Tag: psychedelics

Synchronicity, Archetypes and the Sacred Philosophy of the Future | Richard Tarnas | Mind Meld 399

Professor, philosopher and best-selling author, Richard Tarnas Ph.D returns mind meld! 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, the importance of initiation and altered states, the need for archetypal fluency, synchronicity, and much more.

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The Consciousness Simulation & Hidden Ancient Wisdom | Timothy Desmond Ph.D| Mind Meld 390

Timothy Owen Desmond, Ph.D returns to mind meld! the surprising connections between ancient wisdom (both eastern and western) and modern physics. We also muse about Earnest Becker’s Denial of Death, and the philosophy of Hegel. We speculate about the physics of near-death experiences, particularly through the lens of the one Carl Jung experienced in 1944…

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