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Christian Angermayer • Psychedelics: Microdosing, Mind-Enhancing Methods, and More – The Tim Ferriss Show
The insight of interbeing and no self can help us make use of our life force—what Freud called sublimation—to take action in life to help and protect others, to forgive and to reconcile, and to help and protect the Earth.
Thich Nhat Hanh • The Art of Living: mindful techniques for peaceful living from one of the world’s most revered spiritual leaders
Alcohol- GABA and glutamate
Cough syrup - limbic systems (glutamate)
Weed- cannabinioids
PCP- NMDA antagonist
Excitatory (glutamate) neurons and inhibitory neurons(GABA)- alcohol enhances GABA and quenches glutamate
Limbic system- hypothalamus and amygdala stores the memory and anticipation and keeps telling th... See more
Our self-experience is the product of the balance between our rational and our emotional brains. When these two systems are in balance, we “feel like ourselves.” However, when our survival is at stake, these systems can function relatively independently.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
At length I explained to him that life had brought me to a dead end from which there was no exit, and that the only way out for me was suicide. When you say something like that, you expect to be contradicted. But instead of contradicting me, Roustang had said softly: ‘You’re right. Suicide doesn’t get very good press these days, but sometimes it’s
... See moreEmmanuel Carrère • Yoga: From the bestselling author of THE ADVERSARY
The joy of being observed ran so deep that Breuer believed the real pain of old age, bereavement, outliving one’s friends, was the absence of scrutiny—the horror of living an unobserved life.