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So what was your relationship to spiritual practice?

Definitely. I started meditating when I was 24 because I was a developed alopecia from just being so stressed out.

And if you can stop your mind where you go beyond thought, then you might have a sense of understanding this non-conceptual about what that means.

I'm so happy we're having this discussion.

I definitely have a radically different perspective on life now than I did even five or six

years ago or ten years ago.

Don't go off just chasing psychedelic experience and think you're just going to bliss out sit in a cave and meditate because that's actually gonna be doing harm to yourself. It's kind of like Arjun on the battlefield. He says, I don't wanna fight because isn't himself, peace, you know, one of the primary principles, spiritual principles, and Krishna, who represents God, said, of course, but this is your Dharma, you're a warrior.

That's fascinating.

This is a crazy story that I would share.

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