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Interlude LIX: The Edges of Reality - Dreams, Psychedelics, Meditation, Boundary States, Consciousness
In this interlude of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey examines what occurs at the margins of human awareness. Not pathology. Not fantasy. Boundary states where the structure of experience begins to shift.
Dreaming, deep meditation, and psychedelic states are often treated as separate domains. This episode treats them as variations of the same condition: altered regulation of consciousness.
Drawing on the work of Stanislas Dehaene at NeuroSpin in France, the episode explores how consciousness depends on threshold activation. Information may exist in the brain without entering…
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