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MIND WIDE OPEN
WIRED
|September 2023
Kids soak up new skills, adults not so much. But neuroscientist Gül Dölen might have found a way to help grownups learn like littles and heal from stroke and trauma. Step one: Take psychedelics.
ABOUT A MONTH into the 2020 pandemic lockdown, Gül Dölen, a neuroscientist, noticed that she had come untethered from reality. "Everything felt sort of swooshy," she says, as if she were in an "altered, mystical state." She wasn't constantly obsessing over her lab at Johns Hopkins University. She chilled out. And for the first time in her life, she found she could meditate for a good 45 minutes at a time.
Her senses were unusually sharp too. On long walks under the monochrome slab of Baltimore's April sky, she felt hyper-attuned to the natural world. She smiled at the turtles poking their heads out of the inky water along Fell's Point. She reveled in the crickets' evening chorus on eerily empty streets. When she happened across a fallen bird's nest with a broken egg inside, she came close to tears as she imagined the "deep, deep pain of the mother bird."
She felt like she was on drugs. Or on a spiritual excursion, experiencing what an enlightenment-seeking Zen monk might find sitting alone in a cave. One day, she grabbed a pen and started to crank out haiku. One of her favorites nods to the writer Aldous Huxley's mescaline-induced notion, immortalized in The Doors of Perception, of being one with a chair:
By asymptotics
The distance between us is
infinite and none
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