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THIRD EYE DROPS

Mind Meld 221 | Create Your Own Calm with Meera Lee Patel

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

🗓️ 24 September 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

This mind meld is sponsored by the mushroom alchemists at Four Sigmatic! Get up to 39% off their cognitive-boosting potions here.

Meera Lee Patel is a self-taught artist and best-selling author of several works including My Friend Fear, Start Where You Are and her latest, Create Your Own Calm.

In this mind meld, we riff about the link between creative inclinations and destiny, artistic intuition, tolerating and escaping soul-sucking day jobs, and how creativity connects you to your place in the world.

Transcript

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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. Intuition is the language of Des Moines.

0:17.0

Intuition is the language of destiny is a phrase that if I'm honest

0:30.0

would probably give me a solid case of the rolly eyes if I heard it out of context.

0:37.0

I can easily imagine it being right at home in papyrus font on some contrived meme featuring a smattering of other

0:48.2

crystalline new a. G. Mill you but nonetheless it is a phrase and an idea that's been rattling around my

0:59.0

nagging since this lovely mine meld and it actually gets pretty chewy upon further investigation.

1:08.0

So let's look a little deeper into that.

1:12.0

More specifically, why is it that we have this innate sense of

1:18.0

aesthetic bias, for instance? Why is it that we're drawn to certain art, ideas, philosophies, what

1:28.2

compels us to go deeper into those things? Yes, you could conjure up mundane reasons for all of the above

1:38.9

but there's something about our personal tapestries that I think is mysterious, that I think evades reductionist

1:50.4

explanations because it is so singular in every case. What appeals to me

1:59.9

will never appeal exactly to somebody else in an identical way.

2:07.5

And the fact that there is this unique alchemy of experience roiling around inside of every individual that can then

2:19.5

flow out back into the world and fulfill that person while inspiring others.

2:26.6

That is a special human beauty that you can only achieve when you do follow your own unique thread of aesthetic drive of intuition.

2:40.0

And I do think that whatever that unique thing is could be called a sort of destiny.

2:46.7

Maybe it doesn't stem from anywhere except our own imagination and psychology.

2:53.2

But for whatever reason, it does seem that we are subjectively

2:56.9

more satisfied as individuals when we do pursue

3:01.3

said unique inclinations.

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