I just had something of an adventure, my friends, I did a 12 hour walk in nature with no

media covered about 25 miles, absolutely wrecked my body and learned some pretty deep things

about my mind in the process.

I also documented it as I went, check out the video kind of trip report of my solitary

exploits at youtube.com forward slash third eye drops tickle the l goes while you're there

by liking and subscribing.

Greetings friends, Michael P here, not sure if you've noticed, but you're a novelty addict

safe to say that we all are we're all aching for that sweet dopamine fuel chase for a new

novel shimmer that's going to caress our existential irritations that ever elusive mercurial spirit

and all of its permutations has captivated this world has captivated the mind of humanity.

We're in this exceedingly weird place now where whether consciously or unconsciously,

we want to want something, we want our attention to be swept off its feet taken out of our

heads and into a worthy experience, even if it's just for a moment into a real laugh, a delicious

bite to be moved by the spirit to hit the add to cart button on a product that might scratch

our ever persistent itch, but the most attention grabbing form of novelty, a real technological

changing of the guard is more than that. It has unforeseen consequences like I think we can only

appreciate this in hindsight, you know, think of the world before and after the smartphone,

think of the world before and after social media, you gain something huge, but you also lose

something, something you didn't really appreciate that you had. So in that way, there's always

an inherently destructive dangerous quality to novelty too. I guess simply put, you can't invent

something powerful or change reality in any meaningful way without losing something in the

process without some kind of sacrifice. And of course, usually that's seen as part of the

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