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THIRD EYE DROPS

Mind Meld 217 | Golden Wounds with Erick Godsey

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

🗓️ 27 August 2020

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Autodidactic mythologist, psychology extraordinaire, and Myths That Make Us host, Erick Godsey returns to the mind meld to riff about golden wounds, learning the language of your soul, forgiveness, the wisdom of koans, and 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. Welcome, welcome to this edition of The Wonder Dip. It is lovely to be with you, especially

0:29.1

today because we've got another just charged, charged,

0:35.4

teta tete with my favorite psychological romantic, mystic man,

0:41.6

Eric Godzi, and there's a concept you'll hear us attempt to talk about in this

0:48.5

one that I don't feel like we've really found a good way of articulating yet. I mean we as in humanity at large, but it's this idea of an empowering wound, the result of something that at the time was certainly

1:08.4

terrifying, traumatizing, painful, unpleasant, or whatever, but has since empowered us. I really do believe that's possible.

1:19.6

You seem to see it a lot with near- experiences in particular it seems. I do believe I saw it

1:26.0

when I was in Peru during my Iow Oscar retreat. But it's challenging in part because it is a really individual discipline.

1:36.3

I mean your wounds are unique to you, your subconscious, your history, and a one of a kind poison, of course requires

1:48.6

a singular elixir, right? There is no recipe that will work for you except the one that you can pull out of yourself.

1:58.1

And some disciplines do recognize this. Carl Young, for instance, certainly did.

2:04.2

Other psychologists like James Hillman.

2:07.2

But even artists, these rare beings that have found a way to turn their self-expression into acts of not only

2:17.9

self-heeling, but catalytic emanations of inspiration and healing for others.

2:26.4

That is some next level magical shit.

2:29.4

Androy Jones has a great bit about that in, I think, MindMelt Number One or Two, if you care to go back and listen.

2:39.1

I definitely recommend it if you haven't.

2:42.3

This is a fine line though, because no one wants to hear someone

2:45.2

feeling sorry for themselves or even worse someone who uses their trauma as a

2:52.1

sort of merit badge, you know, a kind of look what I went through

2:57.8

and how good I am now. That's not what I mean. Nor am I trying to diminish what anybody has gone through?

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