Reflections on Canalization and Psychopathology
A happy brain is a supple and flexible brain, he believes; depression, anxiety, obsession, and the cravings of addiction are how it feels to have a brain that has become excessively rigid or fixed in its pathways and linkages—a brain with more order than is good for it. On the spectrum he lays out (in his entropic brain article) ranging from... See more
Michael Pollan • How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
The rigidity end = ailments consistent with too much order (anxiety, obsession, addiction, depression)
Christian Angermayer • Psychedelics: Microdosing, Mind-Enhancing Methods, and More – The Tim Ferriss Show
I imagine psychedelics to be a reset of your internal architecture, (at least from a high dose); a tabla rasa, rebuild based on your patterns and values. In some cases, a rebuild goes well, but there are unpredictable cases, where some freak thing can corrupt a re-compile. There are many cases of this: of people who are disoriented for like 6-18
... See moreIn their 1972 book Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari reimagined the schizophrenic not as a pathological subject but as a figure who ‘deterritorialises’ fixed structures of identity and social organisation. Where psychoanalysis understood desire as repression and sublimation—organised through the familial... See more