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314. Consciousness, Chaos and Order | Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Is the Psychedelic Experience a Reducing Valve?

There's more information coming up from sensory and the motivational and emotional areas of the brain during a psychedelic experience than under normal conditions. And so what seems to happen in the psychedelic experience is that a priori restriction on perception and its associated emotions is lifted temporarily. Yes, it can be highly unusual to see that in a grown person, an adult. But it happens. In those pivotal mental states, those conversion type experiences, they often feature that. And they can be life saving those experiences.

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