Let's Find Out - When are we most alive? (reading/responding to your answers) | ASMR

Episode Date: June 4, 2020

way happy birthday happy 90th to Clint Eastwood he just turned 90 on May 30th I think but Molly during the beginning of the quarantine did this solar system puzzle and it was really fun it was I forgot how much fun puzzles really were and you know this I originally got this to do a video on like six months ago but we ended up you know unwrapping it doing the puzzle and I wanted to whip up some facts and just redo at least part of the puzzle on camera because it's really I like the handling and you know obviously we all like space and my my poll that I asked you guys about on the channel the other day was

came in 50% of you guys wanted space themed video so I definitely want to do a lot more of that and 30% of you loved ancient history so as I was write in the script for this um you know just just uh an attempt at coherence series of facts in a some sort of logical train of thought from the sun out to neptune it got me thinking about why we actually enjoy space so much and um what about it draws us to it and there's a lot of things its size, fundamentally its scale is us, it's just a very visceral confrontation with a near, almost the closest physical thing to infinity we really have. You know, we can't even conceptualize the distances between the planets, the size of the

sun, let alone much smaller things like the moon. Oh, that's 200,000 miles out. That's hard to fathom because the earth itself is only like 7,000 miles across, wide and its widest point. Anyways, it's set off a whole slew of ideas in my head. And so I'm thinking about the meaning of life and what the most interesting ideas to pursue are, you know, like what makes life worth living? Because in the face of infinity, you know, on scales of, you know, again, billions of years,

you think about scales of the solar system are, you know, they're petty in comparison to intergalactic distances. It's like, it's hard to kind of, it's hard to really find meaning in your life if you don't really think to, hard about it and just say, ah, well, you know, what's the point of it all if we're all going to eventually dissipate, our son's going to swell up, maybe no trace of the earth will even remain in a billion, a few billion years. And it got me thinking about, well, what are the things that

give us meaning? And that's why I made that post here. What experience is a questionnaire, I guess, just to comment on if you guys were interested in. What experience has made you feel the most alive? And I got 176 you guys, or a couple of those are my responses, but a lot of people responded a lot. So I want to run through that and give us an idea of what it means to be alive and what in what experiences evoke the most meaning

because to be alive means to I think to find meaning in a particular experience in a, you know, purpose and it's like the most profound experiences are those that make life worth living. They offset the suffering.

They offset all the downside of life, the finitude of life. And I got to I gotta start reading more, but Nagu always quote the same thing, but William Blake's, to see infinity, his line in one of his poems, to see infinity in a grain of sand. It's just very symbolic of, in the most intense moments, how deep and lasting and, you know, how far they resonate with us. and we can go weeks as we've all experienced, I'm sure. And it seems like time flies by, you know, during this quarantine. It's like March and then June all of a sudden.

It's just right there. But at the same time in the most intense experiences. And I hope some of you guys are profiting off some of the downtime. If you're in the position to be able to not stress too much financially, that's obviously a privilege and I hope you guys are aren't struggling at the moment but the most intense the most you know vigorous uh whether it's exercise or mental feats or emotional you know sensations um can really make us make a moment seem like a a lifetime and I think that's what I was getting at so you know I'm interested in that leads to

psychology and then I found out that's a look up looking at this this website here let's see brain memory I think it was there's an interesting distinction between the left and right brain and how they actually they actually perceive the world differently and there's an There's a guy named Ian McGilchrist, McGill Christ, who wrote a book called The Master and in His Emissary, and it's actually the, it's that he actually tries to, he's a psychologist or a psychiatrist and very familiar with the science of neurology and he took a very intriguing look at the distinction between how the left brain and right brain perceive the world. so they're not just two copies of each other but they actually are two pretty distinct uh distinct systems

that kind of you know feedback feed off one another and perceive the world in different ways and then they compare notes as it were and uh you know obviously integrated together lead to your perception of the world you know as a um your unified perception because you don't um instantaneously think two things at once but you certainly can um you know i have dissenting ideas within your head if you sit there and think about something long enough it's uh internal dialogue but um here i bring this up on my high tech screen capture over here brain lateralization so let's left and right it's the lateral perspective of the brain um so it's opposite right side of your brain is connected with the left side of your body that's why a lot of times and that's considered very

broadly the creative aspect more creative than the more rational left side of your brain that's why left-handers being connected to the right side of your brain are generally considered more creative and artistic but McGilchrist's conception of the brain what he found not just

you know not just speculating but he actually applies a lot of different studies scientific studies to his philosophy here it's more in depth than just creative and intellectual

the right side of the brain the creative side so to speak is more intuitive its thought is more holistic its perception as a more holistic perception it takes a

wide view of things the left side is more detail oriented and wants to know every nook and cranny more under the microscope the right side is more like a telescope it wants to look into the cosmos and the right side is more emotional

more random sequencing. So I guess it may be, it has more erratic thoughts, less orderly thoughts, more chaotic, if you will. I think that's Jordan Peterson's take on it, is the right brain is characterized more by chaos and I guess adapted to confront, you know, chaos to kind of be able to make sense of it. And the left side kind of order,

the information gathered from the chaos. So the right side is more nonverbal, more emotional, more adventurous, more impulsive, more creative, imaginative, and then left. And it's, of course, more correlated with the left side of the body. The field of vision and motor skills, you know, the left side being correlated with the right side. side of the body and the left side of the brain is more analytical and detailed

oriented in its perception as an affinity to order sequence things let's see to create a narrative to create a system in a more ordered fashion so it's going to be less chaotic less random sequencing more rational more verbal which verbal to be able to articulate something to be able to verbalize something which is ironically something i have a lot of trouble with it takes a very clear precise view because you have to pick out of thousands of words one particular word to you know string into an order of words to make a sentence, to form a thought, to convey an idea. And so it's much more a high frequency, I guess you will.

Like Matthew McAnne's, it's high frequencies. Real above-the-neck kind of stuff. So more cautious, maybe more conservative. It might be the way more in-the-box, traditional, less risk-taking. more risk-averse, more logical math, science-oriented, and right-side vision and motor skills, of course. So anyways, there's a big distinction there,

and I think after looking at that, I fall on the right brain side of things. And it's kind of hard, actually, because I do enjoy math, but I was in engineering school. I was trying to become an electrical engineer for a bit, quite a bit, actually, too long. But, you know, I, the university I went to wasn't very expensive. So I had time to just kind of bullshit around for a little bit and, you know, take out some loans and just screw off in school. So it took a little longer than I should have to realize.

that engineering wasn't really my thing. But I took enough classes where I got a job as a, like a technician, working with engineers for a little bit. But the point was that engineering was too meticulous, too detail-oriented for me, I think. And I've always had, you know, I've always loved looking at entire systems. And wondering, speaking in puzzles. what's the whole picture you know what's the big picture

that all these puzzle pieces I'm learning about fit into and that's why I love history you know I love I enjoy the frontiers of the frontiers of the human intellect and whether it's philosophy or technology or you know physics or art creativity I'm obsessed with watching YouTube movie reviews. I love I just love

the mysterious draw of movies to all of us, you know, an actor being able to tap into something, you know, become someone else. And everybody loves him, you know, Robert Downey Jr. Clinties would,

I don't know, take your pick. There's so many great actors and actresses out there. And I'll see Anne Hathaway the other night. In that movie, The Hustle she just cries on command. She was killer and interstellar too.

I loved her. All this is to say that we are driven by genetics that we don't control. We're also driven by our experiences, which we have some control over and our choices, how we choose to orient ourselves in the face of the unknown, such as current. situations we're in right now. And maybe the, maybe the point actually is that within all of us, we have this left, right dichotomy. And it's a continual, it's a relationship more than the static points of view that each side represents. It's the dialogue. It's the openness to exchange of perspectives that I think maybe.

matters most you know especially in light of all this nonsense in 2020 we got going on it's uh it's important remember the big picture and not get swayed by um you know get your attention pulled every day into a new headline i mean so many things have happened in the last year but so many things have happened in the last two three years in the last decade in the last 30 40 years i I mean, we're still, you know, in the aftermath, technically, in a really more historic perspective, we're still trying to decide what World War 1 and 2 in the Vietnam War all means. I mean, really, the Korean and Vietnam Wars and the wars in Iraq, those are all just, in a way, in a sense, those are just fallout from the World Wars.

World Wars. They're the surrogates for another third World War. And, you know, we got to remember the big picture. And I liked what Killer Mike said the other day, among a bunch of other things. He was very, he had some powerful oratory for people acting too impulsively and, you know, just reacting to a sense of cathartic release. you know we've all been pent up it's no wonder that we have a collective anxiety that's just waiting you know there's this this potential energy just waiting to be released and he said it's important uh one of one of his lines no doubt it was uh pre pre written and if it wasn't and i give him credit because he strung it off in a super articulate manner

almost poetically but he is a rapper it said and now's the time to uh it's not your duty to burn your house down for being angry with your enemy. It's your duty to fortify your own house so that you may be a house of refuge in times of chaos in organization. And now's the time to plot, plan, strategize, organize, and mobilize. It's time to, you know, take our anxieties to the voting booth and hold the people in power accountable. And, you know, that's what community is. That's what working together is. I mean, that's what all this 10,000-year build-up of civilization is that we're all a part of, you know, whether we want to be or not.

We are the successors. We're the receivers of, you know, billions of years of animal evolution, millions of years of mammal and ape evolution. Yeah, none of this means anything if we don't work together in a unified front. And we do that by communicating. You know, the language is the last line of resistance, and it's the first line of defense against violence. And in a way, you know, the people who say language is a form of violence, in a way that's correct.

because it really is a way to signal before violence or a way to signal to avoid violence altogether. I mean, it was an amazing leap, an historic leap, and a revolutionary leap in innovation, in biological technology. When we discovered, like, the birds out there, we could, send impulses through oscillations of our own muscles, now across a digital and electronic signal, but before that for hundreds of thousands of years, as we developed language,

we could almost instantaneously for our eyes at being the speed of sound, communicate to another person without direct contact. And it's important to remember that. is, you know, being articulate in something I'm not, but I'd like to, it's a goal of mine, you know, I just, that's why I want to read and learn about history and understand the big picture, but also understand how to communicate the impulses that I feel and my experiences, and to relate to each other and recognize that we're the recipients of hundreds of thousands

years of a human culture, in actions of many brave men and women that have existed to allow us to be here now. And many people that have overcome nature's obstacles to unify groups of people to work together. But anyway, you know, there's a reason that the night sky illuminates us and fills us with a sense of sparks our imagination,

fills us with awe, makes us want to, you know, wonder where we could be. I just actually saw one of my cousins showing Star Trek the next generation, one of our kids. And it was cool because they're very young and they actually look like they're very into it. And it shows you that, even though it looks like an old early 90s TV show, late 80s, even, it still doesn't matter the medium. The story resonates like Gilgamesh, thousands of years old. You know, it just struck me that the, how powerful the word really is. You know, it resonates in biblical texts, Shakespeare, great works of fiction.

probably more than nonfiction even. It's, uh, they resonate across millennia history. There, there's something in them intrinsically makes us want to hang on to them and value them. And, um, it's no wonder, you know, I mean, human history in general, I think is not much more than a bunch of bumps in accidents into obstacles with the occasional accurate prediction and, and speculation that that turns out to be somewhat correct. And, you know, it took millions of years, thousands of hundreds, tens of thousands, at least of generations. And that's all sitting underneath the surface of every present moment, I think.

And it's important to remember that. So when we, you know, consider impulsively acting. just like in an argument saying something you don't really mean, but you're just trying to let out a burst of emotion and, you know, win the argument by speaking the loudest or whatever or taking a cheap jab at someone. I think that guy's advice to plot plan, strategize, organize, and mobilize, ultimately mobilize at the end of that.

You know, there's a reason he said that last. the skill of being articulate knowing not only knowing how to speak but knowing your history and knowing what which is I admittedly am very ignorant about but the more you know the more you have a respect for patience and keeping your countenance and settling on an idea after you've shown the discipline and had the experience to value that idea enough to stay stick by it and communicate it and not be swayed by emotional attacks against it and um enough articulate people might just be the solution to avoid violence altogether so anyways um i really don't want to get political i'm too ignorant to say anything worthwhile i just

I figured I'd just give my thoughts about what I see is the merits of taking a big picture and slowing down and not reacting and especially not joining the madness of the crowds and getting absorbed into the hive mind and forgetting to kind of think for yourself. I think we forget to

you know, we forget to balance living in the moment with the rewards of a carefully well thought out and disciplined approach to shaping and crafting your own future. So anyways, what experience has made you feel the most alive? This is what makes life worth living. These are those, quote-unquote, big pictures that we forget. We forget about when we're absorbed by negative emotions in particular, especially other people's negative emotions. I recently proposed to my girlfriend of four years and I'm 31 now. I just turned 31 in January, so it's...

no spring chicken anymore and I'm just glad I found the one she's an amazing woman I'd love to start a family with her and for me it was like you know my parents my family my brother and sister and my brother's wife my sister-in-law they're they're just awesome people and I I couldn't be more lucky in that respect I'm extremely extremely privileged very fortunate you know we're all we're all still kicking and

family is key you know and in some ideal future we'll recognize that our place in the universe makes all humans closer to family than we'd like to think

and just my personal experience with the raw sensations nature being out surfing on a big glassy sunny day especially if it's sunny it's nice that's a nice cherry on top um surfing the you know the undulations in frequencies of nature you know a wave is an impulse whether it's by wind or an earthquake i'm never going to do that but um you know currents or whatever waves are pulses of energy traveling across the ocean, in some case thousands of miles.

And the fact that right before it breaks on shore, some of us get to ride this fiberglass, piece of fiberglass that's waxed up so we can stand on it, not slip off, and just slip on through and be pushed along by, you know, something that's eternal. A wave is so eternal. I mean, you know there's got to be waves on trillions of other planets all across the galaxy. It makes you feel connected to something agent. It's just raw water, energy.

You're tapping into it right from the universe. That's something we forget about a lot. Okay. We get a lot of these. I don't know. I'm going to have to cut that intro down quite a bit. But before I, you know, put out my solar system video which I want to try to make it as long as possible I

want it to be a just wanted to be a relaxing casual conversation with interesting facts but also you know again cohesive collection of facts so we have crochet love standing on top of a mountain in complete silence pure silence there's not even the of wind I felt like the time just stopped just me there a hair from the edge of the mountain feeling is alive as never as ever beautiful um Yusuf said he's in Iraq or is it Iran he was attacked by ISIS that's crazy three or four years ago my town was attacked by ISIS Daesh I guess that was his town Daesh and we were trying to escape out of the house fearing an airstrike. In the moment I tried to escape the house, that's when a bomb or rocket was hit, went off near me.

I fell down and then I was able to stand and complete running. It was a moment of peace because I couldn't hear anything. All I could see was a big tank and Abrams tank and about five humvees next to me. One of them yelling, signaling for me to get into a little. I'm still thinking of that moment. It was everything. It represented the good and the bad and luck as well, because it could have died to that bloody rocket.

And that's a powerful experience. I mean, nothing like being on the cusp of death. And there's a few people here who had encounters with death, near death, I should say. I got Joshua Williams probably standing in the ruins of death. the weather was perfect no clouds in sight that's beautiful being again connected with some mansion that's why in the poll 50% of you said you like space but 30% of you was significant amount also said you wanted ancient history so for me that was

you know there's a common thread there you know it connects us to something larger and I think that's a beautiful thing SCTC standing on the cliffs of Ireland while the wind whipped around me. It's raw nature. Corrupt system here says nothing beats sitting in the woods towards the evening and listening to nature do its thing. I didn't know the meaning of peace until the first time that I did. Did this. Some are starting to wake up, start their night.

And it's a beautiful thing. Again, being connected with nature. Nigerian taxi driver, when you upload after a two-month break, mine, mine. Waking up, Camille Wechnak said, waking up after heart surgery. Which, yeah, that's, again, that's confrontation with the eternal right there. That's confrontation with mortality. That's the theme through all this is, are things that, I guess an analogy or a synonym for making you feel alive. It is something that makes you appreciate life.

You know, something that, again, is worth living for. It was on that same note, it was interesting here in Kevin Hart. Talked to Joe Rogan the other day about, I forget his accident. Exactly. It was a car accident. But a lot of the doctors said he wouldn't have, you know, he was lucky he survived. But I think he broke multiple bones in his spine. but he was in good enough shape I guess where he was able to walk again and he had a good

base of muscle and healthy tissues to be able to recover from but he said when he got out of his car coming back to his house he just wept for absolute joy the fact that he could step foot on his own at his house again go home see his family at his home again and it's a powerful thing man

I mean if you guys got something out there I certainly don't I gotta take my own advice you know I too many days I'll be reading all day or wallowing in the fact that I haven't uploaded in a couple months and forget

just how awesome Molly is and the people how much love I got around me, you know. Merga says, joined a group that helps people affected by natural disasters and worked with them for two months. It was the first time in my entire life that I really realized

there was more to the world than just my little hometown. It was amazing. It's awesome. Man, there's, um, what did I say? It really, it makes the world better you know when you're going out there helping other people you're you're putting faith in you know the world you know you're giving back you're putting out positive energy and and i'm a huge believer i don't know about karma but the you know the general concept of karma is

pretty solid because i know for a fact i've been positively affected by other people and their actions, not just their words, but their actions, who they are as people, how they carry themselves, what they do for other people. A consistent, disciplined, respectful, honest, humble personality, a character. A human being is a powerful thing, you know. Lana Joy says, honestly, I can't remember ever feeling alive. I really need to go out more. after this lockdown.

Yeah, that's true. You know, it's good that you... I appreciate her writing that at least. It's good to acknowledge that. Alice, Alice Zambrelan said she really opened up during a singing lesson once. With her teacher, I was doing an exercise and then I just made it in the right way.

You know, my voice had a sound I'd never heard before. I could feel all my body engaged in producing these notes. And I just felt freedom in a more embodied way. I've been able to do it again only a few times because I'm too shy and self-controlled. And it's true, you know, I am a terrible singer, but I play guitar and I try to sing sometimes. And when you're alone and you just hit that right note,

you can feel your body resonate with that note. It's your whole body activates and contributes to that note. It's a beautiful thing. It really is. That's an alignment. That's like an internal alignment. That's you feel on a, you know, instinctual level right there. Let's make this, you just made it a little bit, a little bit bigger so you guys can see it.

Project Pat says, I coded once and was brought. brought back to life. Can't feel any more alive than that. That's it, man. Julia Sipple says, mine would have to be when my boyfriend asked me to marry him and spend the rest of my life with them. That's a powerful thing, man, starting a family.

It's a great adventure. Put in your faith in someone else. I see you, girl, I see you. Cottle is eating way too many edibles, sitting in the yard and realizing how small I am. small I am compared to the world in the universe around me. L.O.L. Man sitting down at night and looking up in whatever frame of mind, state of mind. It's beautiful, especially, you know, when you're able to actually see the stars.

Spencer Frank Clayton says, riding on the top front edge of a speedboat, speedboat going 60 miles an hour with the wind and the sun. my love sitting next to me laughing man going 60 miles an hour on a boat is absolutely ripping it's uh that's I've been that fast on a boat before it's crazy that's awesome the moment I felt gasoline diamond JD the moment I felt Jesus for the first time my sister and I were in a were in the car and out of nowhere I started to laugh and cry at the same time and I felt surrounded by so much warmth and safety and identifying with such a

heroic figure and man Jesus that's a great example of someone someone's life contributing to inspiring billions of people you know in that instance right there and you know I that I think one of his messages was I'm misquoted but he said essentially if you believed in what he was doing and tried to adopt his mode of behavior you would be capable of doing you know someone who did that would be capable of capable of going beyond what jesus even did and um it's just such a great example man of people they have any impact on the lives generations thousands of years down the road Um, you know, another example of, uh, the meaning we can find in our lives is the often overlooked

repercussions of our actions and how they reverberate through history, even if only through one person, you know, your actions definitely affect people down the road. Lovely head from, I'm from the UK, but, uh, from being a small child, I want to be wanted to travel across the USA and about 10 years ago after you and me and my friend spent two months am tracking it across the country with just a backpack we had so much fun and I've honestly never felt so free rolling into a different iconic city every week meeting so many different people beautiful that's a beautiful thing man taking it on an adventure like that um again you know it's like vindicated by putting your trust in so many strangers and and a system that is run by so many millions of people operated and maintained you know trains and governments and cities everything you know bars whatever it is you know it's a beautiful thing and when when people can come together and just enjoy life and you have

that you have trust between two strangers and it works out that's that's that's it's an amazing thing and what's also amazing is how often that actually happens and we were forced to be reckoned with once we all learn to be able to think and speak instead of react and get emotional and uh no fight but yeah it's cool that's it that's amazing that's that's a cool cool story and very adventurous indeed to say the least i'm glad you had fun over here um the sensation lumpa s nine the sensation after creating a short movie walking in the middle of nature while listening to music and love all beautiful things that's awesome the act of creating is um that's why i like doing this channel i'm like even this small level of creation right here for me is

It's a fun outlet, you know. Sam McKinney walking around the highlands of Scotland, my native country. I've never been there, but man, the videos I've seen look stunning up there. Linda Bradley says looking up to the millions of stars in the night sky. Again, I can't argue with that. Ravis or Ravi, when I push past my limit at the gym, and I get this little boost. I can keep going for a few extra reps. It feels amazing.

And it does. It's like that's a very literal in an interpretation or example of your body feeling alive. You know, pushing your physical body up to its limits and not too much past it so that you can repeat the process and not have to recover from an injury. But the act of actually utilizing your body's system. your muscles and bones and you know fortifying them putting them up against resistance and testing them testing their limits and the action of you know turning food into muscle tissue you know i know our body's pumped full of hormones to make us feel good but why is that you know it's uh it's our biology speaking to us and and using our body's our body's

is having a relationship with a deep part of yourself you know that has gives out rewards pays royalties in the future for sure it's you feel more connected with your body and you feel that feeling it bleeds over into your mental your outlook and your perception of what you're capable of doing mentally and physically in the future and so it's a positive feedback loop that's a strong working out for me is like it's it's a very tangible feedback loop that grows the more you exercise it's just like enabling an addiction is a negative feedback loop that swells up the more you feed it and the more you pay attention of what your body enjoys and what limits you push up against,

you just feel that that physical feeling of power definitely relays over into your mental fortitude and confidence and allows you to try riskier things. You know, bigger risk, bigger reward if you don't fail, of course. but man what's what's what's life if you don't take some risks and being physically fit is one of the prerequisites to being able to endure what life throws at you inevitably even if you don't take realit risks stuff and thangs says after flying to and from Australia 24 hours to get there and I have a phobia of flying

But I did it and faced my fears. That's awesome. Left off, I think. I think it just rearranged them since I've looked at this last. I might. So yeah, the whole purpose of this, well, I wanted some physical, some movements, some sounds. So I wanted to start typing on this.

It's been like an hour and a half of recording on this. So I started answering these comments the other day and realized it would be cool to answer them on camera while I'm still working on my other thing. Pepe Domingo, a long-time watcher, says, watching the Milky Way at the Grand Canyon in total darkness, minus the glow of the purple galaxy unfolding in front of my eyes. It just says, whenever I fall in love, whenever I fall in love. Jay Deary 99 says,

Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd. full album, headphones, dark room, no interruptions. Especially great. Beautiful album. One of the greats. Love it. Michael Boggin. Says I got many memories, skydiving, swimming at the Great Barrier Reef.

Very cool. Hand gliding over Rio, Rio, Rio? Wow. That's a risk. I mean, to me, it's probably not most of you, but. Cliff jumping in Thailand. The list goes on. has been very fortunate.

But ultimately, the experience that made me feel the most alive was hiking for four days over mountains to get to Machu Picchu, staying on the mountain watching the sunrise at the historical beauty, the reward of a grueling mountain trek in that first beam of sunlight. It just made life worth. And what's your favorite moment, Rich? Yeah, my, uh, Just being with my family, engaging, being engaged to my girlfriend.

Black Bear says walking in the wind and walking in the rain and running. That lets me know I'm alive. Man, nothing like being in the rain. That's, again, you're being exposed to nature and all the sensations of nature. Pain on your skin. Baby dinosaur lying in the sand in the Sahara at night. This was a cool one. just seeing the vastness of the world experiencing complete silence with only the light coming from the moon and the stars it was definitely an out-of-body experience i love that one just imagine all the again the history it's like i think all these i mean for me is connection connection to people in the places people have

been being historic ancient places delphi the coast of ireland scotland the hills of scotland the vast sahara desert it's um i don't know if i believe in all that you know resonances and all that but uh rippling through history but the images and ideas that knowing that evoke and again the more you know about history the richer it makes and in science too you know the more you know about how the world works, the more you, the more depth you feel out of any given experience, especially one in which you're, you know, physically aware, something historic happened. Sophia W. says, listening to that one song makes you feel that, that makes me feel every emotion at the same time, every emotion at the same time somehow.

music is another form of raw nature it's man-made so it's nature becoming self-aware and then creating its own set of harmonies which is you know human beings creating music for me that's uh something about music it's the raw experience i think i heard uh eric weinstein say art architecture is like frozen waves, frozen music. Because music is, it is waves, it is harmonies, superpositioned, you know, coming in alignment,

it's multiple harmonies and existing simultaneously. And sometimes it's the gap, the gap between the harmonies and the silence between those that make the music worth listening to. Turkey roll says audience choice winning audience choice at my first film festival Beautiful man that's so awesome good job man looks like you have a male avatar so I'm gonna assume your gender Go out on a limb I love encouraging creativity man because that's gonna make it's what inspires the world to You know stay hopeful

It's the idea of what could be that that that That really keeps us optimistic and hopeful. Hope is a powerful thing. Thomas Zampino clenching heart over toilet bolt, creating the chimichanga from the previous day and reflecting on my life. Teppi standing real still and staring at the back of my hand, giving all my focus to the fact of my hand being attached to my body

and that all of this is real. it was more fun to do when I was younger. That's funny. Fun and funny. And also, like, really profound. I'm riding on the back of a bike motorcycle, and I don't have a care in the world. This is when I feel most alive.

Something really free about being on a motorcycle going that fast. And knowing that, you know, before, I don't know, was in 1920 like that's only been possible for like a hundred years to go faster than 60 miles an hour on a motorcycle it's pretty cool honey be seeing st motel live i don't know who that is but again music it was such an immersive experience and it was nice to see everyone in such a unison of positivity. Absolutely. The OSHA warrior says finally knowing you're still alive. I feel an overwhelming sense of awareness, sense or awareness of my aliveness whenever the death of a friend or loved one occurs. I feel very alive after surviving a head-on collision with no injuries. In general I feel the

most alive when I'm following my bliss, feeling true joy while being fully present, whatever moment I happen to be in absolutely you know it really takes experience it's like you know maybe it's the left brain right brain thing but or maybe it's just because it's the obvious thing to think of something's opposite you know whenever you brush with death you are reminded of just how special being alive is and it goes with anything you know if you're in darkness for two months I'm sure the people of North appreciate the darkness as much as the light, you know, being up there when it's dark in light for months on end. But, you know, I know I definitely start to appreciate

the summer and then once you have too much of it, you start to really appreciate the cold snaps. The coldness in the winter. D. D. the Potato Slayer says, when me and my friends, were full sprinting on a mountain and I almost fell off the side of it to my death. Dude, that's worth of that's crazy response right there. Being pulled to the surface as I was about to drown. You play place on a being out there guys. Play sports. Think about the world.

Situations that I'm motivated. That motivate me maybe. It's a, yeah, it's like part of the adventure. trying to, so I love psychology. It's amazing how far we've come and discovering about the brain and just the body in general and what these things that are welling up inside of us and constantly churning and alive, alive within us that inform our experience that we don't even, aren't even aware of. It's part of the great adventure, you know, that we're all a part of.

so much to learn so much that we already know but so much to know about what we already know yet so much even more yet to learn nightmare radio says when I'm drumming at the top of my ability for extended duration that's awesome every limb is doing its thing mind in body lock in sync dividing time precisely sometimes I think about nothing and completely engulfed in the right now. In the right now. Like, I really admire that. Mika 98, going through so much shit in life and finally fixing almost all of it.

Appreciating the journey and looking back at it all. Hey man, you're, uh, Mika. That's another thing about learning about psychology and history is how much shit people have gone through. You know, and, I mean, people currently, I don't know how many more people, how much, you know, people have gone through right now. And that's why a lot of people are upset, for sure. But it's also amazing to recognize how much we're capable of enduring. Look at someone like David Goggins.

It just makes you in awe of what the human body can do. Where our limits exist, you know? Are they mental? Are they physical? You know, how do we push past these, these biological, these conditions? chemical indicators of being fatigued and just keep persevering through that but then recognizing systems and saying oh the day is just a part of the week the week's part of your year that fits into your life and pacing yourself to see the bigger picture the system

of how you want to orchestrate your life and you know planning accordingly and watching those come to fruition and actually manifest and having the discipline to stay down and stay dedicated to your your goal that you mapped out is looking back at it all man like despite all the shit you might have gone through there's there's lots of examples out there to be inspired by that's another reason why I like history yeah I'm a respect Mika Silent solace says, for me stepping outside, taking a deep breath and feeling the wind gently grazing against my skin, induces a certain degree of clarity unlike any other. Despite being such a simple experience, it never fails to ground me, allows me to completely immerse myself in the present.

Absolutely. Sensations. Fitness and Yoga 360. man running for hours and feeling my body as that of a wild horse whilst enjoying the sights and sounds of nature to be able to run for hours sounds euphoric d boy over here talking about the moment during a basketball game just a second before the clock runs out you know i'm taking that last shot made it parentheses made it by the way that's killer I love it I cherish cherish You spelled sure. Is it? Those Candice Hendricks, those bungee jumping-like swings at Six Flags. Terrifying but wonderful.

I remember doing that where they take you up like 300 feet and just let you just drop free fall. I want to swing and laying horizontal face first, nonetheless. That's crazy. That's putting your life in the hands of those engineers and maintenance people. Fair ground workers. Radioactive pineapple, says standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon. Another Grand Canyon here. It's smelling the fresh mountain air.

That's something you don't. Yeah, something I don't take for granted. I live in a relatively small town, so we usually have pretty fresh air, especially the fact that we're in Florida near the ocean. Hyperlight Rider. Is that wakeboard reference? I used to have a hyperlight. I feel alive when, uh, oh, you dog, you.

When, uh, when I'm chasing a chick, I find attractive and she's feeling it. Yeah. It sucks when they're not feeling it all. I feel dead most, the most when I break up with them years later due to hoping it'll work out. Hoping it'll work out. I'm sure you'll find the one, man. Good for you. taking risks.

Hyperlight. Scoop DG. Scoop dog over here saying watching a total solar eclipse last year. When the last ray of sun gets covered and all of a sudden the day turns into night. You start to feel in just a matter of seconds

a puzzling sudden drop in temperature and a cool breeze starts to flow out of nowhere and then the stars and planets that you aren't able to see during the day just light up. all around this impressive black circle engulfed by a beautiful ring of flames glittering in different nuances of orange and blue the city in all animals seem to pause for a moment that's beautiful i love the description that's when you realize how magnificent life and general existence are you can tell there's there's some unique energy or magic maybe when you experience such an incredible odd event that allows your mind to see and comprehend aspects of life you're unable

to see in your daily round i felt alive and understood once more we're all apart of the same thing and we have to appreciate that by putting our energies into constructive things enjoying and taking care of both nature and ourselves always absolutely beautiful sentiment well said It's great stuff. When you really imagine what our ancestors, what I thought of eclipses. Heidi Evelyn Arts says, spending time in a small island here in Finland where I have my very first memories of life as a baby as a child. In everyday life, pole dancing does the trick, almost every time. Thanks for your videos, blessings.

Awesome. Way to stay in shape. Ashie E. Ash E. says kayaking a local Kentucky Creek and seeing all sorts of wildlife getting engaged and then getting caught in the rain.

It was an amazing kayaking adventure in June for our first anniversary and we just bought kayaks. Very cool. Good for you guys. Good for you guys. Awesome. Congrats Ashy.

Slippery one wet says before I had kids. It was probably, probably. the time I can't say that probably probably I'll just cut out the other bee a time in the Pocono Mountains me and my dad and brother just playing in a huge river with a giant waterfall that sounds awesome jumping off cliffs into the water skipping stones building dams catching snakes after kids after kids it's it's literally everything every time my one-year-old runs to me saying daddy when I get home from work and just

watching her run around outside and hearing her laugh that's beautiful man oh i'm so so happy for you so happy for you that's admirable tron triple seven one says l s d psychedelics man they uh they do put you put you they force you down into a radically different perspective even sensations that's when you really look at your hand and wonder why what the hell it really is nothing wrong with that doing it you know responsibly not hurting anybody um there's a lot of a lot of wisdom you can take out of that that's cool michael passes getting hit by multiple iEDs in iraq and afghanistan nothing like almost dying to make you feel alive and thankful that's so intense i have the utmost respect for you man. Thank you. Glad your sleep stories ASMR says when I'm dancing, creating, deeply connecting

with another person or getting lost in nature. Absolutely. Chris Namaste, so many times when my my dear cat was in a dangerous situation while I was very ill and I managed to get her to the vet when I see a flower suddenly open on open in the day before she wasn't even there. when I sense kindness with a friend when I can connect with the universe angel how we however we may call it and my cat looks me straight in the eyes

and my sheep ran to me and bump me and misses me when the rain falls it's too dry in our country like many and on leaves these are drops of gold the plants trees etc give a special scent and the birds. What they normally never do, they start to sing in the rain. Waking up insane pain after surgeries, so much more. Thank you for all you give us sincerely from Belgium.

Ah, that's a smell. Oh, I spelled that right. Smell of rain is an amazing thing. Bull of life. Yeah. It's like life in action. Nature, it's just beautiful, yeah. I love watching animals react to the rain. We just had an absolute deluge the other day. And it's amazing how all the frogs stay dormant. And then as soon as it rains, it'll rain for like 18 hours. We actually have sewer back up for a minute. It's fixed now.

But as soon as the rain subsides, everything's freshly wet, plenty of water to go around. Plants are thriving. and you just hear at night, you just hear all the animals, all the birds, squirrels, rabbits, or you probably don't have rabbits,

but frogs, um, and all the, you know, everything that goes on. It's amazing just in, even in a city, how much is actually just going on,

unnoticed. So much life. Alex King, the second time I took LSD and listened to Pink Floyd's, another, LSD and Pink Floyd reference. It's Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon.

It showed me the secrets of the universe in a metaphysical language that I cannot explain because it is information that is not meant to be shared. It's definitely a radically different perception, a way of perceiving things. It's like, you know, our brain, I read that, you know, a lot of what our brain does. is actually filter out information so you know there's so much so many sights and sounds in

other sensations temperature or whatever that we really don't have active reception of you know we we don't actively receive or at least are aware of the signals that we are receiving and it's like when you take that stuff, it, um, you know, different psychedelics and all that. It does completely lift. It like removes any inhibitions, any, uh, what's the word? Filters, I guess. It removes all these active filters that are brains. They're always working so hard to help us not be inundated with information overload.

It, uh, but it's, Cool, man. That's certainly an experience when you're in the right situation and environment that's conducive to paying attention to what appears. Once the filter is removed, it can reveal a lot. It could definitely reveal a lot. I got a dirty mouth says when I was, when I'm working at the office, my boss says, you better make it better, which is he wants me to be a good work. I don't know what I'm saying. That's how I feel when I'm alive. Yeah.

Minds are certainly chaotic. Like your right brain, kind of. I'm going to assume a guy would say I got a dirty mouth more than a woman. I don't know, maybe I'm hell machine. Says the week after heart surgery, the strong pain medication made my depression chronic fatigue almost disappear for the first time in 10 years. Being awake suddenly didn't hurt my mind like a bruise. Then it all came back with a vengeance. That's why I love ASMR.

Chronic fatigue makes time in bed feel very long and lonely. You and ASMR magic help me feel safe and less alone. I'm grateful you reached out to tell me that life not used to using these apples. Okay, let's restart that response. What's to say to that? It's so deep. I just don't just don't want to give it a superficial response um it sucks being depressed you know i mean i've never been deeply deeply depressed but when the responsibilities of life and when you're just broke and you uh you recognize that life is it's a huge struggle you know if you're not even if you are

handed plenty of money on a silver platter you still have to you still have to make something on yourself but it's just when you're broke you have to make something on yourself and make money to provide for a family if you're going to find

some of the deeper meaning in life you know you know what I'll get symbolic here I'll just say find your your inner hero too confront what's i hope that's not judgmental confront what you need to because i don't want to put it on

you as though it's uh assume it's just something you're you're not doing or you know you're putting you in a negative light i just hope that you're i hope that the the path you have to walk down presents itself to you know i hope you get direction because oftentimes for me direction i don't want to be handed anything i just want direction i just want to know that what the direction i'm putting my energy into isn't trivial so um anyways so grateful you reached out thanks hm banjo this is traveling and experiencing nature traveling and experiencing nature in foreign culture by myself the first sight when you see it for the first time and you walk around just drinking with your and everything you see and no one to share your thoughts with it makes me feel incredibly alive

there's so much new so much potential at every step routine is my fear i hear you man routine loath routine as well prior prioritize prioritize it's helped prioritize my goals yeah routine is it's kind of depressing to think about your life just being already pre-established for you, and I really hate that. But at the same time, if it makes you more efficient, again, big picture, you sacrifice the day to be able to knock things out, make your life efficient, get work done, get paid, so that you can celebrate to get more free time at the end of it. than it is worth it, ultimately.

Ian de Blanc, I know it sounds silly, but I feel the most alive when I'm scared, which is why I love watching horror movies. It's just such a different experience, feeling your heart pounding in your skin standing on edge. I'm a paramedic by trade. So I've had my fair share of adrenaline dumps as well, which are further enhanced by contrast of the situation.

Wow, I expect it. Someone in contact with real trauma to actually... Yeah, I wouldn't have expected that. Like anybody who's a first responder or in the military or something like that or just from a rough life where you're very exposed to danger, real danger. I personally hate horror movies. I'm already anxious enough about certain... like so many things. I just don't get anything from it, I guess.

Fade says probably my first experience of either water skiing in Scotland or canoeing on a lake in Windmere, England. When I was water skiing, the weather was awful, so many and other people were doing it with me, were cold and wet. Before we even got started, I was stupid shy at the time, but it couldn't be further from the truth now, L.O.L. So I was properly nervous, but then I got going and friends cheered me on because they knew I was nervous, and it felt so good. connecting with friends I love I love that it's really it's like when you take the understanding that or the view that we are a part of nature it is like it's a relating and interacting with people is more almost a more intense version of exposing yourself to nature and putting yourself in the elements like the ocean or

skiing or canoeing or whatever so I think that's To me, it's like, it's what makes experiences so much more meaningful and deep as when you are able to share them with another human being. It just adds depth. It adds layers to the experience to me. So that's cool. That's really great. Canoeing at the first time was so peaceful.

Made me realize how beautiful nature can be. It would probably be something else in nature. you're all experienced but I can't remember right now that's awesome Victoria says laying in my bedroom completely dark listening to your ASMR awesome brook visiting Yosemite for the first time standing under the massive building-sized trees of Sequoia National Park experiencing nature and all its natural unaltered glory it's pristine glory prism Figma says, well two things one doing aerobatics Peace and serenity in the sky being able

Is that skydiving? Peace and serenity in the sky Peace and serenity in the sky and being able to move freely the adrenaline rush when I was almost a part of a road accident Man it's a seriously intense endeavor That's so awesome I don't know if I'd want to take that risk I'm sure it's pretty minimal. It seems so safe. It seems so rare that the parachutes don't deploy.

But, man, that'd be a terrible way to go. Regretful mess. Living chronic pain from autoimmune disease reminds me that I'm alive. ASMR sleeps helps me sleep. So thank you for your efforts. That's awesome. And there's so many of you guys, like, relating that you're helped out by, uh, listening to me and others that do this.

And it just, it really makes my dad. So, this is the most, you know, one of the most generous, grateful, just humble, kind communities on YouTube. It sucks how, you know, how much, how many obnoxious, I don't know, dramatic people, selfish, voicing their opinion but you know i'd rather that than anybody be suppressed so which is great that an un you know relatively unmoderated community um to the extent that youtube allows the comments exists and um i'm a part of it and so that's great i mean it's it's rewarding it really is seeing how much you guys uh can relate to the content so that that's huge I just want to thank you you know all of you guys for

that grateful to have I have you as a viewer sure tiger Lily my root chakra increasing hip mobility in conjunction with meditation that sounds like sounds like something I need to do bong bunny over here slamming slamming my little toe on the corner wall I feel the force of all my ancestors scream together with me and many swear words and languages just burst out of me like a supernova. Hey, you didn't say it had to be a good thing.

It's so true. Uh, yep, MDMA. Sustin. Sustin on. He says the first time was amazing. I was hanging out with close friends on a summer afternoon made me realize the beauty all around us that we take for granted

and the importance of love in all forms. We were in the backyard huddled under a blanket staring at the sky and talking That's that's beautiful. That's very very deep Very meaningful, you know to again Connecting Running my fingers through the grass the breeze rushing across the tree leaves I was constantly smiling. I realized how much it means to someone to remind them that I love them and that we don't do

We don't spread enough love and understand standing across the world. The day after I was so appreciative to the people I had in my life. People should do MDMA? It's hard to put into words. Sounds like you had an impactful experience. Glad you shared it. There's a lot to be said about that.

Friend, Bella, Gamba says getting... Tased with a... Oh, tased by a friend. A big difference there. Going out and sharing... feeling of getting tased versus having your friend just tased you doesn't sound like a shared experience whether you remembered it or not but good on you man living through the first five months of 2020 Jacob standing on a basketball court all by myself complete serenity

with unlimited creative opportunities on a beautiful day with no other wordy worries just me and the ball. I respect. I just realized Molly's got the touch bar up here. Auto completes words. That's pretty useful. Davy Waby, looking at the volcano in Mexico. I was really in all since I'm from New York. Eli Stewart says coming home on a bus at 4 a.m. From a long night of marching and playing amazing music. Yeah. sleeplessness and music can be transendousness. sometimes very cool j b all right j b says looking into the clear night sky right to the depths and the beauties of our universe gets me every time me too adrian the first time my old lady

did something nice for me that's so great jessica camping through an intense thunder thunderstorm that lasted all night man woke up naturally that's a something molly always says at six a m to drizzle to a drizzle against the tent it immediately laughed out of joy sounds absolutely you bandito alex being alive you can't be more alive than alive that's certainly a series of words that may or may not make sense Little Toast says I helped I helped run a high school Allstate concert band festival And even though they weren't perfect The emotional intelligence they brought to the performance

Was amazing To hear classical music It's been refined to a boring standard Brought to life by young adults Was really something else Good I'm getting a little hungry Sorry if you're

in my stomach there. Uphoric bacon. It's interesting. I hadn't seen it. Maybe I unconsciously registered the word bacon. That's why my stomach growled. My answer is probably going to be the darkest. Let's see if I can read this out.

Euphoric bacon. I sat on this question for a long time. The answer came almost immediately, yet I didn't want to accept it, and thus tried to rack my brain for an alternative, but there was none. My mother passed away from cancer a few years. cancer a few years ago. It was a lengthy battle that ultimately claimed her life. During the two weeks she was on the hospice, I watched the disease just to eat her body and the very essence that made her devour her body. She passed with a world of regrets. It was hard to bear and witness to everything

she was suffering internally and externally. That traumatic experience made me view life with new eyes. suddenly was more precious. I walked away from that feeling more alive than I had ever felt before. Because life is lived only once. Live it to the best your ability while minimizing regrets. Inspired at what you think so much for sharing.

I know, buddy. Don't worry. Ernie's getting a little restless on me. I have to end this soon. man, thanks so much for sharing that. Anonymous mouse, so there's a bridge in Costa Rica. Overlooks a river, it's famous for the number of crocodiles there. And masses of them everywhere. Anyway, there's like a curve of people that could step out.

A curb that people can step out onto to look over. And as we walked up there, me and my family, I trip and almost slip over the edge. It was a huge adrenaline. in rush. Ages of storm when I haven't had it yet. Chief Danny Boy lexiri. Expanding my mind in love and peace of Jesus Christ, of Christ Jesus. Good on you, man. Jack Kelly watching the Minneapolis riots in person. Not enough information there. DJ, there was a stretch of time that I worked a job. I was in constant, old depressive state of mind on that at my bike ride home one night and I got hit by a car.

Almost died but was lucky enough to walk away with minor injuries. But the rush of adrenaline I got from getting hit made me feel more alive and strangely it strangely was the best thing that happened to me in a long while. Taking a mental health trip to Hawaii to get on my gloomy dark living situation. Damn, I hope that works. and sailing solo for the first time. Doing yoga after an epileptic seizure.

Epileptic seizure. Freezing on stage and surviving it. I smiled at it because I was up. See, I thought she meant freezing out of anxiety. Lucy trying to fall asleep at night and not being able to brings me a keen sense of the idea of being alive, of being a conscious living creature made to. of organs and cells and atoms and then wonder and then the wonder of it all keeps me awake all too

relatable when i decided to ride 30 kilometers in the woods it was a week ago and i felt really great and alive that's awesome dancing makes me feel alive trenton metzner menser when i perform my music hey man i love i love hearing and seeing people create Veprim taking mushrooms What's that? Three or four people talking about hallucinogens

Hey false call signs The first time I flew a Cessna 182 Awesome Scary Noodle Jodo The raw feeling of being inside A turbo

A big Turbo Supra At 189 Miles an hour Jesus Christ hearing the turmoil running its hardest to cut the air it pushes against wrapping around us like a cocoon man the air resistance at that speed must be so intense either of that or standing on the edge of the grand canyon third grand canyon reference i gotta go one day with my family by my side everyone smiling and leaving uh and and me having no cares qualms or quarrels about the world.

Heavy air, talking about LSD again. Seapole when I blocked your channel. There's layers to that comment right there. King skydiving, hey man. We got one looks like an elfish ruin here. Key Rito. Thinking about death and truly realizing how evil and beautiful the world is and how not everything is fair.

But that's all right, because humans always find a way to get out of a rough situation that includes genocides and other stuff. By the way, I was thinking about this at church a couple months back and has stuck with me ever since. Standing on the edge of a large glen in the highlands, says Carly. It was misting, and the air was cool on my face. Everything was deep in colors of green, brown, and blues. The land itself felt alive and ancient. Oh, that's a beautiful phrase.

I'm from South Texas, and it felt like coming home to me, despite my actual home being completely opposite to that environment. I never wanted to leave, and I still dream about that moment and returning often. Beautiful description. Thanks. Young VIJ said, uh, one time you and my best friend took 800 microgram LSD in the plug also gave us some pure cocaine. So obviously we went, we took the LSD first, and four hours later we did all the coke.

Like every single spec was gone. Hours later, we weren't real and neither was anything else. So we trashed his parents' house completely and called the cops, said someone broken and trashed it. Meanwhile, we're changing in the black clothes. It's 10 p.m. So we sneak out the back and on top of the roof and waited for all the officers to leave, which took hours Hours and then we went back inside Drank your entire bottle of vodka. Dude, how do you even remember that?

That was the time I'm most I felt most alive Dude, just because you wasted the cops time. I can't heart that comment But it sounds pretty intense Domlin talking about LSD, Damoclean, stargazing in Maine. Maine's beautiful when I was poor. D. Fowst says, I'd say living, to be honest. To God be the glory.

Unique the queen. If you feel connected to God and there's, that's, that's, in your sincere about it, that's, uh, yeah, I feel like that's syncretely. that's in line with some of the deepest feelings we can have we can have for sure Ian Rasmussen says jumping out of a plane ain't much you can do but appreciate the fall down once you're out but that ride that ride up makes you question every decision decision you've made in life thanks for sure yeah all right so raindrop says swimming with sharks I could tell you that. I don't know if I've ever swam with a large, really large shark, but maybe it's because I'm getting older.

Maybe I'm getting more scared, get more aware. But I get more worried about sharks when I'm out there surfing nowadays. Gabriel, or Gabriel, talking about 4 grams of psilocybin. Jayzilla, countdown 2018. Another mushroom Our first weed our first weed Wealdemar Tony Stoney Tark Breathing

Another LSD mountains yeah Oh hey that's an underrated one Zick Can't pronounce that one Crocodile Got three replies on this one Mr. Coolpan says crocadil People are just like what the fuck

Jacob Rodman talking about we got a lot of drugs at the bottom of the chain down here Trooms LSD protesting protesting yeah I bet MDMA it's all the drugs all drugs in the camp trail we got cocaine

and we got a troll talking about conspiracies and we got someone talking about popping crack so significant on multiple levels that that's the bottom of the hierarchy. At the very very last rung

we have someone popping crack. Not going to lie, he's at least he's not going to lie. That's great. Yeah, I'm not like an active proponent of doing drugs, but you know, I think as long as we're all as long as you use common sense, as long as you're

self-aware enough to be able to handle your and recognize what situation you might be getting yourself into. You would have friends that you can trust. The experience of altering your consciousness is, it's a part of life, you know. It is an experience. So do it cautiously, do it intelligently, if you do.

But anyways, I somehow made it through all of these. That was really cool. There's something to it. Yeah, guys. I hopefully I'll get this put together pretty soon, but we got the, we got a slew of videos in the works. Sorry, it's been a while. I've been out. I want to thank all my patrons. You guys have been sticking in there. So many of you guys have. And yeah, I'm excited. I've been busy with life, but we're going to be getting some videos rolling out pretty soon here. but thanks for relaying to all of you who did your experience of what it's like to feel alive because it's important to find meaning and these have been some great examples to follow

and I hope I hope some of you got inspired by this at least so thanks for sticking in there with me guys thanks for being the viewers of the channel And, yeah, I appreciate you guys. Appreciate all you guys. Hope you enjoyed this. And we'll be seeing you very, very shortly. It's been fun, guys. So, thanks for joining this.

Join along with me here. Trying to feel what it's like to be alive. I hope you guys go out. You find that adventure that's calling you. And you explore it. You explore it in a way that can make your life better, more meaningful. And you tap into what it, What you need to

To become the person you really want to be five ten twenty years from now Hope in some small way this Inspired some people to go in the right direction. I guess that's about it. So all right We'll see you next time and Just know I got a lot more lot more videos in the pipeline. So I hope you all look forward to them and I'll see you then Back in uh 1873 about 150 or so years ago when viewing the universe and the earth for that matter in terms of millions of years was considered pretty radical let alone billions of years that we now think it is this guy Nietzsche wrote in an essay entitled on truth and lie in an extra moral sense

In some remote corner of the universe poured out in glittering in innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge. That was the haughtiest and most mendacious, meaning arrogant and kind of self-deceiving. Hottiest and most mendacious minute of quote world history. Yet only a minute. after nature had drawn a few breaths and the star grew cold and the clever animals had to die one might invent such a fable and still not have illustrated sufficiently how wretched and how shadowy and flighty how aimless and arbitrary the human intellect appears in nature

there have been eternities when it did not exist and when it is done for again nothing will have happened this guy is a question or a master of suspicion as Rick Roderick put it he asked more questions than he answered but the questions were so deep that it inspired an entire you know he's considered one of the first existentialists it inspired an entire shift in the philosophical paradigm which then of course like most things in life bleeds out of scholars and academies into culture and art, more widespread societal institutions. But the reason I brought him up and started this with him, and that quote was,

he puts solar system into perspective. He puts view of ourselves into perspective, and in particular the intellect. He makes a point to try to make us suspicious about being too arrogant in terms of our ability to reason and rationally peer back the layers of nature. While he never dismisses that as insignificant, he also wants to make a point to say that there's a lot more to our minds and our bodies than just reason alone.