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THIRD EYE DROPS

Stealing Fire, Profound Play and the Power of Myth with Sarah Zucker | Mind Meld 290

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

🗓️ 17 February 2022

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

The wise and whimsical, Sarah Zucker returns!

Sarah is a mythopoetic and psychedelically informed artist and writer who's been featured in the New York Times Magazine, CNBC.

In this one, we riff on the balancing child-like wisdom and whimsey, why myth and history are indispensable tools for sense-making, why we all have multiple identities, and more!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Now administering third-eyed drops.

0:17.0

Greetings friends, Michael Philip here.

0:18.7

I hope your wonder nuggets are well-tosted and if not, we shall get them to the right temperature

0:28.2

because two weeks in a row, one of my favorite juxtapositions or I guess spectrums is featured

0:37.2

that tango between the divine child and the time-wacing ADD Peter Pan energy.

0:46.0

That tension between what could be called the divine child and the never growing up do nothing.

0:53.0

And I love it because within that spectrum you have both the human mind and its most godly

1:00.0

and its most impotent.

1:02.0

I've said this quote on the show before, but it's so stellar and applicable that I have to do it again.

1:09.0

And this is it.

1:10.0

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

1:18.0

That quote is by the great presacratic philosopher, Heraclitus.

1:22.0

And I do believe it.

1:24.0

I do believe the person that harmonizes play and profundity more than anyone else has it

1:33.0

in the medicines figured out that act of merging your personal genius with your child like energy.

1:41.0

It's like squaring the circle.

1:44.0

Those that manage to do it are the people that seem to really excel and thrive.

1:50.0

For me, that's exactly what third eye drops is at least attempting to be an outlet for.

1:57.0

And if you really consider that quote from Heraclitus, again, man is most nearly himself

2:02.0

when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

2:05.0

If you bring yourself to the essence of that statement, you're going to find deep levels of truth

2:13.0

for several reasons.

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