As such, archetypes continue not because they are eternal, but because brains keep recursively reinstantiating the same broad motifs in local context. This is one example which describes this type of mechanism of how archetypal stories may emerge.

REBUS effects from psychedelics, in loosening classical constraints imposed from the default mode network, permits the type of archetypal imagery often reported under psychedelics to enter conscious awareness.

....subcortical affective systems, low level sensory imagery, and higher level narrative cognition. It is the interplay between these systems that given rise to (in order) archetypes as such, archetypal imagery, and archetypal stories.

New paper in @nconsc.bsky.social with @marcoaqil.bsky.social, Selen Atasoy, and @robincarhartharris.bsky.social. An ambitious one to be sure.....

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Now recruiting participants for a study assessing if positive self-reflective journaling can help improve various aspects of wellbeing. Open to all!

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One passage I found a little bit wanting: the fact that not everyone with severe ACE's develops subsequent PTSD/C-PTSD, doesn't mean that the ACE couldn't have been a causal factor in those who do (after severe ACE's) develop PTSD.....