Universal Wisdom

The final recorded interview of Terence McKenna, conducted by Erik Davis for Wired magazine in November 1999. Subscribe for weekly new content: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-fyzHZmp9BiOuOdS7dswFA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UniversalWisdomFB/ Podcast: https://anchor.fm/universalwisdom

What is mans purpose? To advance and preserve novelty. The purpose of being a human is complexify reality even more to hand on a more diverse more complicated more multiphasic universe to our children. Widely referred to as his final interview, this was actually his penultimate interview. We will post his final interview next. Subscribe for weekly new content: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-fyzHZmp9BiOuOdS7dswFA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UniversalWisdomFB/ Podcast: https://anchor.fm/universalwisdom

"When you have consciousness two alternatives are possible, either you become happy or unhappy, then it is your own choice... man can be tremendously happy or unhappy, he has the freedom to choose. This freedom is very dangerous, something has happened to this freedom, something has gone wrong." Subscribe for weekly new content: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-fyzHZmp9BiOuOdS7dswFA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UniversalWisdomFB/ Podcast: https://anchor.fm/universalwisdom

“When you know that this moment is the Tao, and this moment, considered by itself, is without past, without future, eternal, neither coming into being, nor going out of being: there is nirvana.” – Alan Watts Subscribe for weekly new content: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-fyzHZmp9BiOuOdS7dswFA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UniversalWisdomFB/ Podcast: https://anchor.fm/universalwisdom

Leary discusses his philosophy, drugs, prison rights, and his life on the run as well as his life in prison. Subscribe for weekly new content: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-fyzHZmp9BiOuOdS7dswFA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UniversalWisdomFB/ Podcast: https://anchor.fm/universalwisdom

Ram Dass continues his spiritual evolution and learns the meaning of “renunciation of desire” and explores different vehicles to get to and maintain a place of pure oneness. “The whole matter of enlightenment that is required is what is called renunciation. When you think of the word renunciation, many of you probably think in terms of people living off in the woods with no possessions. That's an external manifestation of renunciation – renunciation here means not the renunciation of action but of a desire.” – Ram Dass Subscribe for weekly new content: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-fyzHZmp9BiOuOdS7dswFA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UniversalWisdomFB/ Podcast: https://anchor.fm/universalwisdom

"We're turning the whole planet into a white bread, mall shopping culture. The values of every other way of doing things is being subsumed. I've talked a lot about partnership societies in the human past, and how the nostalgia for these kinds of social arrangements have driven us throughout our experience of history. Even today in the Amazon, and a few other relic environments, partnership exist, thrive and regulate themselves through a symbiotic relationship to plants that we call hallucinogenic." Subscribe for weekly new content: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-fyzHZmp9BiOuOdS7dswFA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UniversalWisdomFB/ Podcast: https://anchor.fm/universalwisdom

"There is no heaven anywhere, it is here. It is always here, it is never there. It is always now, it is never then. The very idea of heaven somewhere else; there, then, is a strategy of the mind to deceive you, to keep you ignorant of the heaven that surrounds you every moment." Subscribe for weekly new content: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-fyzHZmp9BiOuOdS7dswFA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UniversalWisdomFB/ Podcast: https://anchor.fm/universalwisdom

"We Western consciousness think with the rational mind. But the system that we're dealing with is meta to the rational system, superior to it, above it, behind it, inside it. A system cannot look at something outside of itself. Since we only know the world through our rational mind and senses, that which is available to us in other ways, we tend to reject. We attach a certain kind of emotional rejection to it, we apply a self-righteous cynicism." Subscribe for weekly new content: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-fyzHZmp9BiOuOdS7dswFA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UniversalWisdomFB/ Podcast: https://anchor.fm/universalwisdom

"When we say it's just a game, we often mean it's trivial. But there can be important games, as when we play a musical instrument, we're not necessarily doing something frivolous, but we are playing. And there is something in the nature of all play, that is not serious, but may be at the same time sincere. All the things that we do and busy ourselves with as human beings, can be seen as games, things being done simply for themselves, not for some ulterior motive." Subscribe for weekly new content: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-fyzHZmp9BiOuOdS7dswFA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UniversalWisdomFB/ Podcast: https://anchor.fm/universalwisdom

"Harvard is there to train Ivy Leaguers to go to Washington and Wall Street and keep the wasp establishment going. They're not supposed to be turning out new Buddhas and a new brand of science fiction neuronaughts." Subscribe for weekly new content: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-fyzHZmp9BiOuOdS7dswFA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UniversalWisdomFB/ Podcast: https://anchor.fm/universalwisdom

"We have bought into the idea that we must serve, and behave, and be enslaved, else chaos will engulf the world. We need to embrace chaos and see that chaos is the environment where we all thrive. Reject authority, trust yourself." Subscribe for weekly new content: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-fyzHZmp9BiOuOdS7dswFA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UniversalWisdomFB/ Podcast: https://anchor.fm/universalwisdom

"Your are given only one moment at a time, and you are wasting that moment by planning or worrying about the future, and the future never come. What comes is always, here-now." Subscribe for weekly new content: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-fyzHZmp9BiOuOdS7dswFA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UniversalWisdomFB/ Podcast: https://anchor.fm/universalwisdom

Ram Dass ventures out of his comfort zone and follows Bhagavan Das on a transformative journey through India, leading to a very special meeting at the Kainchi ashram. He tells about adopting the robes of the holy men of India. Quickly Ram Dass learns of the reverence this new role brings and struggles with accepting this treatment. Subscribe for weekly new content: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-fyzHZmp9BiOuOdS7dswFA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UniversalWisdomFB/ Podcast: https://anchor.fm/universalwisdom

"Some people have the theory that the real world is material or physical, it's made of a kind of stuff. Other people have a theory that the world is spiritual or mental. But I want to point out that both of those theories of the world are just concepts." Subscribe for weekly new content: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-fyzHZmp9BiOuOdS7dswFA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UniversalWisdomFB/ Podcast: https://anchor.fm/universalwisdom

Timothy Leary discusses LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide) and answers some LSD Frequently Asked Questions. Subscribe for weekly new content: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-fyzHZmp9BiOuOdS7dswFA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UniversalWisdomFB/ Podcast: https://anchor.fm/universalwisdom

"The domain we journey to and from is not merely mental, and the way in which we confirm this for ourselves is in the observation of disturbances in this world, which we call coincidences or synchronistic." Subscribe for weekly new content: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-fyzHZmp9BiOuOdS7dswFA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UniversalWisdomFB/ Podcast: https://anchor.fm/universalwisdom

"One who is ready to die, never dies. One who is ready to jump into death, for him death disappears. Death is only for cowards. Death is only for those who have not live, who have remained dead their whole life. Death is not for the living." Subscribe for weekly new content: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-fyzHZmp9BiOuOdS7dswFA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UniversalWisdomFB/ Podcast: https://anchor.fm/universalwisdom

Ram Dass talks about the mental and physical trials he experienced before traveling to India after he was fired from Harvard, and about embarking on his journey to the East to find his Guru. We learn about his and Tim Leary's fascination with the Tibetan Book of the Dead and how they re-worked its concepts into a guide for the spiritual use of psychedelics. Subscribe for weekly new content: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-fyzHZmp9BiOuOdS7dswFA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UniversalWisdomFB/ Podcast: https://anchor.fm/universalwisdom

"To observe skulls and skeletons, and to go to sleep and wondering what it will be like to never wake up. That is a very gloomy thing for contemplation, but it's like manure. Just like manure fertilizes the plants, the contemplation and acceptance of death is very highly generative of creative life. You get wonderful things out of that." Subscribe for weekly new content: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-fyzHZmp9BiOuOdS7dswFA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UniversalWisdomFB/ Podcast: https://anchor.fm/universalwisdom

Subscribe for new Timothy Leary episodes. "You have to go out of your mind to use your head!" Timothy Leary speaks at the Cooper Union, New York City, 1964. This is his 'Hallucinogenic Drugs OR How To Use Your Head' speech that "started the 60s." Subscribe for weekly new content: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-fyzHZmp9BiOuOdS7dswFA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UniversalWisdomFB/ Podcast: https://anchor.fm/universalwisdom

"The problem area lies not in taking too much, but taking too little. Because if you take too little you can resist it, you can struggle with it, and then it can turn in to a real mess. What you wanna do is take sufficiently enough hat there is no escape, and the transition from ordinary reality to fully loaded is as quick as possible." Terence Kemp McKenna (November 16, 1946 – April 3, 2000) was an American ethnobotanist, mystic, psychonaut, lecturer, author, and an advocate for the responsible use of naturally occurring psychedelic plants. He spoke and wrote about a variety of subjects, including psychedelic drugs, plant-based entheogens, shamanism, metaphysics, alchemy, language, philosophy, culture, technology, environmentalism, and the theoretical origins of human consciousness. Subscribe for weekly new content: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-fyzHZmp9BiOuOdS7dswFA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UniversalWisdomFB/ Podcast: https://anchor.fm/universalwisdom

"Each Sunday morning, instead of going to church, you could just go on a trip!" Rajneesh (born Chandra Mohan Jain, 11 December 1931 – 19 January 1990), also known as Acharya Rajneesh, Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh, and later as Osho, was an Indian godman, mystic, and founder of the Rajneesh movement. Osho declared that he became enlightened on March 21 1953, when he was 21-year-old. Subscribe for weekly new content: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-fyzHZmp9BiOuOdS7dswFA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UniversalWisdomFB/ Podcast: https://anchor.fm/universalwisdom

"We are wild geese who do not intend to cast a reflection... ...and the water has no mind to receive their image..." That fateful Eastern trip in 1967, when he travelled to India. In India, he met his guru, Neem Karoli Baba, affectionately known as Maharajji, who gave Ram Dass his name, which means “servant of God.” Subscribe for weekly new content: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-fyzHZmp9BiOuOdS7dswFA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UniversalWisdomFB/ Podcast: https://anchor.fm/universalwisdom

Some of Alan Watts' finest work, an awesome lecture you will take much away from. Alan Watts on the nature of God and death. "I'm sure that most of you know the story of the astronaut, who went far out into space and was asked on his return whether he's been to heaven and seen God. And he said, 'Yes.' And so they said to him, so, what about God? And he said, 'Well, she's black." Subscribe for weekly new content: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-fyzHZmp9BiOuOdS7dswFA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UniversalWisdomFB/ Podcast: https://anchor.fm/universalwisdom

"Be cool, be kind, turn on, tune in, drop out. We will learn and experience together, how to reach the five levels of consciousness." A very rare recording of the first Timothy Leary record to be released. No music, just him speaking quietly. Of all of his audio releases, I consider this one to be the most controversial, most dangerous, and most straightforward speech on what his goal really was. Subscribe for weekly new content: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-fyzHZmp9BiOuOdS7dswFA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UniversalWisdomFB/ Podcast: https://anchor.fm/universalwisdom