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BREAKTHROUGH: Consciousness Creates the Simulation | Dr. Donald Hoffman

Cognitive Scientist, Dr. Donald Hoffman returns to the mind meld! Are we, as Plato argued thousands of years ago, mistaking shadows on a cave wall for reality? 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership In this conversation with the brilliant Dr. Donald Hoffman, we question whether space-time and the world we experience with our senses is fundamental or merely a shallow projection of something deeper. Drawing on Plato’s cave, physics, cognitive science, mystical traditions, quantum theory, and Hoffman’s own framework of conscious agents, we explore the possibility that reality emerges from consciousness rather than the other way around. Don also shares what could be a mind blowing breakthrough in his theory. What is reality? Will science ever find a final theory of everything? Are we locked inside a simulation designed for survival, not truth? If consciousness transcends space-time, what does that imply about our potential, our perception, our purpose and our fate as beings? We riff on all of this and more in this mind meld. Links for Donald Hoffman: New to Don's work? Start with this TED Talk: https://youtu.be/oYp5XuGYqqY?si=dJJzY05c1koiTYb4 Don's book, The Case Against Reality: https://a.co/d/0aGapviw Don's UC Irvine page: https://sites.socsci.uci.edu/~ddhoff/ Links For Third Eye Drops 🌀 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership Hear hundreds of other mind melds: 🎧 Apple Podcasts: thirdeyedrops.com/itunes 🎧 Spotify: https://shorturl.at/ahnB1 🌀 Website https://www.thirdeyedrops.com ✌️Follow Michael on Instagram https://instagram.com/third_eye_drops Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Classified Truth? UFOs, Alien Gods, & The Myth That Shapes Reality | Peter Levenda

Peter Levenda enters the mind meld! In this one, I’m joined by author, scholar and researcher Peter Levenda. We explore UFOs not as isolated anomalies, but as part of a much older mysterious, mythic and psychospiritual that structure shapes human belief. 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership We riff on why humanity could be a cargo cult, government secrecy, the relationship between the UFO phenomenon and intelligence communities, and why governments may relate to the UFO phenomenon as not just a scientific mystery, but a narrative problem. From consciousness and psi research to initiation rituals, esoteric traditions, sensory deprivation, and out-of-body states, Levenda traces a through-line connecting ancient ideas of celestial ascent with modern space programs and disclosure culture. Links for Peter Levenda: Website: https://peterlevenda.com/ Books: https://peterlevenda.com/books X Page: https://x.com/Peter_Levenda Links For Third Eye Drops 🌀 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership Hear hundreds of other mind melds: 🎧 Apple Podcasts: thirdeyedrops.com/itunes 🎧 Spotify: https://shorturl.at/ahnB1 🌀 Website https://www.thirdeyedrops.com ✌️Follow Michael on Instagram https://instagram.com/third_eye_drops Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

UFOs, Consciousness, and the Hidden Architects of Reality | Jesse Michels

Jesse Michels returns to the mind meld! Jesse Michels returns for a sprawling conversation on the strange overlap between UFOs, consciousness, and the hidden esoteric currents running beneath modern science. 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership We explore the “occult roots” of the space age — from Jack Parsons and the mythic imagination behind rocket culture, to the darker shadow of WWII German occultism, secret history, and the idea that advanced technology may have always been entangled with ritual, symbolism, and altered states. Along the way we get into Puharich, the Space Kids, psychic research, synchronicity, and why the UFO landscape is equal parts genuine inquiry and engineered confusion. We also riff on the centrality of consciousness, esoteric orders and mysterious cosmic ascent rituals. If the phenomenon isn’t just hardware in the sky, but something that interacts with perception itself, what does that imply about reality, human evolution, and the deeper truths of reality. Topics include: UFOs & consciousness, esotericism and space exploration, Jack Parsons, Nazi occultism, Puharich and psychic experiments, ancient wisdom and advanced tech, cosmic ascent, disclosure, misinformation, synchronicity, and the afterlife mystery. Links for Jesse: Channel: https://open.spotify.com/show/1WqA0m5xTcp4n6qmCQfS2K?si=16a53cd322124ca5 NASA Occult Video: https://youtu.be/zjpvfDFc4fg?si=NzatnLw0mfUN1aZM Substack: https://substack.com/@americanalchemymagazine Links For Third Eye Drops 🌀 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership Hear hundreds of other mind melds: 🎧 Apple Podcasts: thirdeyedrops.com/itunes 🎧 Spotify: https://shorturl.at/ahnB1 🌀 Website https://www.thirdeyedrops.com ✌️Follow Michael on Instagram https://instagram.com/third_eye_drops Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Esotericist: ThIs Forbidden Ancient Wisdom Controls Reality | Ike Baker

Author, esoteric seeker and podcaster Ike Baker enters the mind meld! In this one, I’m joined by Ike Baker for a deep dive into consciousness, the esoteric path and why ancient metaphysical models may explain reality better than modern materialism alone. We explore hidden layers of reality, non-ordinary forms of consciousness, initiatory knowledge, and why the esoteric worldview offers a powerful framework for sense-making. 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership We also touch on the phenomenon, subtle energy, and the idea that reality itself may be shaped by hidden intelligences operating beyond surface appearances. Ike Baker is a writer and practitioner of the Western esoteric tradition, and the author of Aetheric Magic and A Formless Fire. His work approaches esotericism as a lived, initiatory path, emphasizing consciousness as fundamental and reality as layered, intelligent, and deeply symbolic. Links for Ike Baker: Website: https://ikebaker.com/ Channel:  @arcanvm  About: https://ikebaker.com/about Aetheric Magick: https://a.co/d/hJrAFZx A Formless Fire: https://a.co/d/2VV07MU Links For Third Eye Drops 🌀 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership Hear our 300-plus other podcasts: 🎧 Apple Podcasts: thirdeyedrops.com/itunes 🎧 Spotify: https://shorturl.at/ahnB1 🌀 Website https://www.thirdeyedrops.com ✌️Follow Michael on Instagram https://instagram.com/third_eye_drops Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Evidence: This UFO Crash Retrieval Story Changes Everything | James Fox

James Fox enters the mind meld! The new version of James' film, Moment of Contact: https://geni.us/MOC_NewRevelations The Varginha UFO case, often called “Brazil’s Roswell” just keeps getting more novel. The newly updated version of James’ film Moment of Contact, includes incredible new information and testimony from eye witnesses that needs to be seen t be believed. 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership James also weighs in on the alleged UFO legacy program, the current state (and limits) of disclosure, and the identity of phenomenon itself. Is this merely a technological mystery, or something that intersects with consciousness in a more fundamental way? This is an open, grounded, and exploratory dialogue. It's less about easy answers, more about asking deep questions at the edge of what we think we know. If you’re interested in UFOs not just as objects in the sky, but as a challenge to our understanding of reality itself, this one’s for you. Links For Third Eye Drops 🌀 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership Hear our 300-plus other podcasts: 🎧 Apple Podcasts: thirdeyedrops.com/itunes 🎧 Spotify: https://shorturl.at/ahnB1 🌀 Website https://www.thirdeyedrops.com ✌️Follow Michael on Instagram https://instagram.com/third_eye_drops Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices