“Depression is a kind of constricted consciousness,” Bill Richards, who also led the experiments at Johns Hopkins, told me. “You could say people have forgotten who they are, what they’re capable of, have gotten stuck … Many depressed people can only see their pains, and their hurts, and their resentments, and their failures. They can’t see the blue sky and the yellow leaves, you know?” This process of opening consciousness up again can disrupt that—and so it disrupts depression. It takes down the walls of your ego and opens you to connecting with what matters.
