As a postrat and a therapist in training, would like to say a bit more about my perspective, that is imo quite common in that world. This is something of an expansion of/reconceptualization of the "altered consciousness attitude" (which is imo a slightly unfortunate name, though I know where the author is coming from: healing one's alexithymia, and unrepressing one's emotions/getting more of the subconsciousness into conscious awareness, and achieving "right-brain reintegration" aka recovering one's creativity and "integrative thinking" capacity, can be effectively pursued by means other than meditation/psychedelics; imo more rationalist types tend to use meditation/psychedelics as healing modalities due to their subconscious aversiveness to real relationships, which are essential to... (read more)
As a postrat and a therapist in training, would like to say a bit more about my perspective, that is imo quite common in that world. This is something of an expansion of/reconceptualization of the "altered consciousness attitude" (which is imo a slightly unfortunate name, though I know where the author is coming from: healing one's alexithymia, and unrepressing one's emotions/getting more of the subconsciousness into conscious awareness, and achieving "right-brain reintegration" aka recovering one's creativity and "integrative thinking" capacity, can be effectively pursued by means other than meditation/psychedelics; imo more rationalist types tend to use meditation/psychedelics as healing modalities due to their subconscious aversiveness to real relationships, which are essential to... (read more)