Sublime

Emergencies always create a considerable need for increased electrical activity in the brain.

One of the people who most helped me to understand some aspects of these questions was Professor Joel Nigg, who I interviewed at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland.

University of Virginia professor of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences Dr. Ed Kelly, and University of California, Berkeley professor of molecular and cell biology Dr. David Presti, explain another significant finding: “The intensity of the psychedelic experience was significantly correlated with the magnitude of these decreases.”

It’s not sufficient to just think and feel peace with your eyes closed, and then open them and carry on throughout the day in limited, unconscious states of mind and body.

with curiosity and compassion.

Low levels of serotonin and norepinephrine show up as depression, low dopamine as attention and behavior disorders, low acetylcholine as Alzheimer’s, and low GABA as anxiety. These are literally the chemical messengers of mood, learning, attention, memory, and overall brain function—they determine how you feel, how fast you learn, and how much you

The chemicals of that emotion don’t get used up instantly, so their effect lingers for a while. I call that the refractory period—the time after their initial release and until the effect diminishes.

Here’s a spot that lights up when subjects think of God (“Religion center found!”), or researchers find a region for love (“Love found in the brain”).

acid, is a neurotransmitter that plays an important role in the prefrontal inhibition of subcortical firing, and she had imagined it as