The contraction into self that is so toxic so much of the time, all of our deferring our happiness to some future time where we've met all of these goals that raise our status in comparison with everyone else we're comparing ourselves to, that whole stratum of being a person is a confection of endlessly thinking about ourselves—about our past and our future and even our present. And it's possible to punch through that, whether it's through using psychedelics or practicing meditation or just having you just a collision with the present moment that's engineered by something.