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🗓️ 4 June 2020
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Secret Drugs of Buddhism author, Mike Crowley enters the mind meld for a wonderful, whimsical chat. We riff on the possible psychedelic origins of eastern philosophy, the importance of side-stepping dogma, and why a sense of humor and wisdom go hand in hand.
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0:00.0 | Third Eyrops are intended for open-minded adults. |
0:03.7 | Now administering the Third Eyed Drops. Welcome, welcome to the Wonder Dip, my friends, and what a weird week it has been since last |
0:32.1 | I spoke to you through this microphone just when you think the |
0:37.4 | novelty knobs and lunacy levers are maxed out. They just keep going. It's enough to get that the heat |
0:49.6 | ripping through your body. You know what I'm talking about? The dread heat. It's nasty stuff. But one |
0:58.6 | thing I have been taking comfort in is a return to the fact that I don't have the answers for one and two I don't |
1:10.4 | have to you know I think there's a misconception that we have to have an opinion on everything and it might surprise you to hear that since I'm essentially a professional opinion slinger in a sense. |
1:30.0 | And when I say this I don't mean that I don't have strong feelings about what's going on right now, about the injustice and unrest that's boiling over right now. |
1:41.0 | If anything, now is a time to have an opinion. |
1:46.0 | It's more that times like this have a way of putting |
1:49.0 | the trivial preoccupations we had even a few months ago squarely in the realm of the inconsequential. |
1:58.7 | And I think that's one of the biggest hits to our mental health that people don't usually talk about. The fact that a |
2:06.5 | subsection of the outside world, typically a scary one, or one predicated upon conflict, is always getting thrust |
2:16.3 | right into our faces, non-stop, especially through social media and the news. |
2:23.7 | And that makes our minds and bodies react, of course. |
2:27.0 | It just does. |
2:27.9 | Our nervous systems do stuff when we get hit with imagery. |
2:33.0 | Then of course our minds scramble to create an immediate opinion about whatever the thing is. |
2:40.0 | It can really exhaust you if you let it. |
2:45.1 | And not only is it exhausting, |
2:46.4 | it can leave you in a sort of defensive posture, |
2:50.2 | a kind of hyper-vigilance that will absolutely piss on your mood if left unchecked at a minimum. |
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