Dr. Dave Rabin

under the influence of the molecule or the chemical or the meditation experience you had or the great yoga or whatever, whatever it was, the breath work, whatever it was that induced the psychedelic state doesn't have to be drugs, right?

under the influence of the molecule or the chemical or the meditation experience you had or the great yoga or whatever, whatever it was, the breath work, whatever it was that induced the psychedelic state doesn't have to be drugs, right?

So like that word psychedelic is also important to understand because it doesn't mean you have to have a drug involved that you take from the outside to get there. It means a state where you're looking under the hood of your awareness, right?

So like that word psychedelic is also important to understand because it doesn't mean you have to have a drug involved that you take from the outside to get there. It means a state where you're looking under the hood of your awareness, right?

So what Freud and Carl Jung referred to as the subconscious or unconscious material that lives underneath the surface of everything we're normally paying attention to, all that material, like an iceberg, right? Our awareness is just the tip of the iceberg. It's just what you see above the water.

So what Freud and Carl Jung referred to as the subconscious or unconscious material that lives underneath the surface of everything we're normally paying attention to, all that material, like an iceberg, right? Our awareness is just the tip of the iceberg. It's just what you see above the water.

Everything underneath that is our subconscious and unconscious material, which is much, much more vast than what's just the tip of the iceberg above the surface.

Everything underneath that is our subconscious and unconscious material, which is much, much more vast than what's just the tip of the iceberg above the surface.

So when you enter into a psychedelic state, whether it's through deep breathing, meditation, yoga, mindfulness, soothing touch, soothing music, or something like ketamine-assisted therapy or MDMA therapy, what you're doing is you're changing the neural network connections and the interactions in the brain to be able to look under the hood and expand your awareness to reveal parts of your mind to yourself that you weren't necessarily aware of before.

So when you enter into a psychedelic state, whether it's through deep breathing, meditation, yoga, mindfulness, soothing touch, soothing music, or something like ketamine-assisted therapy or MDMA therapy, what you're doing is you're changing the neural network connections and the interactions in the brain to be able to look under the hood and expand your awareness to reveal parts of your mind to yourself that you weren't necessarily aware of before.

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So these are very powerful. Okay. Yeah. These are very powerful tools. They're some of the most powerful tools you've ever had in mental health because the entire goal of psychotherapy from the beginning was to look under the hood. It's just really hard if you're scared of what's underneath the surface, right? So the psychedelic medicines help us to, when used properly in the therapy context,

So these are very powerful. Okay. Yeah. These are very powerful tools. They're some of the most powerful tools you've ever had in mental health because the entire goal of psychotherapy from the beginning was to look under the hood. It's just really hard if you're scared of what's underneath the surface, right? So the psychedelic medicines help us to, when used properly in the therapy context,

molecularly amplify safety and the safety cascades in the emotional brain to help us feel safe enough to look under the hood. And then once you look under the hood from a perspective of safety, you're like, oh, wow, that's not that scary. I can figure this out. I can process some of these emotions. I can feel my body. I can reconnect with myself.

molecularly amplify safety and the safety cascades in the emotional brain to help us feel safe enough to look under the hood. And then once you look under the hood from a perspective of safety, you're like, oh, wow, that's not that scary. I can figure this out. I can process some of these emotions. I can feel my body. I can reconnect with myself.

And then you start to have these profound therapeutic opportunities for healing that we've never really seen before in the mental health space.

And then you start to have these profound therapeutic opportunities for healing that we've never really seen before in the mental health space.

Yeah, I mean, you know, just think about the history, right? We're trying at this point in the 21st century to overcome like several decades of anti-psychedelic propaganda. And it was amplified by Richard Nixon and amplified by the war on drugs from Reagan.

Yeah, I mean, you know, just think about the history, right? We're trying at this point in the 21st century to overcome like several decades of anti-psychedelic propaganda. And it was amplified by Richard Nixon and amplified by the war on drugs from Reagan.