Third Eye Drops #33 - If You Name Me, You Negate Me, with Alexandre Tannous

Featured art by Simon Haiduk Sound researcher, musician and world-traveling gnostic-adventurer, Alexandre Tannous returns for another mind meld!LISTEN|ITUNES YOUTUBE ARCHIVE STITCHERThese mind melds are brought to you by YOU! Find out how to support us and receive rewards in the process at our Patreon page.

This episode features one of those time-traveling flow-state dialogues where nearly 90 minutes flies by seemingly instantaneously (at least from my perspective). It was like some tiny quantum brain fairy caressed my pineal gland causing it to secret just the right amount of tryptamine to elicit an extended state of wonder and awe. It was truly that pleasurable. On that note, it would be fascinating to see what’s going on neurologically during an awesome, life-affirming, metaphysically stimulating chat like this one. 

Musings in this mind meld include -

• Why we lose the feeling of awe and mystery as we age and what we can do to nurture it
• The cultural forces that compel you to think the way you do and value what you do 
• Why we romanticize ancient cultures 
• Why religion and science alone aren’t existentially satisfactory  
• Fine-tuning your awareness and curiosity and creating a practice 
• Were the works of Plato hiding universal truths about math and melody?
• The trial of Socrates and his forced suicide 
• What were the ancient “mystery schools" that so many famous philosophers speak of?
• Hermeticism and the Kybalion
• The shamanic model, ayahuasca and the culture clash that occurs when they enter modern life and the modern mind
• The power of sound in shamanistic systems 
• You can only listen to the experiences of others for so long, eventually you have to do your own work
• Why the language we use for "spiritual" experiences is lacking
• Exploring inner-spaces takes practice, just like anything else   
• John Lamb Lash and his book Not in His Image
• The importance of the multidisciplinary approach and why we need a well-rounded tool set to explain reality 
• Alexandre’s personal spiritual experiences and
• The difference between romantic love and cosmic love 
• The power of sound to enhance meditative or psychonautic exploration
• Unlearning and creating  a new relationship with sound   

Third Eye Drops #31 - FOURTH EYE DROPS with Cory Allen

Cory Allen is a sound-smith, meditation instructor and the host of the Astral Hustle podcast. Cory has taught thousands the practice of meditation through his guided workshops and delivers lectures on mindfulness and the expansion of consciousness.

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Every time I talk to my friend Cory Allen it’s a tastier Swiss Cake Roll™ of absurdity and profundity. Ever since he came on the show a few months back, we’ve been keeping in touch and something has blossomed. Some sort of playful ping pong of creative scheming, insight and wild degenerate goof sessions that would probably get us banned from everything for life if they ever leaked out.

 I like this recipe. If I’m not laughing enough in a conversation, it’s like there’s a very important spice missing or something. I've found there's absolutely Goldilocks zone of high highfalutin idea slinging and satire and (at least as from my perspective) Cory and I wiggle right into that nook.

Musings in this mind meld -

• You don’t really have free will unless you exercise and sharpen it 
• Another rap on simulation theory 
• Michael’s ridiculous daemon/mason/Price is Right synchronicity
• Synchronicity  
• The Buddhist parable of the arrow in modern terms 
• Insufficiently melted cheese and other jaded first-world disappointments 
• If you want novelty, inspiration and a juicy life, don’t expect to find it sitting around 
• Visions of quantified social media burrowing into your biology and the algorithms that will map your psyche  
• The phrase “third eye” is heavily overused and ambiguous. Is it really a useful term and what does it mean?
• How sound and binaural beats profoundly alter your state of consciousness
• Why it’s hugely beneficial to let someone else drive your experience regularly 

Third Eye Drops #20 - RESONANCE, with Cory Allen

Cory Allen is a sound-smith, a meditation maestro and the host of the Astral Hustle podcast.LISTEN | ITUNES YOUTUBE ARCHIVE STITCHERThis mind meld is a love letter to everyone making the art, reading the books, having the conversations, or diving into experience. It's also blazing-hot laser of vitriol directed toward the demagoguery, fear-mongering and fast-food philosophy permeating our news cycle.In the sinew of the show, we converse with Cory Allen (a man who would definitely be a recipient of the psychic love letter mentioned above). Cory has not only developed a method for inner-exploration and self-realization, he's helping thousands of others do the same through his podcasts, music, meditation courses and binaural beat projects.Musings in this mind meld -

• Binaural beats, what they do and how to use them to enhance life, meditation and work performance
• Is there a "best" way to meditate? How I do it, how Cory does it
• Cory's "astral" meditation
• Subjectivity, cultivating a positive mindset and the fact that the exact same circumstance can be interpreted in polar opposite ways
• The mystery of sound, from pop music to rapturous bliss
• Experiencing sound with multiple sense and augmenting your consciousness with it
• How to tell the difference between an earnest, authentic piece of work and an ego-driven one
• Psychedelic stretching and Yoga
• Cory's Ayahuasca revelations
• Cory's turbulent teenage psychedelic bathroom adventures

For another auditory adventure down the sound rabbit hole, get amongst our mind meld with sound expert, mystic and world-traveler, Alexandre Tannous

Third Eye Drops #10 - Alexandre Tannous and the Hidden Realms of Sound

LISTEN | ITUNES YOUTUBE ARCHIVE STITCHERWelcome wonderlings!As our guide on this week's ride, we welcome another ridiculously intelligent, well-spoken open-minded multidisciplinary mind freak, Alexandre Tannous.Alexandre has everything you want, the academic credentials, the musical background (he could easily show up somewhere with Zeppelin and you’d be like, oh yeah this guy’s in the band, no doubt). But more importantly, he’s done the subjective inner-work by traveling the world, participating in indigenous shamanistic ceremonies, steeping himself in history and mysticism and so much more.To dig further head to Alexandre's site