From Tibetan monks to Franciscan nuns, Newberg scanned the brains of expert meditators who had encountered the same sort of intense feelings of unity that Yaden experienced. Newberg found that regardless of their religion or spiritual belief, the very same brain area was implicated—the superior parietal lobe, a region of the brain associated with

Consider engaging with psychedelics, carefully, if there is anything in you that is curious. They are now legal in some places. But consider engaging them as the powerful cognitive tools that they are, not as a form of recreation. That doesn’t mean you can’t have fun.