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THIRD EYE DROPS

Mind Meld 177 | Man Is Legion with Dr. Richard Schwartz

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

🗓️ 24 October 2019

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Dr. Richard Schwartz is a psychologist and the founder of Internal Family Systems (IFS), a paradigm that hinges upon the notion that our minds are comprised of many "parts."

In this mind meld, we chat about how to meet your "parts," the true meaning of "self," and what it means to be the bodhisattva of your own mind.

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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. What is up? What is up? Wonder dippers. I hope the entire gistalt of your eunice is going swimmingly.

0:34.5

That's one of those words.

0:36.0

That every time I use it, I feel like some sort of fraud.

0:41.3

But speaking of Gestalt's, there's a sensational quote by G.I. G.I. G.G. G.I. G.G.G.

0:49.5

The mystic, I guess I would call him.

0:53.0

It's so sensational. I feel like I need to do a voice.

0:56.0

I feel like I need to do it in a British accent or something.

1:00.0

So let's do that.

1:02.0

Man has no individual eye, but there are instead hundreds and thousands of separate small eyes, small eyes, very often entirely unknown to one another,

1:17.0

never coming into contact or, on the contrary,

1:21.0

hostile to one another, mutually exclusive and incompatible.

1:28.0

Each minute, each moment man is saying or thinking I and each time his eye is different just now. It was a

1:38.9

thought. Now it is a desire. Now a sensation, now another thought, and so on, endlessly.

1:47.0

Man is a plurality.

1:50.0

Man's name is Legion.

1:55.0

That made me sweaty for some reason.

1:58.0

I think the self-awareness of the stupidity of what I was doing combined with the sweater

2:07.1

was just too much for me. It really is a tremendous quote though and it's hard to disagree with depending upon what you mean by

2:16.1

I I guess could I mean could there be some deeper persisting eye some true self beneath all the parts that he's talking about.

2:28.8

It's a nice idea, though I guess I would imagine that that too must be in some state of flux, but who can say?

2:39.2

But I think it is safe to say that the human psyche is a multiplicity. It doesn't necessarily have to be some

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