Jake

And then finally, you know, what I talked about a couple minutes ago, when I finally got to my darkest place, I made the decision that I have to go get better.

I can't let this keep happening.

So I got on the call, got my retreat scheduled, got the scholarship and headed out there and

Um, so I went to Mexico on the Pacific coast, flew into San Diego, went across the border, um, after multiple health screenings beforehand and after six weeks of pre-integration work.

And a week after, I went to San Diego and my wife came out and one of my best friends from when I was in, he had gone and done the Ibogaine two or three weeks before I did, I think.

And also by this point I'd spent about three months before the retreat, really getting into meditation and yoga.

I started reading Eastern philosophy, um, Eastern religion, you know, alternative psychology.

And our plan was to just meet and hang out and, you know, live life.

I started kind of getting into,

other views besides Western medicine.

And so we spend the week together.

And so by the time I got down there, I was already in a better spiritual place than I had been in a long time already.

It's great.

I...

I wanted to do this thing.

I had this thing planned where I wanted to go with my friend to Coronado.

And that's another thing, man, if anybody's going through it, even if you don't believe in the teachings of meditation, like the Eastern philosophy, the chakras, the different states of consciousness, at the very least, you're taking 10 minutes a day to yourself

I wanted to... Coronado's... Sorry, Coronado's an island off the coast of San Diego.

It's the one that the big bridge goes to.

And that's where Bud's is for the Seals, and that's where Swixpool is for us.