THIRD EYE DROPS

Artist, musician, and podcaster, Colin Frangicetto returns to riff about how art alters reality, the emerging dimension of the digital, why the metaverse could be both a blessing and a curse, and more! Colin Frangicetto is a musician, podcaster, and artist most well-known for playing in the band Circa Survive. Dive into Colin's world here. Support us- *This one is sponsored by Element Kombucha. Ge...

This mind meld is sponsored by Element Kombucha. Get 11% off with code DROPS11 here Contemplative psychotherapist, Dr. Miles Neale returns to the mind meld to riff on trusting the darkness, avoiding the fool's elixir, ancient mystery traditions, and more. Check out his new course on the gradual path here. His book, Gradual Awakening: The Tibetan Buddhist Path of Becoming Fully Human is available n...

*Support us and enter the Third Eye Drops wonder lodge on Patreon* What do Carl Jung, Plato, ancient mystery temples, and transcendent experiences have in common? They all point toward an unspeakable truth you have to experience to believe. In this mind meld, we riff about all of the above and more.  Cory Allen is a mindfulness facilitator, author and podcast host of The Astral Hustle podcast, and...

For rewards and podcast extras, enter our patron-only wonder lodge! Ever-mercurial comedian, artist, and podcaster, Ramin Nazer returns to the mind meld! Ramin returns for another sprawling mercurial wonder-dip. In this one, we riff about weird Christmas rabbit holes, galactic neurosis, why nothingness and infinity are both absurd, and more! *This mind meld is sponsored by the shroom sages at Four...

Crowd-sponsor the show and get rewards on Patreon! Sonic wizard, East Forest returns to the mind meld! Trevor 'East Forest' Oswalt is a unique bird in the Wild West aviary of electronic-chamber music, bridging the digital and natural realms. His fundamental mission is to create sonic architecture for listeners to explore their inner space. In this mind meld, we muse about psilocybin and its ascens...

Support Third Eye Drops and join the wonder lodge on Patreon Legendary anthropologist and author, Dr. Jeremy Narby enters the mind meld to talk plant medicine, indigenous wisdom, plant consciousness, the archaic revival, and more. Get Jeremy's new book Plant Teachers here. This Podcast is sponsored by Sheath Underwear. Get 20% off here Crowd-sponsor us and get rewards on Patreon Review and sub on...

Support us and enter the Third Eye Drops wonder lodge on Patreon Author, mindfulness facilitator, host of The Astral Hustle podcast, and friend, Cory Allen returns to the mind meld.  In this one, we muse about the importance of simplicity, the beauty of changing your mind, why returning to seat of your experience is of the utmost importance, recognizing B.S., agnostic spirituality, and more Suppor...

*Crowd-sponsor us, get rewards, and hear a patron-only exclusive podcast with Michael and Jenn on Patreon* Author, entrepreneur, podcast host, and consciousness adventurer, Jennifer Sodini returns to the mind meld to muse about why the essence of the human soul is an open-ended question, the power of perhaps, Robert Anton Wilson, how spirituality is evolving, the high weirdness of biblically accur...

For rewards and podcast extras, become a patron Fountain of knowledge and healing, Dr. Dan Engle returns the mind meld! Dr. Dan Engle is a psychiatrist with a clinical practice that combines aspects of regenerative medicine, psychedelic research, integrative spirituality, and peak performance.  Dr. Engle is the author of The Concussion Repair Manual: A Practical Guide to Recovering from Traumatic...

James McCrae returns to the mind meld! James (also known by his Instagram handle, wordsarevibrations) is a meme artist and the author of How to Laugh in Ironic Amusement During Your Existential Crisis, which is available now!  In this mercurial mind meld, we riff on the metaverse, the approaching singularity, Terence McKenna, cryptocurrency, and some speculation so scintillating and dubious that I...

Autodidactic mythologist, psychology extraordinaire, and Myths That Make Us host, Erick Godsey returns to muse about his recent mystical epiphany, the importance of reflecting on death, why initiations are like death practice, why technology must assist our spiritual evolution, the importance of recognizing and balancing mythological archetypes in our own psyches, and more. Catch his podcast, The...

Harvard Astrophysicist, Dr. Avi Loeb enters the mind meld!  Avi Loeb is the Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science at Harvard University, chair of Harvard's Department of Astronomy, founding director of Harvard's Black Hole Initiative, and director of the Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC) within the Harvard-Smithsonian Center. He also heads the Galileo Project, a systematic scientific...

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Dr. Amishi Jha enters the mind meld to sharpen your focus, recontextualize mindfulness, and define enlightenment.  Dr. Amishi Jha is a professor of psychology and the director of the contemplative neuroscience program at the University of Miami. She researches the neurology of attention and the effects of mindfulness training. Her new book, Peak Mind is out now. Support Third Eye Drops: This Podca...

Get dozens of podcast extras and join a blooming community of wonder-dippers on patreon. Artist, podcaster, and novelty-wielder, Michael Garfield, returns to the mind meld to muse about the catch twenty-two of personal authority, Kant's definition of enlightenment, why we may be living in a time of false enlightenment, 'meta dialogos,' and more!  ** This mind meld is sponsored by the Aubrey Marcus...

Autodidactic mythologist, psychology extraordinaire, and Myths That Make Us host, Erick Godsey returns to the mind meld to muse about the myth of truth, the power of dialogue, how bias masquerades as intuition, one of the most mind-melting thought experiments ever conceived of, why eternity is terrifying, and more. Catch his podcast, The Myths that Make Us  Jump into his new offering, The Dharma J...

*Crowd-sponsor the show and get rewards on Patreon! * Artist and Musician, Colin Frangicetto returns to riff about future nostalgia, why existential ambivalence is a sign of success, and why our souls might be trapped in a lower-dimensional slice of reality. Colin Frangicetto is a musician, podcaster, and artist most well-known for playing in the band Circa Survive. Dive into Colin's world here. S...

*Crowd-sponsor us and get rewards on Patreon* Sarah Stein Greenberg is the executive director of Stanford d. School and the author of the new book, Creative Acts for Curious People.  In this mind meld, we muse about sense-making through creativity, bringing order to chaos through art, the "transcendent aesthetic," and more. Support Third Eye Drops! Crowd-sponsor us and get rewards on Patreon This...

*Crowd-sponsor us and get rewards on Patreon* Contemplative psychologist, Dr. Miles Neale and sound therapist, Phil Jacobs enter the mind meld to pull the psychic sword from the stone. In this one, we muse about the importance of internalizing mythological images, contemplative Buddhism, how to integrate through story, why the archetype of alchemical transformation reaches across cultures and more...

James McCrae enters the mind meld! James (also known by his Instagram handle, wordsarevibrations) is a meme artist and the author of How to Laugh in Ironic Amusement During Your Existential Crisis, which you can preorder now.  In this one, we riff about the evolution of creativity, the importance of maintaining a romantic, spiritual disposition, the intersection of ancient wisdom and memes, and mu...

Support us and enter the Third Eye Drops wonder lodge on Patreon Author, meditation facilitator, host of The Astral Hustle podcast, and friend, Cory Allen returns to the mind meld.  We riff about the self as a stone, mythopoetic drift, mindfully minding your own business, the pitfalls of personal development, and more! Support Third Eye Drops: This episode is sponsored by Sheath Underwear use  For...

*Join the wonder lodge and get rewards on Patreon* Sergey Young is a longevity investor and visionary on a mission to extend the healthy lifespans of 1 billion people. He's also the author of The Science and Technology of Growing Young, which is available now. In this mind meld, we muse about techno-optimism versus techno doom, how it's possible to live to the age of 200, and why mind-blowing long...

*Support the show and join the TED community on Patreon* Psychologist and bestselling author, Dr. Lisa Miller enters the mind meld to riff on how to awaken your brain, depression, the nature of consciousness, why a spiritually engaged life is a better life, and more. Lisa Miller, Ph. D., is the New York Times bestselling author of The Spiritual Child and the Awakened Brain. She's a professor in th...

For rewards and podcast extras, become a Patreon patron! Psychotherapist and Psychedelics Today co-founder, Kyle Buller returns to the mind meld! We riff on the importance of levelheadedness, the nature of dreams, the well of weirdness and synchronicity that surrounds conspiracy theories, why teaspoons of change are sometimes preferable to full-blown leaps of faith, Carl Jung, James Hillman, and l...

*Support the show and join the TED community on Patreon* Psychologist Dr. Ido Cohen returns to the mind meld! In this one, we riff about the healing power of the numinous, Carl Jung, why it's important to microdose terror, the mythopoetic symbolism of space travel, and more! Dive into Ido's course here. Follow his psychological sangha, the Integration Circle on Instagram Support Third Eye Drops *T...