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Ep. 2 - Awakening from the Meaning Crisis - Flow, Metaphor, and the Axial Revolution

Dr. John Vervaeke

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Flow: Achieving Radical Changes in Attention and Brain Functioning

This chapter discusses how shamans use various practices to bring about radical changes in their attention and brain functioning, including sleep deprivation, sex deprivation, social isolation, and the use of psychedelics. It also explores the concept of the flow state and how it can be achieved through insight and restructuring, and its association with being 'in the zone'.

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