Annaka Harris

Yeah.

They started with end of life patients.

I don't know, maybe 20 years ago I met at a Ted conference.

I met one of the doctors who was,

who was doing this research, it was the first time I became aware that the research was happening and I'd already had my own experiences before that.

And so it made perfect sense to me that this would work.

It was still astonishing to see the results, to see how successful the work is so much of the time, but it doesn't surprise me it makes sense.

And it's actually in line with all of these other things.

So quieting down the default mode network

One of the things that's so transformative about taking something like psilocybin, and everyone's experience is different, it can vary each time you take it, even in a single person.

But the experience I had and the experience that many people have that is so transformative is this feeling that's very hard to describe, but it's a feeling of being one with the universe.

And that comes with, it's kind of all one feeling that is, again, hard to put into words, but there's this feeling that

Everything is okay.

And I'd never had that feeling before in my life.

And when I took psychedelics, that feeling would stay with me for months.

And I never understood why, and it was always fascinating to me, but it was as if I was glimpsing a deeper truth of the world that

it's all one thing, we're all connected.

There's no sense that there could even be a feeling of loneliness.

It was just this visceral sense of being one with everything and that everything was okay, that all the things I was afraid of, even death,

that the universe in a sense is an endless recycling and I don't know, it's hard to describe.