#40 - The Fungus Effect Part 5: The Way Is Not Difficult (Sam Harris)
Hard Knox with Amanda Knox
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The Relationship Between Mindfulness and Psychedelics
How mindfulness and psychedelics reveal the contours of the self through surrender is something I'd be interested in talking to you about, especially as it relates to the feeling of surrendering oneself to the experience. There's this spurious sense of self that you can drop and that is synonymous with surrender. The consciousness that's aware of fear or anger is not really afraid or angry, and it's not different from that which is aware of joy. You don't need the pyrotechnics of psychedelics or anything to change really to recognize that.
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