THIRD EYE DROPS

Longtime UFO researcher, author, and historian Richard Dolan enters the mind meld. **Want to join us at Contact in the Desert? use code THIRDEYE10 for 10% off of your tickets** In this one, renowned researcher Richard Dolan joins me to peel back the layers of the enigma that is the UFO phenomenon. Using his book Alien Agendas as a springboard, we dive into the speculative and the startling: The possibility of an ongoing alien hybridization program, genetic manipulation, consciousness, the various flavors of non-human intelligence, and whether these entities—whatever they are—should be seen as allies, adversaries, or something far stranger. This conversation isn't just about what's out there, it's about how deeply it might already be entangled with us.   

Transcribed - Published: 8 May 2025

🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon Author, consciousness adventurer, Rebel Wisdom and Kainos founder Alexander Beiner returns! Video version here We explore the mysterious alien languages reported by seekers in altered states, as Alex shares insights from his participation in a groundbreaking extended-state DMT study. He also opens up about a profound non-dual experience encountered during a separate Imperial College research session. Along the way, we muse on the meaning crisis, the evolving face of spirituality, and what might lie beyond the veil of consensus reality. 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts  🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify  👁Watch and Subscribe on Youtube 🌀 Website     

Transcribed - Published: 3 May 2025

🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon Psychologist and longtime initiate of Tibetan Buddhism, Dr. Miles Neale enters the mind meld! Video Version Here Miles' new book, Return with Elixir, is available now. Miles argues that we’re amid a global initiation. This rite of passage is constellating in countless forms: Strange visitations from other intelligences, ecological collapse, the emergence of AI, a transformation in our personal and collective identities, geopolitical insanity, the list goes on. But beneath it all, there’s a pattern. A new myth, a new age emerging.   🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts  🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify  👁Watch and Subscribe on Youtube 🌀 Website 

Transcribed - Published: 3 May 2025

🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon Jesse Michels of American Alchemy enters the mind meld! Video Episode here ** Get 50% off of your Magic Mind potions here! Coupon code, THIRDEYE50 ** ** Join us at Contact in the Desert! use code THIRDEYE10 for 10%  ** Jesse joins me to riff on the link between the UFO phenomena and ancient esoteric wisdom. We also speculate about so-called "psionic assets," psi phenomena, consciousness, exotic propulsion systems, and more. 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts  🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify  👁Watch and Subscribe on Youtube 🌀 Website   

Transcribed - Published: 17 April 2025

🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon Video version highly recommended, watch here! In the 1970s, strange things were happening behind the scenes of America’s most secretive classified programs. Nuclear scientists with top secret clearance began reporting glowing orbs and terrifying poltergeist activity tormenting them in the night. The CIA was running a classified psychic spy unit, training people to "see" inside enemy territory thousands of miles away. Fresh on the scene was Uri Geller. A flamboyant Israeli psychic who claimed he could bend spoons with his mind and read thoughts. The CIA investigated Geller and decided to study him But was he really gifted or a fraud? Or worse—a double agent. Pat Price, one of history's most talented remote viewers. Price uncovered secrets so sensitive they triggered panic across intelligence circles. Then, just as the CIA was about to bring Price further into the fold, tragedy struck. In Chapter 11 of Phenomena, Annie Jacobsen dives into the murky world where paranormal research, Cold War espionage, and high-stakes secrecy collide. 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts  🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify  👁Watch and Subscribe on Youtube 🌀 Website 

Transcribed - Published: 16 April 2025

Hakim Isler enters the mind meld! Video Episode here Hakim is a former Psyop and Special Ops soldier in the US Army. He's interested in both practical ESP techniques and the history of the military and intelligence agencies' interest in the phenomenon. Hakim has learned remote viewing firsthand from famous program participants like Joe McMoneagle.  Hakim is also spearheading an in intriguing event called Psi Games, which he describes as the psychic olympics. It’s a tournament and conference that aims to illuminate and push the boundaries of psi phenomena like remote viewing and psychokinesis.  🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts  🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify  👁Watch and Subscribe on Youtube 🌀 Website 

Transcribed - Published: 8 April 2025

Get your Gallowglass esoteric books before they're gone!  Anthropologist, science writer, and author, Dr. Eric Wargo enters the mind meld! Video Episode   What if we have our concept of time all wrong? What if the future can influence the past retrocausally? What if precognition, synchronicity and remote viewing are evidence of that fact? Eric Wargo explores and argues for these ideas at length in his book, Timeloops. In his latest, Becoming Timefaring, Wargo explores time paradoxes, time travel, the possibility that the UFO phenomenon is related to time-traveling future humans, and much more. 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts  🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify  👁Watch and Subscribe on Youtube 🌀 Website   

Transcribed - Published: 28 March 2025

Chris Ramsay of Area 52 Investigations returns to the mind meld! Video Version  In this one, we react to UFO whistleblower Jake Barber's story, discuss so-called "psionic assets" and the history of psi phenomena at large. We also riff on the blurry line between stage magic and real magic, consciousness and more. 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts  🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify  👁Watch and Subscribe on Youtube 🌀 Website 

Transcribed - Published: 20 March 2025

🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon In this one, we conclude our read-through of the infamous declassified Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process document. Video version highly recommended! In part three, we'll learn more about the practical elements of the gateway meditations, read the reports' shocking conclusions about reality, and reflect on the significance of the document from a number of angles.  Check out this video for more background on the Gateway Process and My experience at the Monroe Institute Full Gateway Process Document Including the "missing" page   🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts  🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify  👁Watch and Subscribe on Youtube 🌀 Website 

Transcribed - Published: 17 March 2025

Author and seeker Anthony Peake enters the mind meld! Get your Gallowglass esoteric books before they're gone!  Anthony Peake has written a dozen books on topics ranging from UFOs and non-human intelligence to consciousness and near-death experiences. In this one, we muse about the hidden connections between consciousness and the UFO phenomenon, the nature of consciousness, and much more.  🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts  🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify  👁Watch and Subscribe on Youtube 🌀 Website   

Transcribed - Published: 7 March 2025

🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon Video version is highly recommended! Watch here! In this one, we continue our read-through of the infamous Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process document. In this session, we'll encounter the universal hologram or "the Absolute," speculate about the physics of consciousness, touch on quantum weirdness explain why it's possible for your consciousness to leave your physical body, and much more.  Full Gateway document here 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts  🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify  👁Watch and Subscribe on Youtube 🌀 Website 

Transcribed - Published: 1 March 2025

🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon Dr. Michael Levin and Dr. Matthew Segall enter the mind meld!  *Video Episode *  Dr. Michael Levin is a developmental and synthetic biologist at Tufts University where he’s the Vannevar Bush Distinguished Professor. His groundbreaking research on bioelectricity, morphogenesis, and cognition is reshaping our understanding of how living systems self-organize and regenerate. He explores how cells and tissues communicate through bioelectrical signals, guiding the formation of complex structures without relying solely on genetic instructions. Levin's work suggests that biological development is not purely mechanical but follows invisible organizational principles, akin to the Platonic Forms. By demonstrating how bioelectrical fields encode structural information beyond genetic determinism, Levin’s research hints at an underlying realm of conscious intelligible patterns, challenging reductionist views and opening the door to a Platonic interpretation of biology. Dr. Matthew Segall is an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness Program at California Institute of Integral Studies. He explores the intersections of metaphysics, science, and consciousness often through the philosopher Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy. Whitehead, highly influenced by Plato, rejected the static, mechanistic worldview of classical science, instead proposing that reality is composed of dynamic processes, where mind and matter are deeply intertwined. This aligns with the work of Levin, whose research suggests that living systems follow formative principles that transcend mere genetic code—an idea resonant with Whitehead’s notion of eternal objects (akin to Platonic Forms) as guiding forces in the becoming of things.  🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts  🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify  👁Watch and Subscribe on Youtube 🌀 Website 

Transcribed - Published: 20 February 2025

🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon This transmission returns to the infamous Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process document. Video Version (highly recommended!) In part one of the read-through, we'll introduce the paper and touch on its clandestine history. We'll also read the first chunk of the full report. Check out this video for more background on the Gateway Process and My experience at the Monroe Institute Full Gateway Process Document Including the "missing" page 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts  🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify  👁Watch and Subscribe on Youtube 🌀 Website 

Transcribed - Published: 15 February 2025

🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon Colin Frangicetto returns to the mind meld! Video Episode  👈 This week, we return to the seductive hall of mirrors that is the UFO / UAP phenomenon. We riff on the tension between disinformation and disclosure, the mind-blowing revelations from whistleblower, Jake Barber, the documentary Mirage Men and much more.  🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts  🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify  👁Watch and Subscribe on Youtube 🌀 Website     

Transcribed - Published: 6 February 2025

Philosopher, Cognitive Scientist, and University of Toronto Professor, John Vervaeke returns to the mind meld. Video Episode 👈 In this one, we muse about John's surprising encounter with higher intelligence and how it changed his life. More specifically, John encountered a being he believes to be his personal daimon or guide. We also riff on the ancient wisdom of Platonism, the mind, the future of the meaning crisis, and the dualistic paradox we're all stuck in. 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts  🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify  👁Watch and Subscribe on Youtube 🌀 Website  The Awakening From the Meaning Crisis Book John's talk with Charle's Stang Website

Transcribed - Published: 2 February 2025

🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon Author, seeker, and my Monroe Institute roommate, Adam Butler enters the mind meld! Video Episode here In this one, Adam and I share stories from our Gateway retreat at the Monroe Institute. We cover more curiosities from the declassified Gateway Process report, including "non-corporeal energy forms," and how the practice overlaps with both modern science and the world's mystical traditions. We also muse about the mystery of psychoactive molecules and how they saved Adam's life. Adam's Book Adam's Patron Page   🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts  🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify  👁Watch and Subscribe on Youtube 🌀 Website 

Transcribed - Published: 24 January 2025

🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon Video version highly recommended! Watch here! What if you could prove to yourself that you're more than your physical body? I don't mean just intellectually, I mean experiencing it. As some of you know, I recently attended a Gateway retreat at the Monroe Institute, and it really may given me that knowing. But we can't talk about my experience without taking a deep dive. So, in this transmission, we'll do just that. We'll meet Monroe himself, encounter psychic spies, explore the declassified Gateway Process report and much more.  Check out Area 52's Project Stargate series 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts  🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify  👁Watch and Subscribe on Youtube 🌀 Website 

Transcribed - Published: 18 January 2025

🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon Psychiatrist, author, and seeker, Dr. Rick Strassman MD returns to the mind meld! Video Episode 👈 We muse about the hyper novelty of DMT, from the scientific to the spiritual. Rick shares several personal life-altering mystical experiences that he previously kept private. We also speculate about the role of endogenous DMT in the brain, the nature of consciousness, and mystical experiences. Check out Dr. Strassman's books, including his latest, My Altered States.  🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts  🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify  👁Watch and Subscribe on Youtube 🌀 Website   

Transcribed - Published: 3 January 2025

🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon  Erick Godsey returns to the mind meld! Video episode 👈 Erick and I riff on the drone situation and the UFO phenomenon. In particular, we reflect on the importance of Carl Jung's prescient book, Flying Saucers, a Modern Myth of Things Seen In the Skies. Erick also shares lessons from an intense psychedelic medicine experience. Other topics include reincarnation, NDEs, my experiences at Monroe Institute, and more.  ** Head to lumen.me/THIRDEYEDROPS to get 15% off your Lumen  ** 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts  🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify  👁Watch and Subscribe on Youtube 🌀 Website   

Transcribed - Published: 28 December 2024

🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon Author of Initiation Into Dream Mysteries and seeker, Sarah Janes enters the mind meld! Video Episode 👈 ** Head to lumen.me/THIRDEYEDROPS to get 15% off your Lumen ** Sarah Janes specializes in the ancient history and culture of dreaming. Sarah has been a practicing lucid dreamer and consciousness explorer for decades and has traced esoteric dreaming techniques back to ancient Greece and Egypt. She's actively trying to revive said techniques and uncover their lost wisdom. We also muse about mystery initiations, like the Eleusinian mysteries, and much more. 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts  🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify  👁Watch and Subscribe on Youtube 🌀 Website   

Transcribed - Published: 20 December 2024

🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon Philosopher of consciousness, Dr. Bernardo Kastrup, Ph.D Returns! Video Episode 👈 ** Head to lumen.me/THIRDEYEDROPS to get 15% off your Lumen ** In this one, we muse about consciousness, the illusion of physical reality, non-human intelligence, the UFO / UAP phenomenon, esoteric states of consciousness, high weirdness, and much more. Bernardo's latest book, Analytic Idealism In a Nutshell is out now.  🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts  🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify  👁Watch and Subscribe on Youtube 🌀 Website 

Transcribed - Published: 14 December 2024

🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon Philosopher and author, Dr. Timothy Owen Desmond, Ph.D returns! Video Version here 👈 **New Sponsor: Ollie dog food! Get your pup a personalized, all-natural meal plan! Use code THIRDEYEDROPS to get 60% off your first box of meals**  In this brain-melting transmission, we highlight the surprising connections between two ancient classics: Plato's Republic and Euripides' Bacchae. Desmond believes he's uncovered hidden esoteric teachings that unite the two works, which have profound implications for the nature of reality. Desmond also posits that Nietzsche hinted at these teachings in his celebrated work, The Birth of Tragedy.  Chart of relationships between Bacchae and Republic  🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts  🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify  👁Watch and Subscribe on Youtube 🌀 Website           

Transcribed - Published: 11 December 2024

🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon Seeker and creator behind Area 52, Chris Ramsay enters the mind meld! Video Episode 👈 *** Try Honey With Superpowers™ - Head to manukora.com/THIRDEYEDROPS to get 3 FREE Gifts with your Starter Kit - a $25 value! *** In this one, we react to and riff on this month's eventful UFO / UAP-related news: The Immaculate Constellation whistleblower leak, the recent congressional hearings, which Chris attended personally, and more. We also debrief my profound experience at Monroe institute where I underwent a profound Gateway Experience retreat. 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts  🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify  👁Watch and Subscribe on Youtube 🌀 Website           

Transcribed - Published: 28 November 2024

🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon Seeker and creator behind Area 52, Chris Ramsay enters the mind meld! Video Episode 👈 *** Try Honey With Superpowers™ - Head to manukora.com/THIRDEYEDROPS to get 3 FREE Gifts with your Starter Kit - a $25 value! *** In this one, we react to and riff on this month's eventful UFO / UAP-related news: The Immaculate Constellation whistleblower leak, the recent congressional hearings, which Chris attended personally, and more. We also debrief my profound experience at Monroe institute where I underwent a profound Gateway Experience retreat. 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts  🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify  👁Watch and Subscribe on Youtube 🌀 Website           

Transcribed - Published: 28 November 2024

I feel like I'm being pulled into a portal of novelty and high weirdness. It's an interesting time in the macro and the micro-- I'm about to leave for my gateway process retreat at the Monroe Institute, I've been invited to go sky-watching with Ryan Bledsoe, UFO hearings just happened, let's talk about it! 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts  🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify  👁Watch and Subscribe on Youtube 🌀 Website 

Transcribed - Published: 16 November 2024

 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon UFO and Paranormal experiencer, seeker and son of Chris Bledsoe, Ryan Bledsoe enters the mind meld! Video Version Here 🌀 **New Sponsor: Ollie dog food! Get your pup a personalized, all-natural meal plan! Use code THIRDEYEDROPS to get 60% off your first box of meals**  Ryan Bledsoe and his family have been ground zero for all manner of high weirdness for nearly 20 years. Ryan's life has been completely transformed as a result-- He left the religion he grew up in, his ideas about reality changed, and he (and his family) have been investigated by numerous intelligence agencies. In this one, we riff on Ryan and his family's experiences, disinformation, the esoteric and why Ryan believes UFOs are a spiritual phenomenon. 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts  🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify  👁Watch and Subscribe on Youtube 🌀 Website   

Transcribed - Published: 31 October 2024

🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon Esoteric scholar and host of the Secret History of Western Esotericism podcast, Earl Fontainelle, PhD enters the mind meld!  Video Version Here 👈 ** Head to lumen.me/THIRDEYEDROPS to get 15% off your Lumen ** Earl Fontainelle is a researcher specializing in the religious and philosophic thought of late antiquity. He's especially interested in platonism, hermeticism, and Greco-Roman spirituality and philosophy, in general. In this mind meld, we cover a lot of territory: Mysterious pre-socratic healer-seers who regularly partook in soul flight, ideas about the soul and subtle bodies in antiquity, ancient accounts of communing with non-human intelligence (gods, goddesses, daimones, etc), hermetic and platonic rebirth into an immortal nous (consciousness) body, and more!  🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts  🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify  👁Watch and Subscribe on Youtube 🌀 Website 

Transcribed - Published: 25 October 2024

🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon Erick Godsey returns to the mind meld! Video Version Here 👈 In this one, we riff around the practical, psychological and esoteric layers of what Carl Jung called individuation: The process of becoming a psychologically distinct and whole individual. In short, the art of discovering and living one's purpose in life. We also muse about individuation's direct connection to a more overtly mystical and ancient concept, the personal daimon, and much more.  🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts  🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify  👁Watch and Subscribe on Youtube 🌀 Website 

Transcribed - Published: 18 October 2024

🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon MJDorian of the Creative Codex podcast returns! Video Version Here 👈 In this one, we riff on the multidimensional influence of what Carl Jung called the shadow archetype. Its influence reaches far beyond individual psyches. You’ll find it in myths, fairytales, groups and even the collective psyche of humanity.   🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts  🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify  👁Watch and Subscribe on Youtube 🌀 Website 

Transcribed - Published: 10 October 2024

🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon Biological Anthropologist and author of Identified Flying Objects and The Extratempestrial Model, Dr. Michael Masters enters the mind meld! Video Episode Here 👈 In this one, Dr. Masters lays out the case for the "extratempestrial model" — The idea that the the UFO / UAP phenomenon is, at least in part, humans from the future. Dr. Michael P. Masters is Professor of Biological Anthropology at Montana Technological University. He received a Ph.D. in Anthropology from The Ohio State University where he specialized in hominin evolutionary anatomy, archaeology, and biomedicine.  🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts  🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify  👁Watch and Subscribe on Youtube 🌀 Website 

Transcribed - Published: 3 October 2024

Contemplative Psychologist and seeker, Dr. John Churchill enters the mind meld! Video Version Here 👈 John Churchill is a truly eclectic and multimodal thinker. He's a long-time student and teacher of Tibetan Buddhism, Integral philosophy, psychology, western esotericism, and more. In this one, we riff on lost ancient psycho-technologies, the evolution of consciousness (both individual and collective), connections between eastern and western wisdom traditions, and more.  𑁍 Check out John's site and upcoming course here 𑁍 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts  🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify  👁Watch and Subscribe on Youtube 🌀 Website 

Transcribed - Published: 26 September 2024

🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon Physicist, engineer, author, and philosopher of consciousness, Federico Faggin enters the mind meld! *Support our sponsor, Qualia! Go to qualialife.com/THIRDEYEDROPS for up to $100 OFF Qualia use code THIRDEYEDROPS at checkout for an additional 15% off any purchase.* Early in his career, Federico invented the microprocessor for Intel. He went on to have a multi-decade, highly successful career in tech. After a bout of existential depression and an unexpected mystical experience, Federico became enamored with the nature of consciousness. Nearly 20 years of research and experimentation later, he went on to develop and publish his own theory of consciousness. 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts 🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify 👁Watch and Subscribe on Youtube 🌀 Website

Transcribed - Published: 19 September 2024

🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon Seeker and creator behind Area 52, Chris Ramsay enters the mind meld! Video Episode 👈 *** Try Honey With Superpowers™ - Head to manukora.com/THIRDEYEDROPS to get 3 FREE Gifts with your Starter Kit - a $25 value! *** On his new channel, Area 52, Chris explores some of life's biggest mysteries: Remote viewing, out of body experiences, the UFO phenomenon, and more. In this one, we riff on Chris' deep dive into remote viewing and his time at the infamous Monroe Institute where he was initiated into the mysterious Gateway Process. We also muse about the nature of consciousness, reality, and much more. 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts 🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify 👁Watch and Subscribe on Youtube 🌀 Website

Transcribed - Published: 13 September 2024

🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon Depth Psychology psychotherapist and author, Simon Yugler enters the mind meld! Watch & Sub on Youtube 👈 ** Head to lumen.me/THIRDEYEDROPS to get 15% off your Lumen ** In this one, we riff on the unique power of depth psychology, taking the soul seriously, the importance of visionary exploration, archetypes, the shadow, Carl Jung and more. Preorder Simon's book, Psychedelics and the Soul, A Mythic Guide to Psychedelic Healing, Depth Psychology and Cultural Repair 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts 🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify 👁Watch and Subscribe on Youtube 🌀 Website

Transcribed - Published: 5 September 2024

Author and scholar of the mystical, Dr. Jeffery Kripal enters the mind meld! *Support our sponsor, Qualia! Go to qualialife.com/THIRDEYEDROPS for up to $100 OFF Qualia use code THIRDEYEDROPS at checkout for an additional 15% off any purchase.* Video Episode 👈 Jeff has been researching and writing about high-weirdness, mystical experiences, the UFO phenomena, near-death experiences, and more for decades. He's the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University. Jeff is the author of numerous books including The Flip, The Super Humanities and his latest, How To Think Impossibly About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything Else. 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts 🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify 👁Watch and Subscribe on Youtube 🌀 Website

Transcribed - Published: 29 August 2024

Philosopher, professor, and author, Dr. Gregory Shaw enters the mind meld! Video Episode 👈 Gregory Shaw is the author of Theurgy and the Soul the Neoplatonism of Iamblichus, and his latest, Hellenic Tantra. He's a world-renowned expert on Neoplatonism, particularly the mysterious philosopher-sage, Iamblichus of Chalcis. Unlike his Platonic predecessors (apparently), Iamblichus engaged heavily in ritual esoteric practices. The heart of said practices were mysterious rites known as “theurgy.” A Greek word that translates to something like "god-working." Though no one knows exactly what these practices were, there is a great deal we do know thanks to Iamblichus' extant writings and scholars like Shaw. 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts 🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify 👁Watch and Subscribe on Youtube 🌀 Website

Transcribed - Published: 22 August 2024

🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon Journalist and Author of The UFO Paradox, Keith Thompson enters the mind meld! Video Episode 👈 Keith has been surfing the UFO / UAP phenomenon and related rabbit holes for decades. He's developed a unique, sophisticated, multifaceted way of approaching this mystery that ranges from journalistic and empirical to mythopoetic and esoteric. His books Angels and Aliens and The UFO Paradox are available now. 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts 🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify 👁Watch and Subscribe on Youtube 🌀 Website

Transcribed - Published: 15 August 2024

🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon Psychologist and author, Dr. Emma Seppala enters the mind meld! In this one, we riff on the mystery of intuition, remote viewing, the power of breath-work and meditation, and much more. Video Episode 👈 *Super cool new sponsor alert lumen.me/THIRDEYEDROPS to get 15% off Lumen* Emma is the author of The Happiness Track and her latest book, Sovereign. A psychologist and research scientist by training, her expertise is the science of happiness, emotional intelligence, and social connection. She currently lectures at Yale and has published research on breath work, compassion & meditation. 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts 🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify 👁Watch and Subscribe on Youtube 🌀 Website

Transcribed - Published: 8 August 2024

Consciousness explorer, author of The Bigger Picture and co-founder of Rebel Wisdom Alexander Beiner returns to the mind meld! Video Version of this Mind Meld 👈 *Try AG1 and get a FREE 1-year supply of Vitamin D3K2 & 5 free travel packs with your first order* In this one, Alex shares more wisdom from his experience in a groundbreaking study at Imperial College London. In it, he was given extended-state, high-dose, intravenous DMT multiple times. His experiences, as you may have heard in our previous conversation, were alien and profound. In this one, we riff more on the philosophical implications of the experience through a number of lenses. What does the experience tell us about reality, psychology, and meaning-making? What do mind-melting experiences like these mean for the future of spirituality? 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts 🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify 👁Watch and Subscribe on Youtube 🌀 Website

Transcribed - Published: 1 August 2024

Philosopher, Scientist, Author and mystic, Dr. Tom Cheetham enters the mind meld. Video episode 👈 Like nearly all of my favorite thinkers, Tom holds multiple kinds of wisdom. He has a rigorous academic background in philosophy and science. He even spent years as a biology and environmental studies professor. But, even with all of that technical expertise, Tom still thirsted for something more, something beyond the material. That something more arrived in the form of mythopoetic geniuses like author and psychologist, James Hillman, Carl Jung and, especially, philosopher and author Henry Corbin. The above wizarding triad led Tom to a decades-long on-going obsession with understanding the visionary, and the imaginal. The realm Corbin called the "mundus imaginalis." 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts 🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify 👁Watch and Subscribe on Youtube 🌀 Website

Transcribed - Published: 25 July 2024

🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon Professor, philosopher and best-selling author, Richard Tarnas Ph.D returns mind meld! Video Episode 👈 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. 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts 🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify 👁Watch and Subscribe on Youtube 🌀 Website

Transcribed - Published: 18 July 2024

🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon Erick Godsey returns to the mind meld! Video version here Try Honey With Superpowers™ - Head to manukora.com/THIRDEYEDROPS to get 3 FREE Gifts with your Starter Kit - a $25 value! In this one, Erick and I riff about the practical and psychospiritual aspects of Plato's cave. We also discuss potential links between the cave allegory and Jung's individuation process. Other points of musing include lessons from the creative path, insights from Erick's five-day darkness retreat, esoteric buddhism and more! 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts 🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify 👁Watch and Subscribe on Youtube 🌀 Website

Transcribed - Published: 11 July 2024

Neuroscientist and DMT researcher and author, Dr. Andrew Gallimore returns to the mind meld! In this one, we dive deep on visionary molecules like DMT. Is it possible that it opens your brain up to alien communication or even other realms? What do these experiences of high-strangeness tell us about consciousness? We also riff on the incredible DMTx (extended-state) studies coming out of Imperial College London, the unbelievable research on the horizon, and much more. 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts 🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify 👁Watch and Subscribe on Youtube 🌀 Website

Transcribed - Published: 5 July 2024

🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon Watch the video version here! Plato's Allegory of the Cave is a powerful tale. Not only is it one of the oldest versions of what, today, we'd call the "matrix" or "simulation" scenario, it's the most practical, prescient, and esoteric. In fact, Plato's cave and the Republic at-large contain occulted layers of meaning that scholars are still discovering and debating about to this day. In this transmission, we'll summarize the tale and do a deep dive into its more esoteric, often missed layers of wisdom. 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts 🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify 👁Watch and Subscribe on Youtube 🌀 Website

Transcribed - Published: 27 June 2024

🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon Watch the video version here! Plato's Allegory of the Cave is a powerful tale. Not only is it one of the oldest versions of what, today, we'd call the "matrix" or "simulation" scenario, it's the most practical, prescient, and esoteric. In fact, Plato's cave and the Republic at-large contain occulted layers of meaning that scholars are still discovering and debating about to this day. In this transmission, we'll summarize the tale and do a deep dive into its more esoteric, often missed layers of wisdom. 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts 🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify 👁Watch and Subscribe on Youtube 🌀 Website

Transcribed - Published: 27 June 2024

Host of the Creative Codex podcast, MjDorian returns! Video version here (don't forget to subscribe 🙏) This week, we explore the psychology, philosophy, and esoteric history of Tarot. *Super cool new sponsor alert lumen.me/THIRDEYEDROPS to get 15% off Lumen* According to legend, the Tarot may reach back as far as ancient Egypt. Origins aside, the Tarot orbits numerous fascinating historical figures and events. Its archetypal symbolism is incredibly deep and is carefully tailored around major elements of western esotericism. Some of which stretch back to Neoplatonist geniuses like Proclus. And, oh yeah, there's even a wizard battle or two in this episode! 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts 🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify 👁Watch and Subscribe on Youtube 🌀 Website

Transcribed - Published: 20 June 2024

Psychiatrist, Judy Tsafrir MD enters the mind meld! Video version here 👈 *Support our sponsor, Qualia! Go to qualialife.com/THIRDEYEDROPS for up to $100 OFF Qualia use code THIRDEYEDROPS at checkout for an additional 15% off any purchase.* Judy Tsafrir is one of those rare beings with both a rigorous conventional education and a deeply spiritual perspective. After a spiritual awakening in her late 40s, doctor Tsafrir began to integrate spiritual practices into her life and her medical practice in a multitude of ways. She has developed a multidimensional approach to healing that seeks to put the soul back into psyche. In this mind meld we riff on the synchronicity that connected us, the power of ritual, Carl Jung, the strengths and weaknesses of conventional psychoanalysis, the power of visionary states, and more. 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts 🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify 👁Watch and Subscribe on Youtube 🌀 Website

Transcribed - Published: 13 June 2024

🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon Author and seeker, ​⁠Cory Allen returns to the mind meld! Grab Cory's new book, Brave New You here. Try Honey With Superpowers™ - Head to manukora.com/THIRDEYEDROPS to get 3 FREE Gifts with your Starter Kit - a $25 value! In this one, we riff on the importance of seeing through your own personal simulation, your own reality tunnel, as author, Robert Anton Wilson called it. We also muse about the importance of consciousness exploration in the spirit of Robert Anton Wilson. Other topics include -- The hidden nature of reality, the power of investigating your own mind through meditation, altered-states, creativity and risk-taking. 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts 🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify 👁Watch and Subscribe on Youtube 🌀 Website

Transcribed - Published: 6 June 2024

Writer, podcaster, seeker, and artist, Michael Garfield returns! In this mercurial mind meld, we riff on individuation, high-weirdness, non-human intelligence, Carl Jung, what Robert Anton Wilson called "the chapel perilous,” directed evolution, the limits of empirical knowledge, and more. 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts 🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify 👁Watch and Subscribe on Youtube 🌀 Website

Transcribed - Published: 30 May 2024

🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon Erick Godsey returns to the mind meld! In this one, we take a truly multi-dimensional, mythopoetic, psycho-spiritual moonwalk through the chapel perilous. Video version here 👈 We riff on the alchemical potential of technology, the race between awakening and apocalypse, esoteric Buddhism, non-duality, Neoplatonism, the genius of Robert Anton Wilson, and more. *Support our new partner, AG1* Try AG1 and get a FREE 1-year supply of Vitamin D3K2 & 5 free travel packs with your first order - drinkAG1.com/thirdeyedrops 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts 🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify 👁Watch and Subscribe on Youtube 🌀 Website

Transcribed - Published: 23 May 2024