alan said it first and a little more elegant👍

  • @chikcanr6449
    @chikcanr6449 4 года назад +433

    if this guy was a teacher, I’d actually like school.

    • @israelshingenge5947
      @israelshingenge5947 4 года назад +5

      true

    • @Martin-dw4eo
      @Martin-dw4eo 4 года назад +6

      If this guy would be your teacher he wouldn't make RUclips vids.

    • @sologrey1288
      @sologrey1288 4 года назад +8

      A philosophy college professor his lectures will pop my superficial bubble of reality and give me depression 😂😂 still would attend class

    • @darkpoechi
      @darkpoechi 4 года назад +4

      The opening premise made me question this guy's self-awareness.
      No way to know if any animals are conscious or function the same way you do?
      It depends on what you mean in the same way and what you mean by conscious. That statement is overtly ambiguous.
      If by conscious you mean self-aware then yes there are many at this point. To the level of humans? Not as far as I am aware.
      Cat, Dogs, Dolphins, whales, many apes, some insects, many birds, The octopus, sea otter, Seal, sealion can all recognize the difference between their own reflection and video of another animal of their own species, even when they look nearly identical, under different circumstances.
      The octopus, sea otter, many apes, Cats, Dogs, seals, dolphins, whales, alligators, badgers, sea lions, many birds, and much more have demonstrated the ability to figure out simple puzzles given the right motivations.
      Badgers bury the dead, often when it is not even a dead badger. This is because they figured out not doing so means a higher number of badgers get sick.
      The octopus, dolphins, Sea otters, whales, Crows, Ravens, Owls are all species that have been known to make and use simple tools.
      On the level of sharpening a rock, stick or shell and removing inconvenient parts. So, in short very primitive.
      That being said that is the level many parts of humankind were at not even 5,000 years ago.
      That is out of 2.5 million years of human history mind you.
      Nearly every animal and most plants have demonstrated the ability to recognize a threat and/or predator and based on no more than 1 factor.
      Also to be able to differentiate such threats from non-threats with nearly identical but different factors. Such as sound, sight, color, location etc.
      Such associations have been found to be enforced with more than one concurrent factor.
      This means most animals and even some plants are capable of recognizing patterns and reacting to them accordingly.
      Such animals may, given proper circumstances, act to deal with the entire pattern.
      Just One example is an animal reserve where there was an endangered species and the crows and ravens liked the taste of the eggs.
      So the reserve in response took eggs that were made to taste unpleasant, and took measures to make them outwardly identical.
      They went as far as to mix the unpalatable eggs with the actual eggs to stop them from eating them.
      The result;
      The crows communicated with other crows who were not even the crows who encountered the eggs and any similar eggs over an area the size of the entire state of Texas, crows stopped eating the eggs.
      The result with the ravens was not so positive. The raven population figured out that only the eggs in the area of the animal reserve would be unpleasant for consumption.
      Within a month, the ravens would take the eggs only in the area of the animal reserve, and actively destroy them, to keep other ravens from eating them by mistake.
      An example of plants recognizing such things is that a plant whose main predator is a caterpillar;
      They were shown to be able to recognize the sound of caterpillars chewing on, plants even when they were not the same plants.
      When hearing the chewing of a caterpillar they would release a chemical that makes them unpalatable to caterpillars.
      They were shown to be able to differentiate between the caterpillar and similar sounds.
      The chemicals were not released with the sound of wind rustling hand-picked to be as similar to the chewing as possible.
      In fact, there were no less than 63 different similar sounds played. The only one that got a similar response was the sound of plants burning.
      When there was the sound of plants burning played, they released an entirely different chemical.
      Some whales, dolphins, apes, wild dogs and wild cats, and birds have been shown to be able to cooperate to solve problems that they can not solve on their own including but not limited to Killer whales working together to successfully hunt blue whales, who are so big they were thought to have not one predator.
      They do this by taking turns for upwards of 8 hours body slamming the whale so it can not surface.
      Seeing as whales are mammals they need air. Thus, it effectively drowns the blue whale.
      Crows, Ravens, And octopuses have been found to be able to figure out complex puzzles, simply by watching others.
      They are better at doing it than some humans.
      There have been a number of recorded instances, where Crows, Ravens, and Octopuses have used this skill to let themselves out of their own cages when in captivity.
      As a Direct result, aquariums often give Octopuses lots of toys so they don't get bored. They will often also make the mechanism for opening the enclosure overly complex or require an external complex tool to open.
      Mainly just so the Octopuses don't open the cage and just leave because they can survive out of water for quite a while given the correct circumstances.
      Their ability for this skill has led to a number of times, where an octopus has gotten bored enough, they let themselves out and tried to return to the ocean.
      This has happened, more than once successfully.
      A prime example is;
      "An octopus at New Zealand's National Aquarium made a break for freedom by slipping out of its tank, slithering down a drainpipe, and escaping into the ocean in 2016."
      This is nearly word for word of the official report's headline. The Octopus in question even waited until after dark during a shift change. It also determined which drainage pipe would lead to the ocean.
      That is a prison break very reminiscent of movie prison breaks. I mean, if the prisons were aquariums and the prisoner was an octopus.
      "Can't tell if any animals are conscious or if any animal would or could function like we do"
      Welp, that is solely due to how vague that sentence is.
      A number of animals are on the same level, some of the most primitive human civilizations from not even 5000 years ago were, at the present moment.
      That being said this is depending on the metric you are using to measure.
      Do keep in mind if you exclude all human evolutions that were more ape than man humans have had 2.5 million years of history.

    • @BootyyShaker9000
      @BootyyShaker9000 4 года назад +2

      I already like school, but I would like it more if he was teaching. I've thought of some of my best theories when listening to him, and he gives me inspiration. So it would definitely make school more interesting. I've actually always wanted to be either a writer, a scientist, a pianist, or a teacher. If I end up being a teacher, then I'ma teach like this. I'd also share some of his videos because come on. Look at his videos and tell me they aren't educational.

  • @basssurfer1868
    @basssurfer1868 3 года назад +18

    I never knew what I experienced was ego death. I had never been so content. My emotions and thoughts washed over me and I never stopped them. I just accepted them and understood I am not me, I am you, you are all of us. All of us is one. I will never see the future, we will. If nothing has meaning everything has meaning.

    • @dbrad5197
      @dbrad5197 2 года назад +1

      Love it man. Well said

  • @ThingEngineer
    @ThingEngineer 4 года назад +92

    I was left curious how you “accidentally” tripped balls.
    -The Universe

  • @summoned267
    @summoned267 3 года назад +50

    Every video, this man finds a new way to describe what I cannot. Even though he has no idea that I even exist it’s, he’s speaking directly to me, digging into my thoughts and pulling out the awareness in my mind that I am unable to convey properly. To have this level of clarity is admirable, and to be able to pull ones innermost thoughts out with just a few words is amazing in its own right. Keep doing what you do, Aperture, and I’ll keep enjoying it. Thank you.

    • @wanderingsoul1189
      @wanderingsoul1189 3 года назад +1

      exactly Mr bunch

    • @bfesix8508
      @bfesix8508 2 года назад +1

      same ,,

    • @Ruben91117
      @Ruben91117 2 года назад

      Right? Sometimes I feel so alone and then I listen to these videos and I feel that maybe , just maybe, everything is gonna be alright.

    • @properpsychology1276
      @properpsychology1276 2 года назад

      “Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks
      outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” -Carl Jung
      Hey Wyatt, you should check out our "Enlightening Quotes to Find Yourself" video ft. Carl Jung. Our channel is passionate about psychology education so that everyone everywhere can live a healthier life. Our goal is to create a free source of #DigitalTherapy for our subscribers.

  • @TheMirandalorian
    @TheMirandalorian 3 года назад +1

    I wish I had human words to fully describe how this video made me feel.. it was enlightening, terrifying but calming, hopeful yet sad, and makes me wonder what the point of having an ego even is if it just blinds us to want we really are? Our ego forces us to worry and think only of ourselves.. kinda selfish if you think about it. If losing our ego is so liberating, why have it ya know? Idk just thinking out loud.. great video!

    • @monkieassasin
      @monkieassasin 3 года назад +2

      The ego is like a curtain we have surrounded ourselves with, that blocks the light from outside, and those who are courageous and curious enough to take a peak of what is outside of the curtain realize the curtain was an illusion to begin with.
      The ego is like the shell around a seed, that is meant to be broken when planted in right soil, and of which the seed can never grow up into what it is supposed to be unless it breaks out of the shell that surrounds it.
      I said this to someone earlier on in the comments, but I think it appropriately applies here too.
      We have to experience what is not-us to be able to have a truly deep sense of what is us. One must be ignorant first in order to appreciate the journey to Wisdom.
      If you knew how the game ended with certainty, then it takes away the pursuit of the answers, of which give meaning and purpose to life. If we exist truly to experience and learn what we really are, then it makes sense that there is the ignorance at how it ends, since the anxiety caused by that ignorance becomes the motivation to seek the answers in the first place, relieving the anxiety. So then, what should we make of these things? Even anxiety works for our good, serving its function, but when the function is over, there is nothing left for it but to be eliminated.

    • @TheMirandalorian
      @TheMirandalorian 3 года назад

      @@monkieassasin that's what I have learned... anxiety and depression aren't meant to be feared, they are our greatest teachers

  • @ferrin6326
    @ferrin6326 4 года назад +41

    The end, I think, will always just be the beginning of something new.

  • @MrPeaceGuy54
    @MrPeaceGuy54 2 месяца назад

    This is essentially the Hindu philosophy of Advaita Vedānta. According to Advaita, the same Divine Consciousness manifests as both insentient and sentient beings. Since God is everywhere, we should strive to treat all sentient beings with respect and love. Additionally, it is very probable that many paths can lead us to the truth. This was the philosophy of both Mahatma Gandhi and Swami Vivekananda. It also influenced Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the Architect of Modern India.
    Thank you for this indescribably powerful and enlightening video.
    Namaste and love from India! I hope that love and peace prevail in the world! 🙏🇮🇳☮️☮️

  • @hetornhetorn
    @hetornhetorn 3 года назад +3

    This is the most beautiful video I have ever seen. There are no words to describe the utter love and light that comes from an ego death experience, I had 2 years ago, and sincerely, the return to it without the use of any substance is just as difficult as life itself, learning to overcome ego, to live the life as the observer, as the non-doer and as the doer at the same time is not something that the mind can understand. But watching this video brought myself back to it, to the Source, to Reality, I was seeing and listening to myself at that moment, and this sense of Oneness is just the most beautiful and sublime experience any being can have. Thank you so much, from all Love.

    • @properpsychology1276
      @properpsychology1276 2 года назад +1

      “Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks
      outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” -Carl Jung
      Hey there, you should check out our "Enlightening Quotes to Find Yourself" video ft. Carl Jung. Our channel is passionate about psychology education so that everyone everywhere can live a healthier life. Our goal is to create a free source of #DigitalTherapy for our subscribers.

  • @BjornOtterbach
    @BjornOtterbach 4 года назад +77

    If you are hungry for more of this school of thought, it's called Zen. Check out some Alan Watts lectures.He is paraphrasing Alan Watts for most of the video.

    • @rachelr.9281
      @rachelr.9281 4 года назад +4

      Alan watts is great, But he kind of goes on and on and on. this guy just said it in 12 minutes. Remember, Mr. Watts made a business out of it.

    • @RaVNeFLoK
      @RaVNeFLoK 4 года назад +1

      Who I guess got it from Buddhism. Others get it from Christianity or similar - or just all of a sudden without religion. Just realizes it.

    • @memesmojo5622
      @memesmojo5622 3 года назад +8

      not zen
      This is primarily Hindu Advaita Vedanta view

    • @aarushrathore1276
      @aarushrathore1276 3 года назад

      @@memesmojo5622 yes the upanishadic idea

    • @DaPhreshestKidd
      @DaPhreshestKidd 2 года назад

      This is Life boy, zen is based on Life. Life is...

  • @Aius-
    @Aius- 4 года назад +13

    The music around 5:20 is a track I constantly listen to when I'm thinking.
    To hear it in one of my favourite youtuber's videos was quite jarring yet lovely.
    Amazing video as always, Aperture.

    • @olin409
      @olin409 4 года назад +2

      Have you heard of exurb1a? I think I might like him

    • @endrekoncz9547
      @endrekoncz9547 4 года назад +1

      What's the name? Can you tell me please? :))

    • @4soandypk
      @4soandypk 4 года назад +2

      whats the name???

    • @HiggyZiggy
      @HiggyZiggy 4 года назад +2

      what's the track called?

    • @jayashreepawar3185
      @jayashreepawar3185 3 года назад

      Do you know any... background music in this video..if you do I beg you to send the link..[Please] or just say the name

  • @user-kn5ck4mf2i
    @user-kn5ck4mf2i 4 года назад +7

    My man NEEDS a Spotify podcast.

    • @jayashreepawar3185
      @jayashreepawar3185 3 года назад

      What do u mean..?
      Do you know any... background music in this video..if you do I beg you to send the link..[Please]

  • @thatlowrankedguy9549
    @thatlowrankedguy9549 4 года назад +9

    This gave me a new perspective of “life”

  • @evilseals5562
    @evilseals5562 4 года назад +180

    Yes i am the guy who watch this kind if stuff and then go back to watching memes

    • @NoodleErik
      @NoodleErik 4 года назад +5

      Same

    • @albinocake
      @albinocake 4 года назад +4

      What should we name this type of guy

    • @stparm
      @stparm 4 года назад +4

      I dunno but sounds like me too

    • @destaviour
      @destaviour 4 года назад +4

      We should make our separate subreddit

    • @4soandypk
      @4soandypk 4 года назад +3

      Albino Cake we should name it a ‘flat seal’

  • @justabowloflettuce
    @justabowloflettuce 4 года назад +2

    Petition for this dude to start a podcast or Netflix show
    👇🏾

  • @QuadGaming360
    @QuadGaming360 4 года назад +20

    this channel makes me question everything

  • @kalebcallahan5793
    @kalebcallahan5793 4 года назад +33

    9:55 “there is no someone there is no me” there is only we comrade. 😅 jokes aside great video

  • @ALBERTEINSTEIN777
    @ALBERTEINSTEIN777 4 года назад +62

    THE HUMAN BRAIN IS THE ONLY ORGAN IN THE UNIVERSE TO NAME ITSELF.

    • @Anxmaly666
      @Anxmaly666 3 года назад +5

      It's so funny and mesmerizing at the same time

    • @temuulenmunkhsaikhan5111
      @temuulenmunkhsaikhan5111 3 года назад

      OMG I DIDNT KNOW THAT. I WONDER IF OUR REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS CAN NAME ITSELF HAHAHA.

    • @Danw711
      @Danw711 3 года назад +2

      how are you sure?

    • @Anxmaly666
      @Anxmaly666 3 года назад

      @@Danw711 Unregistered bruh moment has been detected

    • @ModernGentleman
      @ModernGentleman 3 года назад +2

      That we know of*

  • @Ash-td4sx
    @Ash-td4sx 4 года назад +49

    This video deserves way more views and likes than this

    • @zeroscans3567
      @zeroscans3567 4 года назад +1

      Well personally I think that we are the only people watching this are unique .........idk about you but I'm here cause I've been asking these questions myself

    • @philippirrip8392
      @philippirrip8392 4 года назад

      @@zeroscans3567 That's the exact reason why I am here.

  • @chillinqq3079
    @chillinqq3079 4 года назад +29

    The things this guy does is beautiful and i honestly wonder how he made these beautiful videos

    • @user-pk5eh8kg2v
      @user-pk5eh8kg2v 4 года назад +6

      natalie I don’t think Hugo meant that in a literal sense.

    • @natalie8322
      @natalie8322 4 года назад +2

      @@user-pk5eh8kg2v ik I was being sarcastic, I mean it was true but I was jp

    • @scorpionfitness1219
      @scorpionfitness1219 4 года назад

      Man of culture

    • @N0URii
      @N0URii 4 года назад +1

      especially the video quality

    • @esrocoeus4451
      @esrocoeus4451 4 года назад

      He does it high on psychedelics

  • @DMTEntity88
    @DMTEntity88 3 года назад +2

    I swear this man is on a different level of thinking I Think the same way but this man knows how to put words together to explain his experiences and lightness us!! Thank you brotha for all the videos!!🙌💙

  • @diepasharma4197
    @diepasharma4197 3 года назад +2

    @Aperture Congrats! You just summarized major parts of the Bhagwad Gita. Everything you mentioned in this video, I went through all this thought process while I was reading the shlokas of Bhagwad Gita and trying to understand what it meant. Amazing!!! Subscribed!

  • @seannjau5657
    @seannjau5657 4 года назад +1

    "Just enjoy the ride" sums up what you end up with after contemplating all possible outcomes and possibilities of our existence

  • @Bryan-gy2zu
    @Bryan-gy2zu 4 года назад +25

    Personally, I reject the notion that "nothing in life really matters" for the simple fact that out of the infinite number of possibilities in this infinite universe *you* exist. You may not become president, or a CEO, or anyone notable, but *you exist* and the definition of life is up to you to decide because life may not have a definite meaning but that doesn't mean you can't *give it meaning* . To me, the peasant, the king, the worker, and the unable are all as much a part of the universe as the brightest star and the most destructive supernova for the simple fact that *you exist* . Everything in life matters because it's your life.

    • @MegaMercernary
      @MegaMercernary 4 года назад

      That’s circular reasoning. 😬

    • @Bryan-gy2zu
      @Bryan-gy2zu 4 года назад

      @@MegaMercernary k ... you still matter to me tho 0.0

    • @Bryan-gy2zu
      @Bryan-gy2zu 4 года назад +2

      @@everythingthatswithinflows1655 It's really adorable you think this is so

    • @CuriouslyMindful
      @CuriouslyMindful 4 года назад +3

      My interpretation of that quote is that it’s another way of saying, “nothing matters more than anything else. Or everything matters.” It isn’t saying that “nothing matters (at all)”. It says, “nothing really matters”. On one level of consciousness, things matter. On ‘another', not really.

    • @chonknorgget1770
      @chonknorgget1770 4 года назад +1

      I see it more as a way of saying the meaning of life is to give life meaning.

  • @IKEMENOsakaman
    @IKEMENOsakaman 2 года назад +1

    After watching this video, I noticed that I'm conscious... I can't stop shaking now...

  • @mykalsc
    @mykalsc 4 года назад +9

    A lot of the comments are trying to be silly but I just want to say thanks for making this video. You explained really well something that is quite difficult to grasp. Well done! I'll come back to this video time and time again.

    • @properpsychology1276
      @properpsychology1276 2 года назад

      “Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks
      outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” -Carl Jung
      Hey there, you should check out our "Enlightening Quotes to Find Yourself" video ft. Carl Jung. Our channel is passionate about psychology education so that everyone everywhere can live a healthier life. Our goal is to create a free source of #DigitalTherapy for our subscribers.

  • @nebulex7214
    @nebulex7214 3 года назад +1

    Why don't you have 10 Million yet?! Your videos are amazing!

  • @Emhepic
    @Emhepic 4 года назад +10

    Give this man an award.

  • @granDoktor
    @granDoktor 4 года назад +5

    WHY IS EVERYONE REFERRING TO APERTURE AS *THIS GUY* ?

  • @avishukla1505
    @avishukla1505 4 года назад +4

    Ummm.. So should i do drugs now?

  • @unprankable666
    @unprankable666 Год назад

    I am me. Alone, and singular. One person, one consciousness, one facet of an infinity sided shape. My mind and soul are perfectly aligned towards my goal, the only limiting factor is my body.

  • @bryandraughn9830
    @bryandraughn9830 Год назад

    Everyone calls themselves "I".
    There are only perspectives.
    There's no "you" having a perspective.
    A bunch of memories, a name, a history.
    All just bits of a viewpoint.
    A viewpoint that is just like any other.

  • @lordodysseus
    @lordodysseus 4 года назад +4

    "Love is only possible due to a lack of self. You give up all your secrets. The walls you've built to keep people at an arm's distance slowly lower, one by one, until you're a completely open book; until all your pages have been read."
    The walls around my mental book are Vibranium, lined with Adamantium, and topped with Valyrian steel spikes, guarded by billions of soldiers and dragons and trolls and worse none of whom sleep or eat or get tired. There is a planet-sized minefield surrounding it. The mines are nuclear. The only path inside is lined with millions of gimpy gimpy and spiders and snakes hippos and evil and you need to fight and beat the universe itself to acquire the key to open the door to my soul. Except the universe follows my laws of physics. And they change constantly.
    If you really want to know me, get through all that. Then I'll consider getting to know you.

    • @Dantheman12393
      @Dantheman12393 4 года назад

      Someone, one day, will walk through all those barricades and obstacles with ease and you won't expect it

    • @burgersaurus4573
      @burgersaurus4573 4 года назад

      Daniel aww

  • @2rage
    @2rage 4 года назад +4

    My new favorite quote: "You're a small packet of the universe"

  • @the_nightcrawler.
    @the_nightcrawler. 4 года назад +3

    This was literally a journey within oneself

  • @timursheydaev8678
    @timursheydaev8678 4 года назад +8

    You and exurb1a. Oh guys, this will be one hell of a ride

    • @olin409
      @olin409 4 года назад +2

      Exactly what I was thinking, except overall I prefer exurb1a to aperture just because of his humor

  • @reppolf1970
    @reppolf1970 4 года назад +12

    When he said that love is only possible due to the lack of self, you give up all your secrets, the walls you've built to keep you in arms distance. Slowly lower. I wish my parents hadn't divorced.

  • @CRegaladoDA
    @CRegaladoDA 4 года назад +4

    Before any aperture video: i'm special
    After any aperture video: am i real?

    • @4soandypk
      @4soandypk 4 года назад +2

      random person: how were you born?
      this guy: *intense thinking*

  • @crashpadd7960
    @crashpadd7960 7 месяцев назад

    The only thing i dont like is that this is technically a speculative view of consciousness because it still could just be the collapse of the wave function that allows us to "think" as we do, but the video is presented as fact

    • @ErikHelmsman
      @ErikHelmsman 4 месяца назад

      Personally, I don't think the wavefunction actually collapses. To me, the concept of wavefunction collapse is very reminiscent of the concept of singularities in general relativity. Both concepts involve infinity: quantum information seemingly propagating at infinite speed at the instant of wavefunction collapse and infinite spacetime curvature at the point of a singularity in general relativity. Both cases are probably instances where our current models are breaking down and can't make accurate predictions. Interestingly, the many worlds interpretation, which just tosses out the assumption that the wavefunction collapses and is therefore simpler, doesn't have this problem and is entirely consistent with observations and experimental results.

  • @ItzZay1
    @ItzZay1 2 года назад +1

    We’re technically a higher form of the universe created by the highest form of universe (God).
    Our consciousness makes us special compared to stars, galaxies, or planets.

  • @3ric42
    @3ric42 4 года назад +4

    Just waiting for the moment, when you question the theory of atoms!

  • @plebjames
    @plebjames 3 года назад

    If our consciousness didn't filter things out, we'd become immediately overwhelmed by sensory information

  • @human1880
    @human1880 3 года назад +6

    So all of the people in these comments are just promoting LSD

  • @Bunny-nq4nk
    @Bunny-nq4nk 2 года назад

    "One's inner light, is their own god"
    "Be your own Ruler"

  • @its4yourowngood_yvfw
    @its4yourowngood_yvfw Год назад

    I feel like I can relate to an ego death experience. But how can someone truly experience an ego death without amnesia. Without completely neglecting or abandoning the responsibilities of your existence? I am a product of my existence. You can't un live that.

  • @AcapellaFella
    @AcapellaFella 4 года назад +2

    You can tell this guy has damn near heard every Alan Watts lecture.

  • @Murf1802
    @Murf1802 4 года назад

    Not bad man,, not bad,,,perfect voice to go with the theries!!! Nice 👍 I love that Ego death ,, sooo true if you really THINK about it!!! Thanks man great job!!

  • @Whiskey_Tango_Foxtrot_
    @Whiskey_Tango_Foxtrot_ 3 года назад

    Life is evolving toward an unimaginable superior form that will surely be far greater than even us both physically and consciously! That life form is very likely to already be among us and incubating within earths oceans now. Far ahead of its time with an obvious awareness and consciousness then all the other life within its habitat. If I were a universe my bet for such a creature next in line would be Dolphins!

  • @CrazyAce777777
    @CrazyAce777777 4 года назад +345

    the most peaceful anxiety attack I've had

    • @spicyspictor3954
      @spicyspictor3954 2 года назад +7

      same😂

    • @joey_yangyin
      @joey_yangyin 2 года назад +3

      lol

    • @properpsychology1276
      @properpsychology1276 2 года назад +3

      “Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks
      outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” -Carl Jung
      Hey Chrono King, you should check out our "Enlightening Quotes to Find Yourself" video ft. Carl Jung. Our channel is passionate about psychology education so that everyone everywhere can live a healthier life. Our goal is to create a free source of #DigitalTherapy for our subscribers.

    • @CrazyAce777777
      @CrazyAce777777 2 года назад +1

      @@properpsychology1276 lol no

    • @alimohsin496
      @alimohsin496 2 года назад +1

      How do you get an anxiety attack from this? I don’t understand

  • @qazzzyqaz5517
    @qazzzyqaz5517 4 года назад +2204

    Imagine if this guy got a Netflix show. Kinda on the lines of Cosmos.

    • @lucidity1230
      @lucidity1230 4 года назад +66

      Quinn H. I want this. Holy crap. He’d have a whole team of people helping him too for faster and probably even better content.

    • @aiden_alexander6725
      @aiden_alexander6725 4 года назад +30

      @@lucidity1230 yeah I'd watch that

    • @fallen-_-6547
      @fallen-_-6547 4 года назад +23

      I want this man this shit would be great

    • @NamelessToast
      @NamelessToast 4 года назад +11

      I would watch it

    • @Objectivityiskey
      @Objectivityiskey 4 года назад +11

      Yes, he would be filling peoples minds with unfounded deepities, and mindless floating abstractions that damaged our actual consciousness with a fowled Metaphysics and corrupt Epistemology. He would be just like AOC.

  • @Omar-vv2bu
    @Omar-vv2bu 4 года назад +1028

    I wonder how long it takes for him to find all these quality shots that match the subject and make the video look so cinematographic

    • @smoke598
      @smoke598 4 года назад +41

      It’s called stock video

    • @mohamedjamac3721
      @mohamedjamac3721 4 года назад +5

      @@smoke598
      Are these clips free?

    • @GamingAndGuitar03
      @GamingAndGuitar03 4 года назад +25

      @@mohamedjamac3721 Usually I think there are free ones but usually the good ones are behind a paywall

    • @smoke598
      @smoke598 4 года назад

      Mohamed Jamac No, you pay to get like a million of them

    • @donnyblazedone
      @donnyblazedone 4 года назад +1

      Was thinking the exact same thing

  • @molamola9723
    @molamola9723 4 года назад +4266

    I feel like this has been a 13 minute advertisement to do drugs

    • @brandononeil6129
      @brandononeil6129 4 года назад +83

      drugs are an advert for feeling I
      0-0

    • @TheBasqueWasp
      @TheBasqueWasp 4 года назад +146

      Too young to see otherwise, but there is still hope if you can still watch this video instead of the Kardashians

    • @renae6711
      @renae6711 4 года назад +18

      Not sure how you got that.....

    • @stefanexplores
      @stefanexplores 4 года назад +98

      Or you could meditate :)

    • @meanbird5503
      @meanbird5503 4 года назад +8

      You're still trying to fund yourself awww :) it will come to you

  • @silas8878
    @silas8878 4 года назад +1929

    Dude just hire this guy for quarantine class, then i'd actually listen.

  • @evansmhando2843
    @evansmhando2843 4 года назад +749

    it makes me feel so good to know that there are other people out there that think this way

    • @QuietClawss
      @QuietClawss 3 года назад +12

      Me too

    • @madebyadann5330
      @madebyadann5330 2 года назад +10

      @@trollrat2828 any sort of crisis is an opportunity for growth. You’ll get through it as long as you confront it & never try to escape the thoughts in your head. Trust me. & if you need something to kickstart that journey, I suggest to look into the practice of mindful meditation. P.S never fall into pessimistic nihilism. EVER. Other than that stay curious in the journey of knowledge

    • @properpsychology1276
      @properpsychology1276 2 года назад +4

      “Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks
      outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” -Carl Jung
      Hey Evans, you should check out our "Enlightening Quotes to Find Yourself" video ft. Carl Jung. Our channel is passionate about psychology education so that everyone everywhere can live a healthier life. Our goal is to create a free source of #DigitalTherapy for our subscribers.

    • @yamesotericist4188
      @yamesotericist4188 2 года назад +1

      GREAT!! BUT! If you really are like this, try to at least roughly explain the essence of the screenshot of my mystical online ROULETTE game, depicted on my icon??? HM...?
      This is the SECRET of all SECRETS, isn't it?
      ***
      Consciousness has the property of creating reality. You can influence the creation process. Any method of influence is just a way of influencing the process, the process itself cannot be changed.

    • @yamesotericist4188
      @yamesotericist4188 2 года назад +1

      GREAT!
      BUT.
      Try to explain the essence of the screenshot of my mystical game of ROULETTE, depicted on my icon? Hm...?
      This is the SECRET of all SECRETS, isn't it?
      ***
      Consciousness has only one property, it is the creation of reality.
      The process of creation (script) can be influenced, but the process itself (mechanism) cannot be changed!!

  • @jeremy3726
    @jeremy3726 4 года назад +1119

    I feel like he can teach math, science, and history and make it not boring. Also the guy above me will never give u up

    • @tajuspikturna8097
      @tajuspikturna8097 4 года назад +49

      Anything can be interesting as long as the information given to the audience is in favorable manner, school doesnt pay attention to such a thing, which is why most subjects at school are plain and boring

    • @journeybeyondthesea
      @journeybeyondthesea 4 года назад +3

      exactly

    • @aldenotis2781
      @aldenotis2781 4 года назад +13

      the only problem is his entire class would fall asleep because if his backgrounjd music

    • @ChaseL25
      @ChaseL25 4 года назад +6

      Don’t forget philosophy

    • @kaelanirevyruun1676
      @kaelanirevyruun1676 4 года назад +1

      ILG Ghost he sounds like an American (to me as an Australian lol) version of the guy from Real Engineering :P

  • @jackdunning7296
    @jackdunning7296 4 года назад +728

    This guy could narrate grass growing and I would still watch it

  • @TheExoplanetsChannel
    @TheExoplanetsChannel 4 года назад +626

    Best plan for the quarantine: *_watching Aperture videos_*

    • @BossManAngry
      @BossManAngry 4 года назад

      Correct

    • @sen5530
      @sen5530 4 года назад

      Wish he made more though

    • @rodneygitonga3563
      @rodneygitonga3563 4 года назад +5

      if only i hadn't already watched all of them😣😣

    • @renae6711
      @renae6711 4 года назад

      YES!

    • @josem3366
      @josem3366 4 года назад

      The Exoplanets Channel indeed this dude has incredible videos.

  • @Jagraj.Benipal
    @Jagraj.Benipal 4 года назад +329

    *I am concious of my consciousness being concious, consciously.*

    • @Equa11ysurl
      @Equa11ysurl 4 года назад +34

      *I am confused by my confusion being confusing, confusingly*

    • @scottjohnson9846
      @scottjohnson9846 4 года назад +5

      Funny shit

    • @cassiegreen1876
      @cassiegreen1876 4 года назад +3

      You mean... You as in your ego is :')

    • @bennytennyson
      @bennytennyson 4 года назад +6

      *I am fabulous of my fabulousness being fabulous, fabulously.*

  • @Bxrry
    @Bxrry 3 года назад +168

    So soothing

    • @jabsty
      @jabsty 3 года назад

      what are you doing here😂

    • @giovannicardoso1052
      @giovannicardoso1052 3 года назад

      @@jabsty lo

    • @DeeLegend27
      @DeeLegend27 2 года назад

      ur everywhere

    • @properpsychology1276
      @properpsychology1276 2 года назад

      “Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks
      outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” -Carl Jung
      Hey there, you should check out our "Enlightening Quotes to Find Yourself" video ft. Carl Jung. Our channel is passionate about psychology education so that everyone everywhere can live a healthier life. Our goal is to create a free source of #DigitalTherapy for our subscribers.

    • @yamesotericist4188
      @yamesotericist4188 2 года назад

      GREAT!! BUT! If you really are like this, try to at least roughly explain the essence of the screenshot of my mystical online ROULETTE game, depicted on my icon??? HM...?
      This is the SECRET of all SECRETS, isn't it?
      ***
      Consciousness has the property of creating reality. You can influence the creation process. Any method of influence is just a way of influencing the process, the process itself cannot be changed.

  • @12201185234
    @12201185234 4 года назад +2394

    "Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. We are all one conciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves...
    Now here's Tom with the weather"

  • @zenterno-zt1pl
    @zenterno-zt1pl 4 года назад +842

    Why are there any dislikes
    This guy is literally educating you for free. Smh

    • @lupinusaria2316
      @lupinusaria2316 4 года назад +38

      Well some people just have a different view of things, so what else they can do about someone's perspective?
      Scrap it then, throw it. That's how an individual reacts with other individual if they find their views conflicts with each other.. so yeah no point asking this.

    • @sidgar1
      @sidgar1 4 года назад +30

      @@lupinusaria2316 By your logic, there was no point in your reply, either. Is the disagreement pointless and the reply was a waste of time, or is there value in disagreement and coming to a common understanding in things?

    • @LuisSierra42
      @LuisSierra42 4 года назад +22

      People that don't like philosophy

    • @oshel5793
      @oshel5793 4 года назад +12

      @@sidgar1 If your going to use the idea that "there was no real reason to argue". Then I have to ask, why are your trying to argue? That's rather hypocritical and by your logic, a waste of time.

    • @lupinusaria2316
      @lupinusaria2316 4 года назад +2

      @@sidgar1 i see, looks like my last sentence was quite offensive, well who knows? Maybe i was trying to be a hero by wasting my time in order to save someone's future by not asking such "question" again.

  • @lukekesletal4468
    @lukekesletal4468 4 года назад +323

    Aperture is like a blend of LEMiNO and exurb1a and I'm here for it

    • @suman_gautam
      @suman_gautam 4 года назад +12

      I haven't heard of exurb1a, thanks for mentioning

    • @OsvaldoBayerista
      @OsvaldoBayerista 4 года назад +36

      Exurb1a is perfection

    • @suman_gautam
      @suman_gautam 4 года назад +2

      Can I get some more recommendation?

    • @infinitymatrix2890
      @infinitymatrix2890 4 года назад +20

      Don't forget the pursuit of wonder

    • @august3349
      @august3349 4 года назад +7

      @@suman_gautam pursuit of wonder

  • @brbcrew9957
    @brbcrew9957 4 года назад +485

    We are just the universe trying to understand itself

    • @kormannn1
      @kormannn1 4 года назад +3

      First time I heard that concept was from Babylon 5 series.

    • @frankejk
      @frankejk 4 года назад +6

      this comment made me realize we live in a society

    • @atul1024
      @atul1024 4 года назад

      Utilise your quarantine
      ruclips.net/video/tEK6wIanmgY/видео.html

    • @atul1024
      @atul1024 4 года назад

      Utilise your quarantine
      ruclips.net/video/tEK6wIanmgY/видео.html

    • @aa2ng
      @aa2ng 4 года назад +2

      I made that exact same conclusion by myself, trippin helped tho

  • @LACEDHAIR
    @LACEDHAIR 2 года назад +85

    Yesterday I was on shrooms and my friend put this on. Bro years started falling down my face. It’s like my mind crashed. I couldn’t believe what I was processing. It was a real ego death. Now I just see that we are a big paradox. And to just love each other. It was like an awakening. This page has legit changed my life last night. I spent hours watching the videos. I feel awoke. And I’m serious.

    • @croozerdog
      @croozerdog 2 года назад +9

      @@N4jss Do you mean sonder? I always thought I had that awareness, but I only truly had it after my first good trip.
      "the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own-populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness-an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk."

    • @EaarthTemple
      @EaarthTemple Год назад +1

      I love those very intense awakenings and transitions You go through! Ride the wave, it’s a beautiful journey.❤

    • @drawingroomart5017
      @drawingroomart5017 Год назад +2

      Drugs might be a window, but it is not a door.

    • @cr-nd8qh
      @cr-nd8qh 11 месяцев назад

      Yeah I had a similar experience. Its unreal

    • @BugRib
      @BugRib 8 месяцев назад

      @croozerdog-9946 - Wow, that's a great quote! Where is it from?

  • @jonathan-fb3fo
    @jonathan-fb3fo 4 года назад +547

    this makes me feel like I'm dead and alive at the same time

  • @Janssusf55
    @Janssusf55 4 года назад +189

    I've been binge-watching this channel like some Netflix show

    • @connorcassani329
      @connorcassani329 4 года назад +2

      jαmєѕ Lossing this better than any Netflix show

    • @Janssusf55
      @Janssusf55 4 года назад +1

      @@connorcassani329 breaking bad is really good tho

    • @Janssusf55
      @Janssusf55 4 года назад

      @@connorcassani329 even though this and Breaking Bad are completely different

    • @droyal1994
      @droyal1994 4 года назад

      I did the same haha

  • @skyswinger5249
    @skyswinger5249 4 года назад +195

    4:44
    I'm sorry, I got distracted for a minute there as I flew through a star-man's crotch.

    • @Des_.
      @Des_. 4 года назад +4

      I'm crying!!!😤😂

    • @myingthungomurry9894
      @myingthungomurry9894 4 года назад +3

      We need a haha-react button on RUclips. 😂

    • @atul1024
      @atul1024 4 года назад

      Utilise your quarantine
      ruclips.net/video/tEK6wIanmgY/видео.html

  • @kingtitan2051
    @kingtitan2051 4 года назад +18

    How about we are everything and nothing all at the same time. We are trillions of atoms vibrating at five hundred billion times a second. Technically we are here nor there always in between states. Ego is evolution - Desiring. People just try to put labels on what can be desired and what cannot be. Take away the desire - take away the evolution that has been given. We are all individual frequencies of this vast energy system and all have unlimited ways to teach consciousness itself. All aspects of learning are valid. All aspects of feelings are valid all aspects of emotions are valid. How about you are just valid. Just am...

  • @sandeepsrinivas7
    @sandeepsrinivas7 4 года назад +163

    Humans are a super AI invented by mother nature and now we are slowly destroying our creator, the exact thing we are afraid of happening with computer AI today.

    • @Zen_Power
      @Zen_Power 4 года назад +8

      Who created Mother Nature?

    • @natalie8322
      @natalie8322 4 года назад +3

      I love a good conspiracy theory, but you gotta first actually base it off of life and there is no mother nature so it wouldn't work

    • @natalie8322
      @natalie8322 4 года назад

      @@tidalforces3880 yes I'm not stupid, but obviously he isn't comparing anything and to me this just sounds like a conspiracy theory. 🤷😂

    • @tejav1160
      @tejav1160 4 года назад +3

      The Power of Zen Mother universe. I know your next move, don’t. Because I won’t be able to answer it.

    • @blan_k4691
      @blan_k4691 4 года назад

      If nature wants to create super ai, but biology has its limits. Ask yourself how nature would go about creating ai...

  • @kadenfisher1320
    @kadenfisher1320 4 года назад +259

    bro took drugs and his mind expanded more than his limits

    • @nicechoicee
      @nicechoicee 4 года назад +9

      He went UI

    • @mystermysterio5348
      @mystermysterio5348 4 года назад +15

      He has awaken the Minds Eye...The secret to all truth and knowledge. Its a natural high...a higher concious.

    • @epicminecraftplayer1969
      @epicminecraftplayer1969 4 года назад +6

      Hes basically saying everything that Alan Watt has already said

    • @robodobo653
      @robodobo653 4 года назад +1

      Maybe his limits expanded to encompass his mind

    • @DrShrimpPuertoRico_
      @DrShrimpPuertoRico_ 4 года назад +2

      NZT

  • @tejav1160
    @tejav1160 4 года назад +110

    This guy can convince Chinese government to close all the wet markets.

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      @mrsucc2138 4 года назад

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  • @zoranvelickovic8814
    @zoranvelickovic8814 4 года назад +417

    "I Am not the Body, not the Mind nor the Emotions,
    I Am as I Think''.

    • @thegoodshoes2899
      @thegoodshoes2899 4 года назад +4

      Bob Proctor?

    • @sd789sd
      @sd789sd 4 года назад +6

      No, not really, but the first line was true ))

    • @mkmllrc
      @mkmllrc 3 года назад +2

      I am the awareness😥

    • @siddhantmishra3598
      @siddhantmishra3598 3 года назад +4

      Ta tvam asi, Sanskrit saying

    • @LeanoSamwinga
      @LeanoSamwinga 3 года назад +19

      You are not your thoughts, but the observer of your thoughts.

  • @vexcarius7100
    @vexcarius7100 Год назад +11

    Hi all, I just want to say I love you to all my fellow stardusts. It took us billions of years of journey to experience this planet. Our lives as humans may be difficult, but it’s still a fun ride. If you experience fear, pain, sadness, or agony right now, remember that we are the universe trying to experience and make sense of its own self. It can be chaotic often times and sometimes it’s very blissful.
    Remember that you were never alone even before you were born. I, you and we are one. We are the universe. You are the universe. I am the universe.

  • @somethingclever6264
    @somethingclever6264 4 года назад +1507

    I tried LSD once, during which I had a conversation with the universe. The experience was profound in a way that words simply cannot describe, but it was a conversation that took place without language. It was more of a free exchange of information, perhaps like what might take place between two networked devices, and the overall message was brilliantly clear.
    I came away from the experience with an understanding that I, regardless of my comprehension, as well as everyone and everything else, AM/ARE the universe. That's a big thing to wrap my head around, but I was shown vast pitch black voids and ephemeral clouds of star nurseries, galaxies, solar systems, planets and everything down to the dust floating across the room, and it was all a single organism. For a time, I didn't exist (not as you or I would be able to define), it was my essence, or some fundamental aspect of my being that was gently held and shown what's behind the curtain.
    What I took away from the experience has been mostly lost to time and stubbornly repeating stupid patterns of behavior for the sake of my own gratification, but I've yet to ever completely discard the feeling that whatever may happen, ultimately it doesn't matter, and eventually everything will be okay, or at least not worth stressing over.
    The bliss that some people claim to find in their religion, the perfect and innocent joy of youth, the absolute and unconditional love that a parent feels (normally anyway) for their newborn baby, this was like what I found the universe to have for itself and all of its aspects. It was an intense and unquestionable love, but it was also simultaneously a perfect oblivion of apathy. It was something akin to how christians like to describe their god as a being of love, and yet for all of its depth of care, won't so much as lift a finger to help anyone or anything. Everything's great, and it doesn't matter in the slightest one way or the other.
    We're here to forge our own purpose, discover meaning for our experiences within ourselves, help one another when it suits us, or have as much fun as possible being as absolutely evil as we can manage. The path doesn't matter, neither does the destination, I suppose the only thing that matters is that you enjoy yourself along the way.

    • @imaane1798
      @imaane1798 4 года назад +109

      Underrated comment. This is beautiful thank you

    • @thomasgeise5745
      @thomasgeise5745 4 года назад +82

      "We are One." has more meaning and implications than one would initially be led to believe. I think I had a somewhat similar experience with acid in which I felt deeply connected to everything and that we are all just part of and are ones with the Universe - which probably is much much bigger in size and in other dimensions of existence than science has discovered so far (which may encompass other possibly infinite Universes and even higher spiritual dimensions that could be related to the extra dimensions about which physicists have been theorizing). I felt deep empathy and profound love for this infinitely complex character and its history, this character being the Universe itself, the Existence, God. We are just tiny humble parts of Him and His conscience. This trip and those kinds of realizations changed my life and understanding of Reality in ways that can't be completely explained by words. Life is great and the Existence of everything, of every great, great Being, of every sentient being and of every being is awesome and we should really be profoundly grateful for it!

    • @bingbong4729
      @bingbong4729 4 года назад +11

      I don't believe that you true acid

    • @Sleeepehead
      @Sleeepehead 4 года назад +6

      Best comment here

    • @adude4157
      @adude4157 4 года назад +8

      Can I get a tldr

  • @K0hai
    @K0hai 4 года назад +240

    Watching this during an existential crisis puts you in this state of not knowing what to do but feeling at ease even while being anxious and idk if I love it or hate it

    • @properpsychology1276
      @properpsychology1276 2 года назад +1

      “Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks
      outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” -Carl Jung
      Hey Kohai, you should check out our "Enlightening Quotes to Find Yourself" video ft. Carl Jung. Our channel is passionate about psychology education so that everyone everywhere can live a healthier life. Our goal is to create a free source of #DigitalTherapy for our subscribers.

    • @yamesotericist4188
      @yamesotericist4188 2 года назад +1

      GREAT!
      BUT.
      Try to explain the essence of the screenshot of my mystical game of ROULETTE, depicted on my icon? Hm...?
      This is the SECRET of all SECRETS, isn't it?
      ***
      Consciousness has only one property, it is the creation of reality.
      The process of creation (script) can be influenced, but the process itself (mechanism) cannot be changed!!

    • @mistylover7398
      @mistylover7398 2 года назад

      Try both. And drink red bull from time to time.

    • @SBecktacular
      @SBecktacular 2 года назад

      There is nothing “to do” ....

    • @igoldenknight2169
      @igoldenknight2169 2 года назад +5

      I can see how “comfort” can come when a video tells you that “nothing in life really matters”. So whatever you choose to do doesn’t matter. Which is false. Life DOES matter. And what you do or do not do matters. Saying that nothing matters is avoiding responsibility. Even though at the end they say enjoy the ride, how can you enjoy it if nothing matters? If it doesn’t matter it has no value, no meaning, no purpose.
      “Nothing in life really matters” is a false statement and only brings false security and comfort.

  • @Milenafedoriak
    @Milenafedoriak 2 года назад +33

    I can't tell you how grateful I am for this video. You explained a concept that is nearly impossible to put into words, and helped me finally understand what I'm going through right now. Sincerely, thank you very much.

    • @properpsychology1276
      @properpsychology1276 2 года назад

      “Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks
      outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” -Carl Jung
      Hey Melania, you should check out our "Enlightening Quotes to Find Yourself" video ft. Carl Jung. Our channel is passionate about psychology education so that everyone everywhere can live a healthier life. Our goal is to create a free source of #DigitalTherapy for our subscribers.

  • @AlexandraStarr1974
    @AlexandraStarr1974 4 года назад +61

    This is possibly one of the best factual youtube videos i have watched in a very long time.
    I recently obtained a diploma in psychology and i have to admit, it has changed my outlook on life. I became interested in psychology mainly through lucid dreaming, which is something i can now do quite regularly, when i put my mind to it. The consciousness is a strange beast, but the subconscious is even more incredible and and bizarre.
    I used to do a lot of LSD in the 90s, but i never had a true ego death until around 1997, which was m first time taking henbane. I had far too much, and i spent god knows how long just being a spectator, not judging anything, it was like the perfect meditation by the end of it. It could have been a bad trip had i not been familiar with hallucinogenics previously, but as reality slipped away, another reality presented itself and i have never attained that alternate reality again.
    I found myself saying "yes!" so many times watching this video, that quote from Alan Watts is one of my favourites, and also that line "energy never dies..." i have used that since the 1990s as well.
    If anyone is hungry for more, i highly suggest Alan Watts's The Nature Of Consciousness II.
    Thank you for this video, it is appreciated so much!
    Stay safe!

    • @TacitDelta
      @TacitDelta 4 года назад

      i was born in 97 dats dope

  • @thealeph165
    @thealeph165 4 года назад +101

    when you're in quarantine and have to think of a way to give people existential crises:

  • @Positiveentropy
    @Positiveentropy 4 года назад +71

    So you took lsd or shrooms by mistake?
    Glad you're back buddy
    Really enjoy your content

    • @2pacVivant0
      @2pacVivant0 4 года назад +2

      Hahaha exactly I didn't understand this sentence.

    • @Mr-zj3eo
      @Mr-zj3eo 4 года назад

      @@danbinding5165 what

    • @Mr-zj3eo
      @Mr-zj3eo 4 года назад

      @@danbinding5165 oh

    • @MnemonicHeadTrip
      @MnemonicHeadTrip 4 года назад +1

      Maybe he just happened to reach it naturally.. somehow
      As far as I know the only way is extensive meditation

    • @nickedwards7013
      @nickedwards7013 4 года назад

      He’s saying he reached ego death unintentionally. I’d assume he either didn’t expect it or wasn’t aware it was a thing.

  • @gothama7522
    @gothama7522 4 года назад +11

    if everyone ask these questions from themselves, they wont worship a god anymore...

    • @Valaplayss
      @Valaplayss 4 года назад +2

      that's the good part of this tho...

    • @hentaiprotagonist729
      @hentaiprotagonist729 4 года назад

      Nah....god his in all of us

    • @zeroscans3567
      @zeroscans3567 4 года назад +2

      Well that's me.....I think it not just me that when we are kids our elders would constantly put the word god in us whenever we do wrong things .....now that I have a brain to think these whole god thing is just surprisingly mysterious.....so I'm done with this whether there is god or not it's not it's fine with me I'd rather have these kind of question in my brain then to go and argues about god

  • @minibean1989
    @minibean1989 4 года назад +72

    Noone:
    Ego death: INTO THE UNKNOOOOOOOOOOOOOWN

    • @atul1024
      @atul1024 4 года назад

      smol bean
      Utilise your quarantine
      ruclips.net/video/tEK6wIanmgY/видео.html

    • @nicechoicee
      @nicechoicee 4 года назад +1

      ego death is scary, I've formed thoughts similar to this guy and experiencing ego death is one of the lonliest things to feel. It's scary and feels endless; whatever you do to find comfort normally never works. The body you were in abandons you as well and are left in a third person view of your world. People don't really talk about ego death as much but it's a real experience that can either help with growth or stagnate it.

    • @Jasondurgen
      @Jasondurgen 4 года назад

      smol bean ALIVE IN THE SUPERUNKNOWN
      ALIVE IN THE SUPERUNKNOWN
      ALIVE IN THE SUPERUNKNOWN
      FIRST IT STEALS YOUR MIND
      AND THEN
      IT STEALS
      YOUR
      .
      .
      SOOOOOUUUUUUUUULLLLLL

    • @Jasondurgen
      @Jasondurgen 4 года назад +2

      Nice Choice I feel like it helps BECAUSE it’s scary. Nobody WANTS that to happen constantly unless you’re bat-shit mental, but having it happen once or a limited amount of times could really humble someone. The experience they have could be eye opening in any way, such as spiritually, mentally, or socially. I’ve never experienced it once or have done any psychedelic, but I hope to have changed those by the end of my life. I figure shit, once I die, that’s it. Lights out, no more, take it easy. So, might as well get lit while the candle still got some wick.

  • @pneumonoultramicroscopicsi9015
    @pneumonoultramicroscopicsi9015 4 года назад +55

    It’s time to get EXISTENTIAL, EXISTENTIAL!

    • @Equa11ysurl
      @Equa11ysurl 4 года назад

      *crIsiS, C R I S I S*
      (sorry im having an existential crisis i-)

  • @tobiashorowitz9676
    @tobiashorowitz9676 4 года назад +35

    As a massive nerd myself, I can appreciate the amount of effort and research this man puts into these videos.

    • @wyattgoodale2403
      @wyattgoodale2403 4 года назад +2

      Tobias Konowitz as an avid drug user I appreciate the amount of research he did for this vid

  • @NoodleErik
    @NoodleErik 4 года назад +40

    God: I created you
    People: did I ask for you to put me here?

    • @albinocake
      @albinocake 4 года назад +3

      Lmao

    • @4soandypk
      @4soandypk 4 года назад +3

      what if it wasn't god?

    • @atul1024
      @atul1024 4 года назад +1

      Utilise your quarantine
      ruclips.net/video/tEK6wIanmgY/видео.html

    • @albinocake
      @albinocake 4 года назад

      @@4soandypk so what do u called the uncreated being or the one who created everything?(just curious)

    • @albinocake
      @albinocake 4 года назад

      @@4soandypk well i can't speak my English very well so nvm

  • @thetonymasters
    @thetonymasters 4 года назад +51

    Listening to this dude on LSD is probably the most calming thing you’ll ever experience.

    • @toxic-orbit6481
      @toxic-orbit6481 3 года назад +3

      I was tripping balls this morning and questioning my entire consciences and life watching this woulda mind fucke me more 😭

    • @thetonymasters
      @thetonymasters 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@toxic-orbit6481lmaooo

  • @Gaurav1505
    @Gaurav1505 3 года назад +2

    This has been figured by ancient societies long back , until the West came and destroyed the native way of living. Hope that this knowledge is not the extend of your understanding but it becomes your reality , because when that happens you can leave the body at your own Will. And you only keep yourself trapped in the body by keeping your ego attached to a thing/someone.

  • @rodneygitonga3563
    @rodneygitonga3563 4 года назад +22

    just when i wanted an existential crisis. thank you.

  • @lmprovings
    @lmprovings 4 года назад +46

    My dad left me.

  • @matthewpeterson5159
    @matthewpeterson5159 4 года назад +21

    The only word I could possibly think of to describe ego death is ineffable. It was terrifying but also the most incredible experience there is. It really is like you said, like your save file in a game gets corrupted or deleted, but you're still in the game. It's experiencing death without dying.

  • @AntVaz7
    @AntVaz7 4 года назад +10

    Nothing to see here

  • @WishedWash
    @WishedWash 4 года назад +59

    "LSD, shrooms, I have experienced it myself"
    Me: *WHAT*
    tbh I'm actually confused

    • @usmanshaikh5106
      @usmanshaikh5106 4 года назад +13

      What are you confused about?

    • @Vega-26
      @Vega-26 4 года назад

      ?

    • @LuisSierra42
      @LuisSierra42 4 года назад +7

      Psychedelics are good

    • @naytra6151
      @naytra6151 4 года назад +7

      He defo did DMT

    • @qarinatir
      @qarinatir 4 года назад +7

      He experienced ego death. Not LSD or mushrooms. Probably

  • @BrilliantLightGlowing1111
    @BrilliantLightGlowing1111 4 года назад +13

    I've been reading in Buddhism, Zen, and Taoism that all have similar thoughts of what this video is trying to spread. I think your conclusion at the end and the whole video feels very peaceful.

    • @monkieassasin
      @monkieassasin 3 года назад +7

      Its not just them. Plato, the earliest Christians and their mystics (especially hysechasm and the views of the Quakers as well), and even in Islam with the concepts found in the teachings of Ibn 'Arabi and also Sufism, all share the same thoughts and ideas laid out here. Its like anyone who seeks what is true with a pure heart simply to know truth cannot help but come to the same conclusions, despite describing the same experiences through different cultural lenses throughout history.
      Col. 3:10-11 "Put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. Here there is no Gentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all."

  • @intjsavagery219
    @intjsavagery219 4 года назад +154

    Funny thing is, we can try to explain this truth. But it can’t be taught nor explained. It must be experienced. To the awakened, this video is a confirmation. To the sleeping one, this is gibberish. However, great job on this video. 🙏🏿👍🏿

    • @irchadesfacuze2885
      @irchadesfacuze2885 4 года назад +1

      and what about the awakening?

    • @fishlord1005
      @fishlord1005 3 года назад +5

      this is so very true holy shit. Rn im awakening but today may have been my ego death. today is pretty different than usual. Ive been trying to teach myself to gain more willpower and today i did literaly every little thing that came to my mind. I feel a little closer to being woke than yesterday. and now i need to shit ok bye

    • @andrewmaclean9810
      @andrewmaclean9810 3 года назад +2

      The truth is a funny thing man, "It" indeed must be experienced to understand, but even then, I feel no closer to truly understanding it than I was before. There was only the moment of pure understanding but that leaves. I am now merely aware of its existence and do my best to integrate what my mind in its normal state can comprehend of it. But man it does feel good to be "awake". Or maybe thats just my ego lmao

    • @amandeepbaghiana4510
      @amandeepbaghiana4510 3 года назад +6

      Careful, it’s really easy to fall into your mind’s illusions of what “awakening” is or isn’t. You can imagine experiences you’re not even having. First and foremost, be honest to yourself

    • @smallsmokecj882
      @smallsmokecj882 3 года назад

      Couldn't have put it better. The war on drugs has slowed our species down. We could have had world peace by now.

  • @apexanarchy7596
    @apexanarchy7596 4 года назад +24

    this video was the last piece of the puzzle i needed to end my existential crisis.
    This is the most well spent 13 minutes i have ever spent on youtube.
    Thank you !

    • @shaikm5151
      @shaikm5151 4 года назад

      Please elaborate I’m curious 😂

    • @RaVNeFLoK
      @RaVNeFLoK 4 года назад +1

      Beautiful.

  • @citykidlyfe6165
    @citykidlyfe6165 4 года назад +22

    I really needed to hear this, kinda put me in a calm state

  • @matt_thaxton3775
    @matt_thaxton3775 4 года назад +61

    one high-dose shroom trip i had, i looked in the mirror and didn't recognize myself. at first it was scary, but then i got up close to the mirror and started studying my face from the perspective of a complete stranger. after that day i felt alot less attached to my appearance, while at the same time understanding how to affect other people's perception of me. really profound experience.
    @aperture glad to hear you had a psychedelic experience! we NEED a trip report 😂

    • @davoodoh3137
      @davoodoh3137 4 года назад +2

      You shouldn't do drugs

    • @matt_thaxton3775
      @matt_thaxton3775 4 года назад +11

      davood oh “drugs” is a pretty wide generalization. ofc you shouldn’t do meth or heroin, but shrooms are all-natural, non-toxic, and non-addictive. in fact, lots of medical research from the past few decades has provided evidence that shrooms (and other psychedelics) actually reverse addiction, and can help you quit cigarettes or other addictive substances. the main danger is it being laced with something else, which is basically impossible since it’s literally a mushroom.

    • @soldiercze
      @soldiercze 4 года назад

      I couldnt remember who and what I am aswell, scary and fascinating at once lol, never been the same since...

    • @Underliner07
      @Underliner07 4 года назад

      Matthew Thaxton You say it’s not dangerous but it is dangerous especially for someone who’s prone to a psyche break

    • @Jasondurgen
      @Jasondurgen 4 года назад +1

      Zechidvjchi of course there are outliers/exceptions. No shit.

  • @asa9528
    @asa9528 3 года назад +18

    I rewatch this video a lot. it’s so soothing and it reminds me that “i” am the universe experiencing itself in a human form. it makes me wanna be an even better person. thank you

    • @properpsychology1276
      @properpsychology1276 2 года назад

      “Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks
      outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” -Carl Jung
      Hey ASA, you should check out our "Enlightening Quotes to Find Yourself" video ft. Carl Jung. Our channel is passionate about psychology education so that everyone everywhere can live a healthier life. Our goal is to create a free source of #DigitalTherapy for our subscribers.