Hard Knox with Amanda Knox #37 - The Fungus Effect Part 2: Shaking the Snow Globe (Robin Carhart-Harris)
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Dec 22, 2021 AI Snips
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Psychedelic Therapy for Mental Illness
- Psychedelics disrupt entrenched negative thought patterns seen in mental illnesses like depression.
- This disruption creates a temporary chaotic state, but also a therapeutic release.
Anecdotal Evidence of Enhanced Learning
- There are anecdotes of people learning new skills more easily after psychedelic use.
- A baseball player even threw a no-hitter while on LSD, claiming to be "in the zone."
Potential for Negative Impacts
- Negative psychedelic experiences can theoretically have lasting effects.
- This is due to hyperplasticity and the brain encoding traumatic memories.