East Forest x Duncan Trussell – “So What?” – [Official Video 4K]

But let’s say we did find out that  music is coming to us from aliens.  I don’t know that’s gonna change anything at all. I’m excited for the aliens, I’m excited for the   grand revelation of the Galactic brotherhood or  sisterhood or fraternity or sorority or whatever  

The fuck it is — council? Whatever  it may be I’m excited for that but   I don’t know how much it’s gonna change  anything when it comes to being a human. I think it’s just gonna create a nice couple of  years probably where we’re all like “Holy shit,  

We’re part of the galactic federation,”  but then you’re gonna get annoyed. I don’t know if anything changes that  much. Do you ever think about that,   like let’s say the Buddha does show  up let’s say the grand thing happens,  

That Jesus rides in on the lion or whatever,  the thing is shown, the great unveiling. You know then what? You’re still gonna end up on a UFO, flying  through space, you go to the bathroom and   some asshole pissed on the seat and you’re gonna  be like, “What the fuck is wrong with people?”

You know what I mean, you’re still in the  human form, you’re still stuck. You’re   still dealing with the same problems. Won’t go  away. I’m telling you man, this is the truth. The first time I talked to Ram Dass I said  “Are you my guru?” He goes, “Yes. Now what?”  

It was so awesome. Just popped the balloon in the  most brilliant way. Showing me like okay, sure,   you’re still in the situation you were prior.  Nothing is changing here other than, you know,   whatever you thought was going to save you here  or there or that, or this thing, it really isn’t.

And that’s the essence of it all, isn’t it?  It’s still just the moment. Whatever it may be,   the world is flat, we find out the world  is flat, the world is actually flat,   surrounded by ice walls. And on the other side  of the ice walls is where the aliens live. So what?

You still have to eat. You still have  to figure out a way to get food into   your stomach and find shelter and you  still have to have all the same stuff   that you’re dealing with. Meaning to me,  that’s where the liberation is, is because  

You begin to realize you’re still probably  going to run into the same problem.   There might not be a way out through  technology, magic or any external saving factor. Threesomes. That’s the answer. Threesomes. That’ll  do it, that’ll do it. It’ll be threesomes. That’s  

What’s missing from my life. Well then you want  like a sixsome or something. You know what I   mean? Oh that’s not enough, and next thing  you know you’ve got a fucking neural implant   and you’re experiencing what it’s like to have  50,000 dicks getting sucked by black holes, and  

You’re like this isn’t enough. These black holes  actually are not very good at giving blow jobs. “Hey, I can’t get out, I can’t get it out.” Matter of time, if you’re a  god you’re gonna eventually   wonder what happens if you put  your dick in one those things.

No that’s the trick, you put your dick in a  black hole as a god, it sucks you in and blows   you out some other side as a big bang and that’s  probably what we all are. We’re the shattered  

Fragments of a god that stuck its dick in a black  hole. That’s all of every thing that we are. For me, like having kids and a family has been  revelatory for me because sitting around the table   with my family just eating biscuits and listening  to like country music (we’re in the South),  

I have experienced the highest state of  ecstasy and connection with the divine   than any of the crazy things that I have done as  I’ve attempted to gratify my senses, you know? Gathering around a dinner table with people you  love is older than anything. It’s like an ocean.  

It’s been something going on for as long as humans  have been wandering around. We sit together and we   eat and hopefully we look across the fire of the  table at each other and love each other and laugh,  

And then which is why when you finally do get  lucky enough that you’re no longer stuck in   your phone or trying to find just the perfect  match of psychedelics, and fucking and music,   you get lucky enough that you find yourself  just doing something normal like that.

You might have the most incredible relief  when you see, Oh shit, right. This is it.   Nothing’s really changed that much. This is  it. This is where it’s at. All the other stuff,   fireworks. Fireworks show. That to  me is something really beautiful.

I like to make breakfast for the kids. I’m sitting  around the table with these wonderful kids,   we’re eating and playing some  music that my mom really liked and   I’m realizing, in the connection between me and my  kids, and in the something about cooking for them,  

And in the music, and suddenly I realize,  this is my mom. This is my mom now. This   is my mom. I’m with my mom, I’m eating with my  mom right now, and right when I thought that,   Forrest looks up from his pancakes and  goes, “You found me.” It was so wild.

It was just that moment of like,   Oh right. You didn’t go anywhere,  this was always you anywhere. You,   mom. This is all moms. This is all the moms.  All the moms who are, haven’t come to be,   or aren’t in their body anymore. You’ll  find them in those moments where you are  

Just for a second, giving, cause  that’s what the feminine does. There is, in the universe, a thing that we call  mothers, that will hold you when you’re crying   and love you. And the great news is, when  your mom drops her body, she’s still there.

If you want hope, the hope is, guess what? You’re  the one at the wheel here. You’re the one who   can help, you’re the one who can get back on your  meditation cushion, or get back to you therapist,  

Or get back to your exercise routine, or get  back to all of the above. You’re the one who   can do that. That’s the great hope. Try to  find harmony in your house, in your home.   Try to find peace in your home because  that’s where the real change will come from.

And it doesn’t have to be like blood relatives  or anything like that, it’s your community,   it’s the people around you. It might be your  cats. Who know s what it is, it might be your   relationship with yourself, but that’s the hope  part. That’s the hope part. I mean because let’s  

Imagine that it goes the opposite direction  than what everyone’s saying. Let’s imagine   one of these fucking UFOs flies over the planet,  cools it down to the right level, sucks all of the   carbon out of the atmosphere, puts some oil in  the ground, whatever it may be. Evaporates all  

The oligarch and tyrants, and fascists, whatever  it may be. Let’s imagine it happens that way. So what? You’re still going to be of much greater benefit  to the people around you if you‘ve found a way  

To be peaceful and kind. Either way if you want to  find like a rudder for the ship of your existence,   of your incarnation, I think that  rudder is exactly what Ram Dass said,   “we work on ourselves so we can help the people  around us.” That’s the hope. That’s the only hope.

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