episode NINETEEN: As Above, So Bananas

Explicit content warning

01/19/24 • 106 min

"The book made me feel like I was getting a warm hug from a stranger. And not just any stranger... a stranger that I may or may not have known in a past life!" - Banana Ice

🍌🥶

In this lime (in a coconut), Banana Ice and Holy Shiver (AKA Alessandra Veronesi) turn their minds inwards, "unpeel themselves" from the inside out, and walk each other home after experiencing Christ Consciousness in a supermarket.

Nutrition Facts:

A New Banana, Alessandra's self-help book about embracing life and cultivating healthy relationships
the inspiring wisdom of Hermetic teachings like "As above, so below..." and the idea that the universe exists within (and without) all of us
humans sharing more than 50% of their DNA with bananas?
refreshing perspectives on romance and dating in a post-pandemic world
shedding the layers of who we think we are to become our most authentic Selves

Credits for musical interludes/segments featured in this episode:

Blue Dot Sessions
Macroform
The Golden Moons

Find Alessandra (AKA Holy Shiver) on Instagram, YouTube, and her website. Check out her books (discussed in the episode) below:

***

Get 3 free meditations from Holy Shiver

"The book made me feel like I was getting a warm hug from a stranger. And not just any stranger... a stranger that I may or may not have known in a past life!" - Banana Ice

🍌🥶

Nutrition Facts:

A New Banana, Alessandra's self-help book about embracing life and cultivating healthy relationships
the inspiring wisdom of Hermetic teachings like "As above, so below..." and the idea that the universe exists within (and without) all of us
humans sharing more than 50% of their DNA with bananas?
refreshing perspectives on romance and dating in a post-pandemic world
shedding the layers of who we think we are to become our most authentic Selves

Credits for musical interludes/segments featured in this episode:

Blue Dot Sessions
Macroform
The Golden Moons

Find Alessandra (AKA Holy Shiver) on Instagram, YouTube, and her website. Check out her books (discussed in the episode) below:

***

Get 3 free meditations from Holy Shiver

Previous Episode

Do I Dare Disturb the Metaverse? (Solo Sesh #1)

What's this, another bonus episode? A glitch in the matrix? 3 bonus episodes in a row... Hockey fans might consider this a hat trick. 🪄🎩 In this first-ever solo episode (recorded in February, 2023), Jonah contemplates the possibility of making season 2 of Overthinkers Anonymous and reflects on the pandemic's psychological impacts on society—from collective paranoia, to the way everyone seems entirely off their rockers, to the way that technology has permeated every aspect of our lives. Let's pick up the fragments of our shattered reality together, fellow overthinkers. Title inspired by "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by ⁠T.S. Eliot⁠ 👏👏👏 Credits for musical interludes/segments in this episode:

Blue Dot Sessions
William Blue

Next Episode

episode TWENTY: Consciousness in a Nutshell

“You are an individual, unique piece of this whole that we are all part of, and it’s not complete without you.”

– Lindy Nelson

🧠🌰🪷

In this psychonautical odyssey, some sober guy named Tom (NOT from Myspace) is joined by two lovely humans, Jay and Lindy Nelson, authors of a book titled Consciousness in a Nutshell, to crack open the endlessly complex black box that is consciousness.

This episode won't teach you more than a 4-year degree — but it's more compact, less costly, and lightyears more enjoyable than a lecture from an uptight professor who insists on everyone calling him "Doctor." (You know who you are, Dr. Robert. 👀)

Turn on, tune in, and D̶R̶O̶P̶ O̶U̶T̶ voyage inward with us!

Course Outline:

The enlightening potential of Creative Nonfiction storytelling
Self-awareness: is it possible to truly perceive yourself the way others perceive you?
Social media algorithms pushing outlandish conspiracy theories (like Dave Chapelle being replaced by a clone of himself)
Jay’s revelatory Near Death Experience (NDE) — “The Life Review Boomerang”
Altered States 101: how to override the narrative self (EGO) and the default mode network (DMN), with or without psychedelics

Credits for musical interludes/segments in this episode: