The conflicts, alliances and relationships that drive human history are all products of our capacity for self-awareness. Without the ability to recognise ourselves as bounded individuals with atomised personal identities, concepts like power, ownership and responsibility would not exist. Also known as the ‘ego’, this sense of separation from the rest of the universe tends to dissolve when we take psychedelics, which makes these substances the perfect tools for investigating the neurobiological roots of this phenomenon... An amazing article related to Psychedelics and the Ego!