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Daniele Bolelli is a Box Of Rain — Duncan Trussell Family Hour

Fri, 11 Nov 2016 10:31:50 GMT

ryantrixabelle
Fri, 11 Nov 2016 10:31:50 GMT

The masturbation topic was actually really fun to hear, because I've directly experienced just what you said: the universe pleasuring itself. One of my most intense ever acid trips began with a masturbation session, just as the trip was screaming into high gear. It was amazing because as it went along, it became increasingly simple and pure, and as my ego began to dissolve more and more, the realization -- an immediate, directly experienced knowing -- came to me that every single sexual act, no matter the number of "people" involved, is an act of cosmic masturbation. The act played itself out as nothing but an ecstatic celebration of pure being (the very notions of "sex" and "bodies" had by this point been left far, far behind) -- a playful celebration coming from nowhere, going nowhere, and taking place for no one but "itself" -- that self that we all are but so rarely get to see and know and be in our brilliant full blissful nakedness :)

matthewryanherget
Sat, 12 Nov 2016 04:13:06 GMT

I like this guy ^

ignorantfuck
Mon, 14 Nov 2016 08:09:27 GMT

I hope this comment doesn't turn out too long, but I can't NOT say something about this episode. The timing is fucking impeccable. I'll try to say this briefly: At the beginning of October, I had a mushroom trip in a small apartment by myself. I had experienced them before but seemed to have forgotten how potent the effects are. I was listening to the most recent DTF with Aubrey Marcus (Ep. 213) about his Ayahuasca trip involving the little Golum trickster and the world eater, eating sour patch kids with orange juice, watching Harry Potter, and playing League of Legends. I had in my mind this stupid idea that the more sensory input I engaged in, the more pleasure I would feel. To discard the details, I ended up convincing myself that I was secretly in some hell realm in which I am given an awesome life filled with loved ones and joy just to find that my most beloved friends and family turn out to be trickster demons as a form of really elaborate torture. Everything externally that I looked to as a distraction from this seemed to be simply reinforcing the idea including the section of the DTF podcast where Duncan and Aubrey are talking about how the truth is inside of us (1:17:00 in that podcast to be specific there's a part where Aubrey says "bullshit" about there being a middle man of getting in contact with the truth it kinda sounds like the audio buzzes and I was completely convinced that he was a demon/monster trying to reveal this horrible thing to me). Duncan then even goes on to talk about the covered up scripture written in the effects of psilocybin! So, a whole buffet of synchronicity occurred including a text from a friend, a youtube video I tried to watch, and the Harry Potter movie I was watching that caused me to just turn everything off and sit in silence . Long story short, I moved on from this fear and fell to the conclusion that my experience was actually much like Aubrey's in which I was tricked by this world eater/adversary/satan figure into believing I was hell when really I'm just experiencing the eternity of experience as a individual subjective bit of consciousness and that the mind can convince itself of anything because it is both the seed and flower of creation. Fast forward a week. It's the weekend and I'm at a party that happens to have free pot cookies. I stupidly consume 5, once again forgetting the respect one should have for mind altering substances. I am now thrown into a month long lasting nihilistic, anxiety ridden stupor based in the ideas of Oneness implying nothingness, that nothing has value because it's all the reflection of the same thing, that death is only an intermission in this never ending tumultuous churning of meaningless experiences, all born from the experience I had the previous weekend with mushrooms and distrusting reality. I had an ever present anxiety in my chest every day, food seemed empty to me, I felt 10,000 miles away from my parents while sitting in the same room with them, my laughter felt thin and frail. I was feeling the very fucking things that Duncan was describing in this podcast nodding along the whole time and just being blown away at how perfectly, amazingly relevant it all was at this point in my life. Like I said, I felt compelled to write this because I just can't believe how perfect this podcast fit into my own life. I've been listening to Duncan for years now, I met him at his first live recording at the Hollywood Improv (irrelevant, yes, but my ego is telling me to include this incase Dunc reads this) and I just feel like his podcasts have always been incredibly relevant with whatever it is that I'm tossing around in my mind, but this episode in particular just seemed tooooooooooooo fucking perfect, as if Duncan and I were literally going through the same thing at the same time. I can say now that I have moved on from the nihilistic, all is emptiness point of view. As Duncan said, when the fact is pointed out that we're just playing with finger puppets, there's no going back, and I feel that I'll never be exactly the same person I was before this month, but it's facilitated major spiritual growth for me. As Danielle said, it really comes down to a choice of how you want to react to the knowledge that we're all God playing with itself, because the illusion is so powerfully perfect that it doesn't really matter, we are still limited to our own perspectives no matter how much we scream "I'M GOD AND SO ARE YOU" in your own mind or from the rooftops. The part about the zen master slapping the person's wife who is claiming that all is an illusion I think is a poignant matter of being as well. If all is empty, this also means all is full and true freedom is revealed. Just like when playing a video game, if someone is sitting next to you and constantly telling you "y'know, that's just a pixelated character, that's not really you. You're just pressing buttons and making him do shit, it's not really you." then you would of course slap this person and tell them leave you alone because you're trying to enjoy a game, you know it isn't real but that doesn't fucking matter! And... it kinda doesn't matter that it doesn't matter. There's no point and that's the point. Well, actually I still believe that fighting against the horrors of the world to still become a being of love, acceptance, grace, patience and once again love is the point, but if we fuck that up, we got eternity to figure it out! ANYWAY THIS IS WAY TOO FUCKING LONG SO, I think maybe I'll actually write down and publish my entire experience which consisted of many bouts of cyclic thinking, insomnia, breaking down crying, Alan Watts lectures, admitting my madness to friends and professors, existential terror, and inevitably spiritual growth ending in, paradoxically, the acceptance of my own ignorance as well as knowledge. Thank you to anyone who actually took the time to read this garbage bag of words desperately thrown onto the internet because as I stated before, I felt an intense compulsion to write this in response to how insanely relevant the release of this podcast seemed to be in comparison to my own life. Much love, my other fellow bits of light.

looseyounit
Mon, 14 Nov 2016 11:20:00 GMT

Duncan a lovely episode. I know that feeling of which you speak. I first had it when I was 7 and had been struck by ball lightning a few weeks earlier. A weird mix of seeing who is the seer and déjà vu to the max until the world and the thing that says "I am" kind of fades out . I've had it many times over the years and now through meditation it's beginning to make sense.

drrick
Tue, 15 Nov 2016 01:01:44 GMT

> Underneath the emotions, underneath the actions, underneath the thoughts, you will find that there is nothing there. I met a philosopher, Stephen Pike, a few years back who pitched a pretty radical idea. Rather than viewing the mind-body problem as a Cartesian duality, where you can easily separate the mind from the body and then it's just a short step to also remove the mind and you're left with nothing but the confusing void... rather than all that, he pitched a philosophy of mind that is analogous with general relativity. Are you familiar with the [trampoline analogy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTY1Kje0yLg)? Space-time can be thought of as a fabric that is stretched by massive objects. The sun is like a bowling ball in the middle of a trampoline. The planets are marbles circling the bowling ball. It's a neat way of visualizing the forces of the universe so that we can build our intuitions of how things work. Now imagine that the spectrum of emotions is actually a space-time fabric. The solar system of happiness is two hundred parsecs from the black hole of de pression with a whole lot of anxiety in between. The objects in this universe aren't stars and planets, but ideas and concepts. At the center of the depressing black hole may be the idea that you're alone in the universe. That idea attracts others like it. It defines your whole being. But then you meet someone. Maybe a strange attractor. And your whole framework is shifted onto this new idea and the emotional space-time fabric bends to its will. Your emotions have been reshaped by an idea and now new ideas are gravitating towards it. I think of my existence as the interplay between this emotional space-time and the ideas populating it. That is the essence of me. There is nothing underneath the emotions, because that's the wrong question. Meditating is like taking a rocket ride to the outer edges of the emotional universe where space-time is flat and there are no ideas. It's not that you stop existing, it's just that you can't differentiate yourself because there's nothing to bump into until your spaceship returns to that common space where we all share joy and sadness and all the rest of it. Here's a link to Pike's master's [thesis](https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/handle/10092/4624). It's really heavy on jargon and I'm not sure if he even touches on this emotional space-time idea, but he was a fascinating person so I'm sure someone will enjoy reading it.

lianlight
Tue, 15 Nov 2016 22:28:14 GMT

the fear of boredom doesn't exist with filipinos that's for sure

morganjprust
Wed, 21 Jun 2017 15:39:25 GMT

Does anyone know who performs the instrumental version of Three Little Birds that plays in the background of the first minute of the podcast?

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