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🗓️ 31 August 2017
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Gerard A. Powell was a wealthy and successful entrepreneur. He was also addicted to opiates, a self-described "raging asshole" and as he puts it, "completely disconnected from his soul."
Then he found plant medicine.
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0:00.0 | Third Eyrops are intended for open-minded adults. |
0:03.7 | Now administering for Third Eyed Drops. Mouth novelty is the cornerstone of these mind melds. |
0:28.0 | At least that's what I try for. |
0:30.0 | So for the most part, I do my best to take a wide birth around platitudes and cliches and |
0:39.3 | overused phrases. |
0:42.2 | That said, I think sometimes they're trite for a reason. Underneath their |
0:47.0 | overused carapis, there's a creamy nugget of truth in there a lot of the time. |
0:55.0 | Sure, in some cases they're just highly repeated mouth noises, |
1:00.0 | things that have become totally inert that are imbued with practically no meaning at all. |
1:07.0 | I could ramble off examples, but I'll just say it's like the spoken equivalent to walking through a store and hearing an |
1:18.2 | Imagine Dragon song or something. That band could be singing about baby eating demons and I don't think any of it would |
1:27.8 | register with me. But my original point is that a lot of the time, cliches have ripened into what they are for a reason because they really do in some way house some widely applicable truth. |
1:43.7 | That truth just doesn't hit with a lot of impact |
1:46.8 | because they're so played out, usually. But there's a caveat to that and that caveat is when you hear something |
1:58.0 | you've heard a million times, but you hear it spoken by someone who truly knows, who's truly been there. |
2:07.0 | So if I tell you, for example, money doesn't buy happiness, it's not going to mean very much coming from a person like me. |
2:17.0 | I don't have what most would consider to be the requisite commas in my bank account to make that proclamation. |
2:25.6 | So speaking of that proclamation, what would it take to make that statement in a way that would perk up your ears? Would I have to have a |
2:35.6 | million dollars, ten million dollars, fifty million dollars? I guess it's going to be a subjective answer. Of course I have none of those. But how about this, my curious creatures, on this mind meld, we have a living breathing example of someone who sold a business |
2:57.2 | for over 90 million dollars who is completely and utterly existentially unsatisfied borderline suicidal, |
3:07.0 | I guess more than borderline suicidal as you'll actually hear, |
3:12.0 | but I don't want to give away too much of his story because it's just absolutely wild. |
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