Is the Brain a Barrier to the Cosmos?

In almost every case, loss of brain should yield more mind but that is not how the mind works. We have reason to be sceptical of the brain as barrier thesis. Psychodelics are a uniquely potent means of altering consciousness teach a person to meditate, pray, chant or do yoga, and there is noguaran that anything will happen. Within the hour, the significance of his existence will bear down upon him like an avalanche. As terence mc kenna never tired of pointing out, this guarantee of profound effect for spiritual inquiry is what separates it from every other method of enquiry. Without a guidance system, one might wind up going somewhere worth going.

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