Tag: Carhart-Harris
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The Mechanism — The Lock, Not the Room
This post explores the default mode network in the brain and its role in shaping self-perception and social cognition. It discusses how psychedelics and meditation can alter this network, leading to ego dissolution. The author connects these insights to historical narratives and the challenges in understanding direct experiences within various traditions, emphasizing the importance of…
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You Have Never Seen Reality As It Is, Episode 14 Part 1
The reducing valve has been filtering your reality since the moment you were born. Henri Bergson proposed it in 1896 — not as metaphor, but as mechanism. The brain’s function is not to produce consciousness. It is to reduce it. To compress the full spectrum of what is real into a narrow band of what…
