Duncan Trussell Family Hour - 461: Aubrey Marcus
Episode Date: September 9, 2021Aubrey Marcus, warrior and really wonderful person, re-joins the DTFH for an intense one! Check out Aubrey's podcast! Original music by Aaron Michael Goldberg. This episode is brought to you by:... BetterHelp - Visit betterhealth.com/duncan to find a great counselor and get 10% off of your first month of counseling! ZipRecruiter - Try for FREE at ZipRecruiter.com/Duncan Squarespace - Use offer code: DUNCAN to save 10% on your first site. ExpressVPN - Visit expressVPN.com/duncan and get an extra 3 months FREE when you buy a 1 year package.
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Today's guest who has just returned from a deep dive
into the ayahuasca realm in Costa Rica.
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with a really wonderful person who's got a great podcast,
Aubrey Marcus podcast.
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But now everybody, welcome back to the DTFH.
Aubrey Marcus.
Welcome, welcome on you.
That you are with us.
Shake hands.
No need to be blue.
Welcome to you.
It's the duckatrustle.
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Wait, you're at some kind of ayahuasca resort right now?
No, I left there.
So we did spend a week there.
Did a series of three journeys at a place called Soltara.
And then instead of coming straight home, because with home
comes everything that I left behind at home.
And so I decided to just hang out in Costa Rica for four days
with some of the crew and integrate and just take my time
before I dive back into the default mode world.
Oh, no.
Default mode world.
That's where I'm broed so deep in the DTFH.
I know.
I mean, I got so many roots in there deep.
Welcome back to the show, man.
Thank you so much for doing it.
Thank you, brother.
Yeah, it's great to have this conversation with you.
It has all conversations with you.
Oh, God, I love any time I get a chance to see you.
It was so cool seeing you back in Austin.
And I know what you mean.
Austin's a heavy place to live, man.
That's a really busy, intense vibe out there.
I'm not saying it's bad, but having been up here
in the mountains a little bit and brushing shoulders
again with like a city and that vibe and everything,
it was a little more intense than I expected.
It's a great place to birth things.
There's so much energy there right now.
It's like just this nexus and you can dive in
and then harness some of it and start surfing.
But it's, yeah, it's intense.
It's a lot.
Yeah, I think as long as you do what you're doing
or I think it's like either you,
if you're living in a place like that,
you got to make time to head off to wherever you go to
to get out of the default mode world.
Or if you're living in a place like Asheville,
you need to dive into that.
Those energy vortices just to, you know,
get reinvigorated.
But I'm really interested in what you just did, Aubrey.
And I know we've talked about this before,
but I've got new questions for you.
But maybe we could just talk about this,
the ayahuasca retreat center itself first,
kind of get the setting of the story of what you just went through.
Well, you know, to tell this story,
we have to kind of go back to the very beginning
because I brought back my very first shaman,
Maestro Orlando Chuhendama of the Quechua tradition
who's known as El Dragón de la Selva, the dragon of the jungle.
And my very first journey was going down to Puerto Maldonado
and they had another crew that brought in a series of shamans.
And the shamans introduced themselves.
And then, of course, the dragon introduced himself.
And I've been obsessed with dragons since I was three years old,
like a little thread guiding me like that movie,
Signed Some M Night Shyamalan Shit,
where I was like, one day you're going to meet the dragon
and he's going to change your fucking life.
And so you're going to be obsessed with dragons.
So I chose him as my shaman and I worked with him six times.
And then, you know, my life took me to other shamans
and other places in Peru.
And I felt this deep calling to go back and work with him again.
And so I'm connected with the crew at Sultara,
which is a beautiful retreat center.
Typically, they only work with Shepibo healers.
So there's a couple different traditions that serve ayahuasca from Peru.
There's the Shepibo, which is probably the most famous.
They have probably the most famous art that comes out of it,
all the patterns.
And then there's the mestizo tradition,
which is mestizo meaning mixed.
It's kind of a hybrid of a variety of different cultures
that has their own tradition that's evolved over thousands of years.
And then there's the Quechua tradition,
which is where a lot of the language comes from.
So if you hear words like Otorongo, that's Jaguar and Quechua.
So it's become like a deep part of kind of the ayahuasca lore as well.
And so he's from the Quechua lineage.
Grandmother, grandfather passed down to him.
And because Peru is difficult to navigate in right now,
I flew him out to Costa Rica.
Sotara was kind enough to offer their facilitation, their facilitators.
And he offered a ceremony for just me and my closest friends and family
out in Costa Rica.
What? That is, let me tell you, man, that is like, that's beyond elite.
When you're like, I don't even know what the word is for that.
Cause you know, some people, some people they will like, I don't know,
maybe like fly in some like famous comedian to perform for their family.
Like, cause I know comedians, you've done that.
And they're like, it's, it's awesome, a little strange, but it's cool.
But you're flying your shaman into Costa Rica to heal you and your friends.
That's pretty badass, Aubrey.
And that is really intense.
So, so, okay.
So how did you, when you want to do something like that,
and I'm sorry if we get lost in the details here,
how do you set something like that up?
Do you email him or how do you reach out to him to inquire about whether or not
he'll take a trip like that?
It was interesting how it came about because I've been working with
ayahuasca quite a bit this year.
And so I've already done it six times with some different healers.
And it's been, it's been great.
I worked with the Shepibo healers at Sultara in January.
And then I worked with some Brazilian and French healers in,
I don't know, a couple months ago.
And, but I was just called to work with Maestro Orlando again.
I just knew that that was going to be the threshold breakthrough.
That was the experience that I was really drawn to.
Yeah.
And I'd lost contact with him.
But then somebody hit me up on Instagram because I told the story of my experience
with the, with the dragon on JRE 127, like way back in the day.
And so a lot of people who follow me had actually gone to work with him
and kept in touch with him a little better than I did.
And they reached out and they said, hey, Maestro Orlando is really having a hard time.
All the lockdowns, all the restrictions on travel has really hurt his business
and he's struggling.
And I was like, oh, wow, like I'm just so happy to be back in touch with him.
I mean, I'm happy to support him.
I sent him a little money to keep him afloat like, you know, a couple months ago.
And then right then I was like, now that I'm in touch,
let me organize something that, you know, we can all work together again.
So it really came, you know, a decade later, he came back into my life in that way.
And that's what allowed me to get in touch with him.
But yeah, he's got an email and he actually has a Facebook too.
No Instagram, but he's got a, he's got an old school Facebook.
Dragons are on Facebook now, Duncan.
Real dragons on Facebook.
Yeah, that is such an astounding aspect of the modern age is my meditation teacher,
he's always telling me about these like Tibetan teachers that formerly you would have to,
like you wouldn't even be able to get there.
You wouldn't be able to get to Tibet.
It was almost impossible.
But you know, now they're like broadcasting from places that were used to be completely inaccessible.
So that's pretty wild and beautiful.
So you, your shaman comes to Costa Rica and then you, when you do something like this,
do you, I'm just trying to imagine like, what's the sort of lead up to it?
Do you gather everyone together?
Is there a shared intent?
Does the shaman convey something to you prior to the ritual or to the, to drinking this stuff?
Or is there a sense the shaman has of what is supposed to transpire?
Like how does, what's the gateway into the experience, into the ritual itself?
Well, everybody gets on a dieta it's called, which is like a restrictive diet to prepare you for,
and you know, create the cleanest vessel possible for Iowa to get in and do the work.
So cutting out things like salt and sugar and extra spice and pork and different things that are restricted on these diets.
And you start to spiritually, mentally, physically prepare about two weeks in advance.
And then we arrive and, you know, he offers what, you know, he tells everybody what he's going to do,
which is basically hold two intentions.
One is the collective intention for the group coherence resonance in this collective healing
and also the protection of the group.
And then individually as well, and he'll work with each person individually for our own challenges,
which our challenges are always universal, but they're also specific.
So he's holding two intentions.
One is one to one, you know, the shaman with you.
And then the other is for the collective space itself.
And, you know, ultimately he's just in a place of receiving and trust.
Like his, his maestro is ayahuasca.
Ayahuasca tells him what songs to sing, tells him what mechanisms to use,
whether he's going to use cinnamon or whether he's going to use tobacco for his specific healings,
what's called soplados, which is where he does like a one to one healing, just him and you.
And how much ayahuasca he's going to give you, you know, whatever,
all of these things just come through him in the moment.
So he doesn't burden himself with a lot of forethought about it.
He's just done this for over 30 years.
He actually started drinking when he was 11.
He's 55 years old now.
So he'd been drinking ayahuasca for 44 years, serving ayahuasca for 30 years,
and he just knows now to just trust, you know, trust what the medicine is telling him,
trust what is going to facilitate the most impactful healing
and, you know, really drive people towards their true purpose.
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How does he react when people, and I don't mean it in the net.
They don't trust him in the sense like I don't trust you as a person.
How does he react when someone is having some initial fear or nervousness
or this is someone's first time?
They've never met him before.
What is his method for telling if people are ready for it
and if they are ready for easing them into the experience?
Or does he?
He's a real dragon Duncan.
He's a real life dragon.
This is something like it's so hard to convey.
It just sounds like a story, but his energy is really like you're sitting with a great dragon.
He just has so much power, but with that immense power is this type of gentleness
and this quiet confidence and an easy laugh.
I've always said you can tell a spiritual master by the sound of their laughter
and he'll just be there laughing and just holding this quiet confidence
that there is no doubt in his mind that you are going to heal
and that by the mere fact that you showed up, you're ready.
You wouldn't have showed up if you weren't ready.
The resistance would have pulled you out of this.
I suppose in an extreme case where he saw something that was really aberrant,
he would take action, but obviously the group I curated, I'm watching for that too.
I know everybody really well and they were ready.
It's interesting because he holds that dragon energy
where he's not going to coddle you, but he's just going to be there like,
we're here, we're here to heal and you can handle it and I can certainly handle it.
This is what I'm born for and he just kind of presides like this mystical being,
just emanating this love and healing and just immense power
and you get the sense that even when he's officiating ceremony,
you're only seeing a fraction of what he's capable of.
He's giving it his full intention, but nonetheless there's just levels and levels and levels.
If things got really awry, then the dragon would be called to even more and more higher levels of power.
Do you ever get into conversations with him about the shared vision
that so many people have with DMT where they do see reptile creatures?
They do see these advanced beings that do show up as a kind of dragon-like character.
Do you all ever talk about what those things are?
Yeah, he believes they're real.
He knows them, these are like his friends.
He's dealing with these beings all the time and I actually talked to him about all of his
because he has his own visions because he takes the ayahuasca, he sings the ikaros,
he presides over ceremony and watches all of the entities that come in.
I'll tell you some of the stories of what he saw and what his interpretation was.
Right out first ceremony, he saw Buddha enter through the door.
He's worked with Buddha a little bit, but there's a couple Buddhists in our group
who were actually wearing Buddha necklaces and kind of calling in Buddha.
So he saw Buddha, but then he saw two figures and these figures were masked.
They had like hoods over their head, kind of like bank robbers.
And they were obscuring people's vision of the Buddha,
which was basically like the Buddha representing the clear sight, like the true sight.
And then there was these forces that were obscuring us from seeing the true sight,
like really seeing ourselves with clarity, seeing that equanimous mind
and being that equanimous mind is obscuring the vision.
So he has a process. He asks these beings, these entities, he says,
hey, what are you doing? Like, what are you doing here?
And they didn't answer him. And so he has he has a recourse for any being
that doesn't answer him. He blows in a very specific way.
He goes like that and he blows with his energy and intention.
He just blows the beings out of the Maloka, just blows them right out of there.
And so what was left was just the Buddha.
And for all of us in that first, it was this kind of introduction to this clarity
that was going to be mounting and growing.
And so that was one of the visions he saw in the first ceremony.
In the second ceremony, there was these women that were dancing
in the middle of the in the middle of the Maloka.
And they were dancing around and just kind of there.
And he once again, he asked them, hey, you know, what are you what are you guys doing here?
Because he wants to see their intention, you know, and he gives them a chance
to see if they'll engage with them. And they didn't respond.
So once again, the dragon blows them out of Maloka.
And then in ceremony three, there was actually a little gnome that walked through
and the gnome had a little green hat.
And it was a male gnome with a green hat.
And then it was joined by a female gnome with blonde hair, also a green hat.
And they came in and they were really excited about him singing
because he was singing these incredible ikaros, the songs of the plants.
And they were like more and more and more like keep singing.
They were really excited about him singing.
And so he just did. He just kept singing.
You could see their intention.
And then more gnomes came in.
There was like another, you know, a few dozen gnomes that just flooded in the Maloka.
So he finishes all of his singing and then he gently blows
and the gnomes get the message that it's time for them to go.
So they just kind of turn around and just waddle their way right out of the Maloka.
But he didn't need to blow them out of the Maloka.
I was like, these are some kind of, you know, fairly nice, middling beings
that still didn't belong in the Maloka, but it was fine for them to come and watch for a little bit.
Okay, can we spend a moment, just hang out with the gnomes here for a second,
because having seen a gnome on mushrooms myself
and being astounded at the reality that gnomes do look the way people have drawn gnomes.
You know what I mean?
To me, that was the most shocking and off-putting part somehow,
was it's like, oh, they actually do dress like that.
Like they do like to wear hats like that.
And they are some kind of beings that can see us more than we can see them
and have been around for quite some time.
I just want people to know that I too have witnessed the gnomes
or one gnome, not an entire family.
And I think it would be something of an honor if they were coming to hang out with you,
because at least, I mean, I can't base all gnomes on the one gnome I saw in a heavy dose of mushrooms.
What's the gnome variance?
What's the personality spectrum of gnomes? Who knows?
The one I saw was quite grumpy and didn't really seem that pleased.
It knew I could see it.
It didn't really seem like, it just seemed mildly annoyed or something,
which also was like bothering the shit out of me, because I'm like, holy fuck.
A gnome.
And it's like, oh, great.
Anyway, the point is, I think that it's really, that's one of the breathtaking qualities
of entering into the astral realm or whatever this realm may be,
or opening your eyes enough to see the sort of the cosmic reality
that there being so much more life around us that we can't see.
And that's something that always, I get caught on that anytime I'm lucky enough to bear witness to that.
So that's pretty cool.
And his take is that these are real beings.
The reason why we have all of these depictions of gnomes that look very similar,
or depictions of dragons that look quite similar,
is because these are beings that exist in the astral, real beings,
real energies that take shape in a visible form.
Obviously, we're all energetic to a certain extent,
but they appear in a certain visible form and they exist.
And that's why we have so many similarities amongst these different types of creatures.
And so they appear and they're alive to a certain extent.
They don't have flesh, but they have energy.
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just sort of stupefied or something?
Is that the condition that we're existing in?
We've been numbed down to the point where you have to say that.
I mean, I know these things are as real as we are.
This is something that my teacher tells me all the time.
They're as real as you, which might not be that real,
but still as real as we are.
Because we're compacted into matter, we have this kind of weird snobbishness or something.
Because we have this density, even if we are mildly aware of those beings
or you see one out of the corner of your eye,
you're lucky enough to be sitting in the woods and you look off into the woods
and you see one of the things or whatever.
So many people have seen it.
A lot of times when people see that, they're like,
well, that's my imagination. It's running amok today.
And then they just forget about it.
But do the shamans see us as kind of spiritually illiterate or something?
Brutish and just lost in a real dense layer of reality?
I think they look at us like a multi-dimensional radio
that is just only able to tune to a specific channel normally.
And when you take the medicines or you sit with someone who's tuned to other channels,
you can open up different channels to different dimensions
and access information from those dimensions.
So that's really what you're doing.
And the more you open up those channels through medicine use
or being around people who have those channels open,
because that's one of the things about being a human is we're in this shared reality.
We pretend that it's all about us. It's just us.
But we're always in a shared field.
And so when we're in the shared field or in a shared medicine field,
we open up a whole spectrum of channels.
And those channels go all the way to the first or ninth dimension
depending on your cosmology, where the divine is, pure unicity.
Either the ninth, which is void, or the first, which is the energy,
the word, the creation of the divine, all unicity.
So it goes from there to all of the different layers.
We're hanging out somewhere in the third.
But then there's all of these other dimensional realities
that you can start to tune to and open up to.
And I think it's not so much that it's a judgment
that we don't have those channels open.
We just haven't taken the time and care to open the channels.
And we also have stories. We have the wrong stories.
We're not told that we're a multi-dimensional being.
And it's possible for us to open to that.
And without that belief, half of our bridge is closed.
We have to clear at least the first half of our bridge
so that we're open to these different things.
And sometimes that does mean imagination.
Your imagination can be part of the bridge,
but something from the other side also has to meet you on that bridge.
And that's really what happens in these ceremonies.
That's what Ram Dass used to say, is that imagination is the gate.
That is it. That's the way you...
He would say, I love... My imagination is real.
This is a tool.
And again, I think another sign of the times
is that the imagination is like...
It really does get kind of...
If you talk about your imagination too much,
it's like, okay, baby, what are you going to do?
You want a coloring book.
You know what I mean?
You want to do finger paints while you do your imagination.
It's like, that's the world that we're in,
where the imagination is this insanely fast simulator
where instantaneously, using your will,
you can picture just about anything.
It might be a foggy, muddy version of it, but you can picture it.
So what you're saying is this is one of the...
This thing that you're calling the bridge,
which I'd love to hear more about,
this is like something that you use to cross this bridge
into whatever this realm is.
Is that what you're saying?
A lot of times, for me in particular,
there'll be kind of a fuzzy sense of things
that will be available almost like it's there,
but it's not quite there.
And if I use my imagination to start to...
What does it look like and start to build it in my mind?
I'll start using these kind of Legos of imagination
or something, and then all of a sudden,
that thing will really come through
and catch what they call the bridge, the Chakaruna.
So the Chakaruna is the bridge to another form of consciousness.
And I think imagination can be a huge part of that,
the openness, the belief, and then of course,
the medicines and everything else that I mentioned.
But yeah, absolutely.
And when I'm in the deep, deep quantum,
and I've experienced what I believe it feels like
to be disembodied and to be just in the soul of the etheric body,
everything that you want to appear
appears because you think of it.
You think of it and it comes to you.
It's not like you navigate through movement.
It's you're there in the quantum of all possibility.
And if you want to speak to someone,
you just think of them and then they appear to you.
And this is how it works.
Sorry to cut you off, continue.
No problem.
The Bardo state in Tibetan Buddhism,
you have just described it.
This is how it's been described to me.
And so this is a disaster for many people who have died
because they have, and especially who haven't had any kind of practice,
taken medicine, who have been fully subscribed completely
to the idea that, oh yeah, you're just your body.
And then once that is eliminated,
that's some kind of void, infinite void or something like that.
So what happens is your body's gone,
but you're still there.
And you are that imaginative process somehow
and anything that you're thinking is going to appear around you.
It's described as this kind of like funhouse of mirrors
and that if you're terrified when you die
or if you're not prepared for that,
then all your fear starts appearing around you
and it's a really rotten thing that can happen to you
if you haven't done any kind of training.
But it's exactly what you're describing,
which leads me to believe, oh, this is like the bridge.
This medicine is a connective point to the Bardo
in between life and death.
Does that resonate for you? Does that make sense?
Totally. I mean, I think Bardo implies that it's a place where you're stuck.
In between.
It means in between.
Yeah.
And it definitely was this liminal space when I've accessed it.
It is the in between.
Because the other side of the in between,
to be in between you have to be in between something
and I could feel when I'm in this space,
there's a calling for what I would call the second death.
And the second death is obliteration into the divine.
And that feels like a choice.
That feels like a choice.
And it's like, you know, when you say go to the light,
you know, and all these ideas about go to the light.
Well, I believe in my own belief from my own experiences
on all these medicines for 22 years,
that that choice to go to the light is the obliteration of self,
the reincarnating conscious being that's learning
through all of these different incarnations
and exploring reality in all of these different ways.
It goes back into the divine,
split up into ready for infinite articulation
into another million different forms and beings
and energies, etc.
Certainly I had no interest in doing that
when I was in the bardo,
when I was in that liminal space,
because it was beautiful.
I mean, I could call anything to me.
I could call people I loved.
I could call places to me.
I could experience these magical,
magical things that were just there.
They were there and I was able to access them
and I was free of all of my fears and limitations
and all of the petty human things
that kind of keep us locked in this carnal prison
that we're in.
And not to say that being incarnated
is not also incredibly beautiful.
We drink coffee, we make love, we hug people,
we listen to the music in the way that we want,
but so much of that is accessible.
It's just a different way to navigate.
But I also see that from that place
I could see where I was like,
all right, well, I want to fucking ejaculate.
I want to do that.
Let me find a planet where they still have genitals
and we can get it on.
I'm into it.
I really think that might be my requirement
for incarnation.
I'm like, do they have genitals where I'm going?
Because that's where I want to go.
Well, you know what's so funny?
Again, this is another...
I'm sorry for any of my friends out there
are more academic when it comes to this stuff,
but yeah, that is the description
of what brings you back here is actually your horny.
I mean, it's...
And I remember when I heard that the first...
Because the story before I heard the first early phase
Buddhism, I thought you encounter all these scary things
that are projections and they chase you.
They're scary and you run, run, run, run, run,
and then you jump into your parents
and that's the Tibetan story of how we reincarnate.
But no, no, no, that isn't it at all.
The story...
And again, I am prepared to be told,
that's not it, you idiot.
Where'd you get that from?
But it's just funny because you are mentioning
that the story that I've heard is, in fact,
what happens is there is some fear
depending on your karma a lot of times
because you don't have a body anymore
and you've had this body and suddenly you don't.
So that's a really scary thing for people
who aren't familiar with the possibility
that you can exist minus a body.
And so, but then in this strange journey
in the Bardo state before your next incarnation,
one of the visions you see is a bunch of people fucking
and you're attracted to...
It's what's so weird is, it reminds me of like,
Pornhub, you know, where you're looking at the squares
with people fucking in them?
It's like that, but the people you're seeing fucking,
you're drawn to one of them sexually
and those are your parents.
So that's basically how you get born
as you get turned on by watching your parents fuck
so much that you incarnate in your mother's womb
and are...
So you're not that far off, man,
and you have identified that.
And it makes sense because the sexual impulse
is what keeps humanity on planet Earth.
If we all universally decided to stop fucking,
we would go extinct.
It's, you know, it's the procreative impulse
is the impulse that keeps things locked into matter
or keeps us locked into matter.
And also, there's a fundamental impulse that we all have
and that impulse is to merge with God, right?
Like, we crave emerging with God.
If you're in the Bardo, if you're in the liminal space,
to merge with God is only...
You can only do it one way.
From my own understanding,
you can only do it one way and it's permanent.
It's obliteration.
So that's the only way you get to be God
when you're in this astral realm.
It's the only way. It's the real way.
It's for reals. It's never coming back way.
But if you get to incarnate as a human,
there's a variety of ways that you can merge with God,
one of which is sex.
In that moment of deep, rapturous, orgasmic sex
where your breath and your body is merging with another being
and you reach that climax state,
there is nothing else but the single sound
of merge, of union with God.
It's that orgasmic moment where there's nothing else.
The mind collapses, the body collapses, time, space,
everything collapses and you're one.
And this is the power that sex holds.
This is also why we're drawn to it.
And there's other ways too.
I mean, as a human being, you can smoke five MEO DMT
and merge with God for an hour.
And do it just for a little bit
rather than having to do it permanently for reals.
And so I think there's some immense advantages
to being a human.
We get to actually taste the entirety
of dimensional reality while being in this body.
So I think, yeah, as that
discarnate entity, we crave it.
We crave access to this.
And also the lessons and the growth
and all of the things we're here to do.
But we want to merge back with source
and we can do that here.
That is a really beautiful thing.
And I think a lot of people, they feel guilty
when they get all horny.
And it's like, you know what I mean?
They feel like weird or like, I'm sorry,
I just want to fuck.
But also what you're really wanting
is to commune with the divine intelligence.
But your primordial experience
of reality has taught you that's fucking,
because it's the way in.
And again, in the same way you might be in the forest
or wherever and see one of these hyperdimensional beings
that for whatever reason you tuned into,
you forget about it.
And I think a lot of people, when they have sex
and they're describing and do experience
that moment that you're describing,
they don't remember it.
They remember all the lead up to it,
but they forget that part.
And so they keep going back
because that's what they're looking for.
You know?
Or maybe they do experience it,
but they haven't made the connection that that's God yet.
That's why I love them.
They don't have the language
and they don't have the framework to understand it.
And also, look, I really believe
that much of what organized capital our religion has done
is try to restrict us
from our own access points to the divine.
Because they've built their empire as being the middleman.
They're the middleman between us and the divine.
And so what have so many of them done?
Well, they've made sex a sin,
because sex is one way that you can access the divine
right on your own, the true divine, the divine beyond judgment.
And they've put this interstitial superposition
into a judgmental deity that's going to judge you
and you tried to use that
to actually block our ability to access
the true states of unity consciousness.
And I think this is one of the things
that we're still dealing with,
not only as it regards to sex,
but just judgment in general.
Because you really access God.
God doesn't judge you at all.
You know?
You don't have to ask for forgiveness.
You're already forgiven.
Try to be unforgiven.
Try to get real true God to be mad at you.
It's insane because you're God too.
You know?
I can't be mad at my children.
You know, I'm making you mad,
but it's instantaneous forgiveness.
I have had my, just yesterday,
by two and a half year old and an eight month old,
both of them at different times in the day,
yanked the shit out of my beard, man.
Just like, vicious, vicious.
You know how much that hurts.
It fucking hurts, man.
When I was in Austin, I saw you.
I was like, hey, Aubrey, and yanked your beard.
You'd be like, fuck you, man.
What happened to you?
We would probably be doing this podcast.
But I think the relationship of God
to the creation is that.
And there's so much pride and ego
and imagining that you could really upset the source.
You know what I mean?
There's a lot.
It's sad that you're feeling guilty,
but it's also, come on, really?
You think you're going to offend that thing
from which all things come?
You're going to be the thing where it's like, God damn.
Look at Aubrey.
Really?
Fuck you.
It's amazing if you're praying for forgiveness
and just heard it disembodied.
No, fuck you.
But yeah, I know what you mean.
But, pre-forgiven, I love it.
And yeah, I love that.
That is the whenever I am taking psychedelics
and the kind of healing thing is happening.
It's always the message is like, come on.
Not even come on.
I love you.
I love you.
You're okay.
I love you.
But it generally wrapped up in that is some kind of like,
you should be enjoying this.
Like, this is for you.
This is for you to enjoy and express love within,
not to be all but dragled and terrified all the time.
But then I forget it.
Well, and people project all of these ideas.
I mean, we have a brutal self-judge.
I mean, the devil as the judge is inside all of us.
I mean, this is an entity that's within us
and we'll project it on our deities.
We'll project it on God, we'll project it on,
even on ayahuasca.
You know, so many people will fall off the diet.
They'll have some salt or they'll have some sugar in them.
They'll be like, ayahuasca is going to punish me.
I'm like, what do you mean ayahuasca is going to punish you?
Ayahuasca loves you.
Ayahuasca is the spirit of the earth herself
and you were made up of the earth,
built atom by atom by her plants and her water
and her animals and her air.
You think she's going to punish you
because you had some salt?
No, I mean, have respect and follow the traditions
and allow a clean vessel,
but there's no punishment there.
There's no anger.
You know, all of these things, these are human things.
These are human tendencies,
as we're kind of wrapped in polarity.
But there's no need to project them on our deities
because they're just not there.
Like ayahuasca will, it is a hellish, brutal,
immensely challenging experience
that will bring you to the blistering edge
of what you're capable of.
But behind that all is love.
Like I love you so fucking much
that I'm going to heal you at all costs.
Like that's what ayahuasca says.
And it doesn't mean that ayahuasca is for everybody
and I want to make that clear.
This is not a panacea.
If you've had psychological issues,
if you're not called to it,
it doesn't have to be for everybody.
But if you're ready and you're called to it,
she loves you and she's going to heal you
no matter what.
Because she loves the you that's emerging.
You know, not the you that is.
Whoa, God.
You know, that seems to be the key to,
because like I, you know,
I struggle all the time with judging myself
and judging other people.
And I try to practice mindfulness
so that when I'm looking around
and the instantaneous judgment happens.
And I always think, God, you know,
what a tremendous limitation
to your experience of reality
to always be like judging everything
as a matter of habit or something.
You know, it's like, it's really sad
and it's really like turns the dimmer switch
on the universe, you know.
And, but anytime I remember that thing
you just said, which you're reminding me,
I'll always forget it.
You're seeing a process here.
This person, that person, even your judgment itself
or your habitual judgment,
this is an evolving process.
Right now, that's where you're at.
And right now, that's where they're at,
whatever it may be, whatever like,
you know, free sneezers.
Let's take free sneezers, for example.
You know what I mean?
You're walking down the street
and somebody fucking blasts a goddamn loud dynamite level
sneeze during a pandemic.
I just like, you want to,
that's why we made stocks.
That's why you put people in those stocks
and you put them in the town square.
Free-
Give them the feathers.
Yeah, yeah.
But, but that's a,
we're all in a process right now
and that's such an important thing to remember.
And again, it's so interesting.
Why, why do you think built into this?
I don't know if it's built in,
but why do you, why is there this quality
of profound forgetfulness
when it comes to being a human being?
Why do we forget all of these things?
This is the thing that I think
we love to think of ourselves like a machine.
You know, like you program some information
to a machine or you type it into your Google Doc.
It's there.
It's permanent.
You can access it forever,
but we're not.
We're a living organism
that's taking on all kinds of different energies.
I mean, I don't know how many times people ask me like,
you're going to do ayahuasca again.
Aren't you healed already?
I'm like, what do you mean healed already?
Like that's a destination.
And like I'm not going back into the same world
that made me sick in the first place.
My own same ideas,
my stresses,
my judgments,
my perceived inadequacies
and my own insecurities
and all of these things.
I take those,
I take those onto certain degrees.
The process of healing,
the process of remembering is ongoing
because we're constantly rewritable.
If you want to use the computer analogy,
we're a rewritable drive
that's constantly getting different programs
programmed in
and different codes downloaded in.
And so it's a constant,
evolving process
because the world is not set up
in a way that's designed to remind us.
I mean, there's so many forces out there
that want us to forget
and then want to provide a solution
that you pay for
or insurance pays for
that can actually make you well
but it doesn't actually make you well.
It just keeps you in this perpetual state
of maybe a little bit better
reaching for something
that's a little bit more comfortable
than the current state you're in.
But the process is just
an never ending ongoing process.
And you can look at that like,
I can't handle it,
I want it to be done
or just say, no,
this is part of being alive.
Like you just,
chop wood,
draw water,
you just continue,
continue to clean,
continue to heal,
open yourself more and more to love
and really learn to love life
to the greatest degree possible
while we're here.
Do you think you'll ever
go into that light
that you're talking about?
Do you think you'll ever just like,
really do the thing?
Well, I can do it temporarily, right?
Like, and that's the beautiful part.
Like as my ayahuasca journeys have evolved,
I mean, it's so fucking hard, Duncan.
Like it's so hard.
Like I can't describe to you,
I've done a lot of difficult things,
long sweat lodges,
sweat lodges,
climbed freezing mountains with Wim Hof
without it my shirt on
and sleets hitting me
and dealt with the immense stress
of birthing this company.
And, you know,
I was in an open relationship
and had everybody,
all my girlfriends,
hate me for years straight.
I mean, I've done some difficult things,
but nothing, nothing is as difficult
for me as these ayahuasca journeys
for the most part.
It is the most profoundly challenging thing.
And in that challenge,
there's this adaptation that comes about.
And I had some beautiful adaptations
from these challenges
and these beautiful liberations.
I mean, I was carrying,
before this,
I was carrying a heaviness
that I just couldn't shake.
I just couldn't shake it
with my other medicine work.
I could burst out of it
and I would feel free
and like, well, okay,
I'm free for a moment.
And then it would all
just collapse back in on me.
And I think that's why
I was called back to the dragon
because it could put me into a place
where it was just a new plateau
with stable footing.
And I'm not,
I don't have so much overconfidence
to say that I'll never slip back
into the muck
or the storms may not come again,
but I feel like I have stable ground
under my feet again.
And that's what I want to continue
to build from.
But the idea that I'm going to burst
into a place where there's a new plateau
and I won't slip down from that,
at least not slip very much,
I think it's possible.
And I only say it's possible because
one of my mentors and teachers,
Don Miguel Ruiz,
like he got there.
I saw it.
I witnessed it.
And I wish I would have been able
to experience Ram Dass
because I'm pretty damn sure
that he got there too.
And so if anybody can get there,
it's possible.
You know, it's fucking possible.
But I think it's just by creating
new plateaus,
new plateaus that are stable footing,
stable ground,
and then just continuing to build
to a greater state.
And that's kind of the goal.
But I don't know what plateau I'll end on.
And I don't know where the line
of demarcation,
where you call it enlightenment,
above this line.
I mean, I don't know.
But I know that there's new plateaus
that are available.
And I just reached one.
And it's definitely not anywhere
close to enlightenment,
but it's better than I'd...
damn better than it was.
Well, that's one of the things
Chogium Trump has said
that can seem quite...
well, it's literally about confusion,
which is...
And confusion is on the continuum
of enlightenment.
Confusion is a quality of enlightenment
because, you know,
meaning no escape from enlightenment,
meaning there isn't a...
the moment that you are aware
of your confusion,
the question is,
well, what part of you is aware?
What's the aware part?
What's the part that's holding
the confusion?
And then suddenly you realize,
oh, right.
Just like what you're saying
regarding the spectrum of
sentience that we currently
seem to be on the denser side
of things in the same way that we...
I like to imagine that there are
qualities or aspects of every
individual that become
not just denser, but increasingly
illuminated and lightened
and no longer embodied,
but still in existence
to the point where this thing
that we're experiencing
is more like a root structure
or something that's penetrating
into matter and that,
you know, that...
that's a wonderful thing
because there's a sense of,
like, in the same way,
like your stories of ayahuasca,
they feed me.
They feed these stories.
They, like, make their way
into this dimension,
and they feed people.
Ram Dass's stories of,
you know, taking mushrooms
and having his, like,
psychedelic enlightenment
or any McKenna's stories of DMT.
They're literally transmissions
from this other realm
that come into this place,
but I like to imagine that, similarly,
it goes in the other direction, too,
that our human stories,
our stories of limitation
and suffering and all that,
it must go both ways, right?
Like, there must be
a desire on the other side, as well.
And, again, these are
constructed bifurcations.
You know, I know there isn't any real
line, necessarily,
other than the ones we're creating,
but you know what I mean?
Don't you think it goes both ways?
Totally.
I mean, this is,
but I think you're pointing to
the actual crux of it,
which is we create all of these
separations, body and spirit,
as if the body isn't the spirit
in a certain type of density, right?
As if you can't use the body
as a way to access the spirit.
I mean, in the peak of difficulty,
you know, where I could not
possibly withstand any more of this.
It feels like the ayahuasca vine
in its infinite fractals was reaching
up through my body, was in my brain,
could control where I look,
was going through every,
and pushing out every toxin
that I've had, emotional toxin
that I've had, and it was sweating
out of my pores, purging into the buckets.
And the only thing,
I had to use everything I could,
and one of the techniques was a type
of tapping on my body, right?
It was like a certain type of tapping
that ayahuasca was showing me, like,
this is how you're going to make it through.
And if I would try to stop doing it,
because I was tapping for, like, hours,
I would try to stop doing it, or shaking,
like, moving my hand in certain patterns,
or, like, making different, like, fast mudras,
or my tongue would make these little insect sounds.
And, like, I had to let this energy off
and move it, but so much of it was about the body.
Like, as long as I was tapping the body,
it was accessing my spiritual self,
in a way, and that you just understand
that it's all collapsed.
This is just your spirit in a different density,
and that's what it is.
And so this is the divine.
This is God experiencing God
in the way that only a human being can,
because of what comes online
from having sensory perceptions,
and smell, and taste, and touch, and feel.
But it's still just God in a different density,
and our spirit in a different density.
So that transmission is immediate.
You know, it's God experiencing God
in all ways, in all forms.
And I think it's important to start collapsing
these artificial separations
between body and spirit, self and the divine.
It's all the one.
It's all the one, really.
And it's also all of the separation, too.
Like, I understand it makes sense
to talk about these different densities.
You might as well call them a different word
so we can communicate effectively.
And I understand what people mean,
but also to have the dual meaning of,
like, I really get what's behind the Maya,
what's behind the illusion,
which is the unicity.
Now, do you...
I like to entertain the idea
that...
and McKenna played around with this,
and a lot of many different people have,
like, when they've encountered these forms
that you encounter when you're taking ayahuasca,
or DMT, or a nice dose of psilocybin,
and you realize, oh, this is real.
Like, this isn't bullshit.
This isn't a dream state.
This is very real.
And then there's a feeling of, like,
I think you could take something here.
I think you could literally pluck
something from that place
and bring it into this realm.
Have you ever played around with that idea
that whatever the particular imaginary,
yet very real differentiation
between our level of experience
and whatever that other place is,
is actually thinning,
or that technology is...
um...
creating the possibility
that we're not going to just need ayahuasca
or DMT or mushrooms
as the bridge that there's a potential
to create a technological bridge
that's a little more, like, um...
stable. You know what I mean?
That's a little less dependent on the plant medicines.
It's certainly possible,
and I think it would happen
from manipulation of our brain waves
because a lot of these experiences,
these mystical experiences,
happen in waking delta.
I mean, waking delta is one of the most
profound brain wave states possible.
So if there was a technology
that could get us to waking delta,
I think that could be a really potent tool.
Now, ketamine gets you to waking delta,
nitrous gets you to waking delta.
The problem with waking delta
is you don't really have access to remember.
You know, because your brain,
the part of your brain that encodes
and remembers the different medicine
like the encounters that you had,
it just doesn't stick, it's slippery.
So I think there are technologies
that already actually exist
that, you know, of course these are,
I guess you could call them psychedelics,
but psychedelics are technologies.
You know, they really are.
And I would be hesitant
to, you know,
really champion a technology
that would give you access to those states,
but, and made it a little bit too easy.
You know, because this is not just,
it's not just benevolent,
you know, encounters that you have.
There's dark energy too.
Like the polarity just says in life it exists here
and it exists there.
And I think the plants are like a great guide.
Like you want mushrooms holding your hand.
You want ayahuasca holding your hand.
You want these things to really hold your hand
as you make this journey.
And even better is if you have a shaman
who's there as well, who can
anything that comes in.
And of course we can learn those same techniques, right?
Their own ability
to accept, to love what comes
and then to move through them.
So we're all learning in this process,
but I do think that
the, although there could be
a more, a simplified,
more facile solution
to get access to these planes,
I don't know if it's the right way to do it.
Like this might be the best way
and you just have to pay the cost.
You have to pay the toll.
It's like you can't cross the river sticks
without paying the gold coin
to Chiron or whatever.
You need to pay the gold coin
and sometimes that gold coin is your pain,
your vomit, your endless diarrhea
and really dealing with your own demons.
Poor Chiron.
What a terrible currency to have to get paid in.
What does he do with all that gold?
What does he do with all the diarrhea?
Oh great.
You're going to give me diarrhea.
Okay, I prefer gold,
but if that's what you've got,
I guess I'll put it in my diarrhea safe.
Yeah, I just,
you know, with
just some of the things I saw
when I was taking Ketamine,
it gave me a sense of like
there being some kind of project
or there being some kind of like
long-term project
that involved
a kind of outreach program
for lack of a better word.
I feel like
it sounds so reductive
and silly, but a general
sense of like, oh no,
we're coming.
We're getting in there.
Like where you're at, there's so much suffering.
Where you're at, there's so much unnecessary
suffering and
we're coming
and
and McKenna has talked about this too
and like, I think it's a common vision
that people have of this sense of like,
oh yeah, you and
everyone, we're all part of this project
and the project involves
that place expressing
itself more and more into matter.
The Kingdom of Heaven
appearing more and more and more,
not just as parables and
stories, but as actual
like
extruded matter, like it
pushing itself in, just like that's what we are.
That's what the soul is.
We've ballooned our bodies
out into this material
realm and I don't know, I just have always gotten the
sense of like, yeah,
you know why it's weird?
You want to know why it's so weird right now
when everyone's like, shit, things are getting weird.
It's like, well, the reason it's weird
is because they're coming
up.
It's coming, it's pouring in.
I feel that same way.
Some of these stories, we resonate with them
because they point at truth. The two towers
rise
in the Middle Earth, in Tolkien's world, right?
The two towers rise, two dark wizards
and you could imagine these dark wizards
as anything, the mechanisms of power,
control, enslavement, greed that we see.
These towers are more visible
and more evident than they've ever been
and so with that, what happens?
What's the natural reaction and adaptation?
The fellowship comes together. The orcs
have risen in the two towers
and so the wizards, the elves,
the dwarves, the hobbits, the humans
they all have to come together
and I think we're seeing some of that
that's happening as well
and that's like, I have an amazing amount
of confidence that
everything that we're seeing has been
necessary to bring people together
to get them beyond their petty differences.
Right now we're in the time of differences
but this fellowship is starting to brew
and in addition, I also feel like
to go to the Game of Thrones
story, when the dragons
came to their
land and they
hatched again and dragons were back
they have this short scene where everybody's magic
starts working, like street magicians
used to play with a little bit of fire
could now do all kinds of tricks with fire
all the conjure, like magic was back in
and it feels like now is a time
where not only is the fellowship coming together
but magic is more available
like I felt it more available
I felt myself capable of doing things
that I've never been capable of
in these kind of spiritual states
and I've seen it with so many friends
like within the last two years
almost since the pandemic
there's been an acceleration of
people's ability to access
really impressive healing gifts
that are just like snapping
and coming online
and so it feels like as much as the darkness
rises, so too will
the support and the help and the light
and it's just this
natural balance to the order of things.
Is it just a choice Aubrey?
Is that what it all boils down to?
Is it just some simple
like when you're having a dream
and you're getting chased by a lion
and then you remember
oh, it's a dream
and then you just make a decision to go into a different dream
is it as simple as that?
Is it just that like
whenever I'm getting all caught in the darkness
or my own bullshit
or watching Fox News
all the time or like fucking to Sean Hannity
or any of the weird shit
that I've found myself doing
I always
and I start coming back to myself
nearly always
with the help of some psychedelic
I'm kind of astounded
by how
it's just a choice
like it's
and maybe that's the painful part about it
is that
it's
as much horror as there
is in the world there's that much good
but you're picking the horror
to keep your mind fixated on
you're picking
or it's like this is really reducing things to the most
idiotic level
but like there have been times when I've been scrolling through my Twitter
and I'm thinking
God, Twitter, what a fucking garbage
platform
and then I remember I followed everybody
who's tweets
I'm reading
you know what I mean
I decided to tune into this
is it just a choice?
is it as simple as that?
it is but it's a difficult choice
because
our mind can choose something very quickly
our mind moves at the speed of light
but we're actually making a choice
that involves the entirety of our being
all the way to our densest part
and the density of our body are
the different ways in which our receptor sites
of our brain have been used to a certain level of melancholy
been used to a certain level of stress
so we actually have to choose
not only once but keep choosing
over and over and over again
because the body moves like a tree
that bends toward the light
like we need to be the constant light sort
and just wait for the branches
to start moving that direction
because it's not going to happen instantly
you can't say hey tree there's the sun over there
there's water over there send your roots there immediately
and move your fucking limbs
and get over there to that light
like it doesn't work that way
you can't even
father or mother that's just like
come on buddy and be sweet to yourself
this was another adaptation that came from the ayahuasca
it was like just be sweet
be like I know buddy I know
I know it's chaotic
I know that you have a little anxiety
I know I can feel it take some deep breaths
that's it deep breaths
alright keep going you're doing great
just keep moving this way
and you start just coaching yourself
towards that direction
I know I know it's scary
it's alright come on
we got this back towards the light
back towards the light and it's just this constant
steady steady process
so yes it's a choice but it's a choice
that has to be made extended
over a longer period of time
for it to actually stick
Aubrey I love
these conversations
me too thank you so much
please keep going you know it's been too long
and when you come you know you come
when you're coming back from these places
it really is like you tell me things
that sometimes a reminder
sometimes it's brand new information
but always you know
what the healing
that's the other great thing about healing
it's contagious the same way
sickness is contagious if you're healing yourself
you might be surprised to find that people
around you start healing too
and that always happens when I'm
having a conversation with you so thank you
Aubrey yeah brother of course
I wrote a poem that came through during
ayahuasca that I wanted to share
and we can close on that
I'd love to hear it thank you
alright
ayahuasca is not a drug
it is the drug
it is the nothing will ever be the same
change your fucking name
scream at the top of your lungs
writhe in the agony of ecstasy
surrender to the mystery
submit to the intensity of the fractal
God thrust into polarity
drug
it is the antithesis
of intoxication
an annihilating sobriety
waking you from the insanity of participation
in your own delusion
it is the
antidote for the constant
mendacity of the pretending
masquerading
wounded lonely
scared little boy
and girl in a world that
needs love
spray painting the masterpiece
with the graffiti of the judge
showing you that all along you've been
wallowing in your suffering
gasping for a breath of truth
a fish with iridescent rainbow scales
hooked by the seduction of power
pulled from the sea of the divine
stranded on the boat of purported
progress
fodder for the insatiable machine
your pink flesh putrifying
reaching for a prescription
a vaccination to cure
the desperation of living
in separation
all the while forgetting
that you come from the ocean
because all you see is the boat
filled with dying
aquariums
ayahuasca is not an answer
it is the answer to the riddle
of why we are here
it is a place where magic is real
where dragons guard the
horde of God
the trees can speak
witches open portals
wizards sing incantations
devils tempt you
your shadows come to dance
and angels whisper in your ear
it is a journey into the underworld
a descent into madness
down a ladder of swirling vines
a burning away of
temporality in the white hot
cosmic forge of eternal revivication
it is a trip to a reality
where all things have meaning
where a breath
can change everything
tobacco can heal anything
and there is nothing
you are able to hide
it's the most terrifying
exhilarating life affirming
plunge into chaos
to seize the pen of your destiny
and write an epic fucking story
ayahuasca may not be for you
but no one
can do it for you
just know
she is there
and she loves you
the real you
the one waiting to emerge you
the not running anymore
not hiding anymore
stand in the storm of your pain
screaming do your worst
I'm here for it all you
ayahuasca is not a drug
it is medicine
sign me up
yeah man maybe one day
we'll get to sit with the dragon together
I would love that
I'm ready now I used to not want to do it
now I'm ready I mean I could like
having had two kids I think that
that's great preparation
that's the ultimate dieta
Aubrey I love you
thank you so much
how can people find you
Aubrey Marcus podcast
is a great way and at
Aubrey Marcus that pretty much everything else
I think it's at Aubrey Marcus pod on
YouTube but otherwise just my name
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I love y'all
stay real hopefully
gnomes are coming to listen to you sing
keep your eye open
they're there I'll see you next time
until then Hare Krishna
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