Psychedelic Salon
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Dive into the archives of psychedelic thought. Lorenzo Hagerty hosts essential conversations on entheogens, science, and the counterculture.
c/psychedelic-salon
Dive into the archives of psychedelic thought. Lorenzo Hagerty hosts essential conversations on entheogens, science, and the counterculture.
…and I both very much appreciate this kind of feedback from listeners. As for reading on ego, I have to tell you that Eckhart Tolle really nailed it. This might have come across a bit in my October Gallery talk in London a couple of years ago. I…
…or at least a manifestation of you, so it should be belonged. The mind is also you, as is the pain body that Tolle Describes sexual energies, the worry monkey mind and all the other lovely parts. They're you too. They're collectively you, but there is…
…cultural lineage familial lineage going back, and what we have learned to do in this time is to unravel the os of humans. Eckhart Tolle gave us the first glimpse in the early 90s when he talked about the pain body, what he called unconscious, and they…
…finally, I want to thank John Jay, who not only sent in a generous donation, but who also sent me a great talk by Eckhart Tolle that I'd love to play here in the salon, but unfortunately it's copyrighted by a company that once threatened to sue me for…
…at the world today, I mean, who? It seems to me that the number one, at least public spiritual teacher seems to be Eckhart Tolle. Is that a fair assessment? I mean, if you go to the bookshops, there's a huge rack of tolle. There's whole shelves with…
…there's a huge rack of tolle. There's whole shelves with stands where the books are presented and the dvd sets are presented. So Eckhart Tolle is there. Well, why is he there? Well, do you know this? Does anybody know the story of who Eckhart Tolle is?…
…presented. So Eckhart Tolle is there. Well, why is he there? Well, do you know this? Does anybody know the story of who Eckhart Tolle is? Eckhart, you may have heard me in the first session talk about Eckhart Tolle, but he's a curious character. This is…
…anybody know the story of who Eckhart Tolle is? Eckhart, you may have heard me in the first session talk about Eckhart Tolle, but he's a curious character. This is a talk about three curious characters. EcKhart Tolle, Terrance McKenna, and Bruce Dahmer,…
…first session talk about Eckhart Tolle, but he's a curious character. This is a talk about three curious characters. EcKhart Tolle, Terrance McKenna, and Bruce Dahmer, that is myself. I'm a Canadian, raised in the mountains, the Rocky Mountains of Canada,…
…out today? But perhaps the most powerful insight gleaned from McKenna's many journeys might be related to the more recent work of Eckhart Tolle and others on the ego. McKenna and Toley both describe mind states in which the ego may be sensed briefly as a…
…and later in normal states of mind. If this is in fact a common experience, it could, in combination with regimens proposed by Tolle and others, give us a new, vital tool to forge a new earth. Dahmer will also bring into this mix the newly pressing…
…around who remembers me. So when I'm 90, I better not have the ego thing. I better be more of a spiritual being. So Tolle talks about going out and coming back, and one of the things that Tolle says is the sooner you start your return, probably the…
…I better be more of a spiritual being. So Tolle talks about going out and coming back, and one of the things that Tolle says is the sooner you start your return, probably the better for you and those around you, especially if you have an expansive…
…was the big trip that did it. At least it started the process. So it's this starting of the return and for the planet, what Tolle says, and if I get round to it, I'll get a bunch of excerpts on this infernal new machine. What Tolle says is that…
…what Tolle says, and if I get round to it, I'll get a bunch of excerpts on this infernal new machine. What Tolle says is that egoic structures that are in human minds going to organizations, and organizations become fearful. They can become competitive.…
…know how to stop them, right? Because we inhabit the corporations. We drive them, we buy from a house. How do you stop them? So Tolle been thinking about this for a long time. Tolle had this experience of the big sad or the big doom, where he was a…
…the corporations. We drive them, we buy from a house. How do you stop them? So Tolle been thinking about this for a long time. Tolle had this experience of the big sad or the big doom, where he was a scholar at UCL in London, and he was miserable.…
…of North America. If you shake the earth, all of the loose objects end in the west coast, coast of North America. So Tolle moves to the west coast of North America maybe about 1015 years ago, and then gets so depressed that one night he's thinking…
…and then gets so depressed that one night he's thinking of taking his life. I'm probably paraphrasing this tremendously, but at one point Tolle says to himself, what am I doing to myself? What am I doing to myself? I'm so upset. You know, certainly I'm…
…gray, incomplete human battling his own ego, his greatest fear, and coming out as the white wizard. There's beautiful metaphors there. So Tolle, being a scholar and being a methodical german guy, decided to write notes and keep notes on what is going on…
…that you identify with the ego, you'll be driven into a state of panic. So there you have the full circle. You have Eckhart Tolle on his park bench experience thinking, why am I doing this to myself? Why am I killing myself? Coming to that split off…