Dennis McKenna

One of the things I often say about psychedelics, they bring the background forward.

That's the default mode network. The default mode network is defined by what it excludes from your awareness, right? Because it makes sure that your attention is focused on the immediate things you need to survive. If you're on the freeway at...

That's the default mode network. The default mode network is defined by what it excludes from your awareness, right? Because it makes sure that your attention is focused on the immediate things you need to survive. If you're on the freeway at...

That's the default mode network. The default mode network is defined by what it excludes from your awareness, right? Because it makes sure that your attention is focused on the immediate things you need to survive. If you're on the freeway at...

you know 90 miles an hour you really don't want elves materializing out of the you know you don't need that that's not yeah but if but if if you let if in a controlled state and this is why that the concept of set and setting is so important in the proper set and setting you're in a situation where you could let that default mode network dissolve and and then

you know 90 miles an hour you really don't want elves materializing out of the you know you don't need that that's not yeah but if but if if you let if in a controlled state and this is why that the concept of set and setting is so important in the proper set and setting you're in a situation where you could let that default mode network dissolve and and then

you know 90 miles an hour you really don't want elves materializing out of the you know you don't need that that's not yeah but if but if if you let if in a controlled state and this is why that the concept of set and setting is so important in the proper set and setting you're in a situation where you could let that default mode network dissolve and and then

All the things that it's filtering out can come in and you can experience them in a non-threatening situation. And you can experience this background, which is always there, but we're genetically and evolutionarily programmed to exclude those things. Especially in the West. An indigenous person has much less of this.

All the things that it's filtering out can come in and you can experience them in a non-threatening situation. And you can experience this background, which is always there, but we're genetically and evolutionarily programmed to exclude those things. Especially in the West. An indigenous person has much less of this.

All the things that it's filtering out can come in and you can experience them in a non-threatening situation. And you can experience this background, which is always there, but we're genetically and evolutionarily programmed to exclude those things. Especially in the West. An indigenous person has much less of this.

If you go into a forest with an indigenous person who lives in nature, that person is likely to notice processes.

If you go into a forest with an indigenous person who lives in nature, that person is likely to notice processes.

If you go into a forest with an indigenous person who lives in nature, that person is likely to notice processes.

that are always going on but you don't see them you don't see them until they're pointed out right because you're programmed not to see them like what kind of processes are you talking about just anything you might look at you know the way the way an anthill works you know the way the sunlight the sun lands on a leaf the way you know the way ecosystems work and all of this you can sort of

that are always going on but you don't see them you don't see them until they're pointed out right because you're programmed not to see them like what kind of processes are you talking about just anything you might look at you know the way the way an anthill works you know the way the sunlight the sun lands on a leaf the way you know the way ecosystems work and all of this you can sort of

that are always going on but you don't see them you don't see them until they're pointed out right because you're programmed not to see them like what kind of processes are you talking about just anything you might look at you know the way the way an anthill works you know the way the sunlight the sun lands on a leaf the way you know the way ecosystems work and all of this you can sort of

Psychedelics can be a lens. Effectively, it's like a scientific instrument. You can train that. You can look at phenomena, maybe things that you've looked at before that you feel that you understand very well. But when you look at them from the psychedelic perspective, you notice things that you never noticed before. Right. And this has been proven.

Psychedelics can be a lens. Effectively, it's like a scientific instrument. You can train that. You can look at phenomena, maybe things that you've looked at before that you feel that you understand very well. But when you look at them from the psychedelic perspective, you notice things that you never noticed before. Right. And this has been proven.

Psychedelics can be a lens. Effectively, it's like a scientific instrument. You can train that. You can look at phenomena, maybe things that you've looked at before that you feel that you understand very well. But when you look at them from the psychedelic perspective, you notice things that you never noticed before. Right. And this has been proven.

I mean, there are people who have won Nobel Prizes based on this. Cary Mullis, for example, is famous for, you know, he discovered the PCR. And he's quite out front. He was like LSD, you know. gave me the tools to understand this process that gave me the ability to, as he put it, get down among the molecules and see what was going on.