Whenever I’m reading a book or watching a video there may be one snippet that really turns the light bulb in my head, or should I say my heart, on. I want to start writing these down so I can have a repository of them to look back on. Two of my inspirations are Deepak Chopra and Joseph Campbell. I saw a video today that Deepak’s son, Gotham Chopra, produced. In one segment he was talking to his father, and Deepak said one of those snippets that caught me like that. The quote comes at the 2:38 mark in the video above.
And so, what Medicine Men have done throughout ages, is actually triggered the body’s response to what it normally wants to do.
This reminds me of the thought that wisdom comes from nature, up through the body to our consciousness, not the other way around, down from consciousness to be imposed upon nature. It also reminds me of a quote I heard Timothy Leary say that the LSD experience was like driving consciousness down to the cellular level and putting in touch with what the cells were communicating up to the brain instead of it only indulged or deluged by the stimuli from the outside macro world, most of the messages of which, from “Nobodaddy,” tell you not to listen to those instincts.
