One way that psychedelics could enhance error is by causing one to mistakenly forget or bypass their normal level of critical thinking or conditioned thought processes that normally take place in the occurrence of a sudden insight. These critical thinking processes are, for many of us, consciously trained priors that function as a way of regulating our critical thinking in everyday life. It could be that psychedelics eliminate these priors as well, but it doesn’t seem that our conscious thinking ability and memory are necessarily impaired by these drugs, so many scientists or philosophers wouldn’t necessarily be destroyed by their effects.

The phenomenon of “magical thinking”14 (Frazer, 1900; Subbotskii, 2010; Hutson, 2012) is a potential product of primary consciousness. Magical thinking is a style of cognition in which supernatural interpretations of phenomena are made.

primary states exhibit more pronounced characteristics of criticality and perhaps supercriticality than normal waking consciousness—implying that the latter is slightly sub-critical, if not perfectly critical.

Whenever people of Japan defend their national identity, it is possible to lose a larger perspective of the earth.

Emotions that are not processed fully, which are not placed in a conscious relationship with ourselves arrest us. They lock us in an interpretation and perspective of events that were made when we didn’t have a choice or could not have had access to the potential to see them differently.