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THIRD EYE DROPS

There Is No Normal, Only Familiar Weirdness with Cory Allen | Mind Meld 328

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

🗓️ 9 November 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Author, meditation facilitator, host of The Astral Hustle podcast, and friend, Cory Allen returns to the mind meld!

In this one, we riff on 'psycho-technologies,' recognizing and debugging the patterns of our minds, habit change, why 'holding the door' is the perfect philosophical metaphor, and more!

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0:00.0

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0:30.0

How goes it friends? Michael P here one of the most incredible yet supremely weird

0:40.5

Elements of being alive is the fact that we come into the world with incredible

0:46.3

momentum just an endless topsy-turvy history of sense and nonsense and

0:51.6

absurdity and brilliance and mistakes and triumphs that have led to us being

0:56.6

here have led to what we now consider to be normal which what is normal I

1:03.8

mean there is no normal I actually think I posted something to this effect a

1:07.8

while ago I think it was there is no normal only familiar weirdness and I

1:14.2

really stand by that because if you decontextualize things they're just all

1:18.2

fucking weird random goofy example I have memories of being a young kid

1:24.5

probably three or four years old and looking at furniture before I'd really

1:30.6

established the context for it and thinking why does that thing look that way

1:35.9

why does that table have little feet with claws on it why does it have lion-like

1:42.8

feet you know like the first time you ever have a thought like that and as you

1:48.4

get older it really doesn't get any better at least if you're a curious

1:53.0

neurotic weirdo like myself things never really make any more sense you just

2:00.5

get used to it in that way that I just alluded to in that there is no normal

2:05.1

only familiar weirdness kind of way and this doesn't just pertain to objects

2:12.1

the mind itself is this way the way that we make sense of the world is this

2:17.6

way think about all of the cultural software we use to make our way through

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