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Psychedelic Medicine Podcast with Dr. Lynn Marie Morski

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The Morning Self Is Not Happening

When you acknowledge that there's these different selves, it helps you with the discussion about having versus being a bad dog. And we just explore that with where it appears in popular literature and poetry in neuroscience, in religion and philosophy. I wanted to bring up some if anybody else still doesn't understand why this book makes you feel so good. You're right, the morning self is not happening. In most relationships when you say is there a difference between your morning self and your evening self, they each look at the other because they see it in the other.

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Speaker 2
Oh, that's so interesting. That's really advanced for four and six year olds to know which self to pull out at the table. I love that.
Speaker 1
Well, I think that four and six year olds do that. I mean, if you watch them, they're great at playing at different selves. And they're also great at saying, no, no, I don't want you to be that person anymore. And then they
Speaker 2
stop. So interesting. I wanted to bring up some if anybody else still doesn't understand why this book makes you feel so good. I love the part where you talk about that when you acknowledge that there's these different selves, it helps you with the discussion about having versus being a bad dog, as you put it, where if you have a one or more dysfunctional selves, that's not who you are and that you don't have to over identify with that
Speaker 1
self. And that's huge in your life. Because a problem we get into is not only we identify with that part, but other people do. For instance, I'm sure most of the people listening can say, well, in my family, there was this relative, Uncle Edward, and he will like him. And then he cheated my father in a real estate deal. And we've never talked to
Speaker 3
him
Speaker 1
since. And the answer is that part of him did that, but most of him is the Uncle Edward you know. And when you get that, then you realize that you can reach through to the Uncle Edward you know, and you may not be able to reach the one that cheated you because most of Uncle Edward never did. And then when you start applying that to yourself, you see, we're all Uncle Edward's. You know, I'm thinking and I'm not sharing some of the things I've done that the Jim Fateman on the phone really wouldn't have done and was really quite amazed that he did it. And even as you know, as you're doing something wrong, it's like the famous witches don't call your, don't write a text to your ex too late at night because in the morning you'll oh my God.
Speaker 2
Morning self is not happening. You're
Speaker 1
right, the morning self is not happening. And the difference between the morning self and the evening self, if you, in most relationships when you say is there a difference between your morning self and your evening self, they each look at the other because they see it in the other. I'm just thinking it's not in the book, which is at one point when I would be depressed, this is I think maybe when I was a graduate student, I would withdraw and I would, I would read science fiction. But I would read it late and I would get to a point where I would say if I continue reading this, I will be tired tomorrow, I will be cross, I will not be able to work as well. It will be deleterious for me in a dozen ways. And I keep
Speaker 2
reading because
Speaker 1
the part of me that's reading doesn't have to worry about it. Alright, evening you. Yes, so the evening me can say, well I'm enjoying this story and of course I could read more of it tomorrow and nothing is going to change. But right now I'm in an indulgent state and I don't really care that you're going to be too tired in the morning. I'm not, you know, thanks for letting me know, but no thanks. So we have internal dialogues. And the internal dialogue is like the obvious, the most obvious notion which is have you ever argued with yourself? Yeah. And the answer is of course. And then the question that suddenly opens Pandora's box is who was the other person arguing? Right. Okay, and that kind of breaks what we call the single state assumption, single self assumption, which is clearly there's internal divisions. And we just explore that with where it appears in popular literature and poetry in neuroscience, in religion and philosophy, because it's important to sensitize ourselves to the reality of it. And then your world works better.

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