Esoteric Platonism and the Lost Wisdom of the Ancients with Dr. Gregory Shaw|Mind Meld 404

🥰 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   

🥰 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   

🥰 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 

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   

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 

🥰 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 

🥰 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   

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 

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 

🥰 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