Dr. Alok Kanojia (Dr. K)
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first heard Sep 2025
last heard 27 May
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Now, this mechanism is subjective.
So what I mean by that is that we can look at things like receptors, right?
But then there is the actual trip.
And it seems like there is one kind of trip that correlates with healing over time.
And that is a trip that involves ego death.
So if you have a psychedelic experience that involves just looking at colors, this does not appear to cure depression or treat PTSD.
The trips that actually involve healing are ones where your sense of identity starts to crumble and fall apart, where your sense of connection to other people increases.
And there's actually studies on this.
So I want to show you all this is super cool.
So someone did their thesis specifically on ego death.
So prescribed ego death, the therapeutic effects found in the psychedelic-induced absence of self.
So some researchers hypothesize that the therapeutic effects of psychedelics come from their acute subjective effects, specifically ego dissolution.
By reviewing five studies that examine this correlation, this review found that the majority of the studies could present a moderate correlation.
So what this means is that there is a particular kind of trip that leads to healing.
which is ego death.
And the really fascinating thing about this is one of the most common questions that I get is, what is the connection between psychedelics and meditation?
Because in meditation, we also have improvements in PTSD.
We have neuroplasticity.
We have increases in BDNF.
We have improvements in depression.
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