Coleman Ruiz

And his...

I don't know him personally, so public stuff notwithstanding, that's not important to me.

But waking up and I took an online course with Robert Wright, who wrote Why Buddhism is True, but that's really not what he's known for, you know, Princeton professor.

He's so funny.

He's very humorous.

And I started to work my way

I don't want people to think I have some whiz-bang spiritual practice that's whatever.

But it became very interesting to me, Andrew.

I started to realize I needed to find a way

to back away from the 24-hour ledge, like that super hyper focus.

I needed to get a little bit of perspective.

One of my favorite short videos is Richard Feynman's Pale Blue Dot.

I needed to just back away.

That reminds me, thank you so much for talking about time-space bridging, I think, the other day.

Yeah.

That and mine, your conversation years ago about...

and activating the parasympathetic system instead of sympathetic, I just very slowly started to realize I needed to back away from the small picture.

And the reading and the craniosacral massage, I was still not really getting consistent real help.

but I thought I could do it through educating myself intellectually.

And I thought it was time to, and it was, it has short-term consequences, but long-term it's been amazing to, you know, deal with the plant medicines in a controlled and curated environment.