Exit From the Matrix? The Esoteric Secrets of the North Pole | Symbolic Studies

Mario of Symbolic Studies  enters the mind meld! What if reality isn’t mechanistic, but symbolically structured? 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership In this one, we're joined by symbolism and esoterica expert, Mario Garza of Symbolic Studies to explore the occulted fabric of reality. We muse about ancient symbolic systems like tarot, Kabbalah, astrology, and sacred geometry. What if they aren’t just mystical artifacts, but emanations from deep within the structure reality? From the Tree of Life to hidden patterns in myth, these traditions may point to a deeper symbolic code underlying existence. We also dive into polar wisdom, a once wide-spread mystery tradition that has fallen into obscurity or possibly even deliberate suppression. We also riff on the idea of a lost worldview where the cosmos, consciousness, and meaning were intimately connected. If there is a hidden system behind reality—this might be how it reveals itself. Mario's Channel: ​Youtube: youtube.com/channel/UCPRgBiwWf7C_JtrLG3lTJ1g Website: https://www.symbolicstudies.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/symbolic.studies/ Links For Third Eye Drops 🌀 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership Hear hundreds of other mind melds: 🎧 Apple Podcasts: thirdeyedrops.com/itunes 🎧 Spotify: https://shorturl.at/ahnB1 🌀 Website https://www.thirdeyedrops.com ✌️Follow Michael on Instagram https://instagram.com/third_eye_drops Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chris Ramsay of  @Area52Investigations  returns! Is the UFO phenomenon a nuts-and-bolts technology from another planet, or a "cosmic performance" designed to manipulate and evolve human consciousness? 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership In this one, we again riff with magician and explorer of the unknown, Chris Ramsay. We dive into the state of disclosure, Terence McKenna's "Novelty Wave" and the shifting nature of reality. We move beyond the standard disclosure narrative to explore the work of Jacques Vallee, the relationship between the phenomenon and consciousness, egregores, and the idea that the phenomenon is a control system. Does that system control us, bind us, evolve us or something else too impossible to imagine. In this episode, we also discuss: -The Magic of Perception: Why the phenomenon acts like a "Cosmic Joke." -The disappearance of General Mccasland, a figure who may have been central to the so-called "legacy program." -Egregores & Collective Consciousness: Are we manifesting these entities? -Plato's cave and the phenomenon -The Control System: Jacques Vallee’s theory on reality manipulation. -The Missing General: The strange disappearance of McCasland and its mythological ties. -Spiritual Duality of Steiner and its ties to AI and our age. -The Future of Disclosure: Why the government might be hiding a "mental" truth. Chris' Channel:  @Area52Investigations  Chris' other channel  @ChrisRamsay52  X page: https://x.com/chrisramsay52 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Randall Carlson returns to the mind meld! Catastrophes, ancient mystery temples, the megalithic mystery under the pyramids and much more. 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership Polymath and seeker, Randall Carlson returns to explore the mysteries of the pyramids of Giza, ancient catastrophes, and the possibility that fragments of a forgotten civilization still echo through myth and history. We discuss new erosion evidence around the pyramids, the infamous underground structures of the Giza Plateau, and ancient accounts from figures like Herodotus describing structures lost to time. The conversation expands into Mithraism, astronomical mysteries, and the mysterious significance of the Pleiades, and why so many ancient cultures preserved stories of a great deluge and cycles of catastrophe. Randall also explains the potential role of the Taurid meteor stream in past global disasters and how these events may be encoded in mythology, ritual, and ancient astronomy. We also explore Atlantis, plasma phenomena, and the possibility that ancient civilizations understood forces and technologies that modern science is only beginning to rediscover. Links for Randall: Channel @TheRandallCarlson X page: https://x.com/RandallWCarlson Links For Third Eye Drops 🌀 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership Hear our 300-plus other podcasts: 🎧 Apple Podcasts: thirdeyedrops.com/itunes 🎧 Spotify: https://shorturl.at/ahnB1 🌀 Website https://www.thirdeyedrops.com ✌️Follow Michael on Instagram https://instagram.com/third_eye_drops Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this one, I read-through Chapter 2 of Sekret Machines: Gods, Man & War Volume 1. We'll explore ancient myths, the Nephilim, and controversial traditions describing direct contact between humans and “gods” or non-human intelligences. Are these stories fantasy, symbolic or distorted records of real encounters too profound to put into language? Links For Third Eye Drops 🌀 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership From Sumerian texts and biblical giants to cross-cultural mythology and modern UFO speculation, this chapter raises uncomfortable questions about human origins, ancient contact, and whether mythology may preserve memories of interactions with advanced beings. If even a fraction of these accounts are on the right track, then disclosure may not be about just crashed craft or classified programs — but about rethinking the story of humanity itself. Grab a copy of Sekret Machines Gods, Man, War 1:https://tinyurl.com/sekretmachines1 Links For Third Eye Drops 🌀 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership Hear hundreds of other mind melds: 🎧 Apple Podcasts: thirdeyedrops.com/itunes 🎧 Spotify: https://shorturl.at/ahnB1 🌀 Website https://www.thirdeyedrops.com ✌️Follow Michael on Instagram https://instagram.com/third_eye_drops Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cognitive Scientist, Dr. Donald Hoffman returns to the mind meld! Are we, as Plato argued thousands of years ago, mistaking shadows on a cave wall for reality? 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership In this conversation with the brilliant Dr. Donald Hoffman, we question whether space-time and the world we experience with our senses is fundamental or merely a shallow projection of something deeper. Drawing on Plato’s cave, physics, cognitive science, mystical traditions, quantum theory, and Hoffman’s own framework of conscious agents, we explore the possibility that reality emerges from consciousness rather than the other way around. Don also shares what could be a mind blowing breakthrough in his theory. What is reality? Will science ever find a final theory of everything? Are we locked inside a simulation designed for survival, not truth? If consciousness transcends space-time, what does that imply about our potential, our perception, our purpose and our fate as beings? We riff on all of this and more in this mind meld. Links for Donald Hoffman: New to Don's work? Start with this TED Talk: https://youtu.be/oYp5XuGYqqY?si=dJJzY05c1koiTYb4 Don's book, The Case Against Reality: https://a.co/d/0aGapviw Don's UC Irvine page: https://sites.socsci.uci.edu/~ddhoff/ Links For Third Eye Drops 🌀 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership Hear hundreds of other mind melds: 🎧 Apple Podcasts: thirdeyedrops.com/itunes 🎧 Spotify: https://shorturl.at/ahnB1 🌀 Website https://www.thirdeyedrops.com ✌️Follow Michael on Instagram https://instagram.com/third_eye_drops Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Peter Levenda enters the mind meld! In this one, I’m joined by author, scholar and researcher Peter Levenda. We explore UFOs not as isolated anomalies, but as part of a much older mysterious, mythic and psychospiritual that structure shapes human belief. 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership We riff on why humanity could be a cargo cult, government secrecy, the relationship between the UFO phenomenon and intelligence communities, and why governments may relate to the UFO phenomenon as not just a scientific mystery, but a narrative problem. From consciousness and psi research to initiation rituals, esoteric traditions, sensory deprivation, and out-of-body states, Levenda traces a through-line connecting ancient ideas of celestial ascent with modern space programs and disclosure culture. Links for Peter Levenda: Website: https://peterlevenda.com/ Books: https://peterlevenda.com/books X Page: https://x.com/Peter_Levenda Links For Third Eye Drops 🌀 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership Hear hundreds of other mind melds: 🎧 Apple Podcasts: thirdeyedrops.com/itunes 🎧 Spotify: https://shorturl.at/ahnB1 🌀 Website https://www.thirdeyedrops.com ✌️Follow Michael on Instagram https://instagram.com/third_eye_drops Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jesse Michels returns to the mind meld! Jesse Michels returns for a sprawling conversation on the strange overlap between UFOs, consciousness, and the hidden esoteric currents running beneath modern science. 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership We explore the “occult roots” of the space age — from Jack Parsons and the mythic imagination behind rocket culture, to the darker shadow of WWII German occultism, secret history, and the idea that advanced technology may have always been entangled with ritual, symbolism, and altered states. Along the way we get into Puharich, the Space Kids, psychic research, synchronicity, and why the UFO landscape is equal parts genuine inquiry and engineered confusion. We also riff on the centrality of consciousness, esoteric orders and mysterious cosmic ascent rituals. If the phenomenon isn’t just hardware in the sky, but something that interacts with perception itself, what does that imply about reality, human evolution, and the deeper truths of reality. Topics include: UFOs & consciousness, esotericism and space exploration, Jack Parsons, Nazi occultism, Puharich and psychic experiments, ancient wisdom and advanced tech, cosmic ascent, disclosure, misinformation, synchronicity, and the afterlife mystery. Links for Jesse: Channel: https://open.spotify.com/show/1WqA0m5xTcp4n6qmCQfS2K?si=16a53cd322124ca5 NASA Occult Video: https://youtu.be/zjpvfDFc4fg?si=NzatnLw0mfUN1aZM Substack: https://substack.com/@americanalchemymagazine Links For Third Eye Drops 🌀 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership Hear hundreds of other mind melds: 🎧 Apple Podcasts: thirdeyedrops.com/itunes 🎧 Spotify: https://shorturl.at/ahnB1 🌀 Website https://www.thirdeyedrops.com ✌️Follow Michael on Instagram https://instagram.com/third_eye_drops Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Author, esoteric seeker and podcaster Ike Baker enters the mind meld! In this one, I’m joined by Ike Baker for a deep dive into consciousness, the esoteric path and why ancient metaphysical models may explain reality better than modern materialism alone. We explore hidden layers of reality, non-ordinary forms of consciousness, initiatory knowledge, and why the esoteric worldview offers a powerful framework for sense-making. 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership We also touch on the phenomenon, subtle energy, and the idea that reality itself may be shaped by hidden intelligences operating beyond surface appearances. Ike Baker is a writer and practitioner of the Western esoteric tradition, and the author of Aetheric Magic and A Formless Fire. His work approaches esotericism as a lived, initiatory path, emphasizing consciousness as fundamental and reality as layered, intelligent, and deeply symbolic. Links for Ike Baker: Website: https://ikebaker.com/ Channel:  @arcanvm  About: https://ikebaker.com/about Aetheric Magick: https://a.co/d/hJrAFZx A Formless Fire: https://a.co/d/2VV07MU Links For Third Eye Drops 🌀 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership Hear our 300-plus other podcasts: 🎧 Apple Podcasts: thirdeyedrops.com/itunes 🎧 Spotify: https://shorturl.at/ahnB1 🌀 Website https://www.thirdeyedrops.com ✌️Follow Michael on Instagram https://instagram.com/third_eye_drops Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James Fox enters the mind meld! The new version of James' film, Moment of Contact: https://geni.us/MOC_NewRevelations The Varginha UFO case, often called “Brazil’s Roswell” just keeps getting more novel. The newly updated version of James’ film Moment of Contact, includes incredible new information and testimony from eye witnesses that needs to be seen t be believed. 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership James also weighs in on the alleged UFO legacy program, the current state (and limits) of disclosure, and the identity of phenomenon itself. Is this merely a technological mystery, or something that intersects with consciousness in a more fundamental way? This is an open, grounded, and exploratory dialogue. It's less about easy answers, more about asking deep questions at the edge of what we think we know. If you’re interested in UFOs not just as objects in the sky, but as a challenge to our understanding of reality itself, this one’s for you. Links For Third Eye Drops 🌀 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership Hear our 300-plus other podcasts: 🎧 Apple Podcasts: thirdeyedrops.com/itunes 🎧 Spotify: https://shorturl.at/ahnB1 🌀 Website https://www.thirdeyedrops.com ✌️Follow Michael on Instagram https://instagram.com/third_eye_drops Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Danny Goler  @dangothoughts  returns to the mind meld! 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops In this one, we kick the tires of the simulation. What if simulation theory isn’t just a philosophical thought experiment—but something that can be experienced? In this one, Danny Goler returns. We explore the idea that altered states of consciousness may expand perception rather than distort it, increasing the sensory aperture through which reality is experienced. Through synchronicities and personal experimentation, Danny became convinced he was encountering repeatable patterns—something like a hidden code to reality—that only become visible when consciousness shifts. That line of inquiry eventually led him toward simulation theory, but not in the usual, meme-level sense. We dig into the nuance: what the simulation might actually be, whether altered states are revealing more of reality rather than less, and how consciousness itself may function as both an engine and an interface to deeper layers of reality. Whether you see this as hypothesis, metaphor, or thought experiment, it opens up some genuinely novel, unsettling and fascinating possibilities. Links for Danny: @dangothoughts https://open.substack.com/pub/dannygoler https://www.codeofreality.com/ https://www.instagram.com/dannygoler https://spotify.link/rqlIvK9ZCXb https://www.tiktok.com/@dannygoler Links For Third Eye Drops 🌀 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership Hear our 300-plus other podcasts: 🎧 Apple Podcasts: thirdeyedrops.com/itunes 🎧 Spotify: https://shorturl.at/ahnB1 🌀 Website https://www.thirdeyedrops.com ✌️Follow Michael on Instagram https://instagram.com/third_eye_drops Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices