Third eye drops are intended for open-minded adults.

Now administering the third eye drops. Welcome, welcome to the show my fellow Sentient Sachs of Stardust. It is truly, truly

wonderful to be here with you as always, especially now because I have been attempting the torturous task of

bailing bits off of my iPhone's brimmingly full hard drive, which is nearly impossible when you've hit the

storage limit because it is then excruciatingly slow. it's to the

to the point where I'm wondering if I'm in one of those lesser

circles of hell where, where like technology just doesn't work,

that would be a great form of clandestine torture.

Just give people devices that don't work well and watch them wriggle for all eternity. Is this where

we're living my friends? Is this my punishment? Anyway, an idea entity that's been

bouncing around my mind that hasn't been infuriating me is that there is no level of empirical knowledge or genius that can shock your being

with subjective wonder and meaning. That takes something totally different, something personal, felt, that context, that perspective, or some violent mixture. that thing, some kind of wonder elixir, but that violence is key.

Because without violence, there is no urgency.

And let me explain. I don't mean you need to be the victim of violence.

But for this chemical reaction to occur, you do need to understand that violence exists and that you are in its crosshairs

just by the nature of existing.

I mean, even if we're just talking about the force of gravity slowly pushing down on your

spine until you go kifotic or the cosmic radiation of the sun slowly baking you or the fact that our

cellular turnover decreases as we age it is happening the world will have its violence, whether slowly or quickly.

But some of the world's most brilliant humans seem to find a way to make that work for them.

You know stoics like Marcus Aurelius, Nietzsche, Young, Joseph Campbell, Ram Das, Buddha, Jesus, by no means an exhaustive list, but they all did

manage to weaponize their momentum more in a way that defined them.

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