Tag: psychedelics

Overcoming Soul Sickness with Carl Jung and Terence McKenna

What do we do when we feel purposeless? Where do we turn when the vital energy is sucked from life? 

As the bleak statistics of the mental health epidemic demonstrate, for many, there is no clear answer. This disconnection from meaning and purpose, this depression of the soul, is devouring the psyche of millions. It’s left us struggling to numb the pain through pathology, distraction, consumption, and ego games. Of course, none of the above brings us any closer to the deeper purpose we seek. They leave us thirstier for something real than we were to begin with.

So, in this transmission, we’ll confront this ‘soul sickness’ through the wisdom of luminaries like Carl Jung, Terence McKenna, Dr. Lisa Miller, and more. We’ll also riff on some ways we might even be able to overcome it.

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DMT and the Illusion of Reality with Dr. Andrew Gallimore | Mind Meld 347

In this one, we explore how our brains build the human model of “reality.” We dive deep into visionary molecules like DMT and how they seemingly transport our consciousness to a totally alien world. We also muse about the notion that alien intelligence could be non-physical or informational, as well as an unbelievable recent study that kept participants in an extended IV-induced DMT state. 

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Growing the God Inside of You with Erick Godsey — Mystical Buddhism, Consciousness and Carl Jung | Mind Meld 338

Autodidactic mythologist, psychology extraordinaire, and Myths That Make Us podcast host, Erick Godsey returns for a truly titanic mind meld.

In this one, we dip our wonder nuggets in many-a-rabbit hole: What it means to live a good life (eudaemonia), esoteric buddhist practices, the surprising scholarly research on reincarnation, Carl Jung, Platonic philosophy, and much, much more.

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How To Talk to Soul with Ido Cohen | Mind Meld 336

Psychologist Ido Cohen returns to the mind meld!

We muse about soul and nourishing your connection with your inner world. We also riff on Carl Jung, myth, modern masculinity, psychedelics, the controversial phenomenon of Andrew Tate, the psycho-spiritual meaning crisis, we’re all collectively grappling with, and more!

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