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THIRD EYE DROPS

Mind Meld 225 | Living Myths with Dr. Ido Cohen

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

🗓️ 21 October 2020

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Psychologist Dr. Ido Cohen returns to the mind meld!

In this one, we riff on the work of psychologists Carl Jung and James Hillman. In particular, the idea that the Gods are real and they're mental. We also muse about the importance and nature of dreams, losing and finding purpose, How to make things sacred, psychedelics, 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. Greetings and it is so lovely to dip into the wonder well with you all again my fellow

0:29.1

sentient sacks of Stardust And because I know that you are all meaning-making,

0:37.6

epiphany-craving an amnesis wranglers like I am, I've got to relay this to you. I know I have to share even a whiff of a perspective, sating, metaphysical novelty nugget.

0:57.8

And I think I might be on the trail of just that.

1:00.5

I think I might have some ontological breaking news. that I have been

1:02.8

I think I might have some ontological breaking news can we got to cue that up

1:06.3

this Justin I have been ingesting a lot of James Hillman's work and he has quickly ascended to the level of maximum sagehood in my mind, in my pantheon of

1:30.2

luminaries because he is like one part Carl Young, one part Joseph Campbell, one part

1:37.3

Plato, and one part totally unique. And if you're not familiar with Hillman he was a psychologist of really

1:46.4

academically seasoned fella he was also at one time the director of the

1:51.9

Young Institute in Zurich.

1:55.0

So he was highly influenced by Young,

1:56.5

but in some ways he went even further than Young.

2:00.4

In particular, he contended that archetypal forces could be thought of as actual gods

2:08.0

that they might play a incredibly massive formative role in defining the human

2:15.8

psyche what he calls archive which is quote the deepest patterns of psychic functioning,

2:24.7

the fundamental fantasies that animate all of life.

2:30.7

So this is like a new level of bowing to myth in mystery, at least the way that I read it, is that we are the result of archetypal myths rather than myths being the result of us, the idea

2:48.4

that the gods are mental, and not that they're just in our heads, these concepts in our heads, but that

2:58.6

they're real and that they are beings that are mental in nature.

3:04.1

And it's a lot to ponder, my friends.

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