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THIRD EYE DROPS

Mind Meld 198 | Consciousness, Stress, and the Key to Human Resilience with Scott Carney

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

🗓️ 16 April 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Scott Carney returns to the mind meld!

Scott is a bestselling author, adventurer and consciousness explorer. His new book The Wedge-- Evolution, Consciousness, Stress and the Key to Human Resilience is out now wherever you get your books.

In this one, we rap about all the juicy stuff-- Consciousness, mind-altering adventures, how to create space between stimulus and your response, why we secretly crave discomfort, and much more

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0:00.0

Third eye drops are intended for open-minded adults.

0:03.7

Now administering the third eye drops. Greetings my friends Michael Philip here and I hope you are continuing to do well

0:27.0

amongst this weirdness but let's be honest, everything has always been weird. Humanity is weird.

0:40.9

Humanity is like the haunted splash of creation.

0:46.0

We are these self-aware chemical droplets on the periphery of this transcendental cosmological orchestra of phenomena

1:00.0

and mystery that we call the universe and that is a weird, weird place to be if you're paying

1:08.0

any kind of attention. Seems to be getting weirder by the day in fact but back to paying attention I think that is one of the best

1:19.5

things you can do amongst this ever-expanding weirdness. Pay attention, especially to your own

1:29.2

mind, your own psyche, your own physiology. And that goes double for when things get uncomfortable, like

1:37.9

they are right now, because in these moments of discomfort, I think we're in deeper touch with reality, a place where we're forced to reflect

1:47.1

on the fact that we are these temporary careening consciousness droplets blasting through space time or however I

1:56.2

characterized it earlier but usually there are a lot of ways to distract yourself from that kind of memento moory in this world of climate controlled

2:06.9

cushions.

2:08.4

But not so much when you're uncomfortable.

2:12.4

And that's part of the reason why I am always so interested, as you may know, in pushing and playing with my consciousness,

2:21.0

exploring a variety of perspectives

2:24.3

preferably via first-hand experiences like cold exposure,

2:29.1

travel, meditation, psychodelics, physical challenges in general.

2:33.7

And don't get me wrong, it's not like I'm dunking myself into the prickly throws

2:39.8

of this weird mystery all the time. In fact, I think you can get a huge amount of benefit

2:45.5

just from doing the aforementioned occasionally, I guess occasionally, yet seriously, is the caveat out of you. I would

2:55.0

use, language it, but anyway,

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