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THIRD EYE DROPS

Mind Meld 176 | Where the Treasure Hides with Dr. Miles Neale

THIRD EYE DROPS

Michael Phillip

Spirituality, Development, Philosophy, Psychedelic, Comedy, Psychology, Mckenna, Future, Plato, Rogan, Science, Society & Culture, Watts, Trussell, Mind, Religion & Spirituality

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2019

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

Join Miles, Jenn Sodini, Colin Frangicetto, Damien Echols, myself and many more at WITMA in NYC on October 18th!

Dr. Miles Neale is a psychotherapist, speaker and author.

His book, Gradual Awakening: The Tibetan Buddhist Path of Becoming Fully Human is available now.

Dr. Neale himself is a student of Tibetan Buddhism, having studied the path for over two decades.

For more information on his two-year contemplative studies course go here.

In this mind meld we chat about the gradual path versus the sudden path, why ugliness is underrated, the endless utility of the monomyth and so much more!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Third eye drops are intended for open-minded adults.

0:03.7

Now administering third eye drops. Good gracious my friends it is a crazy day because I am trying to complete this

0:26.8

podcast before leaving for New York for Whitma, which happens tomorrow night.

0:34.5

So if you are in the New York area,

0:37.2

I would absolutely love to do some in-person

0:41.0

wonder dips with you. Get all the info you need for that at whitma live.com but other

0:49.0

than that my friends this is an especially epic and spicy mind meld.

0:56.4

We got into so very much Dr. Miles Neal reveals so many personal struggles and really potent pieces of insight but

1:09.6

something I always think about every single time I speak with Miles is that ugly is

1:17.6

underrated. It really is. I mean it's in our nature to want to avoid the underbelly of existence. I get it.

1:26.7

We don't want to confront the moldy parts of reality. We're so constantly shunning pain and death and loss and all of that nastiness and why not I mean it's easier than ever

1:40.0

To do for quite a long time because we live in this cocoon of comfortable lies

1:50.9

My friends. I'm sitting on a goddamn padded chair that swiveles 360 degrees and rocks back and it's 69 degrees in here.

2:02.0

I have a cat sleeping on my lap. This is fucking ridiculous.

2:06.6

This point that we've gotten to. Imagine if some coal miner from a couple of hundred years ago could see the way you can live with

2:18.9

ease right now. It would blow their goddamn mines. Honestly, if anything, I'm like a notch or two less comfortable

2:28.4

than I would be if I weren't doing this

2:30.1

because I'd probably be on the couch or in a bed or something. So yeah, 2019 for most of us is a bubble

2:39.5

of climate controlled fairy tales.

2:44.0

And I'm not saying we shouldn't enjoy it. It's pretty amazing.

2:47.0

I'm saying we should be honest with ourselves about it, at least occasionally.

2:53.0

And I don't mean just consider the fact that it's a fairy tale,

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