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Out of Your Head
Exploring psychedelic experiences that seem wider than the brain.
Aldous Huxley called this deeper reality “Mind at Large.” He believed we walk through our daily lives with blinders on, our consciousness funneled through a reducing valve in the brain so we don’t get overloaded with sensory input. Chris Bache, a religion professor who had 73 high-dose LSD journeys, claims he encountered “the mind of the universe.” At various times, he felt himself dying and being reborn, or communicating with an amorphous Council of Elders, or changing gender, even having sex and giving birth as a woman. Griffiths had an international reputation as an expert on drug addiction when he kickstarted the psychedelic revival, persuading Johns Hopkins and various government agencies to allow him to run a clinical trial with psilocybin, specifically to see if it could elicit transcendent experiences.
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