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THIRD EYE DROPS

Mind Meld 88 | Shadow Potentials with Michael Garfield

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

🗓️ 14 December 2017

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Writer, musician, artist, and Future Fossils host, Michael Garfield returns for another technodelic tete-a-tete on the future, evolution, personality cults, the angelic/demonic potential of technology, Bitcoin and many more musings!

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0:00.0

Third eye drops are intended for open-minded adults.

0:03.7

Now administering third eye drops. Good moment, curious one, deep appreciation for non-locally occupying this neither here nor their

0:29.1

hyperspace temple of mouth noises and Musings.

0:32.6

My name is Michael Philip.

0:34.5

Sometimes the line between visionary and madman

0:40.4

is pretty thin, maybe even non-existent aside from the result.

0:47.0

A visionary succeeds, whereas a madman is a failure.

0:53.0

Let's break this down though.

0:55.0

What is a visionary?

0:56.0

A visionary is someone who sees the world differently

1:00.0

in a way others don't.

1:01.0

A visionary summons up a harmony of self-belief, unique thoughts,

1:06.9

novelty, tenacity in order to birth their vision into consensus reality.

1:15.0

So what does this have to do with a madman?

1:18.0

Well, I'll tell you, don't madmen also see the world differently.

1:25.0

Don't mad men also have unique and novel thoughts.

1:31.0

I say the madman and the visionary share more features than not. So perhaps a

1:39.1

portion of these rock-bottom dwellers, these madmen who have been booted to the fringes of society, maybe some of them

1:48.6

were a hair away from being visionaries themselves. Maybe they just lacked a small piece of the puzzle or the

1:58.0

timing wasn't quite right. And on the other hand I'm quite sure that there are a lot of crazies at the top of the pyramid that we would consider visionaries.

2:09.0

Have you ever seen, I think his name is Steve bomber the former Microsoft CEO at his at his keynote

2:17.4

where he comes out and just goes absolutely bonkers.

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