Intuition, Aphantasia & hyperphantasia w Rich Roll
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Hello, dear readers!
I’m currently in India and wanted to share a few things that have come out recently, that I really enjoyed and I hope you will to.
First up is a long, almost two-hour podcast with Rich Roll, in which we cover so many topics, we start on intuition, but quickly move on to Aphantasia, creativity, and of course AI and the psychological response to it.
It was so much fun and Rich is such a nice and generous person, I really enjoyed spending some time with him.
RadioLab episode on Aphantasia & Hyperphantasia
There is great stuff in this one, if you dont know Radiolab they do an amazing production job, and some really interesting interviews on strong Hyperphantasia.
Enjoy!
More soon, hope everyone is well.
Joel
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Looking forward to listening to the podcast which I've just stumbled across. After several years of psychedelic exploration that took me into the mountains of Costa Rica and a deep dive into plant medicines with the cutting down, cultivation, cooking and consuming of Ayahuasca along with a half dozen other entheogens such a DMT, Psilocybin, MDA and cannabis I discovered that I have aphantasia about a year ago.
Since which I've experimented with macro dose levels (14 gram) of home-grown psilocybin and found that the link between the inner nondual conscious state and outer free will conscious state of awareness can connect in ways that are beneficial without the distraction of the hallucinatory blast off to bog it down. From my very first 3g Psilocybin journey several years ago to the macro dosing state of late I had the sense that the outer conscious free will seeking mind was able to sit in the front seat with the inner conscious mind driving the car, and on occasion even getting behind the wheel.
Once I discovered Aphantasia and the possibility of me having it I reached out half a dozen prominent members of the psychedelic community (Robin Carhart Harris, Manesh Girn, Rick Doblin, Adam Zeeman, Michael Pollin) and sadly, had a very limited response from most to date given its newness to the scene of science.
I found it to be an abnormal and somewhat dangerous response, or lack thereof to some degree, given people doing trials who may have aphant could be left confused or even traumatized further without knowledge of their lack of a mind's eye that one gets with the typical psychedelic experience, as I was for a time.
Now it seems a sort of a superpower to be able to take macro dose levels which explore the depths of your nondual conscious state as opposed to the blast off effects of traditional journey states of hallucination.
Wonderful podcast. Question- thoughts on competing intuitions?