Tantra, plant medicine, esoteric permacism, there is a huge revival for these things, because they are archetypally aligned with the times that we're coming into.

What Tantra does, you started by asking about the deities, is a question that sometimes comes up, are they external, are they just archetypal?

The answer is both, and I don't hold any punches back anymore. I have no time to squabble about

this. There are other worlds and other dimensions and other beings. For sure.

Okay, I was trained as a scientist. I know what that sounds like. For the example,

in Tibetan Buddhism, it's clear that there are other celestial

agencies and other deities and other divinities, but there are also very malevolent forces, too.

Okay? And just as we are willing to say, inside our own psyche, there is darkness and there is

light. Externally, it's just a mirror. Welcome back to the transmission, my friends.

Perhaps you've noticed something is stirring across the globe.

Something is probably also stirring inside of you.

And I'm going to cut right to the mythopoetic meat of it.

I think it's the symptoms of a global initiation or transformation.

Said symptoms are constellating in just countless ways.

You know, ecological collapse, technological revolutions, geopolitical upheaval war.

Our identities are in flux in a multitude of ways, a collective

obsession, personal obsession in my case, with visitations from unknown intelligences, unknown

life forms. And I don't think this is just schizo-cherry-picking on my part. I really think a new myth is starting to emerge.

As does our guest in this one, psychologist and longtime initiate of Tibetan Buddhism,

Dr. Miles Neal.

I love riffing with Miles because he's one just incredibly human and humble, yet he speaks

from this profound place of wisdom and

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