Dr. Alok Kanojia (Dr. K)

So these three mental health diagnoses, depression, PTSD, and alcohol, these are the statements that when I'm a psychiatrist sitting with a patient in my office, they make a lot of I am dot, dot, dot statements, right?

These diseases relate to our sense of identity.

And so it's really cool that like,

Since ego dissolution happens and what happens in ego dissolution is, you know, who you are, you don't feel like you're bounded by this.

Like I'm over here and you're over there, right?

So I exist over here.

This is the boundary of me.

I have a physical body and you have your life and I have my life.

These two things are not connected.

But when we have an ego dissolution experience, my sense of self dissolves.

I just exist.

I exist in a neutral way.

I begin to realize I'm not the body like like I am that which exists transcendently beyond the body and all this kind of stuff.

Look, we talk about all this crap and a ton of other content that we'll try to link down below if you guys want more details on this stuff.

I think it's just really cool that ego death seems to be responsible for this healing.

And so ego death seems to be the kind of trip that you need to have if you want to heal in these ways.

And when I work with psychiatrists and psychotherapists who do psychedelic assisted psychotherapy, what I find with them is that oftentimes that reintegration stuff, right?

So you have this sense of connectedness.

And then once you have this experience, helping yourself live in a way that includes that experience, integrates that experience, like, okay, if you're connected with all the other human beings, how are you going to be more compassionate towards your ex?

How are you going to be more compassionate towards your colleagues, towards your kids, towards your boss?