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Consciousness Begins with Feeling
Neuropsychoanalyst Mark Solms argues that consciousness doesn't begin with thinking — it begins with feeling, generated by ancient brainstem structures that monitor the body and produce the affective signals that motivate all behavior. A therapist on what this framework means for healing, why thinking alone often fails to reach what hurts, and why depth-oriented and psychedelic work aim at the feeling layer rather than the thinking one.
The Mind Is Not a Window: What Huxley Got Right About Psychedelics
In 1954, Aldous Huxley proposed that the mind is a filter, not a window — and that psychedelics temporarily loosen that filter, with consequences that can be heavenly or hellish. A therapist on what Huxley got right, what modern neuroscience has refined, and where the field actually is right now in the messy work of bringing these substances into mainstream medicine.
You Are a Controlled Hallucination: What This Means for Suffering and Healing
Neuroscientist Anil Seth argues that consciousness isn't passive reception of reality — it's an active, ongoing construction your brain produces moment by moment, including your sense of being a self. A therapist on what this framework reveals about trauma, depression, psychedelic therapy, and why understanding yourself as a process rather than a fixed thing opens up new possibilities for healing.