Writing
ecstasis & longevity
The Ecstatic Spectrum: Hacking the Ecstatic
“All of the states are information rich. Why? Because all of the chemicals produced by these states surround the brain’s information processing machinery and jack it up.”
Moving Up the Adult Developmental Scale
“Meditation actually produces neuroplasticity; there's an increase in brain matter volume. 50-year old meditators seem to have the grey matter volume of 25 year olds, which suggests and we now know that it’s true, meditation slows down aging.”
Relationship of Peak States to Transformation
“We evolve in part via leaps into the unknown, relying on both the strength and flexibility of our coping abilities. We train that muscle by welcoming, with a non-judgmental attitude, the visitations of revelation.”
Healing and Peak States
“There is a direct and reciprocal relationship between the view from the top and the work in the trenches and if we can balance those then we have the chance to really develop into fully expressed versions of ourselves.”
How Psychedelics Birth New Networks
“Psychedelics destroy the networks that produce … all that internal negative inner chatter, and instead they build these really far-flung connections between far-flung regions in the brain.”
Psychedelics as a Tool to Manifest the Mind
Substances That Cause Acute Changes in How People Perceive Time, Space, and the Self - Mechanism of Action