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Alexandre Tannous

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1131 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

Aubrey Marcus Podcast
Psychedelics, Harmonics, & A Technique Better Than Any Meditation w/ Alexandre Tannous #494

I'd like to mention a great book that I read recently that changed dramatically or affirmed things as well and changed further my understanding. Jerry Marzinski's book is called... An amazing journey into the psychotic mind, the fall of the ivory tower.

Aubrey Marcus Podcast
Psychedelics, Harmonics, & A Technique Better Than Any Meditation w/ Alexandre Tannous #494

He's someone who specialized as a psychiatrist in abnormal psychology and worked over 40 years with people in rehab centers and jails and mental institutions and these people talking about voices in their head. Voices that we all have. The negativity, the rumination around negativity, the negative entertainment about perceiving something and take it apart, milking the idea.

Aubrey Marcus Podcast
Psychedelics, Harmonics, & A Technique Better Than Any Meditation w/ Alexandre Tannous #494

He's someone who specialized as a psychiatrist in abnormal psychology and worked over 40 years with people in rehab centers and jails and mental institutions and these people talking about voices in their head. Voices that we all have. The negativity, the rumination around negativity, the negative entertainment about perceiving something and take it apart, milking the idea.

Aubrey Marcus Podcast
Psychedelics, Harmonics, & A Technique Better Than Any Meditation w/ Alexandre Tannous #494

He's someone who specialized as a psychiatrist in abnormal psychology and worked over 40 years with people in rehab centers and jails and mental institutions and these people talking about voices in their head. Voices that we all have. The negativity, the rumination around negativity, the negative entertainment about perceiving something and take it apart, milking the idea.

Aubrey Marcus Podcast
Psychedelics, Harmonics, & A Technique Better Than Any Meditation w/ Alexandre Tannous #494

We could go for several minutes and a long time. And we find that our capacity, our agency, for some reason is interested in playing the scenario in our head and the scenario is not good. And again, as I said earlier, most likely it'll never happen. Why do we do that? Where is that coming from?

Aubrey Marcus Podcast
Psychedelics, Harmonics, & A Technique Better Than Any Meditation w/ Alexandre Tannous #494

We could go for several minutes and a long time. And we find that our capacity, our agency, for some reason is interested in playing the scenario in our head and the scenario is not good. And again, as I said earlier, most likely it'll never happen. Why do we do that? Where is that coming from?

Aubrey Marcus Podcast
Psychedelics, Harmonics, & A Technique Better Than Any Meditation w/ Alexandre Tannous #494

We could go for several minutes and a long time. And we find that our capacity, our agency, for some reason is interested in playing the scenario in our head and the scenario is not good. And again, as I said earlier, most likely it'll never happen. Why do we do that? Where is that coming from?

Aubrey Marcus Podcast
Psychedelics, Harmonics, & A Technique Better Than Any Meditation w/ Alexandre Tannous #494

We need to understand the nature of these voices and bring in spirituality to understand what's going on, or this concept of parasitic forces that plague our mind. You find them in so many ancient cultures. In Gnosticism, it's been called the archons. It comes from ancient Greek, archonic forces. The archon means the ruler. Gurdjieff called it the evil magician.

Aubrey Marcus Podcast
Psychedelics, Harmonics, & A Technique Better Than Any Meditation w/ Alexandre Tannous #494

We need to understand the nature of these voices and bring in spirituality to understand what's going on, or this concept of parasitic forces that plague our mind. You find them in so many ancient cultures. In Gnosticism, it's been called the archons. It comes from ancient Greek, archonic forces. The archon means the ruler. Gurdjieff called it the evil magician.

Aubrey Marcus Podcast
Psychedelics, Harmonics, & A Technique Better Than Any Meditation w/ Alexandre Tannous #494

We need to understand the nature of these voices and bring in spirituality to understand what's going on, or this concept of parasitic forces that plague our mind. You find them in so many ancient cultures. In Gnosticism, it's been called the archons. It comes from ancient Greek, archonic forces. The archon means the ruler. Gurdjieff called it the evil magician.

Aubrey Marcus Podcast
Psychedelics, Harmonics, & A Technique Better Than Any Meditation w/ Alexandre Tannous #494

In North America, the natives called it wetiku. And the concept of Satan, the adversary in Kabbalah, shaitan in Sufism, the jinn in the Arab world and Middle East. I think this is real. I think that we need to look into and learn, be open at least to, we don't know what we don't know.

Aubrey Marcus Podcast
Psychedelics, Harmonics, & A Technique Better Than Any Meditation w/ Alexandre Tannous #494

In North America, the natives called it wetiku. And the concept of Satan, the adversary in Kabbalah, shaitan in Sufism, the jinn in the Arab world and Middle East. I think this is real. I think that we need to look into and learn, be open at least to, we don't know what we don't know.

Aubrey Marcus Podcast
Psychedelics, Harmonics, & A Technique Better Than Any Meditation w/ Alexandre Tannous #494

In North America, the natives called it wetiku. And the concept of Satan, the adversary in Kabbalah, shaitan in Sufism, the jinn in the Arab world and Middle East. I think this is real. I think that we need to look into and learn, be open at least to, we don't know what we don't know.

Aubrey Marcus Podcast
Psychedelics, Harmonics, & A Technique Better Than Any Meditation w/ Alexandre Tannous #494

and start to observe that in the self, in contemplation, in meditation, in any spiritual work with psychedelics, also to figure out who's having these thoughts. Who am I? As they tell you in the Vedanta schools in Hinduism, that the ultimate question, the most important one that anyone can ask is, who am I? What am I? Tat-vam-asi is the answer to that in Sanskrit, which means you're all of that.

Aubrey Marcus Podcast
Psychedelics, Harmonics, & A Technique Better Than Any Meditation w/ Alexandre Tannous #494

and start to observe that in the self, in contemplation, in meditation, in any spiritual work with psychedelics, also to figure out who's having these thoughts. Who am I? As they tell you in the Vedanta schools in Hinduism, that the ultimate question, the most important one that anyone can ask is, who am I? What am I? Tat-vam-asi is the answer to that in Sanskrit, which means you're all of that.

Aubrey Marcus Podcast
Psychedelics, Harmonics, & A Technique Better Than Any Meditation w/ Alexandre Tannous #494

and start to observe that in the self, in contemplation, in meditation, in any spiritual work with psychedelics, also to figure out who's having these thoughts. Who am I? As they tell you in the Vedanta schools in Hinduism, that the ultimate question, the most important one that anyone can ask is, who am I? What am I? Tat-vam-asi is the answer to that in Sanskrit, which means you're all of that.

Aubrey Marcus Podcast
Psychedelics, Harmonics, & A Technique Better Than Any Meditation w/ Alexandre Tannous #494

Yes. Beautiful. Well, in this case, it's important for us as humans, what you've gone, to do the narrative therapy, which is what I promote to people, to remind them to see that your dad came to suffer and to leave a trace in you so that you help others with the way he suffered. Yes.

Aubrey Marcus Podcast
Psychedelics, Harmonics, & A Technique Better Than Any Meditation w/ Alexandre Tannous #494

Yes. Beautiful. Well, in this case, it's important for us as humans, what you've gone, to do the narrative therapy, which is what I promote to people, to remind them to see that your dad came to suffer and to leave a trace in you so that you help others with the way he suffered. Yes.

Aubrey Marcus Podcast
Psychedelics, Harmonics, & A Technique Better Than Any Meditation w/ Alexandre Tannous #494

Yes. Beautiful. Well, in this case, it's important for us as humans, what you've gone, to do the narrative therapy, which is what I promote to people, to remind them to see that your dad came to suffer and to leave a trace in you so that you help others with the way he suffered. Yes.

Aubrey Marcus Podcast
Psychedelics, Harmonics, & A Technique Better Than Any Meditation w/ Alexandre Tannous #494

But that has to be recontextualized and to understand that, yeah, maybe it was, I'm sure it was very traumatic for you to see him isolating himself and it marked you forever. But this, you created the alchemy here. You are bringing this negative energy, let's call it, it's far more than energy and...