Dennis McKenna

So does sex for that matter. Sex involves anything that really sort of pushes the pleasure button. Naturally, you want to repeat it. But there's a point at which it becomes unhealthy. It becomes an obsession. And so looking at it through the perspective of psychedelics can help you get a handle on that. It helps you step away from it. It helps you defuse it.

So does sex for that matter. Sex involves anything that really sort of pushes the pleasure button. Naturally, you want to repeat it. But there's a point at which it becomes unhealthy. It becomes an obsession. And so looking at it through the perspective of psychedelics can help you get a handle on that. It helps you step away from it. It helps you defuse it.

So does sex for that matter. Sex involves anything that really sort of pushes the pleasure button. Naturally, you want to repeat it. But there's a point at which it becomes unhealthy. It becomes an obsession. And so looking at it through the perspective of psychedelics can help you get a handle on that. It helps you step away from it. It helps you defuse it.

And that's the therapeutic power when it comes to addiction. It's all about this default mode network. And people, you know, this default mode network, like we said, it's very useful. It's where you want to be most of the time. I don't like the term default mode network. I call it the reality hallucination. Right.

And that's the therapeutic power when it comes to addiction. It's all about this default mode network. And people, you know, this default mode network, like we said, it's very useful. It's where you want to be most of the time. I don't like the term default mode network. I call it the reality hallucination. Right.

And that's the therapeutic power when it comes to addiction. It's all about this default mode network. And people, you know, this default mode network, like we said, it's very useful. It's where you want to be most of the time. I don't like the term default mode network. I call it the reality hallucination. Right.

the reality our brain synthesizes a model of reality you've talked about simulations yes you know and this this guy with the dmt and the simulations yes i'm here to tell you we are all in a simulation everybody's in a simulation our brains simulate a model of reality you know we live in that model of reality we don't know what reality itself is because we're in this model of reality

the reality our brain synthesizes a model of reality you've talked about simulations yes you know and this this guy with the dmt and the simulations yes i'm here to tell you we are all in a simulation everybody's in a simulation our brains simulate a model of reality you know we live in that model of reality we don't know what reality itself is because we're in this model of reality

the reality our brain synthesizes a model of reality you've talked about simulations yes you know and this this guy with the dmt and the simulations yes i'm here to tell you we are all in a simulation everybody's in a simulation our brains simulate a model of reality you know we live in that model of reality we don't know what reality itself is because we're in this model of reality

And it's defined largely by what doesn't get through.

And it's defined largely by what doesn't get through.

And it's defined largely by what doesn't get through.

It's exactly the brain filter hypothesis. The information comes to us through our sensory neural interfaces. Kind of gets all mixed together inside, you know, and extrudes a model of reality, which is what we experience as ordinary consciousness. And then you can introduce another pharmacology or something else into it, a drug, meditation, another practice. You can change that model of reality.

It's exactly the brain filter hypothesis. The information comes to us through our sensory neural interfaces. Kind of gets all mixed together inside, you know, and extrudes a model of reality, which is what we experience as ordinary consciousness. And then you can introduce another pharmacology or something else into it, a drug, meditation, another practice. You can change that model of reality.

It's exactly the brain filter hypothesis. The information comes to us through our sensory neural interfaces. Kind of gets all mixed together inside, you know, and extrudes a model of reality, which is what we experience as ordinary consciousness. And then you can introduce another pharmacology or something else into it, a drug, meditation, another practice. You can change that model of reality.

But you're always trapped in that model of reality. We can't even say that much about what's outside that model because –

But you're always trapped in that model of reality. We can't even say that much about what's outside that model because –

But you're always trapped in that model of reality. We can't even say that much about what's outside that model because –

you take psychedelics and you realize the concept of inside and outside don't make sense you know you're not really separated yeah you know you know we are all one right that is the uh that's the the psychedelic cliche but it's true you know we're not separated this is like young's idea of the archipelago of consciousness exactly exactly

you take psychedelics and you realize the concept of inside and outside don't make sense you know you're not really separated yeah you know you know we are all one right that is the uh that's the the psychedelic cliche but it's true you know we're not separated this is like young's idea of the archipelago of consciousness exactly exactly