How Psychedelics Open Reality

You had an experience with mescaline when you were very young. Yeah. Gave you a different perception of reality, the doors of perception, according to Alice Huxley. But that's we're learning now is that. And there's a book called Altered Traits by our friend Dan Goleman and Richard Davidson. Yes. That talks about the biology of what happens with meditation, which is the. The quieting of this part of your brain called the default mode network. That is where the ego is active. The sense of separateness, the sense of sort of unique identity that keeps us disconnected from others and from reality. And when you take mescaline or LSD or psilocybin, it also does the same thing. It's a shortcut. Now, what they found was in these Olympic meditators. These guys have been in Tibetan caves for 20, 20 years, 40,000 hours. The same thing is going on in their brain. They literally have shut down this part of their brain in a way that's sustainable. And so that gives you a very different sense of reality. And I think that's what you're talking about. People are so attached to their sense of.