003 | Manesh Girn: The Science of Psychedelics, Consciousness, and Mystical Experiences with The Psychedelic Scientist

Welcome, Manesh Girn - AKA The Psychedelic Scientist - to the podcast! Manesh is doing his Ph.D in Neuroscience with a focus on the Default Mode Network and Psychedelics! If you are ready to expand your understanding of psychedelic neuroscience, go ahead and press play. In this episode, we talk about:

• Manesh’s work with Robin Carhart-Harris
• The Default Mode Network and Neuroplasticity
• Ego dissolution and mystical experiences
• The lack of research in microdosing psychedelics
• The similarities and differences between the four classic psychedelics
• Expectation effects around psychedelic experiences
• The complicated neuropharmacology of Iboga
• Why Iboga and other psychedelics are so effective for treating addiction
• How to measure mystical experiences in research
• “Second-generation psychedelics” without the trip
• The call for philosophical openness in science
• Newtonian versus Quantum views on consciousness
• Personality changes from psychedelic use

Mentioned in the episode:

• Manesh’s YouTube channel
• Manesh’s video on Default Mode Network
• Research on meditation reducing activity in the Default Mode Network
• Johns Hopkins mystical experience study
• “Psychedelics without the trip” - Manesh’s video on second-generation psychedelics + the studies
• Psychedelics as psychoplastogens study
• Mystical Experiences Questionnaire
• Matthew Johnson’s research on the nature of consciousness and the “hard problem:” of consciousness [1, 2]
• Manesh’s research on psychedelics and creativity
• Manesh’s research on Expanding the Scientific Study of Self-Experience with Psychedelics
• Manesh’s research on LSD flattens the functional hierarchy of the human brain

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