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THIRD EYE DROPS

Mind Meld 16 |Nicolas Gregoriades, Excavating Your Ideal Self

THIRD EYE DROPS

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4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2016

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Nic Gregoriades, has definitely given a hearty "yes" to the call of adventure in his life. He’s a world class jiujitsu black belt who travels the world competing and teaching seminars. He’s the founder of Jiujitsu Brotherhood and he has traveled to the amazon and partaken in a number of Ayahuasca ceremonies.

Nic also co-hosts Digital Communion.

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0:00.0

Third Eyedrops are intended for open-minded adults.

0:04.0

Now are now administering the Third-third-eyed-id-id-id-id-id-id-id-id-id-id-id-drop. Given the fact that you my friend are a sentient distinct entity with a degree of free will

0:29.6

it falls to you to decide what you're doing here in the largest possible sense

0:36.8

But before you reveal that what

0:40.7

That larger purpose there's some work involved. You've got to do some serious self-excavation.

0:48.0

Your life is like an archaeological dig on your ideal self. You've got to discover it shard by shard as your life goes on.

0:56.0

There's actually a Joseph Campbell quote in his great interview with Bill Moyers, I'm not going to actually quote it.

1:05.3

But the gist of it is, is that your ideal self is revealed piece by piece at each stage of your very own archetypical hero's

1:15.8

journey or something grandiose to that effect and though that sounds like intense and daunting and over the top, I think there's actually some relief wrapped up in that way of thinking because it also means that the only road to like really failing true failure is to refuse that call

1:37.6

and never leave your cushy insulated beige hot pocket of a home and just spend your days consuming and withering away.

1:50.5

And to me that's gross.

1:57.0

It's definitely not what I want the sum total of my life to be. That doesn't mean I don't do it more often than I should.

2:01.0

But when I do, it feels awful.

2:04.2

It makes me feel like a simple-minded little hypnotized worker bee whose life energy has just

2:09.7

been outsourced to some slobber-mouthed obese vampiric oligarch who's washing down hard minimum wage

2:19.3

man hours with a glass of toddler tears. And I don't want to be that.

2:25.0

I don't want to be involved in that.

2:26.0

I've been going on a few rants like this now, I guess.

2:29.0

So I guess you can look at these things as some sort of roar shark for what's ping-ponging around within my

2:37.4

subdural wetware. But anyway, it's on my mind because Nick Gregoriades, our guests in this episode, has definitely

2:45.1

given a hearty yes to that life of adventure, to that self-discovery. His list of accomplishments is pretty awesome. He's a world-class

2:56.8

Jiu-Jitsu Blackbelt who travels around the world teaching seminars. He is the founder of the

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