Peter Berg
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Podcast Appearances
Like, I want to make peace with my father, or I want to remember my grandfather, or I want to spend time with my dog, Schlemmer, who died when I was eight. Like, you know, what's my goal? What should I do? I remember he looked at me, and he put his hand on my shoulder. He said, good luck with that, Pete. Good luck. You try and set all the intentions you want.
Like, I want to make peace with my father, or I want to remember my grandfather, or I want to spend time with my dog, Schlemmer, who died when I was eight. Like, you know, what's my goal? What should I do? I remember he looked at me, and he put his hand on my shoulder. He said, good luck with that, Pete. Good luck. You try and set all the intentions you want.
Like, I want to make peace with my father, or I want to remember my grandfather, or I want to spend time with my dog, Schlemmer, who died when I was eight. Like, you know, what's my goal? What should I do? I remember he looked at me, and he put his hand on my shoulder. He said, good luck with that, Pete. Good luck. You try and set all the intentions you want.
And that kind of freaked me out a little bit, because I could tell, you know what I mean? He was like, good luck with your little intentions. And I remember... Smoking it and the feeling of, for me, what they call ego death, right? And I've talked to other people about it. Mike Tyson's talked about it. It's certainly nothing that I'm the only one that's experienced.
And that kind of freaked me out a little bit, because I could tell, you know what I mean? He was like, good luck with your little intentions. And I remember... Smoking it and the feeling of, for me, what they call ego death, right? And I've talked to other people about it. Mike Tyson's talked about it. It's certainly nothing that I'm the only one that's experienced.
And that kind of freaked me out a little bit, because I could tell, you know what I mean? He was like, good luck with your little intentions. And I remember... Smoking it and the feeling of, for me, what they call ego death, right? And I've talked to other people about it. Mike Tyson's talked about it. It's certainly nothing that I'm the only one that's experienced.
But when you experience it, you really know you've experienced it. And it's interesting because you try and explain it to people and you find that words fail you because we don't literally have the words in the English language to explain this kind of experience because people just haven't experienced it, so they don't have words for it.
But when you experience it, you really know you've experienced it. And it's interesting because you try and explain it to people and you find that words fail you because we don't literally have the words in the English language to explain this kind of experience because people just haven't experienced it, so they don't have words for it.
But when you experience it, you really know you've experienced it. And it's interesting because you try and explain it to people and you find that words fail you because we don't literally have the words in the English language to explain this kind of experience because people just haven't experienced it, so they don't have words for it.
and but it is death right of some sort that that's a word that people can relate to and and for me the way i explained what i first experienced was as the medicine was taking over my mind i felt myself trying to hold on to thoughts like okay i'm in Malibu, California. I'm in California. I'm on the West Coast of America. I'm in America. I'm on the Western Hemisphere. I'm on the planet Earth.
and but it is death right of some sort that that's a word that people can relate to and and for me the way i explained what i first experienced was as the medicine was taking over my mind i felt myself trying to hold on to thoughts like okay i'm in Malibu, California. I'm in California. I'm on the West Coast of America. I'm in America. I'm on the Western Hemisphere. I'm on the planet Earth.
and but it is death right of some sort that that's a word that people can relate to and and for me the way i explained what i first experienced was as the medicine was taking over my mind i felt myself trying to hold on to thoughts like okay i'm in Malibu, California. I'm in California. I'm on the West Coast of America. I'm in America. I'm on the Western Hemisphere. I'm on the planet Earth.
I was trying to hold on to it, and suddenly my ability to think was just turned off about that thought. And then I went to, well, I'm Pete. My dad's Larry. My grandfather's Harry. My great-grandfatherâthat's off. I'm wearing shoes. I'm wearing socks. And every thought I could have would suddenly be slammed off, almost like a steel curtain was shutting down.
I was trying to hold on to it, and suddenly my ability to think was just turned off about that thought. And then I went to, well, I'm Pete. My dad's Larry. My grandfather's Harry. My great-grandfatherâthat's off. I'm wearing shoes. I'm wearing socks. And every thought I could have would suddenly be slammed off, almost like a steel curtain was shutting down.
I was trying to hold on to it, and suddenly my ability to think was just turned off about that thought. And then I went to, well, I'm Pete. My dad's Larry. My grandfather's Harry. My great-grandfatherâthat's off. I'm wearing shoes. I'm wearing socks. And every thought I could have would suddenly be slammed off, almost like a steel curtain was shutting down.
And I could feel myself trying to hold on to any kind of thinking, any kind of rational thinking. And every thought was just and then this giant wall of darkness came over me and it was a sound and it was like over. And I remember thinking very clearly, I'm dead. And my first thought was, it's all over. It's all nothing. Everything is nothing. I thought that. Wow. Everything is nothing.
And I could feel myself trying to hold on to any kind of thinking, any kind of rational thinking. And every thought was just and then this giant wall of darkness came over me and it was a sound and it was like over. And I remember thinking very clearly, I'm dead. And my first thought was, it's all over. It's all nothing. Everything is nothing. I thought that. Wow. Everything is nothing.
And I could feel myself trying to hold on to any kind of thinking, any kind of rational thinking. And every thought was just and then this giant wall of darkness came over me and it was a sound and it was like over. And I remember thinking very clearly, I'm dead. And my first thought was, it's all over. It's all nothing. Everything is nothing. I thought that. Wow. Everything is nothing.
All of this sort of sudden, because these are just words now, I became aware sort of that something was still going on. I was still functioning. There was brain function. But it wasn't any brain function I'd ever encountered before.
All of this sort of sudden, because these are just words now, I became aware sort of that something was still going on. I was still functioning. There was brain function. But it wasn't any brain function I'd ever encountered before.