Re:Is the psychedelic therapy bubble about to burst?
by naasking on Saturday September 03, 2022 @05:57PM
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> Trying to “map it out” in complete detail would be like trying to map out sex. I’m not convinced I can fully explain my experience, and even if I did, I bet your experience would be different from mine.
That's exactly right. I think of it like this: you've spent a lifetime building and entrenching filters around your perceptions and thought patterns to react to them. They persist because in evolutionary terms you being still alive means your behaviour is "adaptive" in a sense, irrespective of how you actually feel.
Psychedelics temporarily tear down most of those filters and
disrupt those thought patterns, allowing you to perceive things in very novel ways and react to hem very differently.
Nobody's thought patterns or filters are going to be the same and so nobody's psychedelic experience will be the same even though many of them will have similarities (we are the same species in the same culture after all).
That's exactly right. I think of it like this: you've spent a lifetime building and entrenching filters around your perceptions and thought patterns to react to them. They persist because in evolutionary terms you being still alive means your behaviour is "adaptive" in a sense, irrespective of how you actually feel.
Psychedelics temporarily tear down most of those filters and disrupt those thought patterns, allowing you to perceive things in very novel ways and react to hem very differently.
Nobody's thought patterns or filters are going to be the same and so nobody's psychedelic experience will be the same even though many of them will have similarities (we are the same species in the same culture after all).