How to Change Your Mind, Michael Pollan – an interesting read, especially, for me, the chapter on the neuroscience of psychedelics

“It could be that in order to judge an insight as merely subjective, one person’s opinion, you must first have a sense of subjectivity. Which is precisely what the mystic on psychedelics has lost.” p305-6 Which is why they feel their experiences to be “revealed truths rather than plain old insights”. p305 per Robin Carhartt-Harris

“If it were possible to temporarily experience another person’s mental state, my guess is that it would feel more like a psychedelic state than a ‘normal’ state because of its massive disparity with whatever mental state is habitual with you.” Robin Carhartt-Harris