TrueLife - High States, Cultural Vehicles & the Evolution of Brain Chemistry

Episode Date: August 22, 2022

Can “High States” be used to explore cultural boundaries from a third person perspective. Can we draw a parallel between supply chains & brain connectivity

Darkness struck, a gut-punched theft, Sun ripped away, her health bereft. I roar at the void. This ain't just fate, a cosmic scam I spit my hate. The games rigged tight, shadows deal, blood on their hands, I'll never kneel. Yet in the rage, a crack ignites, occulted sparks cut through the nights. The scar's my key, hermetic and stark. To see, to rise, I hunt in the dark. fumbling, furious through ruins

maze, lights my war cry Born from the blaze. The poem is Angels with Rifles. The track, I Am Sorrow, I Am Lust by Kodak Serafini, check out the entire song at the end of the cast. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the True Life podcast. Hope your day is going beautiful. I hope that this morning you woke up

and had a revelation about how beautiful you are, about what you can do to change the world to make not only your life better, but the life of those around you. I have been blessed with some crazy ideas lately, and I want to share them with you. I think that, I don't know if crazy is the right word. However, I think they're really fun and I think they're interesting,

and I think that they're worth sharing, so I hope you find some value in them. Let me just jump right into it right here. What do you think about high states, the state of being high, be it a psychologically high or a runner's high, high of psychedelics? But it could be used, it could be a runner's high, it could be endorphins, so you don't have to limit what we're talking about. But in this particular idea, the way I felt was mostly through psychedelic states. I want to talk to you about this particular idea of what happens when you're in the psychedelic state. When you're super high, maybe it's cannabis, maybe it's mushrooms, maybe it's an LSD trip, maybe it's a ketamine trip.

Maybe it is a trip on ecstasy or MDMA. Might these states allow you to, might these states be a vehicle where you can, might these states be a vehicle where you can, cross cultural boundaries without getting in trouble. Might these particular states be a trip to the mountain top where you can see yourself as a third person? Do you understand what I mean by that?

Have you ever been just super high and you see things different? Let's just think about the language there. If you're high, you can see things from a different point of view. When you're high, you have the high ground. You can look down at the situation. And I know for myself and many people that I have spoken with that you have a different perspective when you're high. It's right there in the language. Man, that person is really high.

What does it mean to be the most high? Why is that a religious term? And it's also a term that we use ingested a large amount or a heroic dose of a psychedelic substance, you're the most high. In that moment, you are like God. And in fact, I know for a fact that when I have been most high, when I have consumed a copious amount of psilocybin, that I felt as if I was God. Maybe I was in tune with my inner God. but I did feel like information was being revealed to me when I was the most high,

when I was on top of the mountain. Now, I want to talk a little bit about what that may be and what that may mean. It may be you get to see yourself from a different perspective when you're most high or when you're high. It may be the fact that the default mode network in your brain is no longer governing the sense, data that you have. What I mean by that is that you are now able to decode visual information

in Broca's area. It may be that now you can decode sound in the visual cortex. And it may be that having the freedom to decode all this information in different parts of the brain gives you a wider range, a wider perspective, and a different understanding of the situation around you. It may be that you are taking an information through your skin. It also may be that your eyes, your pupils are dilated much larger. Thus, you're taking in more information and you, if you incorporate taking in more information, you're more aware of that around the you and on top of that you're processing all this information in different parts of the brain thus the perspective you get while skewed may be a bigger picture of what's actually happening

now the reason i want to bring all that up is because i think if you look back at history there is in fact a pattern of people that go into different states where they tell the future. I know what you're thinking, George, Jesus Christ, you're going to start telling me about telling the future? What do you get some tarot cards, buddy? Well, just hear me out. Listen to what I have to say. There's always been mystics. There's always been sacred text, be it the Bible or the Bhagavad Gita or even some of the Greek tragedies where we learn from the seers about the future. Through a lot of the Greek, Throughout history, we have heard stories about those who can tell the future.

They get written off. But doesn't it kind of seem like when you're in a high state, when you are the most high, you can, in fact, infer things that you were not aware of before. So let's take you back. If in fact, psychedelics being the most high can be a vehicle to cross cultural boundaries, that is, someone from the West all of a sudden begins to have an interest in the Mahavakias or Buddhism and begins to understand that they're not an individual like the West says, but they're part of a whole. And on the flip side of that, someone from the East begins to question authority

and begins to see that they can assert themselves as an individual. It seems like both people from different hemispheres are beginning to, to understand the language of the other hemisphere. The West, there's a resurgence in Buddhism in the West. And in the East, there seems to be a clamoring for independence. It's almost as if the psychedelics or the substance in which you utilize to get the most high is like an active corpus callosum and it's bringing your thoughts together. And maybe that has to do, like we said, with the default mode network being shut off

and information being processed in different parts of the brain. But here's where it gets really trippy, at least in my opinion. If we look at that particular angle and we go, yeah, the east is kind of becoming the West. The West is becoming kind of the East. And maybe it is because of Psychedelics. Maybe it is the so-called waking up effect. It seems to me that the world of psychedelics is showing us through the environment, through the chaos, through the East versus West, that what's happening inside our brain. It seems to me that the chaos we see is what's happening inside our brain.

If you look at what's happening in the world, this East versus West paradigm is a direct reflection of the problem between the East and West hemispheres of the brain and we're acting it out in the real world. What's going on inside our head is acting out through the human condition in the world in which we live. The East and West Hemisphere is the brain are not yet. as connected as they should be. And we're making those connections.

Right now there's new neural networks being formed in our brain the same way there's supply chains being formed on the planet. And here's where we tie in the future. Our next evolution, the last part of the brain to develop was the hippocampus, right? And the volume of the hippocampus is getting bigger. Maybe what we're seeing through psychedelics is in fact the next evolution of brain structure. Maybe what we're seeing is like a widening, thickening of the corpus callosum. We're beginning to see the two hemispheres work together in union.

We're beginning to get the whole picture. And if we go by the maxim, so above, so below, when you are most high and you begin to see the world working together, east becoming west, west becoming east. And we've talked about Buddhism and individualism. Let me tie it again with the planet. There's a pole shift. The Earth's magnetic pole, the Earth's magnetic north pole has been moving like 35 miles a year at a rapid pace. Thus, the hemispheres are changing on that level. We're beginning to become more aware of ourselves as a single organism.

We're beginning to work together and the old ways are no longer working. So what I'm saying is that if you take a heroic dose, if you take time to, if you take time, to meditate. If you take time to see the world as above so below, I think that what you're seeing is the next evolution in brain chemistry. And I think that that is the total brain working together. Look at the fMRI maps coming out of John Hopkins, where people go into the fMRI under psychedelics.

Maybe the next evolution is the elimination of the default mode network. Maybe we no longer need the default mode. Maybe we are progressing into an era where we are becoming capable of using our brain and it's without the default. You know, when I think of a default mode network, I think of a governor on a car that doesn't allow it to go faster than a certain time or a certain speed. Maybe that's what the default mode network is. Maybe we have reached a point as civilization where we no longer need the default mode network. Maybe we're beginning to operate on all cylinders. And maybe that's what's happening when you become the most high.

When you take these giant doses and you can see, feel, and interpret information from a different point of view, maybe what you are doing is you are beginning to experience the human condition the way it's going to be in the future. Does that make sense? Like those of us who are taking giant doses and understanding the world in a different way, more cognitive, a more cerebral, a more connected way. We're like the first grunion that run up on the beach. We're the first people beginning to see the world differently, but everyone's coming behind us.

We're the scouts. We're those people that are coming up onto the beach and making sure that this is something that'll work. So anyways, it's just kind of a quick idea that I had. I'll probably do a little bit more in depth on it later, but I wanted to get that out there while it's in my mind. And I sometimes I feel if I don't get it out, then I lose it. So again, this is another version of me thinking out loud.

So I love you guys. I hope your day is going amazing. Maybe we are the most high. Maybe we're turning off the default mode network. As above, so below. As the hemispheres connect, so too do the hemispheres in our brain connect. And if you think about the hemispheres, the West being the intellect and the right understanding the symbolic nature of the world around us seems a lot. lot like Buddhist thought to me. So as above, so below. As the hemisphere is on the planet,

so to our brain. Let me know what you guys think. All right. That's all we got for today.