Soul Sickness, Meaning-Making and the Shadow with Alex Ebert | Mind Meld 354

THIRD EYE DROPS

Michael Phillip, SpectreVision Radio

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2023

⏱️ 92 minutes

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🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon Musician, and philosopher, Alex Ebert enters the mind meld! You may know Alex from his massively popular band, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, his solo releases, his recent New York Times feature, or his written musings. * New sponsor, Qualia Mind - Try the best brain fuel on earth. Use code THIRDEYEDROPS to save an extra 15% at checkout at neurohacker.com/THIRDEYEDROPS * In this mind meld we riff on the spiritual catharsis creativity provides, and why Alex aims to become a creative vessel for forces beyond our understanding. We also muse about the forces driving the toxic discourse, soul sickness, making sense of the meaning crisis, the relationship between the shadow and art, and much more! Links for Alex: Substack Instagram Bandcamp Support Third Eye Drops: 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts 🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify 🌀 Website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Now, administering third-eyed drugs.
0:17.0	I'm not a huge fan of intention.
0:20.0	I'm much more prefer to
0:23.0	Vesalize myself to be a Muslim.
0:26.0	To be, you know, I like to say that I don't want to master my life.
0:32.0	I want life to master me.
0:34.0	And when you take the reverse angle,
0:37.0	it can appear that you have the, by all appearances,
0:41.0	the person can seem to be fully in control of their life.
0:44.0	And wow, they're so successful.
0:46.0	But it's the current of the
0:48.0	source energy, universal flow,
0:52.0	that uses dimonic surge that's flowing through them.
0:56.0	And for me, especially as an artist and thinker, everything,
1:01.0	not only is that like my view,
1:04.0	it's also my actual experience of how it works.
1:07.0	Welcome back to the transmission, my dear friends.
1:10.0	I hope you are excellent.
1:12.0	I am.
1:13.0	I just returned from Denver
1:15.0	from the Psychedelic Science Conference.
1:17.0	And it was a head-spinningly massive novel,
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