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#598 Chris Letheby: Philosophy of Psychedelics

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Does Total Loss of Self Awareness Have Therapeutic Value?

The main thing that is driving improvements in psycho delic therapy and reductions in psychiatric symptoms is changes to the so narrative self, or autobiographical self. People kind of getting an opportunity, afforded by drugs and the drug induced experience, to actually revise their conception about who they are. But does that sort of change relate to the kinds of experiences i am bing? In some ways, it doesn't really relate that much to the full blown, totally selfless episodes.

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