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THIRD EYE DROPS

Mind Meld 74 |The Case Against Reality with Dr. Donald Hoffman

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

🗓️ 6 September 2017

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Dr. Donald Hoffman is a professor of cognitive science at UC Irvine. His chief areas of inquiry include perception, the nature of reality and the development of a scientific model for consciousness.

His upcoming book tentatively titled The Case Against Reality will be released in 2018.

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0:00.0

Hey Hey Hey Hey Wunder Sniffers and Seekers of Mouth Noise novelty on September 21st.

0:07.8

I and several other fabulous humans will commune in physical space if there is such a thing after the cast you're about to hear.

0:17.3

I am not so sure about that.

0:20.4

But anyway I will be at the Neue House or the New House, however it's pronounced in New York City at an event called Wittma Wellness in the Modern Age.

0:32.0

View the details at witma live.com. Hope to share air with you there, my friends.

0:41.0

Third eye drops are intended for open-minded adults. friends. No matter how thoroughly you search your heart of hearts, no matter how much you try to earnestly

1:08.4

dig past your bias beyond your ego and really ask yourself what you think the truth of existence is.

1:17.0

Whatever your conclusion or suspicion, it's probably not correct.

1:27.4

Now that certainly doesn't mean you shouldn't do it or that you can't derive useful

1:32.1

actionable inspiration by going on that sort of endo trip.

1:37.2

I'd be a massive hypocrite if I said that. I'm doing at least a mild mental wonder wiggle along those very lines almost constantly.

1:47.0

Actually probably to a point where it's just out of hand mental masturbation that's not even productive anymore.

1:56.0

That said, I do know how I'm supposed to spend that energy.

2:00.5

The proper thing to do with that wonder, with that curiosity, with that inspiration is to transmute

2:07.7

it into lubrication for action.

2:12.0

Take it and do something with it.

2:15.0

Of course, most of the time we don't, but when we do, it becomes art or science or sometimes a mixture.

2:24.0

Now I think that mixture is very interesting because to

2:28.0

successfully create a true synthesis of art and science, you've got to be extraordinarily special, both intellectually

2:38.9

and philosophically mature. And I think that's a good way of describing it maturity of some sort but I'm not

2:48.5

sure it sounds rare enough because it's really almost mythical.

2:52.8

The people who achieve this wind up in the pages of history

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