## Notes psychedelic gives you a beginner mind, experience everything so you lose heuristics. this is why its associated with creativity surrendering to the experience, we tune into consciousness interesting how we need dmn off to have fun and be creative heroic dose is 5g, eyes closed in darkness - do mindfulness meditation for a month prior - good food and sleep week prior - 6 hours fast - music for psychedelic therapy higher doses appears to increase [[Neuroplasticity]], which is why it's effective in treating depression with shrooms you think deeper, less about stimulus and more in relation to your values ? interesting how they were both open about it ### Antidepressants Lexapro is an SSRI. It inhibits serotonin reuptake. Serotonin is the primary mechanism by which psychedelics are experienced. You should not mix these as nothing will happen but these chemicals will be competing in your system. This is why emergency rooms in severe psychedelic episodes give you some sort of benzodiazepines like xanax. Typically anything that increases activity in your brain will be inhibited by anything that decreases activity. ### Benefits - End up being some of the most profound life experiences - ![[Transcend#^7ymjga]] - [[Psychedelics reduces the influence of prior beliefs]] - Lessens the ego - [[Empathy]] - ![[Transcend#^0v9nu5]] ### Related - [[Psychedelics is best used with a wise outside group]] - Ontology - Metaphysics - Terence McKenna - Alan watts, being present, getting out of the matrix - > Everyday life has so little awareness that when you trip the state feels like being woken up in comparison. ## Queries ### Notes ```dataview list from [[]] AND !outgoing([[]]) AND !#input AND !#thought AND !"Hidden" sort file.mtime desc ``` ### Inputs ```dataview table Tags as Type, Links, Created from [[]] AND #input AND !"Hidden" sort file.mtime desc ``` ### Thoughts ```dataview table Created from [[]] AND #thought AND !"Hidden" sort file.mtime desc ```