Half of today’s episode is listener messages and the discussion they inspire. Thank you all for participating! We start with a message from Greg about the Khafre Pyramid SAR scan. We talk a bit about the updates, or lack thereof. Our sister sends us a lengthy message that spins off into conversation about the telepathy tapes. Drew shares an interesting article about why we don’t remember being a baby. There seems to be studies showing that memories are formed and we discuss whether the lack of language just causes the connections to the memories to be different than memories formed later. Drew shares an amazing video of a guy making an amazing analogy that compares life and the afterlife to unborn twins in their mother’s womb and their upcoming life after birth.

After a break, we realize we never finished the message from our sister so we go back to it. This section inspires talks about dreams, chaos and intuition. She also asks about whether the new perspective we’ve gained through the process of the podcast has given us a different view of mental illness. This is such a good question. What if someone’s brain suddenly starts dosing them with large amounts of endogenous DMT? They would appear mentally ill on the outside, but what if they were actually perceiving something real? How would we know the difference?

The Marcus Aurelius reading this week brings up discussion about what you should put your energy towards. Is it worth putting energy into thinking about being wronged when the wrong doesn’t hurt you or doesn’t represent an evil action? We end the episode with discussion of time, calendars and natures cycles of the seasons. If nature had a built in new year, would it be January 1st? Maybe the beginning of spring represents nature’s true new year’s day. After all it represents the beginning of new growth and change. What if we were to line out lives up with that cycle?