How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
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How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
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For Carhart-Harris, the pinnacle of human development is the achievement of this differentiated self, or ego, and its imposition of order on the anarchy of a primitive mind buffeted by fears and wishes and given to various forms of magical thinking. While he holds with Aldous Huxley that psychedelics throw open the doors of perception, he does not
... See moreO que chama a atenção na linha de trabalho dessas pesquisas clínicas é a premissa de que não é no efeito da droga, mas no tipo de experiência mental que ela provoca — ao promover a dissolução temporária do ego —, que pode estar a chave para mudar a mente de alguém.