Brain scans reveal how to enters a psychedelic-like trance without drugs

ingenika 30 points 3 comments April 05, 2026
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ingenika

A neuroimaging study investigated the brain activity of an individual capable of voluntarily entering a transcendental visionary state—a rare, non-ordinary state of consciousness. The researchers found that the participant’s brain connectivity fundamentally reorganized during this state: her visual and somatosensory connections decreased, while connectivity in the frontoparietal control regions of the brain increased. The paper was published in NeuroImage.

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That it's possible is fascinating, but what I really want to know is how it's done.

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