Eleanor Mills
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Which I think is a really clever way of describing it.
It really stuck with me.
And so it's very good for people.
If you're on PTSD, you're kind of stuck in grooves or it's good for people who are anorexic or obsessive compulsive or depressed where their brain has got into deep grooves.
And this just allows you, and when you see it under brain scanners,
You can see new connections being made because it takes offline something, the default mode network, which is the front bit of your brain, which basically tries to control everything all the time.
And it allows your brain to make new connections.
So I think it's a really worthwhile thing for people to do at this point.
And it is quite scary.
But I think if you go and do it in a therapeutic way and what they have is they have what they call trip sitters or psychedelic ninjas who are with you all the time, who are there to kind of be as your guardian angels.
And you do it.
So they talk about set and setting.
So you do it in a very careful place where you can't jump off a balcony and somebody kind of looks after you.
But I think what it allows you to do is to really kind of reset your sense of yourself.
And for me, it opened me up to a whole kind of spiritual aspect of the world, which I think I'd been very resistant to.
But in Jamaica, it is legal.
It's a class A drug, but in Jamaica, it is.
They never got around to making it illegal.
And so you can do it there.
But if you're going to go and do it, I would really recommend doing it under controlled conditions because it can be quite frightening.