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Charles Clay’s Myth

The Myths That Make Us

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Introduction

This is the first episode of The Myth That Make Us since I got back from sitting with ayahuasca. There's this thing called recency bias which is a logical, no, it's a cognitive bias that psychologists have found. If your life is continuing to feel like it's the best it's ever been, is that a fucking cognitive error? Are we developing a model of reality that fundamentally gaslights and disrupts the meaning and the health of the human organism?

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