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#317 – John Vervaeke: Meaning Crisis, Atheism, Religion & the Search for Wisdom

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Higher State of Consciousness?

I think the psychedelic state is on a continuum. There's insight, and then if flow is an insight cascade, there's flow. Then you can have psychedelic experiences, mind-revealing experiences. But they overlap with mystical experiences, and they aren't the same. What was interesting is the people that had the mystical experience had measurable and longstanding change to one of the big five factors of personality. They had increased openness. Openness is supposed to actually go down over time; these traits aren't supposed to be that malleable.

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