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#317 – John Vervaeke: Meaning Crisis, Atheism, Religion & the Search for Wisdom
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Integration of Mindfulness and Meditation
I've talked to people who seriously as a science study psychedelics and they often talk about the really important thing is the integration back, so the contemplation step. If you just did contemplation, you could suffer from inflation and projective fantasy. They act, they need each other. Neither one is a panacea. You need them in this opponent processing, acting as checks and balance on each other. That's what I mean by an ecology of practices. It's like when I talked about earlier, when we talked about the opponent processing within the autonomic nervous system or the opponent processing at work and attention. Both are necessary for life; neither can be done alone.
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