The decreased subjectivity correlated with decreased default mode network activity may lead to insights feeling objectively true

The process in which Decreased activity in the default mode network is correlated with a decreased sense of self might help explain another feature of the mystical experience: the fact that the insights it sponsors are felt to be objectively true—revealed truths rather than plain old insights. 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.

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References

• Pollan, Micheal. (2018). How to Change Your Mind Chapter 5. The Neuroscience of Your Brain on Psychedelics (Location 4173). New York, NY: Penguin Random House.

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