How psychedelics work: Fire the conductor, let the orchestra play | Michael Pollan | Big Think
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If your ego had a "location" in the brain, it would be the default mode network, where much of your self-critical mind chatter happens. Taking psychedelics down-regulates this brain network.
Researchers describe the effect of psychedelics as "letting the brain off its leash", or firing the conductor to let the orchestra play. Without the default mode network acting as a dictator, areas of the brain that don't normally interact meet, producing phenomena like hallucinations and synesthesia.
An overactive ego may be what punishes those of us plagued with anxiety, addiction and mental health disorders. Psychedelics can have a beneficial effect by temporarily killing the ego, jogging the brain out of negative thinking patterns.
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MICHAEL POLLAN
Michael Pollan is the author of How to Change Your Mind and seven previous books including Cooked, Food Rules, In Defense of Food, The Omnivore's Dilemmaand The Botany of Desire, which received the Borders Original Voices Award for the best non-fiction work of 2001, and was recognized as a best book of the year by the American Booksellers Association and Amazon.com. PBS premiered a two-hour special documentary based on The Botany of Desire in fall 2009.
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MICHAEL POLLAN: So how do these psychedelics work? Well, the honest answer is: We don't entirely know. But we know a few things. One is, they fit a certain receptor site -- the serotonin 52A receptor -- and they look a lot like serotonin, if you look at the molecular models of them. And in fact, LSD fits that receptor site even better than serotonin does, and it stays there longer, and that's why the LSD trip can last 12 hours.
What happens after that, we don't really know. It's an agonist to that receptor, so it increases its activity. And this, the neuroscientists say, "leads to a cascade of effects," which is shorthand for "don't really know what happens next." But one thing we do know, or we think we know, is that it appears that one particular brain network is deactivated or quieted, and that is the default mode network. This was discovered not very long ago by a researcher in England named Robin Carhart-Harris, who was dosing people with psilocybin and LSD and then sliding them into an MRI machine to take an FMRI, a Functional Magnetic Resonance Image. And the expectation, I think, was that people would see an excitation of many, many different networks in the brain. That's what the kind of mental firework foretold. But he was very surprised to discover that one particular network was down-regulated, and that was this default mode network.
So what is that? Well, it's a tightly linked set of structures connecting the prefrontal cortex to the posterior cingulate cortex to deeper, older centers of emotion and memory. It appears to be involved in things like self reflection, theory of mind (the ability to impute mental states to others), mental time travel (the ability to project forward in time and back) which is central to creating an identity, right? You don't have an identity without a memory. And the so-called autobiographical memory, the function by which we construct the story of who we are by taking the things that happen to us and folding them into that narrative, and that appears to take place in the posterior cingulate cortex.
So to the extent the ego can be said to have a location in the brain, it appears to be this, the default mode network. It's active when you're doing nothing, when your mind is wandering. It can be very self critical. It's where self talk takes place. And that goes quiet. And when that goes quiet, the brain is sort of, as one of the neuroscientists put it, let off the leash because those ego functions, that self idea, is a regulator of all mental activity. And the brain is a hierarchical system and the default mode network appears to be at the top; it's kind of the orchestra conductor or corporate executive. And you take that out of the picture, and suddenly you have this uprising from other parts of the brain, and you have networks that don't ordinarily communicate with one another suddenly striking up conversations. So you might have the visual cortex talking to the auditory system and suddenly you're seeing music. Or it becomes palpable. You can feel it or smell it -- synesthesia. So you have this temporary rewiring of the brain in the absence of the control of the regulator...
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Imagine the people tripping for the first time in an MRI machine
@OneSilentGiant It is. And it's loud and uncomfortable even when you're sober, so those applicants were brave souls (probably very experienced with psychedelics).
I’d do it for some free acid
OneSilentGiant if I’m ever down there I’ll let ya know haha
First thing I thought about Haha
like a john hurt in the altered minds ?
Joe "fire the conductor" Rogan
Joshua B underrated comment
rogan confessed to Pollan that he never really did lsd very much. Leary was writing about this decades ago as well as Robert Anton Wilson and Baba Ram Dass (Richard Alpert). rogan is a right-wing wannabe influencer of children, no learned adult would take him serious, his interview with Dennis McKenna and Pollan were telling of rogan's fakeness.
LOOOL
@@TheTor1193 I'll have to go back and watch those 2 casts. Joe always struck me as standing on the left but casting a shadow that touched on the right. Certainly not far left but just over the line.
Of course imo nobody should consider themselves left or right or even label there views on something as infinitely faceted as politics but, you know, tribalism and such. How bout everyone just be a free thinker and debate subjects rather than partisan politics? Lolol
Also what @Alexander Supertramp said :-)
Lsd is fun but mushrooms completely washed away my depression.
LSD made me very aware of what is making me depressed, and therefore I can combat it. Mushrooms just made me giggly.
ak .fortyseven 100% correct.
McKenna was an advocate of shrooms over lsd
John Way everyone has there own medicine one may work better than the other... heck people use mdma and dmt to get rid of there depression as well. Lsd can also make people become better versions of there selfs by look at them selves in a different perspective. Many scientist use it to open there mind and look at there problems in a different perspective.
John Way funny how mushroo, gave me a temporary depression
"Shaking the snow globe" is very similar to an analogy I came up with. The mind is a bit like having your thoughts, feelings, etc laid out on a table, and when you take a psychedelic, it's like kicking the table from underneath so that everything flies into the air, spins and floats about for a while and when it all settles back onto the table, sometimes, some of it, settles in new ways, that can lead to new ideas and behaviours.
fishy paw good one
N1
fishy paw - Agreed, but I'd like to add the very real and perhaps cleansing notion that some of the things simply fall off the table, which can prove to be a cathartic way for some folks to "trim the fat" from their SELF. Nothing better than shedding dead weight. I truly believe everyone should go on a trip at least once in their lives.
@Get Real Politics Try weed, it's very different to alcohol and definitely an interesting experience, some people don't like it which is fine but it's definitely interesting. I personally prefer it a lot to the point where I get completely euphoric doing everyday stuff while high, just because I'm so marveled at what the fuck life is. Going to school, doing home chores is such an interesting experience on weed ^^
"Shaking the snowball" is my favorite analogy. I was so satisfied when I first came up with it because of how well it fit the essence of those experiences. I was surprised to hear it in this video for the first time, being used by someone else. And now I see even more people use it... I feel mentally related to you all! Keep shaking the snowglobe from time to time.
Suddenly ego death, seeing sound and smelling colors makes a lot of sense.
hearing sounds?
That's crazy talk.
@@crazyba1413 obviously
ABitOfTheUniverse take more and you might experience it. In the video they explain that different parts of the brain interact with each other that normally don’t.
@@Skulltaro There is a guy in the comments who's wrote some good posts about meditation. Find his comments and take his advice, or you know what? Don't assume things about others and don't try to tell others what they should or shouldn't do. Just tell the world in general what you enjoy and what you've disliked about your time being alive. Maybe in the future we can make life on Earth better, given enough time we will make life better for all things.
Also it was a joke. The video talked about tasting sounds and sensory stimulation being crossed, which is interesting. Saying you hear sounds, see light, or feel pressure is absolutely useless information because those are the primary stimulants of those senses. Let us know your brain thinks and your heart beats as well, please. SMH
So, your ego is not dead. Telling other people to be like you, to do what you do, just typical selfish behavior.
Look, drugs are fine, chemistry makes things interesting, from the beginning of life, to the bio-engineering we do today to feed the world, to, all sorts of things we can not even imagine yet in the future. Things that exist outside of the mind, like a warm meal or a particle accelerator. You know, tangible things.
Talking about feeding people's minds by giving them drugs is pretty useless if you don't put good information in there from the start. Like a solid education, love, and encouragement towards creativity. Our world needs good mothers and fathers, more than it needs drugs right now. We need scientists, engineers and doctors of the world to be working where they are needed most, not where the highest paid jobs are. Or shit, there's a thought, why aren't the highest paid jobs on Earth not the ones where the least developed, least productive regions on Earth, being transformed into wellsprings for new life?
Let's take the Sahara for instance why are the people that live on the north coast of Africa, on the Mediterranean, pulling water from the ground thousands of kilometers south? Wouldn't it make more sense to create an inland sea by pumping water *into* the Sahara, and then letting it filter through the ground and evaporate to increase the humidity, so that life had *more* sustenance in the region, and not less? We already have the technology to do that, just look at all the giant pipelines around the globe that stretch across whole continents. Pipes going from the Indian Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Atlantic Ocean could create new inland seas in the Sahara that would turn the whole desert into a lush grassland, filled with crops that could feed, not just all of Africa, but would provide Africa with a wealth of crops to trade to the rest of the world.
That is the kind of thing I'd like to see life accomplish. Food means health for more people and people are the greatest things in the universe. Transform more of the Earth into conscious beings, as we set our sights on the other planets in this solar system and the other stars in the sky. That's not just better living through chemistry, that's *LIFE ITSELF* through chemistry.
And at the end of the day, when some of you want to eat, drink or inhale some mind altering substances, have at it, but don't throw wrenches into the machines that made your life possible from the start. The hardest job for life is going to be to transforming the rest of the mass on this world, into biomass. To increase the net total life, in the universe. So that water, sunlight, air and rock, can be transformed in a being such as yourself, such as me, that can know love, that can know life. Because right now, it can't make any decisions at all, but we can. We can because the efforts of our ancestors, going back not since the dawn of man, or the dinosaurs, but back for billions of years to the dawn of life itself, have made this experience, have made all experiences, possible.
Enough with how it works.. When will it be on Amazon?
You can find it IN the Amazon...
@@EyesOfByes good one..
@Christie Malry nice, all this talk on yt but no tell. Conspiracy or hypocrisy☝😒
@Scott Humphreys hmm 😒 How much and where?
This world is a virtual-reality matrix that is designed such that you must DESIRE; you must SEEK if you are to find Truth. Otherwise you could buy LSD on Amazon or at the local Walgreens. Those who know The Meaning of Life know that the ego is the source of all our problems, and like deep meditation, psychedelics lay the ego aside temporarily so that one can get a glimpse into - or beyond - the virtual-reality matrix that we are experiencing. Want the secrets of the Universe? They're revealed in my book "The Holy Grail is Found." Give me a "click" to learn more.....
Michael Pollan thank you for your work and research
Why oh why has there not been more research on psychedelics? Imagine where we would be if real Scientific research had been started in the 1960s 70s or 80s.
Things that are illegal do not get funding for research
Cos the powers that be do not like the sound of that very much
Actually research on lsd started in the 60s but then they stopped, Google it
Lots of research, just not meant for us to see. Take MK Ultra, for example
Because big pharma companies don't want this research done as it means a significant loss in sales. Corporate greed and capitalsm control it.
Very well explained, videos like these keep me subscribed to Big Think. Science should be explained to the masses in such simple terms so that they embrace it
Part of me agrees with you and part doesn't. While it's great to have the general public interest, and invested in noble concepts. Many times confusion arises from lack of pre required knowledge needed to understand a concept.
Like how can I explain to you transmutation without talking about radioactivity, coulumb forces or the atomic model? And those concepts require even more analysis.
As it turns, the most advanced science can be understood in ONLY the simplest of terms. Max Planck knew this, which is why he found that which Albert Einstein could not, as my book explains. Those who know The Meaning of Life know that the ego is the source of all our problems, and like deep meditation, psychedelics lay the ego aside temporarily so that one can get a glimpse into - or beyond - the virtual-reality matrix that we are experiencing. Want the secrets of the Universe? They're revealed in my book "The Holy Grail is Found." Give me a "click" to learn more.....
Good point but I've yet to see a bad video on this channel, so I'll be staying subscribed regardless of videos like these. This just made channel that much cooler though, because well, psychedelics are great, just be smart and careful with them.
Tom Rhodes I use my ego in my favor to become a better person. Everyone’s different.
I totally agree with the description this guy has articulated. It has such potential benefit, by quieting the ego and allowing the rest of the brain to free associate. SO much can be learned from that.
I fired the conductor...can't tell if he ever came back though....
same my friend
Here's a test to see: If Trump looks like anything other than a selfish human ego to you, your conductor definitely came back. Those who know The Meaning of Life know that the ego is the source of all our problems, and like deep meditation, psychedelics lay the ego aside temporarily so that one can get a glimpse into - or beyond - the virtual-reality matrix that we are experiencing. Want the secrets of the Universe? They're revealed in my book "The Holy Grail is Found." Give me a "click" to learn more.....
@@tomrhodes1629 your conductor is gone too lol
Tom Rhodes I wouldn’t say ego is the source of all problems I find a ego can lend a hand sometimes like when playing music you kind of have a level confidence that borderlines on ego tripping. I would say the lack of balance in the modern world is the source of most problems.
I rehired my conductor as an advisory. Then again he gets fired from time to time when he gets too full of himself and acts like a condutctor again
One of the best vids I've seen in a long while on the subject.
@@JasonFuller He's actually done them several times.
th-cam.com/video/LHIUcch4ISc/w-d-xo.html
@@JasonFuller "He didn't describe my experience, so he must have never tried them"
Sounds pretty egocentric.
Jason Fuller You can have a loss of ego without taking any drugs. You can have a loss of ego while drunk, high, taking psychedelics, or sober. The ego structure is just a thought, and that thought can disappear with or without drugs. So yes, yes you can experience ego loss while taking LSD or Mushrooms. There are countless trip reports of people having ego loss experiences while taking LSD and Mushrooms so Im not even sure what you’re talking about for one, and two, just because someone’s explanation doesn’t fit your ego’s mental paradigms, it does not make it wrong. This is why open-mindedness is so important when trying to understand what is true or analyzing the content’s of a video on the internet.
@@shamerdog Thanks for the patience and my apologies to others in the thread. I just rewatched the video and given the way, he set up the definition of ego, can't figure out what it was that I had a problem with. Perhaps I meant to comment on another video (opened 5-6 Polland videos on the topic at once), or just had this one running at way to fast of a speed. But nothing here seems like it might be setting up a false expectation
LSD made me realize the bad habits I was constantly keeping up to get through the day, and luckily, I got to implement the experience into my life and I'm now getting help for it..
Here's to a bright future everyone!
Incredible writer, researcher, and all around human being. Thank you for delivering knowledge to the world Michael Pollan, my mind is forever changed!
I break myself out of negative loops with nice long walks
I love a daily walk. Isn't it the best?
Unfortunately, I haven't been doing them daily because it's just too damn hot.
Keep walkin'
-Sea
even a lil walk or ride on the bike around the neighborhood, anything connecting me with nature helps me see the sunshine in my own heart
@@sweetsoul3145 bet you don't see music
Just closed the cover to his book and opened my laptop to this recommended from youtube. Google is taking this stalking to the level after next
Question is then. Did u order the book online? Or comment about the book or look it up online from your IP.
I agree and hate the manipulative stalking and identity cloning via internet...(now I wonder if you will see an ad next about cloning or stalking!?!)
I've heard a story once about a father who got pregnancy adds...his daughter was pregnant he found out by the adds...its surreal
Synchronicity. Google has nothing to do with it. Want to know what does? Those who know The Meaning of Life know that the ego is the source of all our problems, and like deep meditation, psychedelics lay the ego aside temporarily so that one can get a glimpse into - or beyond - the virtual-reality matrix that we are experiencing. Want the secrets of the Universe? They're revealed in my book "The Holy Grail is Found." Give me a "click" to learn more.....
Tom Rhodes Google has everything to do with it. Plus certain apps authorize the use of your microphone even when your phone isn’t in use. Read your terms and conditions, look into Data Gate.
Changing Peoples food habits is difficult. I wanted to eat healthier and go plant-based all my life but I was never able to maintain it. After meditating on LSD and planting that want in my subconscious I went plant-based overnight and started eating incredibly healthy. That's one of many things I've convinced my subconscious to change and it stuck. If you learn to get down deep in meditation and boost that with LSD you can change anything about your wants and desires and take back control of your mind. I owe most of getting my life together to LSD and Meditation.
@sandysalads 03 Who is?
@Sam G >Eating a plant-based diet isn't exactly healthy if you mean excluding all animal products.
Source? Can you post research that backs that bold claim?
As long as you supplement B-12 all macro and micronutrients can be easily met on a plant-based diet.
@sandysalads 03 I've literally never met anyone who ate a natural diet. The closest I know was my grandparents who hunted and grew most of their own food but even they indulged in processed and factory farmed food occasionally.
All in all, I find it quite egotistical and ironic that there are people chastising me for doing something I want that harms no one and I'm not trying to force anyone or even suggest anyone else try it on a video about psychedelics. One of the most powerful substances we have that increase empathy and dissolve the ego. I merely told an anecdotal story about psychedelics helping me achieve my own personal goals.
@Sam G Not sure if TH-cam trolls are actually this shitty at trolling these days or if you're just ignorant on the topic.
I love how the sidebar just instantly fills up with Joe Rogan podcast.
Psychadelics are amazing and totally eye opening, but I started to miss the feeling of being in the "other world". I took them more for fun than for learning and clarity, so I haven't taken anything for half a year now.
I remember taking 2 grateful dead fluffs just 2 years ago with a buddy of mine . We were hanging out in a park alone with nobody around us . We were staring at the sky when I saw an airplane . For some reason I went into a tangent about how he sucks and he thinks he's so cool for flying a plane and basically tearing down this random person for no reason . Then in an instant I snapped away from that perspective and said something along the lines of " but he's actually responsible for thousands of people's lives on a daily basis and contibutes more to the world than we presently do " . My buddy nearly broke down and had a revelation about how blind judgement is a downside of our ego and became more conscious in the process. Reading this back , it doesn't seem all that monumentus. However in that moment it felt like we had figured out world peace . Long story short l.s.d and other psychedelics are a very Strange and delightful tool for insight and growth . But they can also make you have revelations which enhance yourself but cause you distress when you see others who haven't recieved their awakening .
Pleased to be seeing so many videos about psychedelics lately. The world is starting to wake up. If we can decimate the cultural narrative that psychedelics are inherently harmful and/or “evil”, the path to our collective awakening will be much easier.
This is the best and easiest to digest information about psychedelics. Thank you for the research, Michael Pollan!
MRI scans were mentioned. I can't imagine how that would be to experience under the influence of a psychedelic like LSD. The MRI scanners I've been in tend to make loud klaxxon type noises, as well as hammering sounds that are almost deafening, all surrounding you from inside of what resembles a large canister. I would think that would be very unpleasant and jarring to the nerves while tripping.
@I'm Josiah By all means, go for it. Let us know how the trip was. Maybe it'll be like a trip to a Sound Museum. 😃
th-cam.com/video/o_ETFQKZ31g/w-d-xo.html
What video subjects besides psychedelics and meditation do you see people in the comments with such positive experiences in combating depression? Also, people generally being nice to each other.
I take Acid at points to help me with my Bipolar, it can often help lift my head out of the place it is stuck - I pre-plan a full day, roll a shit load of joints too, pop it and then I usually take the train to the beach, take a big walk along it - meet a friend for a bit and have a drink and chat (if I'm able) - then just head back to the beach. It should be noted it is a beach devoid of people, I find a quiet spot and I just settle in, let the clouds go by and sit outside reality and look at how stupid the world really is.
Loved this, thanks.
First mushroom experience this weekend for me. 32 years old. Spending a weekend on an Island with friends. The island is Galiano, off the coast of BC. It’s a magical place. A perfect place to dial in set and setting:
DWNtoERTH just had them last week for the 4th time on a beach in charlo NB w friends, the coasts are great place to let ur mind go wandering
Set your intentions, learn meditation amd mindfulness, let go, remember you are safe and you are not your thoughts. All things learned will fade like a dream, if need be. Do not fear the monkey mind trying to tell you what is happening to your mind.
It's SO safe and healing, just gotta work with meditation, mindfulness/self awareness and the ego...
It seems to give people trouble sometimes. Once you navigate that, Jesus Christ it's your literal birth place and birth right.
Lastly, the trip is a rabbit whole. You drop, bounce up real high, and go through some layers. It fades over 6-8hrs. Don't smoke weed until after the peak unless experienced(people reading).
Read guides and trip reports.
With mindfulness, you cannot fail(people do fail at mushrooms).
Ily
Thanks for explaining the "get out of the loop" idea. It makes a lot of sense.
well articulated and explicated !!
Brilliant and articulate explanation. New insights even for someone who's been interested in these chemicals and ideas for a long time. Many thanks.
This guy just broke down my last 2 years of depressione in 2 sentences. I ve felt overwhelmed by self destructive toughts and feel like the endless loop of these toughts is killing me inside slowly. I cant remember things like i used to. I have very low self confidence and at the slightes mistake/error i m so critikal of my self that i end up hating myself even more and that keeps the fueling the cycle of negativity i just cant get out with how my life is now. Once a year i leave for 4 weeks of military service and its a the only time of the year where i m either so occupied or have so many ppl to talk to that my brain has no time for self destructive toughts, but as soon as i finish and get back in my routine i m back at start and just feel like i want to die so i wont cause any more problems to the people around me
At 0:17 he says psychedelics fit the “serotonin 5-2A receptor”
It’s actually called the “5-HT2A” receptor. 5-HT = 5-hydroxytryptamine, which is the chemical name for serotonin. “2A” specifies the receptor subtype, as there are different kinds of receptors that are activated by serotonin.
One of the most interesting videos I have seen in a long time! Thanks TH-cam!
I love the title here, so fitting.
When ego perishes, hides, or simply stops the mystical connection to all things become one with you and you with the one. I feel sorry for anyone who doesn’t embark on the siko-delicate path. Peace A’ho.
One thing I know first hand is LSD and similar psychedelics can act as powerful, long lasting antidepressants.
The theory presented in this clip made perfect sense to me at some very visceral level. I regularly seem to get "stuck" in some default mode of thinking about myself and my current life situation, which in the long run breeds boredom and depression, but LSD always helps me see things under a different lens.
And colors. Never forget about the colors.
Mushrooms helped me more, both are equally valueable. Everybody is different.
Perhaps Ayahuasca is 100x better, who knows?!?!
Thank you for explaining my teen years.
Thank you.
Fantastic video man..
Wow great step
Oh thanks for explaining Synesthesia. When I sing my self I shuts down. So you're right i can see the colors in music. So it does work.
Very rarely you hear an expert say..."we don't really know..at least the full picture"
The more you know the more you realize how much you dont know.
Just recently read The Omnivore’s Dilemma. Super enjoyable and insightful stuff. Would like to get my hands on some more of his books
Seeing music is an understatement
Wow such a beautiful title and analogy
Fantastic description of the brain’s systems working
Read this guys book entitled how to change your mind 👍
josh frontiero how is it?
@@quintenalserda2444 it's not bad, you'll really get into it, it gets really good towards the end though
Lsd connects you to your true self, and its great
This was absolutely amazing and mind altering information. Thank you for this insight to the abilities of LSD and the use of them to treat mental illness
I can relate to the interconnection theory from my experience of seeing Interstellar in cinema, with no drugs mind you. During the end credits I was in, more or less, a state of shock. Not only mind blown but severely mindf***ed. I exited the cinema into the empty late evening streets, and just crashed emotionally. Seeing Interstellar fired every single neuron in my brain and opened the emotional floodgates. Every kind of emotion simutaniously, BANG! I actually don't remember half of the movie (except the blackhole scene). The movie, the music, the sounds, they all nuked away my default system. In some way it was like I had been blind and def my whole life and then suddenly being able to see and hear at the same time. I felt like the people on youtube who get their hearing implants activated. Mentally overwelmed.
So this video explains a lot on WTF happened to my brain that magical night.
#InNolanWeTrust #HansZimmer
That's powerful
not as powerful, but had the same sense watching that movie.
Nothing teaches like experience. This world is a virtual-reality matrix that is designed such that you must DESIRE; you must SEEK if you are to find Truth. Those who know The Meaning of Life know that the ego is the source of all our problems, and like deep meditation, psychedelics (or spontaneous experiences such as you had) lay the ego aside temporarily so that one can get a glimpse into - or beyond - the virtual-reality matrix that we are experiencing. Want the secrets of the Universe? They're revealed in my book "The Holy Grail is Found." Give me a "click" to learn more.....
More people should listen to this guy
Makes sense.
Thank goodness information like this exists! 2019 is the catalyst for the psychedelic revolution
TOR and Crypto making psychedelics more widely distributed and availability of information on the internet are what I think really did it.
Michael Pollan is a national treasure.
ProPaleo I second this.
Cool, I just got the book
I have used and enjoyed LSD, Psilocybin, DMT and Salvia Divanorum hundreds of times and this presentation makes sense. The loss of "self". The little voice definitely shuts off. One of the many fun aspects of a deep trip is coming down, the reintegration of memories and personality, an "oh yeah" sensation. But that doesn't explain something like synesthesia, or does it. Is smelling colors a loss of executive functioning?
I think the temporary synesthesia results from the down regulation of the control mechanisms that implement rigid interpretations of sensory input and cognition. Basically allowing sensory "wires" to cross.
Could you give any recommendations on how to best use Salvia?
Changing food habits for the better has been pretty easy for me... I can shift my habits like water. Maybe it's the numerous psychedelic experiences I have had that provided me with a framework to adapt. I for one, support structure psychedelic experiences and retreats! :D
Can u also explain breakthrough
Get Paul stamets on BIG Think ! lol. Then again, he's done a Ted Talk already
Lets try it 🔥🔥🔥
So the default mode network is basically the ego: Great insight!
With years of practicing ZEN, I couldn't overcome my ego as radically as I could with Amanita Muscaria. (But ZEN forms a solid foundation and is part of my daily routine). Habits become recognizable when the over-activity from the default mode network decreases and can then be changed. The noise of the inner voices decreases: my self-deprecations are stopped, exposed and can thus be tackled. How else can self-love be developed?
Be careful with the dosage - less is usually more ;-)
Starts video: “we don’t know”
Have you ever experienced multiple streams of thought at once? It’s the strangest thing to observe.
Trav in the Box I agree, the feeling is as though you are not a single unified person anymore.
As someone who struggles w/ racing, intrusive thoughts all the time, I am open to the idea of traveling abroad someday, maybe to Germany or Canada to try Ketamine psychotherapy where it's legal (I'm from Ireland). I've been on anti-depressants for years and I've even been on an anti-psychotic for several months. While Lexapro and Quetiapine has helped, I still struggle and it makes it hard to just focus and have a clear mind on a regular basis. So Idk maybe I should consider going abroad for something more experimental.
Psychedelics is on the verge of changing psychiatric medicine and help treating treatment resistant depression. Very interesting video.
This guy reminds me of scooby1961, even the way he speaks and the intonation
I appreciate that.
Ok, i am in, so where do i start,what do i take?
I want to get involved in this movement. I am both fascinated by the production of these substances in fungi and the lab, but I'm also excited about the therapy potential for all of this. I'm at a stand still as to where to go next. Does anyone have any suggestions?
I have a suggestion. Read my book if you want to know, intellectually, the secrets of the Universe. This is therapy, indeed. Because, this world is a virtual-reality matrix that is designed such that you must DESIRE; you must SEEK if you are to find Truth. Those who know The Meaning of Life know that the ego is the source of all our problems, and like deep meditation, psychedelics lay the ego aside temporarily so that one can get a glimpse into - or beyond - the virtual-reality matrix that we are experiencing. Want the secrets of the Universe? They're revealed in my book "The Holy Grail is Found." Give me a "click" to learn more.....
Thanks Mike Pollan. Please make a omparison between the hallucinogens and THC. Here at the dawn of medical and legal canabis we need a better grasp of what the cabinoids do in the CNS.
I feel like comparing psychedelics and THC is a very apple to oranges comparison. They have some similarities but are completely different experiences. However, high doses of edible THC can feel a lot like psychedelics but they still don't shut down the ego which is why a lot of people experience paranoia on THC.
It's like forgetting who you are, and going forward with a clean slate.
Did he by any chance mean the 5-HT2A receptor instead of 52A receptor? Because I couldn't find anything about the 52A receptor.
Yes he did
He's right
So what about meditation? When you’re focusing on say, the breath, you shut off the self talk mode and ego and almost everything else for that moment. You also shift away from the brains default mode, is it sort of the same thing?
Btw I have awful anxiety and depression but I hope to be well enough one day to try lsd or another psychedelic, I only hear great things and I truly want to feel what free really feels like.
Yes, but it is much more difficult without chemical assistance, to the point where most people don't really get very far. It is possible not only to go as deep as with psychedelics but even to get a full blown trip by meditating, but it takes a lot of dedication.
How does one become a test subject? Down for the cause
we should expand our view to what do psychedelics do to our nervous system, which also includes the intestines and the heart!
I've never tried any like mushrooms or LSD, but Salvia is like a miracle drug for my digestive health when smoked. The trips are weird as fuck but I feel great for days afterward lmao
I call it putting my brain in a blender. Or liken it to taking my brain out and leaving it by the side of the road for the night. 😁 good times, really good 👌🇬🇧
"Michael Pollan" sounds like the Spoderman version of Michael Palin
This video is five stars
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I hope it was one of the newer, more open MRI machines. You’re not giving me a hit of acid and putting me in one of those older tunnels.
So all the stuff they’re saying gets quieted to help cause the “trip” is what meditation purposefully tries to quiet. Science is finally learning what I knew when I was a teenager tripping. It’s a temporary, artificial meditative enlightenment.
Fear & Ego is the enemy
what you recist persists. Recognize it, analyse it, accept it and put in back in its place where it belongs to get back in control instead of beeing controlled.
Your ego and fears are mostly cultural programming and to a lesser degree genetic programming. Shake of everything to get a glimpse of who realy is behind that illusory and artificial mask claiming to be you.
Quiets the Default Mode Network? You mean exactly like Meditation does? That is extremely interesting.
Oh nice. You noticed. There are two different ways to suppress the default network. Meditated and did psychedelics. Meditation was like rolling a snow ball up a hill and making it bigger. Psychedelics are acute so it’s like sky diving. Since psychedelics are hallucinogenic it’s hard to train with it in daily life. Ends up I bet they have to take the drugs for a long time to scratch at the surface of meditation. Since it’s slow and can be done anywhere anytime. Thus you can use it to see into your behaviour and others behaviour in real time. I found a mix was best. For maximum effect I suggest just using meditation until reaching kensho. Then after a few months in full kensho drop a psychedelic in. It will cause a deep state of equanimity to arise directly after the hallucinogen has worn off that will last a week or two if you haven’t used psychedelics before. Then enter kensho again immediately after the psychedelic wears off or before the taste of equanimity wears away and drop into a state of deep equanimity while in kensho. It’s awesome.
There might be a third waiting for ya to do studies on it. It’s dreaming. Lucid dreaming can be used as a gateway to being awake while the body sleeps. Then using concentration clarity and equanimity as described in the unified mindfulness system of which shinzen is co author or something one can alter states of awareness at will. So while in a gaba induced state of sleep one can meditate into different states of awareness as well as have out of body experiences. But you lucid dream into the state first. Again using clarity concentration and equanimity. So much to learn. There are other arts too.
Personally the hallucination means nothing to me. It’s an experience. The drop into equanimity after is very useful. It can teach beginners mind and right effort. So for me it’s a tool for changing behaviour. In a positive manner when done correctly. When they treat the hallucination like it’s real it will cause confusion.
So the psychedelic is in lieu of what I see as training on the second key insight. So no beatings or Sundance required.
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This world is a virtual-reality matrix that is designed such that you must DESIRE; you must SEEK if you are to find Truth. Those who know The Meaning of Life know that the ego is the source of all our problems, and like deep meditation, psychedelics lay the ego aside temporarily so that one can get a glimpse into - or beyond - the virtual-reality matrix that we are experiencing. Want the secrets of the Universe? They're revealed in my book "The Holy Grail is Found." Give me a "click" to learn more.....
Tom Rhodes the ego is not the source of suffering. Ignorance is the source. We evolved into existence and there was no welcoming party to tell us how to human. It has taken this long to figure out this much. Nor do I require meaning or truth to find fulfillment in life. A drug that causes hallucinations cannot be used as proof of that other stuff you mentioned hence why it’s a hallucination. Truth is a desire. Meaning is a desire. We live we die. There is nothing bleak about this. But we desire more and what we have no longer will suffice. And thus people seek meaning where there is none and an escape from this reality which does not relent. It will take a long time though before people can see that. Their legs are not strong enough yet since everyone keeps making sure that it’s difficult to learn to stand on ones own without any external power or meaning to help ease the pain like morphine given to a dying patient. And until then meditation and psychedelics will have to do. They point towards don’t know. It is up to the individual to get to know. Know this if the teacher did not teach such things outside this reality the student would not desire it nor would they seek it and still enlightenment would be theirs. This tells me a lot.
Yup, on shrooms you can see textures moving along with music that you’re listening too
When I play Pinball I can enter into a Flow State where time dilates and I separate from Ego.
Cool. How do I get LSD now?
through the valley you must walk.
the dark web
@@NeoStoicism Isn't it the silk road?
onions are your friend
Lysergi.com for LEGAL analogs that are close enough structurally.
Grab an organic chemistry degree if you don't believe me.
Dopamine Dude
I read that apparently they’re scamming people
Found the IndoleShop and placed an order this week so i really am looking forward to finally get some after months of not having done actual acid
I hear colours too
Holy shit - this is it!
The older we get, the worse it gets.
No, no... the older you get, the more stubborn you get. The state of mind needs to be free of thought in order to obtain what is to come. But before something happens, one must understand that shortcuts won't get you anywhere.
Dis guy talk good
The brain is NOT a thought generator it is a FILTER.
A good book on whether the narrative you create is ‘you’ is ‘the man who wasn’t there, investigations into the new science of the self’ (anil anathswamy)
You are absolutely correct. The brain actually LIMITS frequencies just as a television or radio tuner does, focusing on a very narrow band. This world is a virtual-reality matrix. And it is designed such that you must DESIRE; you must SEEK if you are to find Truth. Those who know The Meaning of Life know that the ego is the source of all our problems, and like deep meditation, psychedelics lay the ego aside temporarily so that one can get a glimpse into - or beyond - the virtual-reality matrix that we are experiencing. Want the secrets of the Universe? They're revealed in my book "The Holy Grail is Found." Give me a "click" to learn more.....
@@tomrhodes1629 ego is not just the source of all our problems, it a vital step in evolutionary and maturing process. But if we get stuck there by cultural programming for example it becomes a problem.
As for the "Holy Grail". i dont know your theroy but in my experience its not an golden chalice but a body of flesh and blood.
TL;DR: It gives you a spiritual awakening.
Killing self ego
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This is seriously a dumbass meme but i fucking chuckled regardless
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Does taking psychedelics have a long term effect on the activity of the default mode network?
Christian Bailey yes
It teaches you to ignore the ego more. Like you'll learn to take control of your brain instead of your brain controlling you. Meditation can also do this.
Sent this to my parents in an email. Maybe now they'll understand what I mean when I say I cant comprehend living at there age without having tried a single psychedelic. How the hell do I sign up for these tests? Lmao, this is human evolution and I want to be a part of it.
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"Fire the Conductor, let the orchestra play" is a pretty good metaphor, but I think I came up with a better one.
So Image your brain is like a Prison Population. Not only do the prisoners follow the rules of the prison, but they also have their own strict social rules which they must follow. i,e, Don't talk to other races or interact with other gangs. Each gang or race has strict rules they must follow as well. Imagine the brain as a large prison population with many races and gangs. Normally, these races/gangs of the brain are real strict in their clique behaviors. Each prisoner and their race/gang represents a certain brain region and brain groups. When psychedelics are taken, something beautiful happens that would NEVER happen normally. The cell doors are opened , the prisoners take off their shirts, and they all have an electric dance party together and the guards join in!
Philosophers and drug enthusiasts are going to love this video.
Here's some info that will take philosophers far beyond what LSD can show them: This world is a virtual-reality matrix that is designed such that you must DESIRE; you must SEEK if you are to find Truth. Those who know The Meaning of Life know that the ego is the source of all our problems, and like deep meditation, psychedelics lay the ego aside temporarily so that one can get a glimpse into - or beyond - the virtual-reality matrix that we are experiencing. Want the secrets of the Universe? They're revealed in my book "The Holy Grail is Found." Give me a "click" to learn more.....
@@tomrhodes1629 Isn't forcing a book created by yourself a way of forcing your ego onto someone?