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🗓️ 16 December 2020
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In this one, we muse about mass confusion, "what's going on" according toTerence McKenna, whether we're evolving or devolving, 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 back to the Wonder Dip, my friends. |
0:26.0 | And I've got to say, if this, right now, doesn't feel like a time of mass confusion, then I've certainly never lived in one because |
0:39.3 | not only do we have competing narratives on just about everything. We've got competing truths, even amongst |
0:46.8 | communities that are supposedly preoccupied with the truth. You know, the philosophers, the |
0:52.4 | spiritual seekers for lack of a better term, the New |
0:55.6 | Aagers, all of those folks are deeply fractured on where they stand in terms of what's going on right now and what it all means and who the Demiurges and who the truth holder is. |
1:11.0 | And I don't mean to insinuate that this agreed upon truth ever really existed. |
1:18.0 | But I feel like we all used to rail against the status quo. but now we can't even agree on what that is. |
1:28.3 | But that said, I recently came across this interesting concept, one that is typically associated with the alchemical |
1:36.1 | process and it's referred to as Masa Confusea. |
1:40.3 | It's a time of chaos and darkness where nothing is clear, a time where everything is pure blackness. |
1:48.8 | It's associated with the Negroo, a time in which all concepts have been dissolved and everything is slipping through your fingers. |
2:00.0 | You can't get a grip on anything. |
2:03.5 | But what's interesting is that's actually a sort of achievement. |
2:07.2 | It's the first primary accomplishment |
2:09.7 | in the Magnum Opus of the Pra materia to the philosopher's stone or the rubido. |
2:17.0 | And of course in this case we're using this as a metaphor for our own psychology, even the psychology of the masses. |
2:24.8 | So in a weird way, this Masa Confusea, |
2:27.6 | this great chaotic confusion that seems to just |
2:31.7 | be infused in the ether right now might actually indicate that in a sense |
2:39.1 | We're on the right track because it's through this time of topsy-turvy darkness that eventually |
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