What is the

happening to my ego on these experiences,

whether it's the mushroom one of the DMT, the IWasca.

Is something happening to that?

Well, yes, yes, something is happening in the current language of

of neuroscience and sort of the current clinical view

I don't know if you've read Michael Pollan's book yet

yes okay well he talks about it. What's happening is, what do these things actually do on the experiential level? I think Robin Carhart Harris has it right. They disrupt what they call the default mode network.

And the default mode network is what I have been calling for a long time the reality hallucination you know but let's but

let's back up from that what is Carhart Harris say the default minimum network is

Poland describes it very well in his book it's this it's it's a set of

processing tools that takes information in from the external world and a lot of what

the brain does is filter things out. It's not so much a gateway for information. It's a it's a

valve. It's a very tight valve making sure only certain things get through the things that are important to your immediate survival.

And then associative and processing parts of the cortex, it will relate that to

memories which are sort of learned patterns, learn things that have happened to you, and your anticipation of the future.

So the default mode network is something that interprets your immediate experience, whether,

you know, in terms of what it already knows, you know, in terms of patterns that it already knows.

So things happen, nothing is ever really novel. You can say, oh yeah, I remember when that happened it was similar to this and so okay it makes

sense. Psychodelics and the ego part of that is this part that is sort of narrating the show, narrating your reality hallucination.

And psychedelics temporarily disable that.

The default mode network is offline.

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