Third eye drops are intended for open-minded adults.

Now administering the third eye drops. Welcome back to the Mind Meld, my friends. So lovely to have you back in the soup. You can't have a lonely soup. A lonely soup. You can't have a lonely soup. A lonely soup is that's just broth. I mean I like broth, but.

One of my favorite words that I've heard in in quite some time is

Paradegma. It is a Greek word that I understand translates to pattern. It's often used as a sort of story device

but that's not the most interesting context for it. That requires a little bit of riffing. The context I'm interested in as you might

expect is pretty meta. It hinges on the idea that we all come into the world with our own purposeful pattern attached to us.

And I don't necessarily mean this in the conventional new-agee destiny way. I mean it in the sort of James Hillman Acorn Theory way and that is just

as the acorn has the potential to become the oak tree, we too have this enormous

potential. Of course it's not guaranteed that will reach it, it's not guaranteed

that will become some sparkling stately oak tree.

Maybe it's not even likely.

Massive participation is required to even approach that.

Sinceer soul searching and effort is demanded of us if we want to even make progress. But it is there and we can grow toward that light.

And Hillman gets this from Plato,

a part at the end of the Republic called

The Myth of Er, which I've also rifed on several times where Plato calls this potential that we have

a paradagma.

So that's the form of it that interests me.

It captures so much in a single word. Plus it sounds really cool.

And on that note, I have no doubt that this podcast for me is a significant part of that paradigm.

I owe so much to it and to all of you and definitely to the guest on this one.

As well, Corey Allen, he's become a close friend.

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