Psychedelics

“Meditation does that too. It quietens down that mental control. The monkey mind. It's quieting the monkey mind. That's all I would say really we're doing with psychedelics and with meditation.”

“If you just give someone a psychedelic and you don't encourage them to make the most of the window of opportunity, then what we found with our participants is that the depression came back after three months or so.”

“The brilliant thing about psychedelics is that they turn off that kind of ego, frontal parts, and you can go into the body, and into the heart”

“When people are stuck in a very fixed pattern of thinking or of living, psychedelics can break that pattern.”

“Psychedelics are a bit more like psychoanalysis and that it's learning to understand, understanding yourself much, much better in a very deep way and making changes. And whereas with psychoanalysis it might be a bit more gradual, that people might get to know …”

“They can provide this state of, when you look at the images of brain communication pathways, they go from this kind of segmented lines to this full on explosion where things that, parts of the brain that don't talk to each other all talk to each other, and sud…”