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THIRD EYE DROPS

Synchronicity, Archetypes & the Sacred Philosophy of the Future | Richard Tarnas|Mind Meld 399

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

🗓️ 18 July 2024

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Professor, philosopher and best-selling author, Richard Tarnas Ph.D returns mind meld!

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Richard is the author of Passion of the Western Mind and Cosmos and Psyche. He served as program director at the iconic Esalen Institute for a decade where he rubbed shoulders with great minds like Joesph Campbell, Terence McKenna, Ram Dass, Alan Watts, James Hillman, Stan Grof, and many more. Tarnas has an encyclopedic knowledge of history, philosophy, and spiritual traditions.

In this one, we continue our conversation about the crucial role of Platonism, Jung, depth psychology and the romantics in sense-making. Grappling with the modern meaning crisis. Developing a felt sense of the sacred in everyday life. The importance of initiation and altered states. The need for archetypal fluency, synchronicity, and much more.

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0:00.0

Now administering third eye drops. What was critical for Jung is while in earlier years he tended to focus on the human unconscious, the human

0:24.8

psychic, but in the course of his life starting pretty early, he noticed that

0:29.3

these archetypal principles or powers or patterns seem to be not only in our dreams, in our work of art,

0:36.4

psychological symptoms and syndromes, he saw archetypal energies and meanings in the world outside of us in a kind of synchronistic, you know,

0:47.7

you know, you know, coined the term synchronicity.

0:50.7

He's recognizing nature itself seems to be holding the archetypal that we are

0:56.2

participating in and so he then started talking more about we are in psyche

1:01.9

psyches not in us.

1:04.0

We participate in a psychically saturated

1:07.0

Cosmos.

1:08.0

Like Plutinus has that great passage.

1:10.0

Everything in the world is full of science interconnected.

1:14.0

Yeah, breathing together.

1:16.0

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1:17.0

All things breathe together.

1:18.0

Welcome back to the transmission, my friends.

1:20.0

I know I do a lot of mouth running here, that's sort of part and parcel with the medium I'm

1:26.4

creating in but I will readily admit that there is a big difference between

1:31.2

talking about even learning about a thing, and actually

1:35.2

embodying it, feeling it, being it. But they're also not mutually exclusive. I

1:41.9

think building a container with which to hold the mystery is of the utmost importance that it actually helps you do what I was talking about earlier. And how do we build that container? Well, I think having

1:57.6

conversations with people on the path, sharpening your intellect, generally learning goes a long way toward architecting said

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