The Esoteric Secrets of Plato's Cave and the Truth Beyond the Simulation

What if UFOs, fairy lore, angels, demons, and entity encounters are not separate phenomena, but different masks worn by the same underlying intelligence? Author of Daimonic Reality and Mercurius, Patrick Harpur enters the mind meld to explore a radically different way of understanding the phenomenon. 🥰 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 Drawing on the esoteric, depth psychology, mythology, and the work of Carl Jung, Harpur argues that modern materialism flattened the paranormal by forcing it into a false choice: either literal and physical, or imaginary and unreal. In doing so, we lost touch with an older, truer framework. A mode of reality in which encounters are symbolic, intelligent, and transformative without being reducible to hallucination or materialism. Harpur refers to it as the daimonic realm, a middle world between mind and matter. A dimension where meaning takes form, myths are born, and the phenomenon adapts its appearance to the culture encountering it. We discuss why UFOs often behave more like myths than machines, how religious visions and entity encounters overlap across history, and why attempts to literalize the phenomenon may be missing its true nature, the alchemical initiation process of life itself and the mysterious figure known as Mercurius. Links for Patrick Harpur: About: https://www.harpur.org/ Books: https://tinyurl.com/4ezukcrz 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 For hundreds more 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

Erick Godsey returns to share a four-day vision quest, riff on altered states, meaning-making, Carl Jung and a personal encounter with a mysterious orb, UFO-like intelligence. 🥰 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 explore why humans across cultures have intentionally entered non-ordinary states of consciousness, and how practices like fasting, isolation, and ritual deprivation can open profound psychological and mythic terrain. Drawing on esotericism, Jung and mythopoetic psychology, we talk about meaning-making, initiation, and why modern life may be starving us of transformative experiences. Erick also recounts a striking moment when what appeared to be a star or orb seemed to actively engage with him — moving, observing, and inducing what felt like a reconfiguration within his psyche. Rather than fear, the experience carried a calm, reassuring quality, raising deep questions about perception, consciousness, and the nature of intelligence. We also zooming out to discuss disclosure and the UFO phenomenon in general, the film Age of Disclosure, and multiple interpretations of the phenomenon — psychological, symbolic, physical, and beyond. 👀 Catch Erick's podcasts, courses and musings here: https://www.erickgodsey.com/ 👈 https://www.instagram.com/erickgodsey/ 👈 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 For hundreds more 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

Psi researcher and seeker, Adam M. Curry returns. In this one, consciousness, plasma, psi, remote viewing, the ether and the UFO phenomenon and more. 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 Adam M. Curry is a psi researcher, entrepreneur, philosopher, seeker and polymath. He developed an interest in psi and big questions about consciousness from a young age, associating with legends in the field like Hal Puthoff and Russ Targ. Adam eventually took on a role at PEAR lab (The Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research). He has continued exploring anomalous cognition, mind-matter interaction, the physics of psi, plasma science and the ufo phenomenon. Links for Adam Curry: X Account: https://x.com/adamslab Entangled: https://entangled.org/ 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 Hodgkins enters the mind meld! In this one, we dive into one of the strangest and most controversial dimensions of the UFO world — The alleged use of psionic assets in NHI contact, intelligence gathering, and even crash-retrieval operations. 🥰 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 Hodgkins isn’t a an esoteric mystic living in isolation. He comes from a Silicon Valley and background. But the realm of the paranormal is nothing new for James. H’s been experiencing high strangeness and psychic phenomena since childhood. Over the years, James has formally and informally explored psi further. He has studied Remote viewing and engaged in what he describes as intentional contact with non-human intelligences. James was also the first psionic asset for Skywatcher and went on to help build their psionic team. In this conversation, we explore: -What it means to be a “psionic asset” -The origins of his psychic experiences and high-strangeness encounters -Remote viewing, contact attempts, and consciousness-based communication -Skywatcher -The philosophical, and ontological implications of psionics -What James believes these intelligences are -What ontological maps James believes describe reality and the phenomenon best If you’re fascinated by UFOs, contact phenomena, psi research, altered states, or the strange intersection of consciousness and technology, this is a mind-meld you won’t want to miss. Special thanks to Adam Curry for the plasma images. Follow James on X: https://x.com/jdhodgkins 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 transmission, we explore what I believe to be one of the most important chapters in the most books ever written on the UFO topic. The final chapter of John Keel's classic, Operation Trojan Horse. 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops What if the UFO phenomenon isn't technological,but ontological? What if these lights, entities and high-strangeness encounters are not just visitors from another star,but expressions of a deeper intelligence woven through the very structure of reality — an intelligence the ancients once called by many names: Spirits, daimons, angels, and gods. In the final chapter of Operation Trojan Horse, John Keel argues exactly that. But what is their goal? Are the here to invade or to initiate? 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

Seeker, entrepreneur and researcher, Sean Webb returns to the mind meld! In this one, we riff at the intersection of consciousness, UFOs awakening experiences, higher intelligences, and suppressed physics. 🥰 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 Sean shares how a life-altering awakening experience shattered his assumptions about the mind — and how consciousness may explain everything from UFO intelligence to idealism, psi, and even classified propulsion research. From Federico Faggin to Bernardo Kastrup, from black-budget programs to the deepest layers of selfhood, we muse on the idea that consciousness isn’t just involved in the phenomenon, it is the phenomenon. Topics Include: Sean’s awakening experience Sean's relationship with a higher intelligence Why consciousness may be fundamental Idealism and the structure of reality UFOs, NHIs, and the “other intelligence problem” Can AI become consciousness? How consciousness could interface with advanced propulsion Are black-budget labs already studying these links? Psi, and the physics of the mind Antigravidic technologies Psionic contact with other intelligences Whether you’re here for the metaphysics, the mysteries, or the mind-bending science, this one goes deep into the hidden architecture behind reality. Sean Webb's links: Website: https://mindhackinghappiness.com/ Happiness AI Algorithm: https://www.instagram.com/p/DA1kd5IS9li/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mindhackinghappiness/ 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

🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon Dr. Alex Gómez-Marín enters the mind meld! Alex is a neuroscientist and physicist whose work dances at the edge of science and spirit. He’s the director of the Pari Center where he explores the frontiers of consciousness, cognition, and life itself. Alex has also had his own brush with the infinite — a near-death experience that further shattered his assumptions about mind, matter, and reality In this one, we navigate the mysterious terrain where neuroscience and physics meet metaphysics. We explore what his NDE revealed about the nature of consciousness, why materialism may be reaching its limits, and how physics might point toward a universe that is alive, aware, and participatory. Along the way, we dive into ancient and modern models of mind, from platonism to panpsychism. If you’ve ever felt that consciousness is more than neurons firing — that awareness is woven into the very fabric of reality — this one’s for you. Riffs include: -Alex’s near-death experience and how it changed his worldview -Consciousness, neuroscience, and the limits of materialism -Physics, metaphysics, and the living universe -The continuity of mind before and after death -Ancient philosophical echoes in modern science -Why the science of tomorrow must take consciousness seriously Links for Alex: Bio: https://paricenter.com/alex-gomez-marin/ X account: https://x.com/behaviOrganisms 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  enters the mind meld 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops In this one, we poke at the edges of reality’s operating system: simulation theory, consciousness, and the mysterious architectures that might underlie both. Danny Goler is a seeker, consciousness researcher, and the founder of "Project Veil Break" an effort aiming to illuminate the frontiers of human understanding by bridging science and spirituality through rigorous research. Together, we riff on: -Simulation theory and the mysterious code that might be hidden within the fabric of reality -The parallels between mystical experience and digital reality -Altered states and the architecture of the unseen -Science, physics and the true nature of reality -Idealist philosophy, platonism and more If you’re fascinated by the intersection of science, mysticism, and the nature of existence, this one is for you. Links for Danny:  @dangothoughts  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

🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Andres Gomez Emilsson enters the mind meld! Andres is a consciousness researcher, mathematician, and President of the Qualia Research Institute (QRI), an organization that explores the structure of experience itself through a number of lenses. Their work dives into the geometry of consciousness, the structure and phenomenology of altered states, and the tantalizing possibility that the universe itself is built from qualia, the raw substance of direct experience. In this one, we traverse: -Entities, altered states and realms of consciousness. -Holographic consciousness: Is the universe a self-reflecting field of awareness? -Physics and phenomenology — Can conscious experience be measured geometrically and structurally? -The geometry of reality — How sacred patterns and mathematical beauty might underlie all experience. -UFOs, intelligence, and the living cosmos — Are we part of a grander field of minds and sentient geometry? Whether you lean mystical, mathematical or somewhere in between, this one will perk up your wonder whiskers. Links for Andres and QRI: QRI's Site: https://qri.org/ About Andres and the QRI team: https://qri.org/team Publications: https://qri.org/research-publications 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

🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon Chris Ramsay of Area 52 returns to the mind meld! Could there be forces — psychological, technological, or metaphysical — that keep humanity from awakening to its full potential? In this one, Chris Ramsay and I pull on the threads that tie together UFOs, mind control, psi, consciousness esoteric philosophy and more. 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