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Re:How ayahuasca changed my perspective by splithalf on Monday May 03, 2021 @12:04PM (#27026777)
“ human brains are wired in such a way that we tend to hallucinate similar things?”

Yes, somewhere between jung and Oliver sacks — a biological basis for the collective unconscious. Religion IMO offers the most parsimonious explanation, to date.

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Re:How ayahuasca changed my perspective by galaxyLogic on Monday May 03, 2021 @12:18PM (#27026959)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origin_of_Consciousness_in...
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Re:How ayahuasca changed my perspective by serverholic on Monday May 03, 2021 @02:00PM (#27028466)
I think it is much more likely that what he is hallucinating is a representation of how the brain stores information.
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Re:How ayahuasca changed my perspective by pmoriarty on Monday May 03, 2021 @01:32PM (#27028044)
"a biological basis for the collective unconscious"

This is in fact what Jung believed... long before Oliver Sacks.

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