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🗓️ 6 August 2020
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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. Welcome! Welcome, Wunderdippers. So great to be with you as always. I've been thinking, probably no surprise to you that I've been thinking. |
0:32.0 | But that thing is... probably no surprise to you that I've been thinking. |
0:33.2 | But that thing inside of you that guides you, |
0:38.2 | that mysterious babbling thing that stirs, swells, comforts, or recoils, |
0:45.0 | based on how you spend your time. |
0:50.0 | Typically, we think it has many names and forms, right? In fact we think all of the above are |
0:59.1 | distinct, discrete facets of our minds or what it means to be a human being with an inner life or whatever. |
1:07.2 | But maybe all of those different things are just angles of a single entity, your psyche. I mean though we typically |
1:19.2 | think of our inner critic, our conscience, our intuition as unique phenomena, maybe they all want the same thing. |
1:29.2 | Maybe they're just part of the |
1:35.0 | Daimen, whatever. I do quite like that latter term, the Damon, |
1:40.0 | particularly in the context that psychologist James Hillman talks about it in his book |
1:46.0 | Souls Code. |
1:47.2 | He says that, I'll read this quote, the Damon motivates, it protects, it invents and persists with stubborn fidelity, it resists |
1:58.4 | compromising reasonableness and often forces deviance and oddity upon its caper, especially when neglected or opposed. |
2:09.4 | It offers comfort and can pull you into its shell but it cannot abide innocence. |
2:17.0 | And as I understand it, it can't abide innocence because innocence is naive, it's the opposite of your fully formed self that it's trying to get you to transmute into. |
2:31.0 | And I'm bringing this up because this idea came up while riffing with Ballelli |
2:36.5 | the notion that we need to feed our Damon daily we need to listen to its restlessness and its emanations from deep down that signal that |
2:51.3 | wants you to discover you. |
2:55.9 | That said, I do find that it's kind of like working out |
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