The Real Benefit of Meditation: "However, the real, benefit of meditation and and the and the way one engages it is not so much a matter of addressing content as content."

The Intrinsic Freedom in Meditation: "The thing that's very interesting about meditation is that its benefits are not dependent on changing the character of your experience in any specific way."

The Nature of Self: "You won't find it in a way that is conclusive, which is to say, you'll find its absence."

The Transformative Power of MDMA: "All of that got stripped away, so, like, all that bad stuff was no longer there. And a lot of good stuff came flooding into consciousness. So you have feelings of compassion and unconditional love and, I mean, really, just, you know, just check all the boxes of, you know, what you imagine you'd feel if you felt like Jesus."

The Path to an Examined Life: "For me, you know, it's really the goal is to live an examined life such that there's nothing significant that I will regret, right? And, you know, at the end of my life, but it really at the end of any arbitrary period of time, right? At the end of an hour, at the end of a day, I mean, it's just like who who do you want to be? And retrospectively, are you being that person? And if not, what is preventing you from being that person?"

Questioning Beliefs and Confirmation Bias: "But if you ask yourself, well, how do you know what you think you know? Right? Like, you you sound confident, but, like, if if this thing weren't true, are are you in a position where its falsity would would register? Right?"

The Brain's Pathway to Truth: "So what we found is that, there was a reporter of of belief versus disbelief versus uncertainty, that was, discernible regardless of the content."

The Nature of Free Will: "So at what point do they acquire free will where they become truly responsible for who they become? I say never."

The Illusion of Free Will: "People know that they have this this ground truth subjectively that they are the authors of their of a certain part of their experience, their conscious intentions, their decisions, you know, they even think their thoughts on some level."

The Neurological Basis of Voluntary Behavior: "The difference is that voluntary behavior is associated with a different kind of neurological signature. It's associated with, in many cases, a conscious intention to initiate it, right? Like you you know, you decided to do the thing and then you did the thing, as a matter of experience."