Welcome to the commune podcast. My name is Jeff Krasnow. Many of you may receive my weekly

Sunday commusing article where I address a breadth of issues from the spiritual to the sociopolitical.

And on occasion, I will also record an audio version of these articles

and release it here as a bonus episode. So this particular episode was written and recorded by

my commune co-founder, Jake Laub. And it is a reflection on his transformational ketamine experience that was administered at

Commune Topanga by the neuroscientist and psychiatrist Dave Rabin.

And Dave has an amazing course on Commune titled Rewire Your Brain.

And you can check it out, along with over 130 other courses by signing up for a free 14-day

trial of commune membership at onecommun.com slash trial.

Okay, so just a few thoughts before we jump in.

The British philosopher, Alan Watts, who is also featured on the commune platform, he often

quipped the opposite of remember is not forget.

It's actually dismembered.

We're all chopped up.

And in remembering ourselves, we reconstitute our broken lives.

We become whole again. We pull ourselves back together. So many religious texts refer to our

connection with the divine as a remembrance of God.

But what are we remembering exactly?

What is the feeling that we are longing for?

When we are in the womb, it is said that we have ocean mind.

We feel inseparable from all of life in the same way that a wave briefly crests and

that is subsumed back into the greater oceanic depths. Now, mystical experiences point to this

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