If you're looking for a book to explain psychedelic science to you, read this. Pollan does a masterful job walking through the history of psychedelics and where we are today. He also discusses his own journey using psychedelics when he was initially very skeptical about their healing power.
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Set and setting are the most important for psychedelic experiences
The right psychedelic experiences tend to be transient and last for a while
‘Our task in life precisely of letting go of fear and expectations in an attempt to purely give ourself to the impact of the present’
Look up Trametes versicolour - mushroom that kills cancer
The biggest organism on earth is a mushroom - a honey fungus in Oregon that is 24 miles wide
Psilocybin causes decreased blood flow to the DMN which leads to ego dissolution (similar to meditation)
Under hallucinogens, your brain becomes more interconnected. Regions that didn’t use to connect are now much more connected
The key driver of psychedelic experiences is ego death
The posterior singulate cortex is the centre of the DMN
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