Individuation & The Ancient Wisdom of the Psyche | Erick Godsey
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- Опубліковано 27 лют 2024
- Erick Godsey (@themythsthatmakeus ) returns to the mind meld!
In this one, Erick shares lessons and visions from his five day darkness retreat. We also muse about natural visionary experiences, the importance disconnecting from the outside world, the relationship between myth and psyche, NDEs, Carl Jung and much more.
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Who else wants an ongoing podcast with these two? Guys, you vibe with each other so well.
Heck yeah
Yes! What an amazing combo those two make
Yeah I'd listen for sure
For sure
Most definitely!❤
this explains a thing or two..
my narcissist mother abandoned me at birth. within 24 hours, I was locked in a lightless attic in an orphanage in belgium.
I had experienced 'light' the day I was born, but spent the next 3 and a half years in total darkness.
I can still 'see' with my eyes closed.
I can't imagine....I'm so glad you're here.
Whoa 😢
“Home is the absence of all resistance” - Yup that summarises my best trips where all desire is extinguished
I think this explains why the lights stopped. When we crave the experience for our enjoyment we block it. One must surrender and no resistance and no desire.. just flow. Desire is the guidance to obtain what we want to experience here, but mistical experience is not really in the menu, insted is like coming humbly to experience what is there for us to experience.
@@jasg7017 Thats sort of what I got, in that to desire something closes to you to all the other possibilities and you become fixated and isolated to it. When I let go of that, trips come to me and its like an entire world being ripped open to me… it was so profound
Erics honesty to the point of usual vulnerability is gripping.
Hands down one of the best thinkers & teachers of our time. Huge thanks for hosting him & unbelievable gratitude for his knowledge pouring.
His candour struck me too. Beautiful. It makes me sad that it's so rare to hear a person peak without a significant part of their attention being siphoned by image-consciousness
Eric is one of my favorites. The way he explains things is almost like hes painting and making art with words
💯 im in awe
“The people which sat in darkness saw great light.” -Matthew 4.16
These guys just get it. I can't express how grateful I am to have found this channel. I'm learning so much that I'm integrating on my own personal awakening journey.
Listening while camping in the woods in north GA
Aintry? You might wanna look up the Griner Brothers. They will drive your cars to Aintry after you put your canoes in the water. Watch out for the Mountain Man however. Just drop em
I like how Eric went from what seemed to be a real genuine, thankful guest to be on the podcast, to you get this feeling as if you’re lucky to be in his presence. Very easy to see.
I’ve seen this light before. It was wild. I was in pitch black and all the sudden this light came from behind me like a dimmly lit lamp and I could see in front of me and my hands. It was insane, I felt like I had a super power.
The light behind your eyelids is your friend. Treat it like a friend, chase it through your inner worm hole. Eventually it will chase you and come forth whenever you ask.
The wildest part is; once this happens you can stare, eyes open, into the Stars and your light will blink back to you in the sky…that is the most trippy and the feeling that no drug contains. ✌🏼 friends. This was a great discussion.🤙🏼😊
Wow, hats off to this guy willing to and wanting to go spend days in the darkness.
I totally feel the necessity of this for every human. This really is looking your true Self, Spirit in the ‘face’. Real courage is needed.
This is so spot on, guys. 30 years of unraveling myself. It's wonderful to experience this mirror. ❤
Don’t compare yourself to other channels! Just keep being amazing!
“Out there beyond ideas of right doing & wrong doing there is a mind-meld”…where you’ll find these two kings! So much gratitude for you both! Love y’all freal
Appreciate you my friend!
Fantastic conversation. Most people are afraid to introspect to this level but some of us can't help but gravitate to that attractor.
This was an amazing conversation. The path I am on is so similar. I meditate everyday,Floated over 30 times and have profound visions. I lucid dream almost every night,practicing astral projection and have always seen light in the darkness. Really want to explore the darkness retreat so bad. My friends think I am crazy when I ask them When you close your eyes do you see colors in fractals ??. But this past year has been extra special because I gave up cannabis thinking that maybe it was what was causing my brain to see things. Needless to say it has gotten more intense. The weed was suppressing the full potential of my mind. I get a better high off of breath work meditations. Can’t wait for the next episode ❤
LOVING IT!! I have been through 'many' similar initiations barring the dark room retreat! Since early 2020 when I started channeling my Higher Self I only ever see plumes of inteligent living Violet and Indigo light with my eyes closed now!!
✨️💜✨️
I never used to see anything but black darkness previous to 2020 and it still astonishes me now even 4 years later with eyes closed in dark rooms with bindfoulds on witnessing and interacting with these huge plumes of Violet light...
Prana/Chi/Qi???
PLEEEEASE say this wonderful guest will be invited back soon?!🙏
Much love and many blessings to all who read this! 🙏💖🙏
DMT during shadow work had positive impact on hero’s journey, we become the light when we dive deep for long
Have you ever worked with 5-MeO-DMT before? … it is bay far the more powerful & profound entheogen✨🙏🏼
At 44 minutes where Erick talks about fractal, geometric, twisting mandalas… I saw those at night when I was a child while playing with hypnagogia before I’d drop off to sleep. The mandalas would slowly spin, and if there were two that were touching, the edges would interact, and the colors would melt into each other like some kind of liquid or gas.
All the last episodes on Jung, the guests you bought on, everything has been so beautifully done and hosted.
This is one amazing thing about internet and the time we're living in
Thank you
He’s got the 1000 yard stare too lol.
I see flashing lights if I get up too fast it’s a purple red and white and it pulses with my heartbeat.
The midwife concept blew my mind! I accidentally stumbled on this and I wouldn’t usually ever watch a close to 3 hr You Tube video but the both of you free flow knowledge. I always have this saying that if I can just imprint any knowledge comprehensively to others (any knowledge even explaining work stuff anything) I would just have made easier connections and understanding. You both did this brilliantly.
Thank you my friend, glad you enjoyed it! 🙏
@@THIRDEYEDROPS truly happy to have “spent my Sunday with you both 🙏”
Just an FYI, if anything, you helped one soul today, one human being in a very tangible way. Due to my own ego and not wanting to venture into those “dark spaces “, the “voice that makes it easier for you “ always tells me not to currently speak to my brother due to a argument with him about over a month ago. Even if I am “right” and my hypothesis are true, the voice I didn’t want to listen to that says “connect with your brother, the laughter you both shared throughout this lifetime is worth more then bricks of Gold” That’s the voice I didn’t want to hear because I was “right”! After listening to the both of you I legitimately reached out and continued with that special connection again, that in all honesty if I didn’t see this today, I wouldn’t have. You both recharged these beliefs I’ve held sacred to me for years but went astray w them. And hearing this brought a lot of it back to me. This is REAL! You are REAL and so is Erick! Apologies for the long comment but I felt compelled to let you know that via your conversation a long standing relationship was re connected. I am excited to start listening to more of your content. Thank You, Thank You , Thank You 🙏
With Reverence
- DV
So grateful for these man. So many great points I picked up while listening.
We are clear windows turned to stained windows by our egos and life experiences. This colors our perception of the world outside.
Ignorance is unconscious wisdom - to eliminate ignorance by way of wisdom is to make the unconscious conscious. What is unconscious is our pure potential until we are made conscious of it by wisdom.
Beautifully articulated, mate
Dude I want to work with Erick so badly. Dharma artists dude! Yes!
True as Erick said in my experience about tensions. I still have loads of tensions even after years of inner body awareness practice. It's like there are hidden subconscious tensions that come up to the surface of conscious awareness with mindfulness practice that's focused on feeling the tensions in body and mind.
Initiates, once again, the cosmos beckons us to tickle the algorithm 👁🙏👁
Hahah ✨✨✨
I’m more of a chocolate realism but I rock w u
✨🫶✨
This algorithm tickler
Cha ching
I want to come back to this. I teared up several times just witnessing the vulnerability and resonating so completely with the messages and experiences being shared.
I’ve long been afraid of the dark, and this goes back to childhood and my fascination with the dark, suspenseful and macabre. I might have been exposed a bit too early and I had “experiences” seeing things that left some imprints. Needless to say, I have been drawn to and terrified of the dark.
But my experiences communing with visionary plants, shamanic breathwork, and the weeks and months following during the integration process allowed me to discover untapped potential to do my best work in the dark, in the void. I am naturally quite emotionally permeable and expressive. I have absolutely zero barriers to just collapsing into my heart space and inviting a cathartic release. I have been doing sacred grief work for 15 years following a deeply traumatic loss and later traumatic experiences that led to PTSD. But in between and after those events, I have developed an intimate relationship with my emotional register and have used music, specifically cinematic / epic orchestral and minimalist classical (listening to Dune: Part Two score as I type this - Jungian nerds may appreciate this) as a form of therapeutic release.
I’ve done some major excavating of repressed memories, what I liken to an “inciting incident,” that had a ripple effect, peeling back layers from micro moments in time to glimpse in vivid detail the imprints that would come to inform many behaviors or defense mechanisms in the years to come. When we get even more granular, the ancestral wounds, peering into the ancestral lineage / consciousness opens up a whole new dimension of consciousness and knowing.
When I share that some of the most impactful and profound experiences have been my encounters with the cosmic womb, the Void, pure consciousness, it doesn’t sound as “epic” or grand as my more peak ecstatic, mind-boggling and blissful states. No. Being absorbed into the cosmic womb felt like death. I was put right back into my PTSD trigger, having to die, while giving birth, to venture into the depths and through the threshold, to be reborn.
The mention of being a midwife to one’s own psychic discovery and journeying is incredibly on point. I studied to be a midwife and have worked in this space. The core of my wounds, the events that led me down this existential journey, deal with birth, death and rebirth. Navigating through grief and loss and everything in between that bubbles up and passes into the light and making its way to the conscious mind. The process of unraveling and Becoming and Being.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for this wonderful podcast. 🙏🖤✨
I get the starburst and that light from behind my head as well I've never heard anyone speak about this thank you 🙏🙏🙏
That intro rules.
Well done gents.
❤
Wow this is soooo cool! I have durring the last two years been having this major force towards this darkness, it all “ended” with me building a 3x1,5m steel box totally isolated from both sound and light, so isolated even internelly so it’s like I’m in my mind the moment I get in soundwise. And I’ve experienced exactly what beeing described! But more rapid. Have not heard anywhere about this before. But this is mind blowing to me to hear, I listen to the first hour, and than I had to get down to kind of settle all the energy and thoughts down, so I spent six hours in the box. It’s suck a powerful tool. And so mystical. For me it’s such a sacred place.
Dont suffocate in there lol
Haha, i've got some old fans pushing in fresh air for me. @@wabalubadubdubdub
Thank you both for sharing all of this, I feel so deeply touched to be a witness to part of your process and your conversation about it. Plus it completely blows my mind wide open. Really feeling the love ❤️
I loved when y’all said y’all weren’t doing it with a teacher that gave me a lot of clarity because just yesterday I was like dang I wish I had a spiritual teacher thank you for this episode
Thanks for sharing this conversation.
Reminds me of a quote in the Gospel of Thomas.
Jesus said, "Let him who seeks continue seeking until he finds. When he finds, he will
become troubled. When he becomes troubled, he will be astonished, and he will rule over
the All."
What you describe at 41:40ish is exactly what I experience as well. A purplish pulse in my minds eye that almost always gives way to some sort of image that I can't quite make out.
I never thought much of this as I thought it was just my actual eyes or retina or something pulsing for some unknown reason. I always lean into it being my third eye and try and let go but inevitably every single time as soon as I start to see some sort of image, it all falls apart as I tried to control it. I know I need to let it happen but its a muscle I need to keep working on I suppose.
I've only done shrooms once and did so in darkness while listening to Kirtan. In that experience I felt like I saw a better picture of what this is. It was like a kaleidescope of moving parts. The kirtan was perfect music to ride the waves of consciousness. It felt like I was going everywhere and no where at the same time.
Would be super curious if you break through this experience to something else.
Just discovered your podcast and can't get enough. Much love!
Im having goosebumps😭 still on total healing thank u thank u 😭
Thank you for sharing your wisdom.
When you both mentioned light and or darkness coming from behind the head I got an instant vision of the Giant Serpent spreading its hood above Siddartha to shield him from the weather. It was an instant truly vivid imagine in my mind that took more than a minute to dissipate. Great subject. Many cultures also tell of 3 days of darkness before resurrection which seemed to fit with Erick's comment about the 4th day having the brain chemistry fit.
Really good stuff- thanks very much.
Love it when y’all get together! Wonderful stuff. Thank you 🙏🏼
let’s gooo 💯
Peace Within All
Out of all the recent videos I've watched on this subject, this by far has been the most revealing and captivating interview to date. While slight divergences from the topic always seem to reveal new facets of the main subject I appreciate all the energy and effort that came together for this event. There are no coincidences this was definitely what I needed at this time.
Truly these two are shepherds to the flock of humanity.
Namaste
I'm seriously sitting here wondering how I am still wrestling resonating so completely with these two individuals. I agree with Eric on multiple levels play Peterson academy is doing it get through circular regenerative Unitarian.... Tired going to bed now. Thank you Mr Godsey and to you too @3rdEyEdRoPsssss
In meditation. In the dark, i have had light emerge from behind my head. A blue glow that starts to wrap around the front. Always thought that was the crown chakra. I would love to go to one of these retreats. Thank you for sharing the experience and for the conversation about it 💜
Godsey rules 👍
First episode I've seen and I love it! This is the type of content that should be amplified!
I like that analogy!
I built some kind of boat... bet the farm on it and barely made it out alive!!
It has been an adventure losing that sh*t to the ocean...but I have found out how to build my own houseboat!
That was deeply fascinating and illuminating. Gratitude and love. ✨🙏🏼💛
Congratulations on closing in on the big 50K Michael, any day now! 😁
I have self taught myself to go within and explore and when I did I found infinity. 0 to 1
Live in Harmony and Leave a Light Footprint. -KendRA
OMG. I had a vision once of a sea serpent under my ship as I am at the helm. It was a game changer vision for me. So the symbol of the storm-worn ship is the symbol of my life. I arrived at this during music therapy. Also shamanic practice ❤
You’re on the right path regarding darkness silence and minimal distraction. The ones who can harness it naturally did it in a previous life’s vision quest 😅
Let's build 'Regen City' together boys, I'm all in 🙏💙
What a talk !! Thank you 🙏
There is a claim that language came to be in dark caverns where we lived during the ice age. That was the only way to effectively communicate without seeing. Maybe that is why darkness and isolation is associated with spirituality and revelation in so many religions.
Very insightful, thank u very much for this!
One thing that repeatedley comes up for me when i engage with this "topic" is how we interact with music and how memory relates to emotion. My particular subjective expirience with this keeps me engaged on a path i can not really fathom on a rational level and yet it amazes me how magical life becomes.
I know few people who engage with the depths of their conciousness on this level and have few reference points for how delusional i am, there are stories i could tell about this that i just choose to keep to myself for reasons some of you might relate, sometimes i feel lonely but yesterday i had this blissfull expirience where i was on quite a bender with a person (lets call him X for now) that gave me my first catharcic expirience, the particular relationship could be explained here in a long tangent but i refrain from this for now. So what happened was that i talked with another good friend and she mentioned she was worried about X, it went back and forth a bit and we went quite deep with it and how trauma and stuff is a process to get through, so after i said i believe in X and her doubting it , just in this moment X walked into the room, i kinda laughed it off. Part 2 of this happened around 24 Hours later, after attending a concert and hitting the bar we went to one of the few bars open late sunday eve, it was an absurd evening and it didnt lack the kind of absurd thing that i expirience a lot. the scene got to the point where it felt like being in a david lynch movie sprinkled with some jungian synchronicities.
The thing that made me write out this comment was this almost poetical part: i went to the bathroom, where above the stall there was this david bowie quote that made me teary eyed "The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return", minutes later and a discussion about my ex girlfriend telling x that no one loves him, i told him i do and he did what he usually never does and just hugged me. Me retelling this does not do the expirience justice but the act of writing it down is what i feel like doing.
YESSS MORE ERICK you two are a great pairing
Appreciate the video. Thank you. Love you all.
With all the humility in this world, you two are on the right path with sincere objectives, but you definitely need guidance in your journey. The journey towards stream entry is beyond words and has escaped just about every student, master, lama etc. I began my search at the age of arox. 9 yrs of age. Have read every book on the subject, never cared for the limited views on the subject ,except for watts and jung and Jack Corfield- which is indespendible to this topic. By the way, Jung's insights are just about all based on his ability to go beyond "spiritual materialism, for example the term " collective consciousness" which he rendered from his understanding and translation of the verdict word, "alayavajnana". Another who failed to understand the Eastern teachings whom are relatively known are -Ron Hubert and 3 others, who's mention is not important. If my views seem egoistic please except my oppology for it's not my intention. Together our love gives rise to the god particle.
You are both warriors.
keep the drops dripping , I love knowing that people are out there with an open mind
Epic! Excited to dive in
Great content, thank you.
Awesome, please keep doing with Eric, you two guys vibe good together
Guaranteed 🤝
Nice little metaphor, not heard that one before
wow everything i needed to hear now
Superb channel. Have liked and downloaded to listen while driving. Thank you! 😊
Thank you🙏
Thank you, as always, thank you.
Very grateful for both of your works and this channel
Yes you got to keep doing!!!
52k subscribers to this guy is a sad testament to the idiocy of contemporary humans.
Because I deserve more or fewer?
@@THIRDEYEDROPS None. You are a charlatan trying to hustle the stupid. Another Andrew Tate, just with a different angle. What are your desires? Money? Pussy? Respect? A Bugatti? Or all of the above?
I'm new at meditation and the other day I was meditating and I had the same I could see in minds eye almost like a hole with a haze almost seemed to swirl and it contracted with my breathe almost like opening and closing back up inside was really no color coming out almost like I could see it but it was dim the next time I seen it was more pronounced and it had a purple color inside. I had no idea that was a thing. When I say new to meditation I mean like 3 weeks little bits at a time. I looked it up bc I was amazed I got anywhere like that. I was shocked that it is reported by many people. I was surprised. Now I try not to expect or hope for anything. It def has made me seek to meditate more and seek inside myself.
First 3 minutes and I already feel deeply connected with. No channel speaks the truth as often as this one
Great video
I love Eric! Keep these coming lol
Awesome video !
Love your introdutions!!! Thank you!!!❤😊
Powerful conversation as always, loved the parts I related to, the things that remain mysterious, and the honest relation of the darkness retreat
This is a great channel. Keep up the good work.
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Excellent. 🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀👏
Thank you
Great discussion! Keep going
"There's no out there, out there" J. A. Wheeler
I am both dark and light, they dance together. I Can relieve the tension between the opposites through surrender, non-preference. There is no projection of the ego this way, or as little as possible.
you two are adorable ❤❤
10:33 speaking on this. I'm confused as to whether to listen and do or not do and innerstand.
These not to do's or do's are life changing choices.
I am really thankful for you guys. I work nights and these make work really not work at all.
Wonder if you guys consider doing a podcast together? 24:25 for sure I can admit that 100%.
As you spoke at 1:33:00 and on I received a vision of abraxas…..
The chariot, the horses, the bird head with the snake legs, the whip, the shield, it all makes sense now.
A great discussion I was pleased to find in my feed. There's no need to speak of algorithms, it's all served from servers.
Yes I have spoken with my dragon. I'm not the kind if person who mimics others and mindlessly kills beautiful things. Any mythology exists to teach us of the power were missing and giving away in assumptions, expectations, needs and wants. I suppose one could slowly embody the whole power of the dragon spirit but it hasn't happened in this age of man. It does give you wings of your own to explore new freedoms you have yet to experience.
People forget, individuation is a process of self-care and self-discovery, not conquest and slaying fears. We put them to rest by laying them aside and picking out the needs and wants of our peculiar neurosis.
I'm as fat as Jung went, as dat as anyone goes, which is the limit of where the divine is prepared to lead you and the discoveries, the potential that can be reached from where we truly stand.
Sorry to ramble on but we're all at play on the nature of thought. Take your drugs, find your sport, don't let anyone tell you what or how much it means, that's a value you alone determine. There are no experts only amateur delusions about earning degrees of confidence.
People aren't their thoughts, nor the process of thinking, or the feelings aroused by these expressions. We are an interpretation of these transmissions, a chaotic mix of influences and impulses were all trying to organise.
Well done bro, very niccce!
This was really awesome to listen to. As a kid I’ve always had the tendency to lock myself in my parents closet in the pitch black under the clothes and folded blankets and close my eyes and observe my thoughts. I want to definitely try this out some day.
Did your parents ever find you?
Phenomenal
I don’t think I like and comment enough…. But I LOVE what you’re doing here. Been spending a lot of time here lately. Thank you!
Thank you my friend, appreciate you!
They have to go to all the places indeed, and interesting how many of those experiences take place unconsciously only to be made conscious at later time. I am interested in this as well as frightened.
Just subscribed…very informative .. thanks
Welcome 🙏
Thank you for attending unto our OWN. Where else can conversations can take place?
I love the ideas you bring out in each other when you riff. It’s Like you’re expanding the universe with the questions you ponder together . Also I have had the lights of the subconscious come on before and it was like a literal strobe light in my eyes and couldn’t sleep. It actually really scared me … guess I need to look into that fear deeper. Anyway this was a magical mind meld ❤️
Thank you my friend 🙏
I see these lights you all are talking about.
Mine is fluffy like a cloud light neon green.
They're actually very beautiful, the first time I seen them I was going through a difficult time in life and was sleeping a lot and started meditating.. they were so beautiful I just wanted to see more. At that time. I kept asking myself.. what is that I'm seeing 🤔... I knew of no one who had had this experience. Thanks for sharing.
I m new to your channel. I love your content in the show. Thank you 🌷💜
Welcome ✌️
This video semi-randomly crossed my feed and im so glad it did. This is my first introduction to you guys and I already feel like I've found a home. I have had deeply life changing mystical experiances, and when Erick said his dream is to assemble and group of dharma artist to heal the world, I heard the echo of my own wishes deep in my heart, though I've never told anyone about this. If theres a way to actually talk to you guys I'd love to make that happen somehow. I beleive I may have something to contribute to the jurney. Namaste 🙏 friends. (Erick, I'm heading to your channel aswell, now that I know it exist).