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Jun 13, 2018

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…riffiths’ studies have observed a similar decrease in the DMN functioning of long-term meditators. “Much of meditation reduces egoic control, and that maybe happens with psilocybin, and this is why with both meditation and psilocybin, people are brought into the compelling experience of the present moment. They become intensely aware of awareness; they just collapse into the present moment,” Griffiths says.

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Popular message of Americans, “be here, now.” Yet we vilify the very drugs that can save us from self-obsession. By observing we are changed. I think Heisenberg said that.

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