Rick Strassman
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 26 Sep
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So there were some personal issues as well that led to something that was different than the Buddhist model.
So I'm Jewish.
I was wandering around a New Age bookstore and found a very cool book called The Kabbalah of Envy by Milton Bonder.
And it's a very short book, and he starts describing the difference between a grudge and revenge and envy and jealousy.
very subtle ideas about how to relate to the world.
And it came from the Jewish model, from Jewish philosophy, Jewish psychology.
So I thought, oh, interesting.
Maybe there's something in my own tradition that was more consistent with the DMT effect and also was more personally relevant.
So I started to read the Hebrew Bible and then just went down this huge rabbit hole
So when you're reading it in Hebrew, you're reading words that are derived from three-letter roots.
And those roots may have a huge range of meaning.
Something, for example, could cause a sin, and something could remove a sin just by an extra dot in the middle of a letter.
So it can really kind of bring you closer to the kind of large-scale way of looking at the text.
It isn't just A follows B follows C, but there's a diffuse dispersion of A, then there's B, and then there's C. There are these clouds of interaction, which are a lot more fluid than what would be a straightforward English rendition.
Well, I mean, there's a lot of ways to interact with the text.
So the first thing that came to mind when you were asking that is, back in the day, I used to spin fleece into yarn and then weave the yarn into rugs.
Like, after I stopped the DMT work.
That's all I did for a year.
Just make rugs?
Yep.
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