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Manesh Girn - Beyond the Default Mode Network: Psychedelics & Complex Systems

The Psychedelic Podcast

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The DMN: The Predominant Model of Psychological Experiences

Robin Carr Harris is best known for popularizing this through Michael Pollan's book How to Change Your Mind. The default mode network allows us to draw on internal representation, stored knowledge in terms of experience and concepts to think about things that are not here. This is where the link to ego dissolution comes from. It's involved in our sense of self in terms of it's the narrative around who we are.

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