Welcome back to the Mind Meld Michael P here hope you are stupendous and if not actually

regardless of how you're feeling I'm elated to say we've got my friend the soothing

soulful wise psychologist Edo Cohen back in the mind meld for me these conversations

are just always like a warm linguistic psychic bubble bath and I'm happy to say there's

plenty of room in the psychic spa for all of you so climb in have a deep breath dissolve

your worries your ruminations and your entire persona into the infinite wonder waters

on that note the note of dissolving that reminds me of something I really love that Edo

said in this pod he says the first step on our journey is not integration it's disintegration

and the more I think about it the more sense that makes because I mean mythologically

speaking one of the very first steps in the hero's journey is being willing to let the

old self die so that the hero can be born you know alchemically speaking that's the

first step right dissolved at coagula as they say dissolve and coagulate and as I think

Edo was alluding to with that statement this maps over the human psyche as well this

is something the great psychologist James Hillman talked about in the alchemy of psychology

in fact the idea that we must first let our attachments to the past our ideas are traumas

go as much as possible if we want to be able to transform toward our potential toward

what he called our destiny not a quote by any means but I believe that is an accurate

gist and on that note that is the reason Edo has established himself as a true wonder

brother because he too shares this mythopoetic soulful worldview and approach to psychology

and sense making and of course that greatly resonates and that blend of young Ian psychology

ancient wisdom all of the above it culminates in a nice warm presence that lends itself

to a downright massage of a mind meld in this one we explore the importance of nourishing

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