Now administering third-eyed drops.

Welcome back to The Wander Dead, my friends.

Michael Philip here truly appreciate you.

Thank you so much for joining me in the Mind Meld once again, and I do mean that, despite

the fact that I've said something similar hundreds of times now at the outset of these

shows, I hope it doesn't sound like a formality because I do mean it.

Today's exploration though got me thinking, and admittedly I am just kind of forming

this notion now, so let's try it on together.

Like I said, I probably have this shirt about halfway on, so as I've said numerous times

on the show at this point, I do think a kind of destiny exists.

Well, I'll condition that and say that I think it's likely, and I enjoy the idea.

I admit I may have a bias toward the notion that we come into this world for a reason,

that we have some particular geometry of self that accompanies us into this realm, and

that if we seek to understand that, if we seek to work with that form, that pattern,

what the Greeks would call a quote unquote, paradagma, we can kind of work with the threads

of fate.

And again, this is not an original idea.

This is heavily derivative of James Hillman's book, Souls Code, and also further back down

the line, you'll find this idea specifically in platonic philosophy.

But this new idea that I was alluding to is that perhaps then it's logical to explore

the idea that spiritual, philosophical, and psychological truth is not static, that it

varies wildly from person to person, just like that personal pattern I was talking about.

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