One of the most interesting things about a psychedelic experience is that it sharpens one’s sensitivity to one’s own mental states, especially in the days immediately following. The usual seamlessness of consciousness is disturbed in such a way as to make any given state—mind wandering, focused attention, rumination—both more salient and somewhat e

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that catapulted monks past their minds’ usual horizons, by offering glimpses of the divine logic that structured all of creation. Metacognition did not have to mean closing the mind up to itself. It could actually widen monks’ perspective beyond themselves, beyond their minds and memories and books and bodies and communities and world, to encompass

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