Now administering third eye drops. Everything that has preceded us is still inside us. All those treasures,

the spiritual insights over the

over the millennia back to Plato and Aristotle and Socrates,

the Hebrew prophets and so forth in many traditions,

great spiritual, mystical, and philosophical insights have been registered

and also modes of access to spiritual and moral sources have been available and all that has is

deep inside us nothing's ever lost it's It's we're a multi-leveled beings and the deeper levels of our of our

soul of our psyche is basically history. I mean history is inlaid deep in us.

Welcome back to the transmission, my friends.

Michael P here.

We of course spend a lot of time riffing on around beneath the mystery in this media vessel and all of its

ups and downs and sideways monotonies. I say beneath because it's hard not to feel like you are

utterly mounted by you're mounted by mystery a lot of the time is what it feels like. But one thing that does help

escape the mounting to some degree is perspective because perspective allows you to play with your aperture.

It allows you to zoom out to get more meta.

Sometimes what needs to be done is zoom in. I'm often the victim of giant cosmic

thinking and I need to put my feet back down on earth. But whatever it is that

you need perspective does help one see beyond their own reality tunnel,

pass their own idiosyncratic myopic little point of view that they've developed.

And one of the most valuable sources of that perspective for me as of late has been this

book Passion of the Western Mind by Richard Tarnis.

Because it's an incredible overview of Western thought that spans from ancient Greece to the current dominant thought paradigm.

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