“A lot of the earlier imaging work on altered states gave us static pictures of the brain. So we made correlations: when we’re on LSD, this region deactivates; when we’re meditating, that region deactivates. But the technology has improved and we can now take dynamic pictures. This is how we know that the vanishing of self is not really about specific regions deactivating. It’s bigger than that. It’s more like whole networks disintegrating.”
