The Meaning Crisis, Platonism and Mystical Experiences with John Vervaeke | Mind Meld 372

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 

🥰 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 

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 

🥰 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 

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 

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 

🥰 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 

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 

🥰 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