#463 How To Transform Your Perspective Through Psychedelic Experiences
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🎙️ This Episode: A Psychedelic Tale Eric spills the beans on a trippy experience that flipped his reality and boosted his empathy levels through the roof. 🌌💡
👽 UFOs and Homeless Help From chasing UFOs to practical tips on aiding the homeless, this episode is PACKED with mind-blowing topics. 🛸💫
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Dive into the mind-expanding world of the Sweat Equity Podcast® as host Eric Readinger explores consciousness, spirituality, and social responsibility. In this thought-provoking episode, Eric shares a transformative psychedelic experience that changed his perspective on reality and empathy. From UFO discussions to practical ways of helping the homeless, this podcast challenges listeners to expand their minds and hearts. Discover how small acts of kindness can create ripple effects in society, and learn why self-reflection is crucial in today's world. Whether you're interested in altered states, personal growth, or making a positive impact, this episode offers insights to fuel your journey towards greater awareness and compassion. Join the Sweat Equity community in exploring the mysteries of existence and the power of human connection.
Spirituality, Gnosticism, and a transformative experience with otherworldly beings. (6:14)
Psychedelic experiences, empathy, and helping others. (15:37)
Disinformation and confusion about UFOs and current events (0:00-5:00)
- Eric discusses the challenge of discerning truth from fiction in UFO reports and news
Lack of meaning and direction in life (5:00-10:00)
- Eric talks about finding meaning through love and empathy
Limited perspective on reality and consciousness (10:00-20:00)
- Eric shares a transformative psychedelic experience that expanded his worldview
Disconnection from others and lack of empathy (20:00-25:00)
- Eric emphasizes the importance of helping others and increasing empathy
Societal anger and aggression (25:00-27:00)
- Eric suggests ways to reduce anger and increase positivity
Homelessness and lack of support for those in need (21:00-23:00, 27:00-29:00)
- Eric proposes creating care packages with essentials for homeless individuals
Government spending and social inequality (27:50-29:00)
- Eric briefly touches on issues of government waste and wealth disparity
UFOs disinformation psychedelics mushrooms spirituality Gnosticism transformation empathy homelessness charity love consciousness self-reflection positivity anger-management sky-gazing social-issues government-spending unity personal-growth otherworldly-experiences mental-health mindfulness self-improvement compassion kindness social-responsibility transcendence enlightenment reality-perception altered-states cosmic-experiences
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Episode Transcript
Eric Readinger: We have the capability to make the world's first bionic man stronger, faster, stop whining.It, oh yeah, you're gonna cry, Kitty baby. It's going
Eric Readinger: to be mental sweat equity podcast with just me, Eric, hang on a second. I'm an idiot, and I'm back. I was on a real, like, actual, long pause. I just had to start a little time thinking, Oh my God, if you're watching, I'm really hot right now because I'm wearing this unicorn blanket slash vest thing, which was supposed to be a gift to law's daughter. Many and my daughter had given she got a bunch of her hand me down stuff together, put in bags, and this was separate, so I wore it outside to see if many wanted it, and she didn't even bother getting it out of the car. First of all, come inside. Trip came right in. Said, Hi, I go up to the the window, and immediately she's less like, what? And I'm like, do you like my outfit now? Okay, don't you see it's a unicorn. You're not a unicorn. I Oh, okay, so you don't want it? No. And then she's figured out a way to roll the window up real slow. So then I wore, I was like, Fine, I'm keeping it. And as I'm wearing, I'm like, it's actually pretty dope. It's hot. Why am I wear this out? I mean, why not? It seems cool. And as I'm walking inside my house, I got this thing on, and I was like, well, she doesn't want it. I was like, Yeah, I'm gonna just take it inside. Well, I'll take it. I was like, well, I'll take it. I'm gonna wear it on podcast. And then we were fighting over it for three seconds, and now I have to wear it because I said it would anyway. Anyways, a lot going on, big things going on, scary things going on. If you're watching the news, North Korea is gonna send troops to Ukraine. That's cool. How's that not terrible? Like, that's one thing. And then apparently the Supreme Court just said that the President can do whatever they want, which is just almost as terrible. I want to talk about all the details of it, because it's really depressing. If you're watching, you also see that I'm sitting in a nice, comfy chair. What were we doing, sitting in those bar stools old time like fucking assholes. This is way better. I'm chilling right now. Oh man, I could go for hours sitting up business so serious does help me pay attention. But if it's me talking, I don't have to pay attention. Yeah, I mentioned the news because, you know, I started getting back into this solo podcast thing, talking a lot about UFOs and saying, Hey, things seem bad everywhere. Maybe we should use this otherworldly interference as a sign to get our together. You know, because it's, it's scary, man, and I'm not one to sound the alarm bells ever. Like, last person to sound the alarm bells, I am, like, looking at the guy who's supposed to sound them and being like, Hey, you got your finger over that thing? Are you ready? Like, just be ready. Because, oh, my God, died so hot microphone, yeah. So when it comes to the UFOs, I've said this before. There's so much shit that comes out every single day, one way or another. This is fake. That's real. This is fake, dude. It's if a disinformation campaign is what they are looking to accomplish. I mean, fucking mission accomplished. Well. Those people don't care. They are all just like nobody cares or not real. Oh, okay. Well, again, like I've said in the past, let's pretend all of its humans, because I actually listened to some guy who was a DARPA researcher of some kind, and he was adamant that at least when it comes to the balls of light in the sky, like they can do that, okay, they can put voices into people's heads, apparently, since, like, the 60s, Manchurian candidates, that I could do that, no problem. Okay, I guess, I guess it's real. I you know, it's my point being like, it gets to a point where I'm just like, I What do we do with this? What is what's real, what's fake? This shimmer. I've said it before. You know, no, these solid objects are actually solid, and they're moving and there's vibrational frequencies that are resonating to make everything stay together. Also, I can't prove that everybody in my life is a robot that just Powers On When I walk in the room, or that yesterday was my first day of life, and everything before that was implanted memories. I can't prove it, you know, you get real philosophical with it, and you can't prove shit. Nothing's wrong, you know, except one thing, and that's love. I… whether
Eric Readinger: you know, you can believe things that you feel all you want besides that, but like you know, like the love I have for my kids transcends all the things so like, it's really the only truth we have, the only thing that we can point to and be like, okay, that gives this thing shape, that gives it direction, gives it meaning. I I, you know, at least within yourself, because the flip side of that is just how you treat other people. How do they do they feel that love? Is that coming out? You know? So big picture? Yeah, we got to level up. I had planned with this to sort of take a step back and look at or at least tell the story of sort of a huge thing that happened to me years ago that, you know, I think, in one way or another, most people would benefit from the experience. And it was something that really, you know, was like the only true turning point in my life in terms of, like, how I saw the world. This thing that happened to me happened right here, actually, almost exactly where I'm sitting. Oddly enough, I was in this room two of my closest friends, friend of the program, JP, labadiem, paniak pictures and AJ Gonzalez, also known as DJ garbage pussy from garbage garage. You know, we're real close. So like we had eaten we had eaten mushrooms, magic mushrooms, not crazy amount, nothing otherworldly. That would point to a definite reason as to why it happened this time and no other time. But, you know, JP and I especially are very close mentally, you know, we share and whatnot, but that night, you know, we had just, I. Gotten in here and just were like, for whatever reason, at one point, you know, the right music came on. We all had our eyes closed. We all sort of, we're looking inward to whatever, um, uh, side side note. This was coming at a time when I had just learned about uh, Gnosticism, and it kind of blew my mind. Quick review, Gnosticism, similar to the word agnosticism, but without the A so the opposite, I guess, at the time, I had learned about this idea, and the idea being the way I understood it at the time that what if the God that everybody worships in me, in this world, is the opposite. What if the devil was the good guy? What if? And it like, not saying I believe that, or I believe one thing or another, but the way it it lined up with just man, there's a lot of fighting over religion, you know, like that. Really, what God wanted. God that loves everybody wants that, you know? So when you think about that, like, that sort of thing, like, really was like, whoa. Like, that kind of blew my mind. So anyways, back to the mushrooms. We're in this room, and we had some music playing. It was Yahoo king without a crown. I'll never forget it, obviously. And had my eyes closed, and there's just a weird sort of vibrational thing that starts happening. And it's just like I'm sitting here with my eyes closed, thinking like there's something else here, saying, Do you want to go? Do you want to go with me? Remember, eyes closed, complete darkness, aside from the insane, indescribable light colors that I could say and I'm sitting there and, okay, let's give it a shot. Let's go. It's like, Are you sure? Uh huh. Let's do it. And then…with
Eric Readinger: perfect timing with the song, somehow, pew, I'm on this crazy blue electric highway that looked like, I don't know it looked like I was inside cell, like a plant cell or something. And snap a finger, I'm just I'm in outer space. I don't fucking know it was devoid of color. It was dark, I guess, besides the giant burning ball of what looked like molten lava just sort of chilling there. Okay, so I'm there, and for some reason, I know that there's two other things there with me, and for another stupid reason, I sat there and said, Give me the light. Never said those words before in my life, never thought those words, but I just met you, two otherworldly beings. Give it to me, and I remember there being, like, hesitation, not for me, like on the other side there's hesitation, like, Are you sure? Yeah, yeah. So this giant molten rock thing, and has this like looks like a pipe come out of it and go right into quote, unquote me, and I'm receiving the light. What that means. But it was a feeling like I've never felt before, and I can remember specifically, it feeling like, Is this too much? And the other things that were there asking each other, are we sure about this? I even think about this. You sure about that? Should do it take two, but I'm not gonna You sure about that? Yeah, I'm sure about it. So I was getting the light. I don't know why, what? Why? I don't know. I. I do. I remember this feeling of like, sort of pity from these other things, as it felt like I was being cooked from the inside. The only description I can give is similar to like in The Green Mile when they don't wet the sponge on the guy's end, he just frying. That's what I was like. I mean, okay, you know. And I don't recall if it, it just sort of stopped in the middle of it, I guess. And or it took as much as it could, and then I was back back here, right where I'm sitting now, just left to deal with that. Okay, now I know we can leave our bodies, did it? Now, this is obvious for anybody who's ever smoked DMT, because that's like a non negotiable situation, but this, this mushroom thing, was very it felt negotiated almost. I don't know how to put it, but, yeah, that fucking really changed my life. I can't I came out of that just, you know, it's very, it's a trope that, you know, we're all one, and I, you know, but I just really started to feel the thing, weight is the right word. But like, I just, I was definitely more empathetic. I was definitely feeling more inclined to spread love, to use whatever talents I might have to do that. But yeah, it was, it wasn't this religious experience. It was very like, it was like going and getting my little changed or something, or getting something you know, wasn't like you're going to go out and you're going to help poor people. Now say nothing to me about what I should be doing, you know, but I kind of got the idea. Fun side note, this was after I had dropped a knife on my butt years ago, and I had an achy foot for years after that, after driving and things, and that night I was like, anything's possible. And that night I was like, I'm gonna go inside my brain. I'm gonna travel down and I'm gonna heal my foot from the inside. And I did that, and my foot doesn't hurt ever now. Years ago, this happened over 10 years ago. I think close. So I guess I tell you that just because maybe, like, that's sort of like helping prove what I'm saying. All doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what happened to me? It matters. What comes of it? You know, drink break. It's our dog on this long bomb. A cost over a lot of things, one because it's fucking hot, but also just because I do kind of want to just get to like, something positive we can all be doing here, because it wasn't just me who also had a life changing experience. JP, did as well. AJ doesn't even talk about so much, but, JP, you know he he was probably further along the road than I was already, but, like, it definitely changed who he was for the better. Definitely changed me, who I was for the better. But it did end up causing, you know, some hardships just because there's no way around seeing people differently, you know, so. What's important or having what's important realign for you. So, you know, it's nobody's fault or whatever, it just happens. But yes, let's get back to the number one thing that came out of my experience was just like, man, what can I do realistically that won't, you know, kill me, that won't put me bankrupt, that won't, you know, be a huge pain in the ass. And it was these bags for homeless people. These ones are, like, Deluxe ones that I probably went over the top because very generous. Those have MREs in them, which are nice because, you know, people don't have a means to cook. They can just like that. Let's go deodorant and toothpaste and toothbrushes and look, I got a whole thing up. I'm like, Yeah, but let's, let's do stuff like that. Let's level up one little thing at a time. This is what I'm saying. We little step it's Florida for most of us. Doesn't matter if it's summer, it's a rainy season. And JP and I were talking about like, oh, well, can we put in these things that might be a little bit useful, that, you know, food can get spoiled or lost or eaten by animals or bears. But we were thinking like, get some. There's cheap ponchos on Amazon that you can get who doesn't like having a poncho on the car. That's something that will benefit you. And if you see somebody out, it might be sunny, doesn't matter. Be like, Hey, I know it's sunny outside, but take this for later. They might like that even more, because, think about it, they're not out, you know, doing their thing in the rain, maybe they can't, I'm not trying to, like, say that's what the point increase their hours of work. But, yeah, my whole, my whole thing, you know, everybody love. Everybody has a has a, an origin. It has reason. You know, um, we have to do stuff. We got we got to do better. This is how I end up doing it every I'm just gonna do better. Oh, my God. What could we do? Because I I really believe, on an individual basis, if every single person in the world looked at the positive, looked at things in a loving way, didn't take things personal, you know, fall to five agreements. If that was true, we would have nothing to worry about. Don't got change anybody should change yourself. That's what I feel anybody, any adult, that's what your mission in life is. You have one life to change. You're up because we are on this earth at such a weird time. Man, think that's a coincidence. You think it's, you know, maybe you remember a past life. You think it's a coincidence that we're all here right now. I know that sounds stupid. Hey, I know a lot of this shit sounds stupid. I know I it's, it's all I got. It's the truth. It's how I it happened to me. I hope that truth is something that you can take. Is like, Hey, I mean, I'm not saying this. Or people are gonna eat our faces. I'm just saying hey, like everybody needs to chill the fuck out. Like there's a lot of fucking aggression, so much anger. Nobody knows what to do with it. It's it's a terribly cyclical and spiraling situation, the anger, because it's like you see somebody else, but they get to be angry. What the fuck you know? But it works the other way too. Like, just take a minute step back. There's a fun homework assignment, because when I say what it's like, but when it happens, you'll understand go outside and stare at the sky for 20 seconds. Not you don't have to just looking at clouds or whatever. Standing actually helps, like just to kind of get an idea of what I'm saying, because 20 seconds of just staring at the sky in in 2024 you feel so fucking stupid just admiring beautiful, good. There might even be a rainbow in the sky 20 seconds. Like, what is this guy's problem? What does he see?
Eric Readinger: Like? Do it? Go outside, stare at Sky for 20 seconds, and you'll be like this, and you'll always be like Eric goes right. Oh my god, the point is, man, you we got to recognize that this isn't, this isn't the end. This isn't, uh, this isn't winner take all. This is a carryover run differential comes into play here. Wow, out. Get yourself some ponchos. Get yourself some memories. If you're feeling generous, get bottles of water. Do something. You know what? Free Pass to post it on social media. Too fine. Tag me, nothing. Just fucking do it like encourage other people to do it. Let's make it cool, because to bring it all back around, it's so gross. The issues that we're the nation is facing in terms of money and shit. When you look at the Department of Defense failing six audits in a row, billions upon billions, maybe a trillion dollars, missing, people can't pay their bills. It's not even like we're spending it on bombs and we're complaining about we don't even fucking know where it is. Like, oh no, we spent lots on bombs too. But also we don't know where the other parts of it is, What? What? So with UFOs like there's absolutely money going towards that. There are people hungry when there is plenty to go around for everybody, and some assholes think they're more important or better than other people. And yay. I mean, it's gonna come back on you one way or another. Man like, trust me, they told me, not really. I say they I'm talking about the things in outer space or wherever the fuck it was. Again, I don't know. Doesn't matter. Let's all do better. Let's all go love each other. You know, Eric, everybody love everybody.
Eric Readinger: Okay, I kind of said that one to myself, but I do. I love every single one of you. I might not like all of you, but I love every single one of you. Oh boy oh.
