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Sand Talk with Tyson Yunkaporta

The Emerald

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What Transforms Is the Slab?

In every human culture before industrialization, before modernity, you would have to go through something. You're raised through childhood in that magical world of illusion where you're special or your aunties and uncles,. fathers and mothers and grannies. And suddenly you 15 years later, hey, by the way, you're not special. That's a hard lesson to learn. But there are cascading realizations that come out of that that are so wonderful and so empowering. Timothy Leary said the only good trip is a bad trip. Right now we need to have the bad trip too. We need to be shattered a little bit.

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