{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"48. The Jester Is The Serpent","description":"The whole idea of this podcast is this: What if your brain isn\u2019t creating consciousness? What if your brain is filtering consciousness? Like your normal waking life is just the smallest little slice of the signal. Your brain is keeping you locked into the version of reality you can survive in. Bills. Work. Identity. Time. Your name. Your body. Your problems. All of that. But then something breaks the filter. DMT. Meditation. Near-death experiences. Deep prayer. Maybe even the serpent in the Garden of Eden. And when that filter cracks, you don\u2019t \u201challucinate\u201d some random nonsense. You start seeing the machinery behind the curtain. The symbols. The archetypes. The jester. The serpent. The trickster. And maybe those aren\u2019t separate beings. Maybe they\u2019re the same force wearing different masks. The jester in the DMT trip and the serpent in Eden both do the same thing: they interrupt the fake reality. They mess with your certainty. They make you question the little world your ego thought was everything. Because maybe God is not some old man above the clouds. Maybe God is the beam of consciousness behind everything. And the brain is the filter blocking the full blast of that light. So when the jester laughs, or the serpent whispers, or meditation goes deep enough that the self disappears \u2014 maybe that\u2019s not evil. Maybe that\u2019s the filter failing. Maybe that\u2019s you being exposed to the beam. The jester is the serpent. The serpent is the trickster. The trickster is the crack in the filter. And behind the filter is the light we call God. ","author_name":"As We Know It","author_url":"https:\/\/sites.libsyn.com\/195131\/asweknowit","html":"