Currently reading The Ancient Way of the Mind and thinking about the default mode network (DMN) — the idea that when the volume is high, experience can feel like rain hitting a pond: so many ripples at once that it’s hard to tell which sensation belongs to what.
Meditation seems to turn that volume down, sharpening perception and interoception — less “me narrating myself,” more direct experience.
What’s interesting is that some athletes describe THC similarly during movement: feeling more in tune with the body, breath, and subtle signals.
The book also frames psilocybin as another chemical way of accessing something similar — almost like remembering a more primal meditative state of mind.
Meditation through trained attentional stability, THC through CB1 receptor modulation, psilocybin through serotonin pathways… different doors, but I’m curious where all three overlap in the brain.
@Sydney Bright
Link to book on Amazon:
https://a.co/d/08deRimd
